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The Novel Experience
Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James
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Cornell University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: R9PQ9KV
EAN: 9781501785634
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Zustellung: Do, 17.09.2026
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Beschreibung
The Novel Experience. introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers. At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is influenced by the third-century Buddhist thinker Ngrjuna on the fictionality of truth and the emptiness of reality. Combining this insight with Nietzsche's method of intellectual genealogy and William James's transformation of emotion into "pure experience," Helmut Müller-Sievers proposes a way to talk about the experience of reading a novel that suspends the rush to judgment and ever-new "turns" in modes of interpretation. For Müller-Sievers, every experience is novel and every novel is an experience. He explicates this parallelism through philosophical works that privilege experience over knowledge (without denying the importance of understanding). Interspersing analyses of Ngrjuna, Nietzsche, and James with personal essays about the lived experience of reading works like Ellison's Invisible Man. and Kleist's The Marquise of O. , The Novel Experience. shows that reading about experiences in novels has a transformative effect on the reader's understanding of what it is to experience. Teachers and readers should attend to these changes, acknowledging their singularity while creating a community within which they can abide.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Helmut Muller-Sievers
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 148