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The Discourse of Courtly Love in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater מאת Robert Bayliss The rise of a popular and professional theater industry in early modern Spain (roughly 1580-1700) generated a cultural polemic: while popular comedy was mass-produced for a paying public for the first time in Spain, both secular and religious authorities became concerned with the ways in which such ...

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First Word Philosophy: Wittgenstein-Austin-Cavell, Writings on Ordinary Language Philosophy מאת Richard Fleming The significance of ordinary language (first word) philosophy is stated and argued here. Fleming provocatively makes the distinguishing facts of ordinary language philosophy clear and provides opportunities for investigation rather than causes for avoidance and despair.....

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Everything in Its Place: The Life And Works of Virgilio Pinera מאת Thomas F. Anderson "Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Pinera: is a seminal book that fills a major gap in Cuban and Latin American literary criticism. In addition to being the most comprehensive study to date of the life and work of Virgilio Pinera, this is the first book in English on this major...

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Reason's Children: Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) מאת Anthony Krupp We still know little of childhood in early modern European thought. By reconstructing philosophies of childhood in the works of rationalists not known to have reflected upon children, "Reason's Children" expands our understanding of philosophical reflection on childhood in early modern Europe. Centr...

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Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805 (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) מאת Miriam L. Wallace

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A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism מאת Susanna Lee The idea of God, in one form or another, is a fundamental part of human experience - a given, almost. And yet, for over one hundred and fifty years, we have lived in a world become increasingly secular. The goal of this book is to reconcile these facts, or rather to examine their interaction and, in...

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Uses of Education: Readings in Enlightenment in England (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literatiure and Culture) מאת Stephen Bygrave What is education for? The question framed in the second half of the eighteenth century in England is still urgent. Posed in textbooks, histories, conduct books, economic treatises, novels, and other kinds of writing, it was asked about punishment, the classical curriculum, the low status of teacher...

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The Place of Exile: Leisure Literature and the Limits of Absolutism (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) מאת Juliette Cherbuliez At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. "The Place of Exile" connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagin...

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Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) Alice A. Nelson

Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) מאת Alice A. Nelson One of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Examining the workks by Pia Barros, David Benavente and the Taller de Investigacion Teatral, Ariel Dorfman, Diamela Eltit, and Isabel Allende, this work ...

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The Selected Essays of Donald Greene מאת Donald Johnson Greene Donald Greene suggested that the eighteenth century should be seen as "The Age of Exuberance." It was an era unmatched, he argued, for intellectual ferment and literary accomplishment of the highest order. In his numerous books and in an essay canon that has few scholarly parallels in the postwar pe...

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Killing Time: Waiting Hierarchies in the Twentieth-Century German Novel מאת Jennifer Marston William A recurrent character constellation in both modernist and postmodern literature involves subordinates forced to wait for others to act before they can advance - literally or figuratively, personally or professionally. Through an analysis of the language that is used to depict this pervasive phenomen...

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Inexorable Yankeehood: Henry James Rediscovers America, 1904-1905 מאת Robin P. Hoople "Inexorable Yankeehood" analyzes the reciprocating collision between Henry James and American journalism during his 1904-1905 tour. Drawing on articles in the contemporary press and supplemented by a neglected visual archive, it charts James' progress as he gathers the impressions upon which he will...

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Salvador Dali's Literary Self-Portrait: Approaches to a Surrealist Autobiography מאת Carmen Garcia De La Rasilla This book remedies decades of critical neglect that has deprived the fields of art and literary criticism of one of the most important autobiographical and surrealist works of the twentieth century. It reveals the origins of the text, its relation to and role within Dali's corpus, as well as its rec...

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Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England מאת A. W. Barnes "Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England" argues for a theory of male subjectivity that subordinates questions of desire beneath the historical imperatives that inform those desires. Employing a post-closet identity theory, this book argues that writers like John Donne, William Shakespeare...

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Max Weber and the Problems of Value-Free Social Science: A Critical Examination of the Werturteilsstreit מאת Jay A. Ciaffa Ciaffa argues that the Werturteilsstreit should be seen as both about the influence of shifting sociocultural values on the social sciences and about whether the social sciences can validate judgements concerning the desirability of social institutions and policies....

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Proust Outdoors מאת Nathan Guss "Proust Outdoors" will surprise anyone familiar with Marcel Proust, a writer associated with the cork-lined bedroom, the aristocratic salon, the interiority of memory, and, more recently, the figurative closet. The narrator uses figures of interior space to express literatures ability to recapture t...

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Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space Kathryn A. Everly

Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space מאת Kathryn A. Everly Through a close textual analyses of the work of Merce Rodoreda, Remedios Varo, Montserrat Roig, and Carme Riera, this study isolates that which defines a distinctly female narrative voice in Catalan art and literature. From the success of Catalan surrealism, through the destructive years of the Span...

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On the Dark Side of the Archive: Nation and Literature in Spanish America at the Turn of the Century (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) מאת Juan Carlos Conzalez Espita "On the Dark Side of the Archive" examines nineteenth-century nation - building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique of traditional ideals often portrayed in Decadentism and modernismo. The study focuses on the 'n...

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Bernard MacLaverty (Contemporary Irish Writers) מאת Richard Rankin Russell Bernard MacLaverty explores the five short story collections and four novels by this Northern Ireland-born author through a series of close readings set against the backdrop of Northern Irish history and culture that draw on aesthetic and ethical theories by Bakhtin, Adorno, and Lukacs, along with t...

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Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings Mikhail Kuzmin

Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings מאת Mikhail Kuzmin The least known of the Russian writers in Harold Bloom's Western Canon, Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) is the last to emerge from the oblivion imposed by Soviet prudery on the country's non-conformist art. Green and Shvabrin's Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings takes the English-speaking reader well beyon...