Studying the work of Joyce, Woolf, Stein and Beckett, Sara Crangle explores the everyday human longings found in Modernist writing. This discussion is set within a framework of continental philosophy, particularly the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas.
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Studying the work of Joyce, Woolf, Stein and Beckett, Sara Crangle explores the everyday human longings found in Modernist writing. This discussion is set within a framework of continental philosophy, particularly the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas.
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp x, 214. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. With good signed handwritten letter from the author, loosely inserted, "Dear Ian Patterson, this book is for you because you have already read it and because you expressed faith in its contents, Sara Crangle." ISBN: 0748640851 Fine in near fine dust jacket, with a short nick at the top front edge.
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New. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486. Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation. 224 pages. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight: 486. 2010. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
