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Time And Imagination - Chronotopes In Western Narrative Culture

by Bart Keunen

119,18€ + 10% CARD

 Based on the author's Dutch work, Verhaal en verbeelding (Gent: Academia Press, 2007).
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Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love - Literature, Culture, Evolution

by Marcus Nordlund

99,31€ + 10% CARD

 Exploring Shakespeare's treatment of different forms of love, this book offers an approach which gives a perspective on Shakespearean love and on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works.
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Of Death And Dominion - The Existential Foundations Of Governance

by Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh

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 Stating that death is the opposite not of life, but of power, the author argues that death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout history. He pursues the idea that a deep concern with death is, in fact, the basis of the ideological foundations of all political systems.
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Literature And Human Equality

by Stewart Justman

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 When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are "leveled with the rest of the world"--now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky to show how such a leveling not only changed the appearance of literature, but made possible new ways of constructing a tale. Only when influenced by the principle of equality does a narrative deliberately deny readers knowledge beyond those they are reading about--privileged knowledge. This book argues that such a turn, in the hands of masters of the novel, changed narrative itself into an exploration of the limits of knowledge; that the portrayal of persons unknown to history transformed the novel into an investigation of the unknown. If the novel is the literary form of limited knowledge, the fullest expression of that form is found in the great fictional experiments of the nineteenth century, the age when the social question--the question of human equality--broke upon the world. Justman looks into some of those experiments for their own sake, but also for the light they cast on the nature and history of the novel. Focusing on Great Expectations, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and The Brothers Karamazov, Justman explores what happens when we, as readers, are denied knowledge not only for the sake of suspense, but because ignorance belongs to what we have in common, the human condition.
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The Logic Of Being - Realism, Truth, And Time

by Paul Livingston

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 Examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on Martin Heidegger's inquiry into the question of being, as well as twentieth-century analytic philosophy of language and logic. Paul Livingston extends his concept of "metaformal realism" into a "temporal realism" that accounts for the reality of temporal change and becoming while also preserving realism about logic and truth.
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Literature And Human Equality

by Stewart Justman

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 Presents Western literature from Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, to show how they changed the appearance of literature with new ways of constructing a tale. This book explores what happens when we, as readers, are denied knowledge not only for the sake of suspense, but because ignorance belongs to what we have in common, the human condition.
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Chicago'S Irish Legion - The 90th Illinois Volunteers In The Civil War

by James B. Swan

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 Describes the regimental history of Chicago's Irish Volunteers. This book tells the story of Chicago's 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the only Irish regiment in Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's XV Army Corps. It exposes the racial issues that affected the soldiers of the 90th Illinois.
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Tell Me A Story - Narrative And Intelligence

by Roger C. Shank

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 In this study by an expert on learning and computers, the author argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence.
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The Aesthetics Of The Total Artwork - On Borders And Fragments

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 Such diverse perspectives can only stimulate debate in the academy and beyond about the history of the Gesamtkunstwerk and open up paths that may be followed in its future.
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Bakhtin And Religion - A Feeling For Faith

by Paul J. Contino e Susan M. Felch

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 This work investigates the role of religious thought in shaping and framing Bakhtin's writings. The authors explore Bakhtin's idea of faith - an abstract codification of a belief system - and a feeling for faith which involves the active participation of persons, both human and divine.
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A Stanislaw Lem Reader

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 A dialogue with Stanislow Lem, best known for his work in science fiction. His novels and short stories have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold 25 million copies.
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The Psychoanalytic Movement - The Cunning Of Unreason

by Ernest Gellner

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 How did psychoanalysis become so accepted by the public? This provocative book reconstructs the system of ideas upon which the theory and practice of psychoanalysis rests, describing a modern culture that has created a psychic or a spiritual void that psychoanalysis seems custom-made to fill.
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Bakhtin In Contexts - Across The Disciplines

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 This work explores the revolutionary impact of Bakhtin's ideas have carried in contemporary discussions of language, art, culture and social science in recent years.
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After Post-Structuralism - Interdisciplinarity And Literary Theory

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Time Slips - Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, And The Hole Of History

by Jaclyn Pryor

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 This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Pryor introduces the concept of ""time slips,"" moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship.
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The Scene Of Foreplay - Theater, Labor, And Leisure In 1960s New York

by Giulia Palladini

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 In a study that spans the fields of theatre history, performance studies, and cultural studies, Giulia Palladini analyses artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theatre scene in 1960s New York. She employs foreplay as a theoretical term that refers to a form of labor that both anticipates and postpones theatre production proper.
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The Scene Of Foreplay - Theater, Labor, And Leisure In 1960s New York

by Giulia Palladini

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 In a study that spans the fields of theatre history, performance studies, and cultural studies, Giulia Palladini analyses artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theatre scene in 1960s New York. She employs foreplay as a theoretical term that refers to a form of labor that both anticipates and postpones theatre production proper.
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The Logic Of Being - Realism, Truth, And Time

by Paul Livingston

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 Examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on Martin Heidegger's inquiry into the question of being, as well as twentieth-century analytic philosophy of language and logic. Paul Livingston extends his concept of "metaformal realism" into a "temporal realism" that accounts for the reality of temporal change and becoming while also preserving realism about logic and truth.
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Site Unscene - The Offstage In English Renaissance Drama

by Jonathan Walker

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 Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama demonstrates that Renaissance playwrights pioneered a hybrid form of representation by shifting pivotal dramatic scenes into imaginary, offstage spaces and replacing them with stories told by characters onstage.
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The Psychological Mystique

by Stewart Justman

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 This text looks at the influence of psychology on culture, traces the therapeutic model to its roots, and examines the connection between psychology and the marketing of goods. The expansion of the therapeutic project from its beginnings and reflections on psychology are also featured.
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Traces Of My Father

by Sigfrid Gauch

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 The autobiographical novel is Gauch's attempt to come to terms with his father, Herman Gauch - a physician who had joined the National Socialists in the 1920s, who wrote six books of "race research" as a member of the SS, and who to his dying day remained an unrepentant Nazi.
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Melville'S Prisoners

by Harrison Hayford

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 This work covers critical essays on the works of Herman Melville. It includes "Loomings", widely viewed as the single best piece of criticism ever written on "Moby Dick", and "Unnecessary Duplicates", a classic of textual speculation on Melville's methods.
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Pirandello: Plays

by Luigi Pirandello

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Diablo Iii: Storm Of Light

by Nate Kenyon

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 An all-new novel in the groundbreaking video game series Diablo III by acclaimed horror novelist Nate Kenyon!
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