Parallels between Woolf's Fiction and Process Philosophy
This book introduces Virginia Woolf as a nondualist and process-oriented thinker whose ideas are strikingly similar to those of her contemporary, Alfred North Whitehead. The author argues that in their respective fields, the two thinkers criticized the materialist turn of their time and attempted to undermine long-rooted dualisms.
Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics, and
Unlike their European predecessors in the experimentation with hallucinogens and aesthetics, many Latin American and North American authors turned to hallucinatory practices and substances as elements of their own hemispheric heritage. The twentieth-century narratives analyzed in Visionary Art of the Americas: Hemispheric Transculturations, ......
With global terrorism a seemingly daily threat, the twenty-first century is permeated with violence and in search of some way to better understand the world and its different religions and politics. In recent decades, the literary world has shifted to a similar focus, producing new works and reexamining old ones to aid in forming a vision ......
VOLTAIRE: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO HIS LIFE AND WORKS offers an accessible introduction to this key 18th-century French author. This Guide offers 21st-century readers a glimpse into the multifaceted Voltaire: the thinker, rebel, writer, exile, and campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day. A wide-ranging Introduction situates the ......
Originally published in 1980. This book emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of the self, and the imagination, among other topics. The concepts that emerge from long reading of the poetry of Stevens ......
American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army's unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men'except, notoriously, African Americans'to positions and ranks based on merit. And it misses the fact that the ......
Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American "Indians" in travel narratives of the long eighteenth century. It contributes to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence by accounting for the origins and (d)evolution of different "Indian" stereotypes.
Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American "Indians" in travel narratives of the long eighteenth century. It contributes to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence by accounting for the origins and (d)evolution of different "Indian" stereotypes.
Despite his prolificacy, Washington Irving remained an underexamined figure among literary scholars at the time William L. Hedges published his definitive study of the author in 1965. Most contemporary scholars believed that Irving's central contribution to the American literary tradition was that his work was ""polished"" and ""suave."" These ......
