Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact? In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Joshua Adams follows the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot thro...Lasīt vairāk
Keats and Scepticism explores Keatss affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keatss poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keatss links with the origin of scepticism in ancient Greece as record...Lasīt vairāk
Fictions of Proximity explores the nexus of writers around David Foster Wallace who shaped a trend in literature the study calls the post-positivist novel. It provides new readings of these writers, both of their canonical and lesser-known works,...Lasīt vairāk
Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the authors literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skeptic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631901243)
This edited volume seeks ways to present a unifying picture of TESOL policies and practices from different contexts in the broader Mediterranean basin and beyond. The main topics are: English language education; English language teacher education...Lasīt vairāk
Keats and Scepticism explores Keatss affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keatss poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keatss links with the origin of scepticism in ancient Greece as recorded in Sextu...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantess Don Quijote, Zayass Desengańos amorosos, Scarrons Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergeracs...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantess Don Quijote, Zayass Desengańos amorosos, Scarrons Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergeracs...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jul-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438486802)
Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction. Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literaturein particular, the narrati...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1986, this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrads major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complica...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438486796)
Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction-- Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literaturein particular, the narrative f...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Apr-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108842662)
This ambitious account of skepticisms effects on major authors of Englands Golden Age shows how key philosophical problems inspired literary innovations in poetry and prose. When figures like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert of Cherbury, Caven...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Feb-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812252613)
European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of te...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1986, this is a powerful and original book. It offers textual interpretation of Conrads major work and articulates the subtlety and richness of his treatment of social-political institutions and of the forces that complica...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booths ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackerays Skep...Lasīt vairāk
This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanati...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Sep-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110660555)
This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating d...Lasīt vairāk
