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1 online resource (368 pages). |
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Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. Beihefte ; v. 62
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Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. Beihefte.
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Preface; Table of Contents; Till Kinzel and Jarmila Mildorf, Mapping Imaginary Dialogues in America; Jack Fruchtman Jr., The American Dialogues of Thomas Paine; Kurt Müller, Dialogue and Dialogic Structures in Benjamin Franklin's Writings; Nicole Maruo-Schröder, "It is not for me to smile at their tyranny": Democracy and Dialogue in Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin; Virgil Nemoianu, Washington Irving's Dialogical Bridges; Betsy van Schlun, Conversing with the Netherworld: The Gothic Dialogue about Metaphysical Matters and Universal Thought in E.A. Poe's "Mesmeric Revelation." |
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Joe Lockard, Antislavery Dialogues in the United StatesAntonio Lastra, From Walden to Waldwasen: Dialogues between Hermits and Poets (Thoreau, Heidegger, Celan); David Janssens, Melville's Song and Dance: Diabolical Dialogue in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade; Hans Ulrich Seeber, Stereotypes, Utopian Vision and the Creation of the Illusion of Life. An Analysis of Henry James's "Daniel Deronda: A Conversation" (1876); Vincent Colapietro, C.S. Peirce and Dialogue: Literary Form, Heuristic Function, and Overarching Ideal. |
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Miriam Strube, In the end was ... "A Dialogue": William James's Performing PragmatismKrzysztof Piotr Skowroński, George Santayana's Dialogues in Limbo (1925) as a Form of Literary Philosophy; Christoph Schubert, Dialogue of Dissent: Stance Marking in Gertrude Stein's Radio Interview (1934); Till Kinzel, Literary Criticism as Dialogue: From Jerome McGann's Dialogical Confrontation with Swinburne to Meta-Dialogue; Thomas Sukopp, From Philosophy in Dialogues to Philosophy of Dialogues: Rethinking Paul K. Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge. |
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Walter Göbel, Performing Dialogues in Leon Forrest's Divine DaysJarmila Mildorf, Exploring "our pitiful attempts at connection": Dialogue in Corey Mesler's Novel Talk; Sabrina Hüttner, "You and I sat here talking the pros and cons of-of-": Immediacy, Conspiracy, and the Dialogic Mode in Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint; Markus Wierschem, "It's more true but it aint as good: " Searching for Truth in the Death-Deferring Dialogue of McCarthy's The Sunset Limited; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
This book provides a first overview and interdisciplinary discussion of imaginary dialogues in American literature and philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present. It combines the perspectives of literary studies, philosophy, linguistics and political history to offer wide-ranging analyses of 19th-century anti-slavery dialogues and the dialogical writings of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Henry James, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, George Santayana, Gertrude Stein, Jerome McGan. |
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Philosophy -- 20th century.
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Philosophy. |
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20th century |
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Mildorf, Jarmila.
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Print version: Kinzel, Till. Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy : Beyond the Mainstream. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014 9783825363284 |
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3825374505 |
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9783825374501 (electronic book) |
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