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UNINA9910463130703321 |
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Bandera Cesáreo |
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A refuge of lies : reflections on faith and fiction / / Cesáreo Bandera |
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East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2013 |
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1-62895-029-3 |
1-60917-378-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (166 p.) |
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Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series |
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Religion and literature |
Philosophy and religion in literature |
Mimesis |
Truth in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1. Auerbach's Mimesis Revisited; Chapter 2. The "Overwhelming Scourge" and the Iliad; Chapter 3. Simone Weil: Between Homer and Christ; Chapter 4. From Virgil to the Modern Era; Chapter 5. Fiction Desacralized and Don Quixote's Madness; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
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Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly considered a classic. The book brought into focus the fundamental difference that exists between the two basic approaches to the textual representation of reality in Western culture. These two "styles," as Auerbach called them, were archetypically displayed in Homer's poems and in the Old Testament, respectively. Auerbach's differentiation is the starting point for Bandera's insightful work, which expands and develops on this theory i |
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UNINA9910780696603321 |
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Contemporary antisemitism : Canada and the world / / edited by Derek J. Penslar, Michael R. Marrus, and Janice Gross Stein |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (131 p.) |
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Antisemitism - Canada |
Antisemitism |
Actes de congres. |
Conference papers and proceedings. |
Congress |
Electronic books. |
Canada |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Proceedings of a conference, Antisemitism : the politicization of prejudice in the contemporary world, held at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto in February 2003--Preface. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Antisemitism : an enduring reality / Brian Mulroney -- Law and antisemitism : the role for the state in responding to hatred / R. Roy McMurtry -- The changing dimensions of contemporary Canadian antisemitism / Morton Weinfeld -- Historical reflections on contemporary antisemitism / Steven J. Zipperstein -- Antisemitism in Western Europe today / Todd M. Endelman -- Antisemitism and anti-Zionism : a historical approach / Derek J. Penslar -- The nature and determinants of Arab attitudes towards Israel / Mark Tessler. |
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"The essays in this volume bring together the views of distinguished scholars from Canada and the United States to discuss the contemporary meaning of antisemitism - a pressing problem not only in the Middle East and Europe, but in North America as well. The essays |
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map the terrain of antisemitic thought and practice, make important distinctions between expressions of antisemitism across time and space, and put various strategies of response into critical perspective."--Jacket |
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