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In the Mirror of the Past
Of Fantasy and History
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
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This collection of articles explores globalization's impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today's literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.
This collection of articles explores globalization’s impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today’s literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.
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This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.
This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.
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The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical
The Latent Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy
This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy's novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity's most troublesome issues.
This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy’s novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity’s most troublesome issues.
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An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.
An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.
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From Francis Bacon to William Golding
Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore
Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.
Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.
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Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity
Reconstructions and Interpretations
A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor's thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.
A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor’s thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.
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Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.
Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.
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New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.
New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.
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This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
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Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
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Idioms of Ontology
A Phenomenological Study of Whitman
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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Ethics and Poetics
Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern Narratives
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
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The Genesis of Genesis
The Mytho-Empiricism of Creation
The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.
The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.
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Inside Knowledge
(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
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Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.
Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.
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Understanding Mīmāṃsā
Perspectives and Approaches
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
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The Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster
From Stones to Books
Sarmento delves into the early works of Paul Auster, to show how they convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to writing. She studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, open to an unlimited mental expansion.
Sarmento delves into the early works of Paul Auster, to show how they convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to writing. She studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, open to an unlimited mental expansion.
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This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.
This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.
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Back and Forth
The Grotesque in the Play of Romantic Irony
This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare's transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.
This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.
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