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1 online resource (x, 196 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART ONE: PARADOXES""; ""1 The Paradox of the Many: Post-Structuralism and Zeno""; ""Zeno's Paradox of Plurality""; ""Post-Structuralism and the Paradox of Plurality""; ""Derrida and Multiplicity""; ""Different Kinds of Differences?""; ""There and Back""; ""2 The Paradox of the One: Language as Universal Medium""; ""The Matter of Analytical Philosophy""; ""The Force of Continental Philosophy""; ""Syntax in Structuralism and Post-Structuralism""; ""New Historicism and Culture as Universal Medium""; ""The Death of the Code""; ""PART TWO: POSSIBLE WORLDS"" |
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""3 Talk of Possible Worlds: Language as Calculus""""One-World Semantics versus Possible-Worlds Semantics""; ""Words and Worlds""; ""What Is Metalanguage?""; ""Baudrillard's Virtual Reality""; ""Kinds of Language Theory""; ""Language as Calculus""; ""4 The Poiesis of Possible Worlds: A Theory of Possibility for Literature""; ""Scepticism about Possible Worlds""; ""The Logical Triviality of This World""; ""Intellectual Models""; ""Modelling Worlds""; ""Possible Worlds a Philosophy?""; ""Relation of Language to Possible Worlds""; ""A Way of Meaning Functions"" |
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""The Problem of Logical Omniscience""""Related Theories of Possibility""; ""A Qualified Theory of Possible Worlds for Literature""; ""PART THREE: POIESIS""; ""5 From Models to Metaphors: Possibility, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory""; ""The Critical Heritage""; ""What Do We Mean by Literature?""; ""An Approach to Metaphor""; ""Metaphor as Epistemology""; ""The Varieties of Literary Theory""; ""Articulating Possibility in Poetic History""; ""Models of Literature, Modes of Reading""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Author Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I"" |
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""J""""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Semantics (Philosophy) |
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Possibility.
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Possibility. |
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Electronic books.
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Literatuurtheorie.
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Mogelijke werelden.
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| Cover Title |
Poiesis & possible worlds |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Martin, Thomas L., 1960- Poiesis and possible worlds. Toronto Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004 9780802036414 (DLC) 2004276480 (OCoLC)52459252 |
| ISBN |
9781442678576 (electronic book) |
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1442678577 (electronic book) |
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0802036414 |
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9780802036414 |
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