Author: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel
Author: J. Zigarovich
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137007036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137007036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.
The Instant of My Death /Demeure
Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804733267
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This volume, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot with an extended essay by Derrida, records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804733267
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This volume, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot with an extended essay by Derrida, records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking.
The Ontology of Death
Author: Aaron Aquilina
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350339490
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject. Dickens, Nabokov, Hugo, Sophocles and many others explore capital punishment in their works, from Antigone to Invitation to a Beheading. Using these varied case studies, Aquilina demonstrates how they all highlight two aspects of the experience. First, they uncover a particular state of being, or more precisely non-being, that comes with a death sentence, and, second, they reveal how this state exists beyond death row, as sovereignty and alterity are by no means confined to a prison cell. In contrast to Heidegger's being-towards-death, which individualizes the subject – only I can die my own death, supposedly – this book argues that, when condemned to death, the self and death collide, putting under erasure the category of subjectivity itself. Be it death row or not, when the supposed futurity of death is brought into the here and now, we encounter what Aquilina calls 'relational death'. Living on with death severs the subject's relation to itself, the other and political sociality as a whole, rendering the human less a named and recognizable 'being' than an anonymous 'living corpse', a human thing. In a sustained engagement with Blanchot, Levinas, Hegel, Agamben and Derrida, The Ontology of Death articulates a new theory of the subject, beyond political subjectivity defined by sovereignty and beyond the Heideggerian notion of ontological selfhood.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350339490
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject. Dickens, Nabokov, Hugo, Sophocles and many others explore capital punishment in their works, from Antigone to Invitation to a Beheading. Using these varied case studies, Aquilina demonstrates how they all highlight two aspects of the experience. First, they uncover a particular state of being, or more precisely non-being, that comes with a death sentence, and, second, they reveal how this state exists beyond death row, as sovereignty and alterity are by no means confined to a prison cell. In contrast to Heidegger's being-towards-death, which individualizes the subject – only I can die my own death, supposedly – this book argues that, when condemned to death, the self and death collide, putting under erasure the category of subjectivity itself. Be it death row or not, when the supposed futurity of death is brought into the here and now, we encounter what Aquilina calls 'relational death'. Living on with death severs the subject's relation to itself, the other and political sociality as a whole, rendering the human less a named and recognizable 'being' than an anonymous 'living corpse', a human thing. In a sustained engagement with Blanchot, Levinas, Hegel, Agamben and Derrida, The Ontology of Death articulates a new theory of the subject, beyond political subjectivity defined by sovereignty and beyond the Heideggerian notion of ontological selfhood.
The Topographer
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
4 papers relating to the claim of W.S. Lowndes to the barony of Montacute
Author: Parliament lords, proc, Vict
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities Or Titles of Honor
Author: William Cruise
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Category : Titles of honor and nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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Category : Titles of honor and nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts
Author: C.B. Joseph
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5880603806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5880603806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
The Topographer
Author: Sir Egerton Brydges
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
A new law-dictionary containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law etc
Author: Giles Jacob
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The American and English Encyclopedia of Law and Practice
Author: William Mark McKinney
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description