Karl Popper and literary theory : critical rationalism as a philosophy of literature /
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Karl Popper's philosophy of science, with its focus on falsifiability and critical rationalism, provides a firm foundation for a theory of literary interpretation that avoids the pitfalls of many contemporary theories. Building on the work of Popper, John Eccles, Imre Lakatos, Ernst Gombrich, Louise DeSalvo and James Battersby, this study outlines the approach, sets it in a theoretical context, and applies the theory to challenging works by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea, Jean Toomer, Shakespeare, Henry Fielding, J-M.G. LeClézio, J.M. Coetzee, Jonathan Littell, Patrick Modiano, Albert Schweitzer, Popper's protégé William Warren Bartley III and the Gospel of Mark. The book concludes with a set of general principles for understanding literature as a mode of investigation in what Popper called the unended quest.
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Description based upon print version of record. :
1 online resource. :
9789004335837 :
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Die Novelle in der Romania : Kontingenz und Prägnanz /
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Die Novelle als ästhetisch innovative Problematisierung des Exemplums hat ihren Ursprung in der romanischen Welt, in Boccaccios Decameron . Die aus unterschiedlichen, antiken, orientalischen und mittelalterlichen Quellen stammenden Kurzerzählungen erhalten durch ihre Einbettung in die komplexe Architektur des Decameron eine Sinnoffenheit und Mehrdeutigkeit, die durch das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen der durch den Rahmen suggerierten Ordnung und den widersprüchlichen Deutungsmöglichkeiten der Einzelnovellen prägnant zum Vorschein kommt. Von hier aus hat sich die Novelle in allen europäischen Literaturen verbreitet. Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kontingenz des Erzählten und Prägnanz des Erzählens, Zufall und Geistesgegenwart, Exemplarität und Ambiguisierung, Singularität und Pluralisierung wurde im Rahmen eines Romanistischen Kolloquiums, dessen Ergebnisse der vorliegende Band dokumentiert, durch die Untersuchung zentraler ausgewählter Autoren und Korpora der novellistischen Tradition in der Romania sichtbar gemacht.
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1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783846769751
Narrative, Film, and Identity : How Cinema Impacts the Meaning of Life /
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Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship on both narrative identity and film narrative, there is very little investigation of the intersection between them. This book provides that, with particular attention to how the interaction between film narratives and life narratives affect the meaning of life. Traditional issues like spectator activity and realism appear in a different light when viewed through this interaction. It also reveals how film can both help and hinder the meaning of our lives by sustaining oppressive narratives or promoting new narrative possibilities. See Less
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1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004711082
Italian Futurism and the Poetry of Materiality : The Tin-Litho Book L'Anguria Lirica /
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This monograph offers the first-ever, full-length analysis of the most irreverent book of Italian Futurism: L'anguria lirica , printed in 1934 on tin metal sheets, with design and poetic text by Tullio d'Albisola and illustrations by Bruno Munari. This study, which features the unabridged reproduction of the pages of the tin book, accompanied by the first English translation of the poem, aims to disentangle the complex relationship between text and image in this total artwork. It shows how the endless series of material transformations at its core - of woman into food, of love into desecrating religion, of man into machine, of poetry into matter - fostered a radical change in poetry-writing, thus breaking away from a stagnant lyrical past.
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1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004526297
The characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews /
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In The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews Brian Small applies the tools of literary and rhetorical criticism to reconstruct the author of Hebrew's portrayal of Jesus' character. The author of Hebrews uses a variety of literary and rhetorical devices in order to develop his characterization of Jesus. The portrait that emerges is that Jesus is a person of exemplary character, who exhibits both divine and human character traits. Some of the traits reveal Jesus' greatness while others reveal his moral excellence. Jesus' exemplary character plays a prominent role in the author's argument and has profound implications for his audience. Jesus' character produces many benefits for his followers and his character entails certain obligations from his followers.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004264458 :
0928-0731 ;
Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability : Selected Papers /
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This book contains essays by Horst Ruthrof, tracing the author's intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy of language. If you have ever felt that our linguistic and philosophical approaches to language lack an explanation of what renders it so powerful, you share the author's motivation for writing these essays. With tools from Locke, Kant, Peirce, and especially Husserl, the author redefines natural language as "a set of social instructions for schematically imagining, and acting in, a world" and gradually identifies what grants natural language its power: imaginability .
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1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004742314
Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968 : Ideas in Flux /
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Between the Thaw and the Prague Spring, Socialist Europe experienced a brief yet intense period of intellectual ferment. Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968 explores the shifting landscape of literature, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought in the wake of Stalinism and on the cusp of postmodernism. Bridging cultural analysis and intellectual history, this volume offers fresh insights into a period that shaped Socialist Europe for decades.
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1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004533073
The People of the Song : Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah /
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When, in 1783, Moses Mendelssohn's German Psalms translation was published in Berlin, forward-thinking ideologues of Jewish cultural revival rendered its translator a redeemer of the songs of King David from exilic desolation. The People of the Song is the first study to examine Mendelssohn's conception of biblical Hebrew poetry as a particular manifestation of Judaism's universalism. The author traces how it helped forge a new foundational narrative that imagined Israel's covenant with God in sacred song, not in revealed law, portrayed King David as a bard, not a military leader, and envisioned national redemption of modern Jews as an aesthetic, not a political, revival.
