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The Wounded Animal : J.M. Coetzee And The Difficulty Of Reality In Literature And Philosophy
Literature, Life, And Modernity

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Richard EldridgePublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2008Description
Eldridge considers the thought of Descartes, Kant, Adorno, Benjamin, Stanley Cavell, and Charles Taylor in his discussion of Goethe, Wordsworth, Rilke, Stoppard, and Sebald, advancing a philosophy of literature that addresses our desire to read and the meaning and satisfaction that literary attention brings to our fragmented modern lives. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
The Writer As Migrant

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Ha JinPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2008Links
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He employs the cases of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chinese novelist Lin Yutang to illustrate the obligation a writer feels to the land of his birth, while Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov?who, like Ha Jin, adopted English for their writing?are enlisted to explore a migrant author?s conscious choice of a literary language. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3560.I6 Z46 2008 AVAILABLE
Mapping World Literature : International Canonization And Transnational Literatures

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Mads Rosendahl ThomsenPublication Details
BookContinuum2008Description
Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in the light of globalization and argues that international canonization of books and authors can be used as an instrument for textual analysis of world literature. Of interest to advanced students and researchers in comparative and world literature, it suggests new approaches to the analysis of emerging patterns in world literature, in particular those of post-national literatures. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN86 .T55 2008 AVAILABLE
The Philosophy Of Literature

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Peter LamarquePublication Details
BookBlackwell Pub2009Links
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Wolfgang Jahnke studied Chemistry at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and obtained a Ph.D. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN49 .L33 2009 AVAILABLE
Freud’s Drive : Psychoanalysis, Literature And Film

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Teresa de LauretisPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2008Links
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Teresa de Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1995 .D3575 2008 AVAILABLE
The Oxford Dictionary Of Literary Terms

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Chris BaldickPublication Details
Book3rd edOxford University Press2008Description
To help remedy the average readers bafflement, this new Third Edition of Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides succinct and often witty explanations of almost twelve hundred terms, covering everything from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque, and from the social realism of Stalins era to the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) PN41 .C67 2008 AVAILABLE
The Ancient Flame : Dante And The Poets

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Winthrop WetherbeePublication Details
BookUniversity of Notre Dame Press2008Description
While the structure and themes of the “Divine Comedy” are defined by the narrative of a spiritual pilgrimage guided by Christian truth, Winthrop Wetherbee’s remarkable new study reveals that Dante’s engagement with the great Latin poets Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius constitutes a second, complementary narrative centered on psychological and artistic self-discovery.This fresh, illuminating approach departs from the usual treatment of classical poets in Dante criticism, which assigns them a merely allegorical function. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PQ4427.C53 W484 2008 AVAILABLE
Love’s Knowledge : Essays On Philosophy And Literature

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Martha C. NussbaumPublication Details
BookOxford University Press1990Links
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This volume brings together Nussbaum’s published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BJ46 .N87 1990 AVAILABLE
The Literature Of Emigration And Exile

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edited by James Whitlark and Wendell AycockPublication Details
BookTexas Tech University Press1992Description
BOOK PRINTED BEFORE BARCODES (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN56.5.E96 L58 1992 AVAILABLE
Maps And Legends : Reading And Writing Along The Borderlands

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Michael ChabonPublication Details
BookMcSweeney’s Books2008Description
Michael Chabon’s sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN98.R38 C43 2008 AVAILABLE
The Canon

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Christopher KuipersPublication Details
BookRoutledge2008Description
Considering why the canon is such an important concept in literary studies, and explaining the key concepts and approaches to the debate, Christopher Kuipers: examines the history of the Western concept of the canon, illustrating the changing view of ?canonicity? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
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