Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Literature, ethics, and aesthetics Literature, ethics, and aesthetics Sabrina Achilles "This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's constructivist thi… OL16167571W
Force or fraud Force or fraud Toni Bowers This text tells the story of how rape and seduction came to be distinguished according to measures of women's resistance and consent in low-brow 'amatory' writing, by writers such as Aphra Behn, Dela… OL16596951W
Nature, community, & will Nature, community, & will Thomas R. West In three essays, West explores the morality of asceticism, discipline, and dignity within the works of eight social theorists. He attempts to discover a feeling of pride over human affairs that diffe… OL18314548W
Damned if you do Damned if you do Margaret S. Hrezo,John M. Parrish viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm OL18574570W
On moral fiction On moral fiction John Gardner Argues that great moral fiction has open-mindedly tested human values in an attempt to discover what best promotes human fulfillment and that current fiction fails to do so and, thus, undermines our … OL2015044W
Christopher Smart's cat Christopher Smart's cat Igor Webb "This is a book about displacement, flight, settlement and resettlement, about life and death in the Pannonian plain, as Igor Webb writes, appropriating the old Roman name for today s Central Europe … OL32563846W
Philip Sidney and the poetics of Renaissance cosmopolitanism Philip Sidney and the poetics of Renaissance cosmopolitanism Robert E. Stillman Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores … OL3527055W