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abstraction
aesthetics
animal sentience
aspects of reality
Author_Sharon Cameron
beliefs about death
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christian conventions
cinematography
creatures
critical thought
dissimilar images
Dostoevsky
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ethics
european lit
film history
filmmaker
french auteur
human reason
infinite ways
interpretation
Kafka
literary criticism
no-hope spaces
pathos
philosophy
psychology
robert bresson
russian literature
Tolstoy
visionary rethinkings
willpower
Product details
- ISBN 9780226413907
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2017
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Cameron's title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson's films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson's in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality. Whether exploring Bresson's efforts to reassess the limits of human reason and will, Dostoevsky's subversions of Christian conventions, Tolstoy's incompatible beliefs about death, or Kafka's focus on creatures neither human nor animal, Cameron illuminates how the repeated juxtaposition of disparate, even antithetical, phenomena carves out new approaches to defining the essence of being, one where the very nature of fixed categories is brought into question.
An innovative look at a classic French auteur and three giants of European literature, The Bond of the Furthest Apart will interest scholars of literature, film, ethics, aesthetics, and anyone drawn to an experimental venture in critical thought.
Sharon Cameron is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Impersonality: Seven Essays, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
