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Art and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature

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dc.contributor.advisorShea, Victor
dc.creatorKaramally, Hamza Ali
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T13:51:22Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T13:51:22Z
dc.date.copyright2018-08-09
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.updated2018-11-21T13:51:22Z
dc.degree.disciplineHumanities
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractMy dissertation is entitled Art and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature. The two main subjects of inquiry I take up are the figure of the otherboth as an expression of phenomenological alterity and as a postcolonial subjectand the representation of this figure in modern literature. I investigate the intersections between these two subjects, i.e. whether art is an especially insightful medium or discourse to discuss the subject of otherness in the sense that it represents a disruption within the nature of experience that resembles the encounter with the other. As a basic rationale, my dissertation also accordingly attempts a self-reflexivity grounded in problematizing both the formulation of and interaction between competing conventions of otherness. More succinctly, I attempt herein a methodology that reads across discourses whilst remaining on their margins, with the dual purpose of avoiding the self-confirmation of each ratiocination and finding, specifically in art (and in particular literature), a discursive practice that seeks to avoid, or perhaps transcend, a stable definition of otherness. To effectively probe the various political, psychological, existential and phenomenal aspects of otherness, my project and chapters are organized around these separate but overlapping dimensions. My selected texts are predominantly from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on Modernist literature, as the latters anxieties about the nature of art and of the other are particularly useful to probe these and other relevant questions. I focus primarily on fiction by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Albert Camus, Kamel Daoud, Don DeLillo, Saadat Hasan Manto, Yann Martel and Herman Melville, to which I apply a variety of theoretical lenses. I juxtapose these texts from different literary canons and maintain a correspondingly interdisciplinary critical approach in order to disentangle the figure of the other from various competing ontological and theoretical systems. My premise for this methodology is that pairing and reading these texts in unusual contexts allows for a drawing out of shared symbology, themes and metaphors and opens up a space for a more robust conversation about the relationship between art and otherness.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35552
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subject.keywordsLiterature
dc.subject.keywordsModern Literature
dc.subject.keywordsModernist Literature
dc.subject.keywordsJoseph Conrad
dc.subject.keywordsE.M. Forster
dc.subject.keywordsMary Shelley
dc.subject.keywordsEmmanuel Levinas
dc.subject.keywordsMaurice Blanchot
dc.subject.keywordsVirginia Woolf
dc.subject.keywordsSalman Rushdie
dc.subject.keywordsAnita Desai
dc.subject.keywordsHegel
dc.subject.keywordsTrinh
dc.subject.keywordsMinh-ha
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsPostcolonialism
dc.subject.keywordsAlbert Camus
dc.subject.keywordsKamel Daoud
dc.subject.keywordsSaadat Hasan Manto
dc.subject.keywordsDon DeLillo
dc.subject.keywordsSublime
dc.subject.keywordsMax Van Manen
dc.subject.keywordsYann Martel
dc.subject.keywordsHerman Melville
dc.subject.keywordsRalph Waldo Emerson
dc.subject.keywordsGiles Gunn
dc.subject.keywordsViktor Shklovsky
dc.subject.keywordsMonroe Beardsley
dc.subject.keywordsArthur C. Danto
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsComparative Literature
dc.subject.keywordsIdealism
dc.subject.keywordsTerrorism
dc.subject.keywordsKant
dc.subject.keywordsTrauma
dc.subject.keywordsSigmund Freud
dc.subject.keywordsErnst Jentsch
dc.subject.keywordsUncanny
dc.subject.keywordsHeart of Darkness
dc.subject.keywordsA Passage to India
dc.subject.keywordsFrankenstein
dc.subject.keywordsOtherness
dc.subject.keywordsIl y a
dc.subject.keywordsThe Waves
dc.subject.keywordsThe Courter
dc.subject.keywordsBaumgartner's Bombay
dc.subject.keywordsThe Stranger
dc.subject.keywordsThe Outsider
dc.subject.keywordsCamus
dc.subject.keywordsThe Meursault Investigation
dc.subject.keywordsToba Tek Singh
dc.subject.keywordsFalling Man
dc.subject.keywordsLife of Pi
dc.subject.keywordsMoby Dick
dc.subject.keywordsArt
dc.subject.keywordsThe Other
dc.subject.keywordsAlterity
dc.subject.keywordsRadical Alterity
dc.subject.keywordsExperience
dc.subject.keywordsLevinas
dc.titleArt and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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