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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
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN49 .E43 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
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
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
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 Case For Literature

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Gao Xingjian ; translated from the Chinese by Mabel LeePublication Details
BookYale University Press2007Links
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When Gao Xingjian (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PL2869.O128 A6 2007 AVAILABLE
Literary Theory : A Guide For The Perplexed
A Scream Goes Through The House : What Literature Teaches Us About Life

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Arnold WeinsteinPublication Details
BookRandom House Trade Pbk. edRandom House Trade Paperbacks2004Description
In the tradition of Harold Bloom and Jacques Barzun, Weinstein guides us through great works of art, to reveal how literature constitutes nothing less than a feast for the heart. Writing about works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dickens, Charlotte Bront (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN47 .W45 2004 AVAILABLE
Poetics Today
The Curtain : An Essay In Seven Parts

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Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda AsherPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins Publishers2006Description
“A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world,” writes Milan Kundera in The Curtain, his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the language and nation of its origin, when in fact the novel’s development has always occurred across borders: Laurence Sterne learned from Rabelais, Henry Fielding from Cervantes, Joyce from Flaubert, Garc (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN49 .K8613 2006 AVAILABLE
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