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Metaphysics is usually associated with that part of the philosophical tradition which asks about 'last things', questions such as: How many substances are there in the world? Which is more fundamental, quantity or quality? Are events prior to things, or do they happen to those things? While he wasn't a philosopher, Shakespeare was obviously interested in 'ultimates' of this sort. Instead of probing these issues with argument, however, he did so with plays. Shakespearean Metaphysics argues for Shakespeare's inclusion within a metaphysical tradition that opposes empiricism and Cartesian dualism.
Metaphysics in literature --- Metaphysics --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Philosophy --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Criticism and interpretation --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Philosophy --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 --- Metaphysics in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Philosophy.
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Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- English poetry --- Metaphysics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Poésie anglaise --- Métaphysique --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature.
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This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Météores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyère and Le Médianoche amoureux, shows To
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In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values.
Metaphysics in literature. --- Geometry in literature. --- Wordsworth, William, --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Mathematics.
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Poetry --- English literature --- Philosophy --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- 820-1 "15/16" --- Engelse literatuur: poëzie--?"15/16" --- English poetry --- Metaphysics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 820-1 "15/16" Engelse literatuur: poëzie--?"15/16" --- Metaphysics in literature --- History and criticism
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Sound in literature. --- Metaphysics in literature. --- Poetics --- Sound poetry --- Music and literature --- Phonetic poetry --- Poesie sonore --- Sonorist rhythms (Poetry) --- Sound poems --- Poetry --- Sounds in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Technique.
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A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism and the perennial philosophy and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.
Spirituality in literature. --- Mysticism in literature. --- Philosophy in literature. --- Gnosticism in literature. --- Apocalypse in literature. --- Good and evil in literature. --- Metaphysics in literature. --- Evil in literature --- Good in literature --- McCarthy, Cormac, --- מקארתי, קורמאק, --- McCarthy, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is notoriously witty. In this 1992 book, A. J. Smith seeks the reason for the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French and Spanish writings, so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit: conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational and others from which the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and God.
Poetry --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Metaphysics in literature --- Literature, Comparative --- English poetry --- English wit and humor --- European and English --- History and criticism --- English and European --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Literature, Comparative - European and English --- English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- English wit and humor - History and criticism --- Literature, Comparative - English and European --- Metaphysics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- English and European. --- European and English. --- Philology
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Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world.Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.
Detective and mystery stories --- Experimental fiction --- Fiction --- Metaphysics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- Metafysica in de literatuur --- Metaphysics in literature --- Métaphysique dans la littérature --- anno 1900-1999 --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- 20th century --- Technique --- Fiction writing --- Metafiction --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism --- Experimental fiction - History and criticism --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- Fiction - Technique --- ROMAN POLICIER --- LITTERATURE EXPERIMENTALE --- METAPHYSIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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