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1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004536500
Literature and Revolution in Modern China : Lu Xun, Leon Trotsky, and Chen Duxiu /
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This book reconstructs Lu Xun's literary theory and political position within its historical context. It considers the influence on Lu Xun of Leon Trotsky's literary theory and Lu Xun's relationship with the Chinese Trotskyists and the Chinese Communist Party. It corrects errors and shortcomings in conventional studies on Lu Xun and shows how Lu Xun was used for political purposes by the Chinese Communists and Mao Zedong, beginning in the Yan'an years and culminating during the Cultural Revolution. It seeks to rescue Lu Xun from the distortion of his legacy by the Chinese Communist literary establishment, Mao Zedong, and Stalinism. .
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1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004734395
Newsletter, Number 117 (SPRING 1982)
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CONTENT:
An Exhibition of Drawings from Egypt, Joe Stefanelli--
Results of the 1981 Excavations and Survey AT NAUKRATIS Wm. Coulson and Albert Leonard, Jr.--
Wadi Sheikh Ali Survey, December 1980, Marvin W, Meyer--
Researching the Religious Life of Muslim WOMEN IN MoDERN Egypt, Valerie J. Hoffman--
GREEK POTTERY IN EGYPT, Marjorie Venit--
Survey Research for the History of Arabic Literary Theory, Wolfhavt Heinriohe--
Egypt, Israel, and Nigeria: Foreign RELATIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN Nigeria, 1960-1980., Lois A. Aroian--
Agrarian Transformation and Male-Female Power Relations in the Egyptian Delta, Soheir A. Morsy--
News of Other Organizations--
Aerial Photograph of the Valley of the Queens.
Distant companions : selected papers /
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This volume contains fourteen papers on Greek literature, historiography and philosophy. Its titles seeks to bring out the author's intention to explore the consequences of the paradox that goes with interpreting messages that were never meant to be heard by us, but are nevertheless widely believed to be significant to our understanding of our own historical situation: only by conscientiously measuring the distance that separates us from the Greeks may we hope to avoid the risk of conforming them to current standards and beliefs, and of throwing away in the process both the possibility to understand them and the relevance such an understanding may have to our own ideas and prejudices. Two papers on the history of classical scholarship discuss various ways in which classicists have handled this paradox.
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1 online resource (268 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index. :
9789004351455 :
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The Jewish Vanguard : A Cultural Moment /
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The Jewish Vanguard brings to light a spirited cultural moment when Jewish writers and artists were at the forefront of the avant-garde. Blending literary theory, cultural history, and Jewish studies, this book reveals how these figures reimagined identity, politics, and tradition through radical artistic and intellectual experimentation. From mystical thought to progressive utopias, their ideas resonated far beyond their immediate circles, even as their contributions have been marginalised in mainstream narratives. Featuring original archival research and fresh case studies, The Jewish Vanguard offers a compelling new perspective on Jewish participation on the early 20th-century cultural arena, challenging conventional views and opening new paths in avant-garde and cultural studies.
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1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004744554
The study of the ancient Near East in the twenty-first century : the William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference /
: Papers presented at a conference held at Johns Hopkins University in May, 1991. : x, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 093146496x (cloth : alk. paper)
Foreigners and Egyptians in the late Egyptian stories : linguistic, literary and historical perspectives /
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In Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories Camilla Di Biase-Dyson applies systemic functional linguistics, literary theory and New Historicist approaches to four of the Late Egyptian Stories and shows how language was exploited to establish the narrative roles of literary protagonists. The analysis reveals the shifting power dynamics between the Doomed Prince and his foreign wife and the parody in the depiction of the Hyksos ruler Apophis and his Theban counterpart Seqenenre. It also sheds light on the weight of history in the sketch of the Rebel of Joppa and the general Djehuty and explains the interplay of social expectations in the encounters between the envoy Wenamun and the Levantine princes with whom he seeks to trade. \'Overall, Di Biase-Dyson's monograph is an original interdisciplinary examination of an exciting corpus of ancient literary texts.\' Nikolaos Lazaridis, Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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Originally published as the author's doctoral thesis, 2009. :
1 online resource (488 pages) :
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9789004251304 :
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Paul Ricoeur's idea of reference : the truth as non-reference /
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This book investigates the importance of Ricoeur's hermeneutics and poetics in rethinking humanities. In particular, Ricoeur's insights on reference as refiguration and his idea of interpretation as a triadic process (which consists of mimesis 1 - prefiguration, mimesis 2 - configuration, and mimesis 3 - refiguration) will be applied to philosophy of science and to literary and historical texts. It will be shown that Ricoeur's idea of emplotment can be extended and applied to scientific, literary and historical texts. This multidisciplinary research will include philosophy of science, metaphysics, hermeneutics, and literary theory.
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9789004385290 :
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A companion to the Greek lyric poets /
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This handbook for the reading of early Greek poetry is intended to be both a manual for teachers and a guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It covers poetry in the elegiac and iambic genres, as well as melic poetry which is provisionally divided into the personal and the public. The book takes a critical look at scholarly trends applied in interpreting this poetry, exploring, for example, the problems of defining the nature of the elegiac genre, the origins of iambic poetry, the personal voice used by the poets, and the validity of historical criticism. Appearing in the Classical Tradition series, it considers the impact of modern literary theory on the reading of these texts - for instance the new interpretations suggested by feminism - and guides readers to a full bibliography on scholarly debates from the 19th century to the present.
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First series statement from book jacket. :
1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) :
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9789004217614 :
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Literature and the encounter with immanence /
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In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza's most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: "We do not know what a body can do." A literary theory based on immanence privileges the ontological status of the text and the material act of reading. Rather than ask what a text means, the essays here ask what a text can do. Each essay documents a distinct literary and philosophical encounter with immanence and, as a result, opens up a space to read literature as one would read philosophy and vice versa .
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1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) :
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9789004311930 :
0929-8436 ; :
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