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  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
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    Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the Essais (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of ... Read more

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  • Reading Beyond the Code

    Literature and Relevance Theory

    Edited by Terence Cave, Deirdre Wilson ...
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  • Daniel Deronda

    by George Eliot ...
    As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young ... Read more

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  • Live Artefacts

    Literature in a Cognitive Environment

    by Terence Cave ...
    Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and ... Read more

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  • Hunger

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with ... Read more

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  • Pan

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a short but intense release of energies. Living out of a rudimentary hut on the edge of the forest, he pursues a solitary existence, hunting, fishing, and ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

    Translated by Beatrice Gruendler ...
    Series Book 43 - Library of Arabic Literature
    A robust defense of a poetic geniusAbū Tammām (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both ... Read more

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    by George Eliot ...
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  • Adam Bede by George Eliot - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

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    Series Book 1 - Delphi Parts Edition (George Eliot)
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  • Scenes of Clerical Life

    by George Eliot ...
    Scenes of Clerical Life is a novel by George Eliot first published in 1858.Scenes of Clerical Life, was the first published fiction by George Eliot. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of country clergymen and their communities.The three stories are set during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century over a fifty year period.The ... Read more

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