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Der unzugängliche Ort der Fensterscheibe University of Antwerp
Narration and the experience of estrangement in the fiction of Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot University of Antwerp
This article addresses connections between the fictional writings of Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot by examining the window motif in their stories. This motif has a central meaning for both writers, and exploring it will demonstrate the proximity between their literary works. The following analysis centers on four themes and/or processes associated with the window motif: the experience of estrangement in the narrator's ambiguous relation to ...
The violence of the singular University of Antwerp
Reading for opacity and the cognitive value of literary fiction University of Antwerp
This article addresses the question of the cognitive value of literary fiction starting from Peter Lamarque’s opacity thesis. My intention is to articulate the cognitive value of literary fiction in accordance with the opacity thesis avoiding the pitfall of formalism to which the opacity thesis risks to be reduced. In a first part, I examine Lamarque’s opacity thesis and discuss the problems of the distinction between opacity and transparency in ...
Literature and the nugget of knowledge University of Antwerp
The idea of an interview with Peter Lamarque and Derek Attridge on the cognitive value of literary fiction arose in the wake of an aesthetics course on the relation between literature and truth at the University of Antwerp. In Spring 2015 Peter Lamarque contributed to this course with the lecture “The Opacity of Narrative and Fine-grained Reading”. In Spring 2017 Derek Attridge elaborated his view on the relation between literature and truth in ...