1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463130703321

Autore

Bandera Cesáreo

Titolo

A refuge of lies : reflections on faith and fiction / / Cesáreo Bandera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-62895-029-3

1-60917-378-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series

Disciplina

809/.93382

Soggetti

Religion and literature

Philosophy and religion in literature

Mimesis

Truth in literature

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780696603321

Titolo

Contemporary antisemitism : Canada and the world / / edited by Derek J. Penslar, Michael R. Marrus, and Janice Gross Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4426-7334-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 p.)

Disciplina

305.8924071

Soggetti

Antisemitism - Canada

Antisemitism

Actes de congres.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Congress

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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



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