Auden's O: The Loss of One's Sovereignty in the Making of Nothing

Hass, Andrew W.

ISBN 10: 1438448325 / ISBN 13: 9781438448329

Edité par State University of New York Press, Albany, 2013

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Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013, Softcover, trade paperback, 8vo, 327 pp. First Edition (complete number line). Bound in black matte covers with a slightly uneven coloring on the front. Covers are clean and sturdy with minimal signs of handling. Binding remains square and firm. The previous owner appears to have compiled a bibliography, with only minimal underlining and marking in the text (see images). Pages are bright and otherwise clean, with no other markings, not Ex-Library. A well-preserved copy in Very Good condition. A philosophical and literary study examining themes of negation, sovereignty, and self-loss in the poetry and thought of W. H. Auden. Books ship quickly and are securely packed in a new box.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Auden's O: The Loss of One's Sovereignty in the Making of Nothing
• Éditeur: State University of New York Press, Albany
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1438448325
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781438448329
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literary Criticism
  • Philosophy
  • poetry

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Synopsis

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary history of ideas, Andrew W. Hass explores the ascendency of the concept of nothing into late modernity. He argues that the rise of the reality of nothing in religion, philosophy, and literature has taken place only against the decline of the concept of One: a shift from a sovereign understanding of the One (unity, universality) toward the “figure of the O”—a cipher figure that, as nonentity, is nevertheless determinant of other realities. The figuring of this O culminates in a proliferation of literary expressions of nothingness, void, and absence from 1940 to 1960, but by century’s end, this movement has shifted from linear progression to mutation, whereby religion, theology, philosophy, literature, and other critical modes of thought, such as feminism, merge into a shared, circular activity. The writer W. H. Auden lends his name to this O, his long poetic work The Sea and the Mirror an exemplary manifestation of its implications. Hass examines this work, along with that of a host of writers, philosophers, and theologians, to trace the revolutionary hermeneutics and creative space of the O, and to provide the reasoning of why nothing is now such a powerful force in the imagination of the twenty-first century, and of how it might move us through and beyond our turbulent times.

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew W. Hass is Reader in Critical Religion at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He is the author of Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality and the coeditor (with David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay) of The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology.