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Mirages and mad beliefs Proust the skeptic / by Prendergast, Christopher

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W.K. Clifford and "The ethics of belief" by Madigan, Tim

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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon / by Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

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Hard Sayings The Rhetorics of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction / by Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction -- Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience -- Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark -- John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism -- Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament -- The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson -- Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.…”
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Naipaul's strangers by Barnouw, Dagmar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cultural plurality and cultural value -- Understanding strangers -- Postcoloniality and historicity -- Stories of other lives : novels -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; among the believers : an Islamic journey -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Iran -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Pakistan -- Uncertain histories : finding the center and the enigma of arrival -- Uncertain histories : a way in the world.…”
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The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Conradian bewilderment : the metaphysics of belief -- Contingency, interpretation, and belief in Lord Jim -- The ontology of society in Nostromo -- Part III. …”
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Divine deviants the dialectics of devotion in the poetry of Donne and Rumi / by Mannani, Manijeh, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The context -- The philosophical fundamentals of belief -- Religious obligation and mystical transcendence -- The intellectual character of their work and its manifestation therein -- Figuring love -- Conclusion.…”
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Kant's dog on Borges, philosophy, and the time of translation / by Johnson, David E., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: philosophy, literature, and the accidents of translation -- Time: for Borges -- Belief, in translation -- Kant's dog -- Decisions of hospitality -- Idiocy, the name of God -- Afterword: the secret of culture.…”
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The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan / by Doty, Alexander, Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Seasons of the witch -- Maleficia and belief -- Testimony troubles -- Witch, past and future : the politics of retroactive diagnosis -- Documenting the fantastic -- Conclusion : medieval monsters don't let go.…”
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Jim Crace by Tew, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Exploring Craceland -- Communities and change: Continent (1986) and The gift of stones (1988) -- Parables of distress: Arcadia (1992) and Signals of distress (1994) -- Death, belief and nature: Quarantine (1997) and Being dead (1999) -- Excess, passion and the uncanny: The devil's larder (2001) and Six [Genesis] (2003) -- Addendum: The pesthouse (2007).…”
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Theodor Storm's Craft of Fiction : The Torment of a Narrator / by Bernd, Clifford A.

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J.M. Coetzee and the idea of the public intellectual

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee's 'The master of Petersburg' / Michael Marais -- A belief in frogs : J.M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction / Dominic Head -- J.M. …”
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Art and merchandise in Keith Haring's Pop Shop / by Raffel, Amy

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J.M. Coetzee and ethics philosophical perspectives on literature /

Table of Contents: “…Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy -- Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice -- The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn -- Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm -- Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova.…”
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Towers of myth and stone : Yeats's influence on Robinson Jeffers / by Fleming, Deborah

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George Eliot's Religious Imagination : A Theopoetics of Evolution / by Orr, Marilyn, 1950-

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Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism / by Morris, Pam, 1940-

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Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions the reading of John Dewey's understanding of democracy and education /

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Rudyard Kipling : Life, Love, and Art / by Dillingham, William B.

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The girl with the dragon tattoo and philosophy everything is fire /

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