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The Dispossessed State Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

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The Dispossessed State : Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Section 1 The social life of things -- 1.Prize possession: the `silver coffer' of Tipu Sultan and the Fraser family / Cam Sharp Jones -- 2.Chinese wallpaper: from Canton to country house / Helen Clifford -- 3.Production, purchase, dispossession, recirculation: Anglo-Indian ivory furniture in the British country house / Kate Smith -- 4.…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

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