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11 produkter
Abyss of Reason
Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals
Inbunden, 1991
2352 kr
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This book is a study of modern spiritualism, which flourished in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and of surrealism, in its heyday between the world wars. The pairing yields a range of provocative material for working through issues with which criticism in all sorts of fields today …
Abyss of Reason
Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals
E-bok, 1991
1393 kr
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In this pathbreaking study, the historical relationship between nineteenth-century spiritualism and twentieth-century surrealism is the basis for a general examination of conflicting movements in literature, art, philosophy, science, and other areas of social life. Because spiritualism delved into …
The Civilized Imagination
A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott
Häftad, 2009
804 kr
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The Civilized Imagination is a study of literature in a period of cultural change. As part of the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a great transformation occurred in the relations among aesthetic theory, literature, and society. This study analyses such changes as they …
Why Education Is Useless
E-bok, 2013
760 kr
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Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past …
Unhuman Culture
E-bok, 2013
668 kr
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It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematization of "the Other" in philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and postcolonial studies, and shows up in the "antihumanism" associated with …
International Bohemia
Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life
E-bok, 2013
1181 kr
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How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, …
Why Education Is Useless
Inbunden, 2003
669 kr
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Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past …
Unhuman Culture
Inbunden, 2006
575 kr
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It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematization of "the Other" in philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and postcolonial studies, and shows up in the "antihumanism" associated with …
International Bohemia
Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life
Inbunden, 2013
988 kr
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How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, …
Social Figures
George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation
Häftad, 1987
348 kr
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Centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual as exemplified in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers.“…Daniel Cottom has produced a readable, well-researched, and thoroughly referenced work that speaks to a …
Text and Culture
The Politics of Interpretation
Häftad, 1989
514 kr
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Text and Culture was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In Text & Culture, Daniel Cottom examines the political aspects …
