Laura Zebuhr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1166869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Zebuhr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Zebuhr |
| SIGNATURE | ZEBUHR L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sound Enchantment
“Enchantment” is undergoing a reassessment across several disciplines. Against traditional fears associated with enchantment, contemporary scholars such as Rita Felski, Jane Bennett, and Akeel Bilgrami link it to the potential for developing ethical relationships and attitudes toward our work as literary scholars, our world, and others. In this essay I argue that the writing of Henry David Thoreau is especially useful for a contemporary revaluati…
The Voice of Ambiguity
In this essay we investigate several moments in Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical and literary texts in which she refers to echoes and echoing. We notice that echoes help Beauvoir to figure and amplify the ethical character of her concept of ambiguity, which is so central to her thought. We argue that, for Beauvoir, literature has privileged access to the ambiguity of existence and therefore maintains a special status in exposing us to alterity …
The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Album Verses
Based on archival research done at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this essay offers an interpretation of original and popular verses that appear in nineteenth-century friendship albums. It argues that the verses engage a long-standing conversation about the nature of friendship in the Western tradition: where the feeling of friendship comes from, the nature of the feeling itself, and how we ought to practice it. Situating the verses in rela…
Sound Enchantment
“Enchantment” is undergoing a reassessment across several disciplines. Against traditional fears associated with enchantment, contemporary scholars such as Rita Felski, Jane Bennett, and Akeel Bilgrami link it to the potential for developing ethical relationships and attitudes toward our work as literary scholars, our world, and others. In this essay I argue that the writing of Henry David Thoreau is especially useful for a contemporary revaluati…
The Voice of Ambiguity
In this essay we investigate several moments in Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical and literary texts in which she refers to echoes and echoing. We notice that echoes help Beauvoir to figure and amplify the ethical character of her concept of ambiguity, which is so central to her thought. We argue that, for Beauvoir, literature has privileged access to the ambiguity of existence and therefore maintains a special status in exposing us to alterity …
The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Album Verses
Based on archival research done at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this essay offers an interpretation of original and popular verses that appear in nineteenth-century friendship albums. It argues that the verses engage a long-standing conversation about the nature of friendship in the Western tradition: where the feeling of friendship comes from, the nature of the feeling itself, and how we ought to practice it. Situating the verses in rela…
Sound Enchantment
“Enchantment” is undergoing a reassessment across several disciplines. Against traditional fears associated with enchantment, contemporary scholars such as Rita Felski, Jane Bennett, and Akeel Bilgrami link it to the potential for developing ethical relationships and attitudes toward our work as literary scholars, our world, and others. In this essay I argue that the writing of Henry David Thoreau is especially useful for a contemporary revaluati…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Alterity (1 work) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Attunement (1 work)