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The epistemology of utopia rhetoric, theory and imagination /

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The melancholy assemblage affect and epistemology in the English Renaissance / by Daniel, Drew, 1971-

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Dying to know scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England / by Levine, George Lewis

Table of Contents: “…The narrative of scientific epistemology -- Dying to know Descartes -- Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator -- Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self -- My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. …”
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Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences /

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The Discourse of Modernism / by Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…On method, discursive logics, and epistemology -- Questions of medieval discursive practice -- From the middle ages to the (w)hole of Utopia -- Kepler, his Dream, and the analysis and pattern of thought -- Campanella and Bacon: concerning structures of mind -- The masculine birth of time -- Cyrano and the experimental discourse -- The myth of sun and moon -- The difficulty of writing -- Crusoe rights his story -- Gulliver's critique of Euclid -- Emergence, consolidation, and dominance of a discourse.…”
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The literature of jealousy in the age of Cervantes by Wagschal, Steven, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Jealousy and epistemology in Lope de Vega's "Honor plays" -- Women, jealousy, and power -- Representing dramatic jealousy : from comic to tragic -- Religion, race, and ethnicity in Cervantes's Jealous old man from Extremadura -- Cervantes's virtuous jealousy -- Myth and the fractured "I" in Góngora -- Góngora on the beautiful and the sublime.…”
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Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”
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The claims of poverty literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / by Crassons, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman -- Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede -- "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform -- The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary -- Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater -- Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.…”
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Imagination and the contemporary novel by Su, John J.

Table of Contents: “…Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim; 6. Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies; Conclusion; Works cited.…”
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The topography of modernity Karl Philipp Moritz and the space of autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity.…”
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The Topography of Modernity : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity.…”
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Visions of the courtly body : the patronage of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court / by Hille, Christiane

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Embodiment and the cosmic perspective in twentieth-century fiction / by Caracciolo, Marco

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Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France / by Apter, Emily S., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard -- The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography -- Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior -- Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere -- Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction -- Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais -- Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau -- Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud -- Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail.…”
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Religion and the new atheism a critical appraisal /

Table of Contents: “…/ Steve Fuller -- Cognitive science and the new atheism / William Sims Bainbridge -- One-dimensional rage : the social epistemology of the new atheism and fundamentalism / William A. …”
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Mermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England / by Pedersen, Tara E.

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Sex and the citizen interrogating the Caribbean /

Table of Contents: “…Buyers beware, "hoodwinking" on the rise: epistemologies of consumption in Terry McMillan's Caribbean / Patricia Saunders -- "Nobody ent billing me": a U.S.…”
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Time and temporalities in European travel writing /

Table of Contents: “…Nations and Orientalism -- The Hebrew People: The Model Nation -- Landscape, Time, Nationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation -- Angel Ganivet, His Work and His Time -- Conflicting Time Conceptualisations -- Pan-Latin Chronopolitics -- On the Relativity of Progress -- On Coevalness: Was Ganivet a Precursor of Southern Epistemologies? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Deformed and destructive beings the purpose of horror films / by Ochoa, George

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Jewish thought in dialogue essays on thinkers, theologies, and moral theories / by Shatz, David

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