Putnam's & the Reader

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Putnam's & the Reader

Putnam's & the Reader PDF Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Subversive Seduction

Subversive Seduction PDF Author: Travis Landry
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man--and in the decades since--about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does the constraint of women's choices have on society? The elaborate courtship plots of 19th century Spanish novels, with their fixation on suitors and selectors, rivalry, and seduction, were attempts to grapple with the question of female agency in a patriarchal society. By reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa, Travis Landry brings new insights to our understanding of both: while Darwin's theories have often been seen as biologically deterministic, Landry asserts that Darwin's theory of sexual selection was characterized by an open ended dynamic whose oxymoronic emphasis on "passive" female choice carries the potential for revolutionary change in the status of women.

Missing Socrates

Missing Socrates PDF Author: Jay Farness
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as a maker of arguments, not poetically as a maker of dialogues, but literally as a maker of texts? This is a question that Jacques Derrida has made his own, and in this book Farness creates a dialogue with Derrida on Plato's texts. Missing Socrates also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the Apology of Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the Euthyphro; artistic practice and tradition in the Ion; education and political discipline in the Charmides; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in Phaedrus. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness shows that the dialogues of Plato uncannily supply that lack.

Mind

Mind PDF Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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A quarterly review of philosophy.

Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime

Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime PDF Author: Timothy Murray
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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An invaluable collection of theater commentary by a wide range of leading French theorists, in English translation.

Rivalry

Rivalry PDF Author: George Ordahl
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Category : Competition (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Romance's Rival

Romance's Rival PDF Author: Talia Schaffer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190465093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Romance's Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance's Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Bront s, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women's popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman's point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance's Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women's marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance's Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.

The Times History of the War

The Times History of the War PDF Author:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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The Monist

The Monist PDF Author: Paul Carus
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.

Jesus and the Cross

Jesus and the Cross PDF Author: David Emmanuel Singh
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606080210
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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The paper in this volume are organized in three parts: scriptural, contextual and theological. The central question being addressed is: how do Christians living in contexts, where Islam is a majority or minority religion, experience, express or think of the Cross? This is, therefore, an exercise in listening. As the contexts from where these engagements arise are varied, the papers in drawing scriptural, contextual and theological reflections offer a cross-section of Christian thinking about Jesus and the Cross.