The Mask of Memnon

The Mask of Memnon
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : 9781666719505
ISBN-13 : 1666719501
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Book Synopsis The Mask of Memnon by : Jean-Luc Beauchard

Download or read book The Mask of Memnon written by Jean-Luc Beauchard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What gives life its meaning? This question stands behind every philosophical inquiry, and philosophy itself arises from it. Confronting the problem of meaning is, as Camus says, the fundamental task of human life. Yet at bottom, meaning is an aesthetical category. Meaning hinges on interpretation. It makes sense then to turn to art—and in particular the art form which deals most explicitly with meaning, the novel—if we are to attempt to address it. Inspired by but critical of Roland Barthes’s “death of the author” literary theory, The Mask of Memnon seeks to reconcile opposing philosophical approaches to the question of meaning by examining the death of the author from the perspective of the character, not the reader. In this work, the traditional dichotomy between external/objective meaning and internal/subjective meaning is upended and a new paradigm is proposed.


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