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The Elusiveness of Tolerance : The "Jewish Question" From Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars
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ISBN: 1469656485 1469614642 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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Random walks : essays in elective criticism
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ISBN: 128285464X 9786612854644 0773566740 9780773566743 0773516484 9780773516489 0773516794 9780773516793 6612854642 Year: 1997 Publisher: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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The first section of the book develops Solway's approach to literature, starting from the assumption that genuine criticism requires the intellectual freedom to range at will across the literary landscape rather than restricting one's direction based on what is current, fashionable, or politically correct. Solway argues that advocating a theoretical school - postmodernism, poststructuralism, semiotics, new historicism, Marxist revisionism, or queer theory - generally involves abandoning the real critical project, which is the discovery of one's own undetermined motives, dispositions, and interests as reflected in the secret mirrors embedded in literary texts. Instead Solway pursues what he calls elective criticism, writing that enables the critical writer to freely discover his or her own identity - a concept that he claims cannot reasonably be diluted, relinquished, or deconstructed. In the second section Solway practices what he preaches, exploring a wide range of authors and subjects. His essays include an analysis of Franz Kafka's The Trial as a Jewish joke, a personal memoir of Irving Layton, an interpretation of Erin Moure's "Pronouns on the Main," an examination of language in William Shakespeare's romances, a reading of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" that is sympathetic to the Duke, an assertion that James Joyce has more in common with the traditional novelist than with the professional, (post-)modern alienator, and an exploration of Jonathan Swift's sartorial imagery that contends that form is the source of substantive identity.

Écrire en pays dominé.
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ISBN: 2070740943 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris Gallimard


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Review of the radiological assessments corporation's Fernald dose reconstruction report
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ISBN: 0309056772 9786610246793 1280246790 0309562252 9780309562256 9780309056779 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,


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Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading
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ISBN: 0801896525 9780801896521 0801892422 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore, MD, USA Johns Hopkins University Press


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Mémoires d'un lecteur heureux : essai
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ISBN: 2825109800 9782825109809 Year: 1997 Publisher: Lausanne 9 : L'Age d'Homme,

Literatur : Geschichte und Verstehen. Festschrift für Ulrich Mölk
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ISBN: 3825305074 9783825305079 Year: 1997 Volume: 87 Publisher: C. Winter,

Passage through hell : modernist descents, medieval underworlds
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ISBN: 0801431638 1501729470 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press,

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Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread, David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order to recover the historical corpus of modernism, he asserts, it is necessary to acknowledge the attraction that medieval forms and motifs held for modernist literature and theory. By pairing the writings of the postwar German dramatist and novelist Peter Weiss with Dante's Commedia, and Christine de Pizan with Virginia Woolf, Pike argues for a new level of complexity in the relation between medieval and modern poetics. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats-Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott-exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present.

Sciences maudites & poètes maudits
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ISBN: 2909201163 Year: 1997 Publisher: L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Le Bois d'Orion

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