Compar(a)ison : an international journal of comparative literature
Author : [Anonymus AC00567477]
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : [Anonymus AC00567477]
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1993
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Page : 826 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Comparative literature
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Author : Michael Jakob
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Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Comparative literature
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Author : Alex Woloch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691113135
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The "character-space," as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation. Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.
Author : New Mexico State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
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Page : 774 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Agriculture
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Author : New Hampshire. Supreme Court
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Gas manufacture
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Author : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : James Blachowicz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438443331
Finalist for the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in Metaphysics presented by the Metaphysical Society of America Is metaphysics possible? This book argues that the greatest threat to its viability derives from a self-destructive formalism. If what is essential to the nature of physical entities are the properties they have in common (as formalism holds), the inevitable result will be a reductionist collapse—leaving only "being" or physical "matter" or some other underlying ground. In Essential Difference, James Blachowicz first constructs a one-to-one historical parallel between the modern crisis surrounding formalism (Hume/Kant/Hegel) and the ancient version (Parmenides/Plato/Aristotle), focusing on the principles of differentiation and individuation that underlie Aristotle's and Hegel's antireductionist programs. He then proposes a contemporary metaphysical theory of emergence in the context of recent philosophy of science. This theory, founded on the principle of the nonderivability of actual states from possible states, holds that the differences among physical, biological, and mental phenomena are essential to any metaphysics. Essential Difference is the only focused treatment of this problem and is itself essential for any understanding of the nature of metaphysics.
Author : Zahid Akter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2024-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111387674
Pangkhua is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by about 2000 people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. This volume provides a comprehensive grammatical description of the language, based on more than a year of original fieldwork in a Pangkhua village. Taking a broadly functional typological perspective, Zahid Akter analyzes Pangkhua phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse. Some of the typologically notable characteristics of Pangkhua include presence of a relatively large number of sesquisyllabic words, an elaborate person marking on verbs, absence of a clausal conjunctive, and lack of a distinct word class of adjectives. As the first comprehensive description of the language, this grammar contributes to comparative Tibeto-Burman linguistics more broadly by laying the groundwork for further studies locating Pangkhua in its genealogical, areal, and typological contexts. It will also serve as an invaluable resource for the maintenance and revitalization of Pangkhua language and culture.