Showing papers by "Marco Caracciolo published in 2017"
01 Jan 2017
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TL;DR: Under the Skin this article explores the complex perspectival play underlying readers' engagement with Isserley, the alien protagonist of Michel Faber's 2000 novel Under the Skin, which destabilizes readers' conception of the human and exposes the constraints that language and concepts pose on intersubjective interaction, showing any form of "mercy" to be fundamentally "murky".
Abstract: This article explores the complex perspectival play underlying readers' engagement with Isserley, the alien protagonist of Michel Faber's 2000 novel Under the Skin . I focus on three dimensions: first, the novel destabilizes readers' conception of the human, asking them to move between their anthropocentric assumptions and Isserley's "alien" point of view; second, it exposes the constraints that language and concepts pose on intersubjective interaction, showing any form of "mercy" to be fundamentally "murky" (to quote one of the novel's pivotal scenes); third, it calls attention to the strangeness of consciousness itself in a universe dominated by brute matter and strict physical laws. The result of these interrogations is a sophisticated novel that demonstrates literature's power to probe what Cora Diamond has called the "difficulty of reality."
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27 Jun 2017TL;DR: The third part of a roundtable on Wolfgang's Iser legacy with Gerald Prince, Mark Freeman, Marco Caracciolo and Federico Bertoni was presented in this article, where the common grounds of Iser and cognitive literary approaches and the role of interpration in cognitive literary studies were discussed.
Abstract: In this article you find the third part of a roundtable on Wolfgang’s Iser legacy with Gerald Prince, Mark Freeman, Marco Caracciolo and Federico Bertoni. In Part III we discuss with Marco Caracciolo the common grounds of Iser and cognitive literary approaches and the role of interpration in cognitive literary studies.
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