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  • Modernists versus Medicine in Literature

    Mann, Céline, Beckett, and the Challenge of Medicalization

    de Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
    This academic work explores the pivotal shift in Western thought whereby disease replaced sin as the fundamental framework for understanding human existence. This volume examines how this transformation shaped literary modernism through three exemplary writers who confronted the growing medicalization of human life. This book presupposes medicine’s evolving relationship with literature across ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Franz Kafka

    de Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
    An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work.Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka's eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward publishing left most of ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Marcel Proust

    de Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
    An overview of Proust's development as a writer and an in-depth study of his major novel, In Search of Lost TimeUnderstanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary ... Leer más

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  • Revels in Madness

    Insanity in Medicine and Literature

    de Allen Thiher ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
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    de Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
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  • Aesthetics and Politics

    Series series Radical Thinkers
    No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy in Turbulent Times

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    Traducido por William McCuaig ...
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  • Franz Kafka

    The Necessity of Form

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  • What is Literature for?

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    Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

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    Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to ... Leer más

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  • Deleuze on Literature

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    In His Time and Ours

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