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literature, Virginia Woolf has become central to our conceptions of literature, modernist theory, the arts, feminism, and social analysis. The interdisciplinary examinations in this anthology explore Woolf's major novels, her key essays, and the literary tropes that unify her writings.The essays in the first section look at Woolf's acute analyses ......
''His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy.''--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'
The end of one war is frequently the beginning of another because the cessation of conflict produces two new challenges: a contest between the winners and losers over the terms of peace, and a battle within the winning party over the spoils of war. As the victors and the vanquished struggle to establish a new political order, incidents of ......
Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death
Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of EmmanuelLevinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parametersfor poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust.More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within thelarger context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo offers anew explanation of its significance in relation to ......
Nearly a quarter-century after the fall of Saigon, the memory of America's defeat in Vietnam continues to haunt the national psyche. In Vietnam Shadows, former war correspondent Arnold Isaacs turns his reportorial eye to the conflict since Vietnam, covering the skirmishes and firefights of a cultural battlesome would say stalematethat refuses to ......
In Victorians Undone, renowned British historian Kathryn Hughes follows five iconic figures of the nineteenth century as they encounter the world not through their imaginations or intellects but through their bodies. Or rather, through their body parts. Using the vivid language of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, and implacably turned ......
