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Author Christodoulou, Charitini

Title Dialogic Openness in Nikos Kazantzakis
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary In this book, Charitini Christodoulou argues that a certain perception of openness that she calls "dialogic" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation. Partly based on Umberto Eco's theory in Opera Aperta and Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of dialogism, the term "dialogic openness" refers to the idea of antithetical forces clashing and thus revealing different forms of tension that are not resolved at the end of the novel. Thus, it is shown that subjectivity and meaning is always in the proc ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1883-1957. Teleutaios peirasmos.
SUBJECT Teleutaios peirasmos (Kazantzakis, Nikos) fast
Subject Literature & literary studies.
Literary theory.
Religious issues & debates.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443843010
1443843016
9781299658561
1299658563