Autore	Brottman Mikita
Edizione	[1st ed. 2005.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XXIX, 157 p.)
Disciplina	306/.0973
Soggetto topico	Culture - Study and teaching Intellectual life - History Literature - Philosophy Ethnology Culture Cultural Studies Intellectual History Literary Theory Regional Cultural Studies Cultural Theory
ISBN	1-281-36369-3 9786611363697 1-4039-7822-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910784215003321

Autore	Willems Brian
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (141 p.)
Disciplina	821.8
Collana	Continuum literary studies series
Soggetto topico	Literature - Philosophy
ISBN	1-4742-1143-7 1-282-45291-6 1-4411-3868-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Inscape and Ereignis -- 2. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' and the Potentiality of Ereignis -- 3. 'Spelt from Sibyll's Leaves' and the Gesture of the Fourfold -- 4. '(Carrion Comfort)': That which is Not Itself -- Appendix: 'Binsey Poplars' and 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' -- Bibliography -- Index --
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457136603321

Autore	Clark Stephen R. L
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (427 p.)
Disciplina	809.3/87620938
Soggetto topico	Literature - Philosophy Science fiction - History and criticism Immortality in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-80007-X 1-281-13449-X 9786611134495 0-203-00442-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A PERSONAL BEGINNING; SCIENCE FICTION AND PHILOSOPHY; PHILOSOPHY AND IMMORTALITY; Chapter 1 The end of summer; REASONS NOT TO WANT TO LIVE FOREVER; REASONS FOR WISHING TO LIVE FOREVER; VARIETIES OF IMMORTALITY; Chapter 2 The age of the pussyfoot; BODILY RENEWALS AND REJUVENATIONS; PROBLEMS WITH BODILY CONTINUITY; PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS; Chapter 3 Neuromancer; UPLOADING MEMORIES; REASONS TO FORSAKE THE FLESH; REASONS TO DISLIKE OR DISBELIEVE THE PROSPECT; Chapter 4 The empire of fear; WANTING TO BE A VAMPIRE; REASONS TO KEEP PEOPLE AFRAID OF DEATH SUBMISSIONALLEGORY OF SELFHOOD; Chapter 5 Sailing to Byzantium; ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING; THE VALUES OF IMPERMANENCE; PERMANENT VALUES; IMMORTAL ARTEFACTS AND US; Chapter 6 The philosopher's stone; TIMELESS, IMPERISHABLE STONES; FAME AND INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCE; FORMS AND RULING PASSIONS; REASON AND THE FUTURE; REAL SELVES; Chapter 7 Bridge of ashes; ETERNAL RETURNS; IMPORTANT PURPOSES; OUR OWN PLANS; IMAGING SOMETHING BEYOND ULRO; Chapter 8 To your scattered bodies go; RESURRECTION WORLD; NEEDING ONE PARTICULAR BODY; MINDS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE; ENERGY BEINGS; THE OTHER WORLD; Chapter 9 Superluminal TRAVEL INTO OTHER WORLDSTHE LAND OF THE DEAD; GOING DOWN TO HELL; PHILOSOPHICAL MORALS; Chapter 10 A fish dinner in Memison; WAKING FROM THE DREAM OF LIFE; ANTI-CARTESIAN DREAMS; THE GAME OF CONSEQUENCES; ARGUMENTS FOR THINKING WE ARE ASLEEP; TRUE LANGUAGES, REAL WORLDS; WHAT SORT OF WAKING WORLD?; Chapter 11 Childhood's end; IMAGINED OVERMINDS; THE COMMUNITY OF ALL THE HOLY ONES; AGAINST A MODERNIST RELIGION; Chapter 12 The big time; MAKING THINGS NEVER TO HAVE BEEN; TRANSCENDING TIME; MILLENNIUM; Chapter 13 The triumph of time; ENDINGS; ENVOI; Notes; Bibliography; SCIENCE FICTION; POETRY OTHER WORKSIndex
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009
Descrizione fisica	xi, 160 p
Disciplina	820.9
Altri autori (Persone)	FinchJason SellRoger D
Collana	Pragmatics & beyond new series
Soggetto topico	English literature - History and criticism Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Literature - Philosophy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-44500-6 9786612445002 90-272-8912-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456673303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009
Descrizione fisica	xi, 160 p
Disciplina	820.9
Altri autori (Persone)	FinchJason SellRoger D
Collana	Pragmatics & beyond new series
Soggetto topico	English literature - History and criticism Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Literature - Philosophy
ISBN	1-282-44500-6 9786612445002 90-272-8912-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	"This verse marks that" : the Bible, editors, and early modern English texts / Helen Wilcox -- Humanized intertexts : an iconospheric approach to Ben Jonson's comedy, The case is altered (1598) / Anthony W. Johnson -- Appearance and reality in Jane Austen's Persuasion / Tony Lurcock -- Green flowers and golden eyes : Balzac, decadence and Wilde's Salome / Sven-Johan Spånberg -- "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean" : power and (mis)communication in literature for young readers / Maria Nikolajeva -- Place and communicative personae : how Forster has changed Stevenage since the 1940s / Jason Finch -- Tony Harrison and the rhetorics of reality : a re-evaluation of v / Tony Bex -- Truthful (hi)stories in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Lydia Kokkola -- Pragmatic Penelope or timeless tales for the times / Gunilla Florby -- Three fallacies in interpreting literature / Bo Pettersson.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780804403321