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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Tulane Studies in English
Author: Tulane Studies in English
Author: Tulane University. Department of EnglishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tulane Studies in English
Author: Tulane UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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Questioning Nature
Author: Melissa BailesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry's complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers of the era—including Mary Shelley, Anna Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith—turned in response to developing disciplines of natural history such as botany, zoology, and geology. Recognizing the sociological implications of inquiries in the natural sciences, these authors renovated notions of originality through natural history while engaging with questions of the day. Classifications, hierarchies, and definitions inherent in natural history were appropriated into discussions of gender, race, and nation. Further, their concerns with authorship, authority, and novelty led them to experiment with textual hybridities and collaborative modes of originality that competed with conventional ideas of solitary genius. Exploring these authors and their work, Questioning Nature explains how these women writers' imaginative scientific writing unveiled a new genealogy for Romantic originality, both shaping the literary canon and ultimately leading to their exclusion from it.
English Mercuries
Author: Adam N. McKeownPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826516645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A soldier/scholar vividly describes the conditions for Elizabethan soldiers and how they wrote about their deployments.
The Owl and the Nightingale
Author: Nicholas de GuildfordPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Tulane Studies in English
Author: Tulane Studies in English
Author: A Different Order of Difficulty
Author: Karen Zumhagen-YekpléPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667729X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé makes a critical contribution to the “resolute” program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time, Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old questions about life’s meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekplé shows how Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his indirect teaching, A Different Order of Difficulty is a compelling addition to studies in both literature and philosophy.
Tulane Studies in English. Volume XII 1962
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014299314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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