The Move towards an Empathetic Temporality in Yuri Medvedev's The Bride's Room: Bloom Again in Autumn

ISBN-13: 9783656514541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 36 str.

Anway Mukhopadhyay

Opis

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: hundred per cent (10 out of 10), Jadavpur University, course: "utopian literature," optional course, MA English, Second Year, Fourth Semester, conducted by Rimi B. Chatterjee, language: English, abstract: Time has been conceptualized in various ways by the scientists, litterateurs and philosophers. But here, drawing on a 'utopian' narrative by a Russian author, Mukhopadhyay envisages an empathetic temporality that can create a mysterious compatibility between human time and natural time by ushering in a new temporal mode, a time of empathetically propelled togetherness. At the same time, the work also seeks to explore the ways in which we can modify our anthropocentric systems of thought by realigning ourselves with our planet that also opens us up towards new vistas of imagination.Beginning to invoke an empathetic temporality that changes autumn into spring, we can move towards an unimaginably wonderful future where Time is not conquered but befriended by human beings, and human beings can rediscover the loving Nature that may lie hidden beneath the 'ravages of time'.

O autorze

Anway Mukhopadhyay specializes in English and Comparative Literature. He has a brilliant academic record throughout, and has published papers in eminent journals in India, Australia and the USA. His book, 'Do You Love Me, Master?, the Place of Eros in the Master-Slave Dialectic'(Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010) blends erotic philosophy and Hegelian phenomenology, thereby constructing an erotic critique of the triumphant 'spirit' in Hegel's philosophy, insisting that we bring back the desiring body into the discussion of politics and morality, and erotically revolutionize the inter-male relationships that are, within a patriarchal, heteronormative setup, modelled on the master-slave dialectic.