Encounters in the Arts Literature and Philosophy

<i>Encounters in the Arts Literature and Philosophy</i> focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms ideas meanings interpretations and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts texts and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting.<br/>With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald Pierre Saint-Amand Susan Suleiman and Jean-Jacques Nattiez this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy literature musicology and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches.