Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus tells the story of a nexus of contemporary novelists around David Foster Wallace who took up the legacy of logical positivism and reworked it between the 1980s and the 2000s in a w...Daugiau...
Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus tells the story of a nexus of contemporary novelists around David Foster Wallace who took up the legacy of logical positivism and reworked it between the 1980s and the 2000s in a w...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501770975)
Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the authors literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith tha...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Aug-2023, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501770982)
Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the authors literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith tha...Daugiau...
Serija: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000825268)
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantess Don Quijote, Zayass Desenganos amorosos, Scarrons Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac...Daugiau...
Serija: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Dec-2022, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000825237)
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantess Don Quijote, Zayass Desenganos amorosos, Scarrons Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jan-2022, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438486819)
Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature-in particular, the narrative form and the essay....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812299502)
European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2020, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812299502)
European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000040142)
Originally published in 1986, this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrads major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complicate...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2020, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000040401)
Originally published in 1986, this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrads major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complicate...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Jun-2019, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244878)
A fresh, new translation of Augustine’s inaugural work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are the remarkable “Cassiciacum dialogues.” In this first dial...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Jun-2019, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244878)
A fresh, new translation of Augustine’s inaugural work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are the remarkable “Cassiciacum dialogues.” In this first dial...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jun-2018, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226417288)
These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such autho...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jun-2018, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226417288)
These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such autho...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Mar-2017, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781351895408)
Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booths ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackerays Skep...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Mar-2017, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781351895392)
Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booths ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackerays Skep...Daugiau...
If the Bible is the infallible word of God, why is it full of stories that strain credulity, not to say fly in the face of reality? While standing up for morality and responsibility, the author pokes fun at some of the tales we were told in Sunday S...Daugiau...
If the Bible is the infallible word of God, why is it full of stories that strain credulity, not to say fly in the face of reality? While standing up for morality and responsibility, the author pokes fun at some of the tales we were told in Sunday S...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Nov-2016, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512806946)
T. S. Eliots mind encompasses just about every important avant-garde intellectual movement of his time. His thought, as well as his poetry, represents an essential and original achievement within Modernism. This study presents Eliots unique synthes...Daugiau...
This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the authority of the romances of chivalry, which was a popular genre during his time. It also explains why his strategy, which would have been instantly recogniz...Daugiau...
This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the authority of the romances of chivalry, which was a popular genre during his time. It also explains why his strategy, which would have been instantly recogniz...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Aug-2015, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317509080)
This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Aug-2015, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317509073)
This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation....Daugiau...
Striking new readings of Montaignes works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.Montaignes Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais innovative open-mindedness is at odds with...Daugiau...
The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked re...Daugiau...
The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked re...Daugiau...
A fresh reading of Marvells most important works, exploring the variety and complexity of his approaches to contemporary religious and political events.Andrew Marvells celebrated poetic ambivalence to the philosophical, political and religious cont...Daugiau...
In todays media-flooded world, there is no way to control all of the information, claims, and enticements that reach young people. The best thing to do is arm them with the sword of critical thinking. Maybe Yes, Maybe No is a charming introduction...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2008, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300127201)
Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2008, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300127201)
Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Sep-2005, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Palgrave USA, ISBN-13: 9780230509412)
Tennyson is not known for his scepticism. This book argues that he should be. It proposes a revaluation of the way in which his work is read. Tennyson has always been understood as a poet who is committed primarily to endorsing spiritual values. But...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2001, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780190286552)
This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2001, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780195349573)
This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an a...Daugiau...
In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in...Daugiau...
