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This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty. He argues that the more researchers learned about the causes of human behavior, the more they realized how much more there was to know and how little they knew about what they thought they knew. The book closes by considering the revolutionary impact of quantum theory, which, though it influenced novelists only marginally, shattered the model of causal understanding that had dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. Others have addressed changing ideas about causality in specific areas, but no one has tackled a broad cultural history of this concept as does Stephen Kern in this engagingly written and lucidly argued book.
History of civilization --- Literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1899 --- #KVHA:Literaire kritiek --- #KVHA:Causaliteit --- #KVHA:Moord --- #KVHA:Thematische literatuurstudie --- Causation in literature. --- Causation. --- Fiction --- Murder in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Causation --- Causation in literature --- Murder in literature --- History and criticism
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The author's aim was to write a convincing history of love. His book spans 87 years (1847-1934) and his main sources are philosophy, literature (i.e. classic novels) and art. The author's thesis is that between the Victorian and the modern periods love became more authentic as men and women came to reflect more profoundly about what is means to be in love.
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- Love in literature --- Love in art --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
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Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.
Modernism (Literature) --- Literary criticism --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- 82-31 --- Roman --- 82-31 Roman --- Modernism (Literature). --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Modernisme (littérature)
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#SBIB:93H3 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Thematische geschiedenis --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning
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Technology and civilization. --- Space and time. --- Civilization, Modern --- Technologie et civilisation --- Espace et temps --- Civilisation --- Ruimte en tijd --- Temps et espace --- Tijd en ruimte --- -Space and time --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Hyperspace --- Space and time --- Technology and civilization --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Civilization --- Social history --- Technology --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Relativity (Physics) --- Twentieth century --- Nineteenth century --- History of civilization --- anno 1800-1999 --- Civilization [Modern ] --- 19th century --- 20th century
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In "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid" Edward Burne-Jones shows the monarch in profile, looking up idolatrously at his beloved maiden. But she does not look down at him - she stares frontally, with wide-open hypnotic eyes. In Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", Angel Clare gazes intently at Tess when preparing to propose. She looks away. This compositional pattern recurs frequently in English and French paintings and novels of the second half of the 19th century, in works by Rossetti and Renoir, Dickens and Zola, and numerous others. Stephen Kern identifies it in this book as a "propositional composition". A man in profile looks at a woman, who looks away from him and in the direction of the viewer. Kern aims to show how the frequency of the composition calls for a reconsideration of a widely held argument about "the gaze" - that women are merely passive erotic objects, while men are active erotic subjects. He argues that, compared with the eyes of men, the eyes of women are more visible, look out into a wider world, consider a more varied range of thoughts, and convey more profound, if not more intense, emotions. (Book jacket)
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"Modernism After the Death of God: Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification explores the writing and philosophies of some of the most popular modernist figures studied today. This ground-breaking work, is an interpretation of the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, D. H. Lawrence, André Gide, Martin Heidegger and Virginia Woolf that shows how each related to and drifted from religion in large part because they believed that Christian sexual morality had damaged or threatened to damage their love life" --
Modernism (Literature) --- Christianity and literature --- Sex (Psychology) in literature --- European literature --- 82:2 --- 82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst --- Literatuur en godsdienst --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- History and criticism --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Christianity and literature. --- European literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1999 --- Europe.
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Human body. --- Moral conditions. --- Sex customs --- Sexual ethics --- History. --- History.
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