1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777536903321

Autore

Collins Jeffrey R

Titolo

The allegiance of Thomas Hobbes [[electronic resource] /] / Jeffrey R. Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-75764-7

0-19-155629-7

1-4237-5715-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

320.1/092

Soggetti

Political science - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thomas Hobbes and the uses of Christianity -- Hobbes, the long parliament, and the Church of England -- Rise of the independents -- Leviathan and the Cromwellian revolution -- Hobbes among the Cromwellians -- The independents and the 'Religion of Thomas Hobbes' -- Response of the exiled church.

Sommario/riassunto

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a new interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's response to the English Revolution. By focusing on his religious thought, it debunks the standard view of him as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640's and 1650's. This reinterpretation culminates with an exploration of Hobbes's surprising sympathies with Oliver Cromwell and his supporters. By placing Thomas Hobbes within fresh contexts, Professor Collins offers a new angle of vision on the religious significance of the English Revolution itself. - ;The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910893534903321

Titolo

Jahresbericht / VBG

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, 2010-

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Disciplina

350

360

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Gesehen am 24.11.2010

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910149454003321

Autore

Levy-Hussen Aida <1981->

Titolo

How to Read African American Literature : Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation / / Aida Levy-Hussen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4798-3477-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Disciplina

813.009/896073

Soggetti

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

African American arts - Influence

Race awareness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Against Prohibitive Reading (On Trauma) -- 2. For Contradiction (On Masochism) -- 3. The Missing Archive (On Depression) -- 4. Reading African American Literature Now -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major interpretive approaches: “therapeutic reading” (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and “prohibitive reading” (anchored in the belief that fictions of returning to the past are dangerous and to be avoided). Levy-Hussen argues that these norms have become overly restrictive, standing in the way of a more supple method of interpretation that recognizes and attends to the indirect, unexpected, inconsistent, and opaque workings of historical fantasy and desire. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now.