Pararealities

Author : Floyd Merrell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027217226

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Pararealities by Floyd Merrell Pdf

The objective of this study is to inquire, from a broad epistemological view, into the underlying nature of fictions, and above all, to discover how it is possible to create and process them. In Chapter One, I put forth four "postulates" in the form of though experiments. in Chapter Two I turn attention to make-believe, imaginary, and dream worlds, and how they can be conceived and perceived only with respect to the/a "real world." Chapter Three includes a discussion of the affinities and differences between one's tacit knowledge of certain aspects of the number system in arithmetic (an ordered series) and the range of all possible fictional entities (an unordered network). In Chapter Four I establish more precisely the relations between one's "real world" and one's fictional worlds in light of the conclusions from Chapter Three. And, in Chapter Five, I attempt to construct a formal model with which to account for the construction of all possible fictional sentences.

Author : Jason Berger
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823287765

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Xenocitizens by Jason Berger Pdf

In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or stranger, and “citizen,” which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century—pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain.

Author : Victor E. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134658947

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Para/Inquiry by Victor E. Taylor Pdf

Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism, both in style and content. Central to the book is the status of the sacred in postmodern times. Taylor explores the sacred images in art, culture and literature. We see that the concept of the sacred is uniquely singular and resistant to an easy assimilation into artistic, cultural or narrative forms. Anyone wishing to gain a new and exciting understanding of postmodernism, will read this book with great pleasure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UOM:39015073504253

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Canadian Review of Comparative Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeanne Cavelos
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440637629

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The Many Faces of Van Helsing by Jeanne Cavelos Pdf

First introduced in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Van Helsing was the ultimate adversary for the vampire—as complex as the fiend he relentlessly pursued. In this anthology, masters of horror and fantasy give Van Helsing his due as they reimagine the history and adventures of the original vampire hunter—the greatest foe of the most evil icon in literary history. Featuring C. Dean Anderson • Kim Antieau • William D. Carl • Adam-Troy Castro • A.M. Dellamonica • Kris Dikeman • Christopher Golden • Joe Hill • Brian Hodge • Nina Kiriki Hoffman • Sarah Kelderman • Kathe Koja • J.A. Konrath • Tanith Lee • Thomas E. Monteleone • Rita Oakes • Chris Roberson • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • Steve Resnic Tem & Melanie Tem • Thomas Tessier • Lois Tilton

Author : Brian J. McVeigh
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739113445

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The State Bearing Gifts by Brian J. McVeigh Pdf

Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitima

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107021259

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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism by Brian McHale Pdf

This Introduction surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama.

Author : R. Rawdon Wilson
Publisher : Boston : Northeastern University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106009172377

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In Palamedes' Shadow by R. Rawdon Wilson Pdf

Author : Silvia Hartmann
Publisher : DragonRising Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781873483732

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Oceans of Energy by Silvia Hartmann Pdf

This beautiful book explains how to use the EmoTrance energy system for self help and with others.First presented to the international Energy Psychology community in 2002 at the second European Energy Therapies conference in Oxford, UK, EmoTrance is a new system for handling the human energy body. This book gives a thorough grounding in the underlying principles of EmoTranceTM both for self help and use with others and introduces in 8 extensive chapters the main uses of the system, namely self healing, learning to heal others, energy nutrition, restoring the energy body, goal setting & reality creation and state management, especially of new and previously unexperienced enlightenment states. In the addendi the developmental history of the EmoTranceTM system is discussed and session stories from existing practitioners as well as first person reports from using EmoTranceTM in the field serve as teaching examples and to highlight the many uses of this flexible and content free energy modality.

Author : Floyd Merrell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110855647

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A Semiotic Theory of Texts by Floyd Merrell Pdf

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Author : Daniel Ammann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783825344047

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David Lodge and the Art-and-Reality Novel by Daniel Ammann Pdf

Two distinctive views emerge concerning the presumed battle between Lodge's creative and critical work. One holds that Lodge’s fiction is antimodernist and therefore lags behind his criticism, which displays a theoretical interest in the modernist and – though to a lesser extent – in the postmodernist text. According to the opposite view, time and again there have been strong elements of modernism and postmodernism in Lodge’s novels. In order to bring together the two lines of Lodge’s work, this study shall focus on some aspects in his fiction that are also discussed in his criticism. Given this interdependence, his declared interest in what he calls the ‘art-and-reality novel’ can be regarded as a major starting-point. The emphasis falls on various forms of interplay in the fields of literature, criticism and reality. Accordingly, it should be possible to apply Lodge the theorist to Lodge the novelist and thus bridge or at least explain the alleged division in his work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : UOM:39015064549416

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Words on Cassette by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137012647

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Fictional and Historical Worlds by J. Hart Pdf

Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the past sixty years ranging from Jerome Bruner to Stephen Greenblatt.

Author : David William Foster,Daniel Altamiranda,Carmen Urioste-Azcorra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 0815335652

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Spanish Literature by David William Foster,Daniel Altamiranda,Carmen Urioste-Azcorra Pdf

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Author : R. Rawdon Wilson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874135257

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Shakespearean Narrative by R. Rawdon Wilson Pdf

"In Shakespearean Narrative, Rawdon Wilson explores the variety and purposes of narrative in Shakespeare's plays. He does this by placing Shakespeare's use of narrative within a context of Renaissance narrative theory and practice, often citing analogous strategies from such other writers as Spenser and Cervantes, and exploring in depth the fruitfulness of contemporary narrative theory to an understanding of Shakespeare's practice. Thus Shakespearean Narrative undertakes a double task: it tries to understand Shakespeare's narrative strategies, which has never been done before in any comparable depth, and it also attempts to test the usefulness of contemporary narrative theory." "The book also relates Shakespeare's understanding of the narrative in the plays to the brilliant narrative poems that he wrote in the early 1590s. It also examines the narrative conventions that are used in the embedded, or inset, narratives in the plays. Particular attention is paid to the way Shakespeare creates fictional entities, such as worlds and characters, in the plays. A great deal of emphasis is placed on Shakespeare's innovative transformations of traditional narrative conventions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved