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  1. Cantigas :
    Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems /
    Contributor: Zenith, Richard, (editor.)
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient... more

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    A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In Cantigas, award-winning translator Richard Zenith presents a delightful selection of 124 of these poems in English versions that preserve the musical quality of the originals, which are featured on facing pages. By turns romantic, spiritual, ironic, misogynist, and feminist, these lyrics paint a vibrant picture of their time and place, surprising us with attitudes and behaviors that are both alien and familiar.The book includes the three major kinds of cantigas. While cantigas de amor (love poems in the voice of men) were largely inspired by the troubadour poetry of southern France, cantigas de amigo (love poems voiced by women) derived from a unique native oral tradition in which the narrator pines after her beloved, sings his praises, or mocks him. In turn, cantigas de escárnio are satiric, and sometimes outrageously obscene, lyrics whose targets include aristocrats, corrupt clergy, promiscuous women, and homosexuals.Complete with an illuminating introduction on the history of the cantigas, their poetic characteristics, and the men who composed and performed them, this engaging volume is filled with exuberant and unexpected poems.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Zenith, Richard, (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691207414
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    Parent title: Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation ; ; 131
    Subjects: Portuguese poetry; Songs, Portuguese; Troubadour songs; POETRY / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
    Other subjects: Adjective.; Airas Nunes.; Albigensian Crusade.; Alfonso X of Castile.; Another Girl.; Arabic.; Aristocracy.; Awareness.; Bertran de Born.; Cantiga de amigo.; Cantiga.; Cantigas de Santa Maria.; Cantigas.; Castile (historical region).; Castilian Spanish.; Catharism.; Convulsion.; Copyist.; Count of Barcelos.; Critical edition (opera).; Edition (book).; Emotion.; Erysipelas.; Ezra Pound.; Fee tail.; Feeling.; Ferdinand III of Castile.; From a Distance.; Frustration.; Fungus.; Galicia (Eastern Europe).; Galicia (Spain).; Galician language.; Galician-Portuguese.; Galicians.; Gautier de Coincy.; Genre.; Glossary.; Holy Roman Emperor.; Impossibility.; In Battle.; Individualism.; Internal rhyme.; Kharja.; Kingdom of Galicia.; Lament.; Leitmotif.; Literature.; Lyric poetry.; Lyricist.; Majorat.; Marcabru.; Melodic (magazine).; Mendes.; Modern English.; Moors.; Music Is.; Musical notation.; My Way.; Narrative.; Nobility.; Obscenity.; Occitan language.; Occitania.; Occitans.; On the Third Day.; Panegyric.; Peire Vidal.; Perfect rhyme.; Philip Glass.; Pity.; Poetry.; Portuguese people.; Pronunciation.; Punctuation.; Refrain.; Rhyme scheme.; Rhyme.; Richard Sieburth.; Sadness.; Sensibility.; Sicilian School.; Singing.; Snake venom.; Southern France.; Stanza.; Strophe.; Strophic form.; Supplication.; The Other Hand.; The World at Large.; Toxin.; Troubadour.; Ulcer (dermatology).; Uncertainty.; Unrequited love.; Usage.; Vasco Martins.; Vatican Library.; Vejer de la Frontera.
    Scope: 1 online resource (384 p.)
  2. The political thought of Henry David Thoreau :
    privatism and the practice of philosophy /
    Author: McKenzie, Jonathan,
    Published: 2016.; ©2016
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky,, Lexington, Kentucky :

    This work provides a fresh interpretation of Henry Thoreau's political theory through a comprehensive interpretation of public and private writings. While recent critics have opened new vistas in Thoreau interpretation, little attention has been paid... more

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    This work provides a fresh interpretation of Henry Thoreau's political theory through a comprehensive interpretation of public and private writings. While recent critics have opened new vistas in Thoreau interpretation, little attention has been paid to Thoreau's journals and correspondence.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-8131-6638-1; 0-8131-6632-2; 0-8131-6631-4
    Subjects: Individualism.; Simplicity.; Democracy.; Conduct of life.
    Other subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, (1817-1862.)
    Scope: 1 online resource (215 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    The philosophical risks of politics -- Reflective simplification: the questions of a philosophical life -- Poverty eternal -- Life near the bone -- Wildness: the phenomenology of freedom -- How to mind your own business -- The fullness of life.
  3. Walter Pater :
    individualism and aesthetic philosophy /
    Author: Hext, Kate.
    Published: 2013.
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press,, Edinburgh :

    Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging... more

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    Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging modernity in Britain. It also considers the dynamics between form and thought at the fin de siècle, contextualizing its comments in terms of Matthew Arnold, Oscar Wilde and Vernon Lee and others, to offer a fully integrated account of the intellectual cultures and currents in this period.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-7486-9384-X; 0-7486-4626-4
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    Subjects: Individualism.; Aesthetics.
    Other subjects: Pater, Walter, (1839-1894.)
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    1. Introduction: individualism and the 'aesthetic philosopher' -- 2. Empiricism and imperilled self -- 3. Subjectivity and imagination: from Hume to Kant via Berkeley -- 4. Metaphysics: Pater's failed attempt at atheism -- 5. Sense and sensuality: caught between Venus and Dionysus -- 6. Pater's Copernican revolution: the desiring, dying body -- 7. Evolution and the 'species': the individual in deep time -- 8. The moment and the aesthetic imagination -- 9. Ethics, society and the aesthetic individual -- 10. Conclusion: 'the elusive inscrutable mistakable self'
  4. The African Novel of Ideas :
    Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing /
    Author: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie,
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the... more

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    An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature.Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought.The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691212401
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    Subjects: African fiction (English); African fiction (English); Philosophy in literature.; Thought and thinking in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
    Other subjects: African literature.; African philosophy.; Age of Enlightenment.; Ambivalence.; Americanah.; Assassination.; Author.; Bildung.; Career.; Chinua Achebe.; Civility.; Colonialism.; Comparative literature.; Cosmopolitanism.; Criticism.; Critique.; Cross-cultural.; Dambudzo Marechera.; Death and the King's Horseman.; Decolonization.; Determination.; Digression.; Duke University.; Dynamism (metaphysics).; Edward Said.; Elleke Boehmer.; Epistemology.; Explanation.; First principle.; Genre fiction.; Ghostwritten.; Harare.; His Family.; Historical fiction.; Historiography.; Ideology.; Imperialism.; Inception.; Individualism.; Individuation.; Institution.; Intellectual history.; J. E. Casely Hayford.; Kwame Gyekye.; Liberalism.; Literary criticism.; Literary fiction.; Literature.; Lobengula.; Mathematician.; Modernity.; Mukherjee.; Nadine Gordimer.; Nancy Armstrong.; Narrative.; New York University.; Novel.; Novelist.; Orality.; Pennsylvania State University.; Personhood.; Philosopher.; Philosophical fiction.; Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Politics.; Post-structuralism.; Poverty porn.; Publishing.; Queen Mary University of London.; Racism.; Radicalism (historical).; Rationality.; Reason.; Religion.; Robert Mugabe.; Self-actualization.; Sensibility.; Sibling.; Spirituality.; Stanford University.; Structuring.; Subjectivity.; Suggestion.; Suicide by hanging.; Suicide.; The Other Hand.; Theory.; Things Fall Apart.; Thought.; Trade-off.; Treatise.; Truism.; Uganda.; University of Bristol.; University of Cape Town.; University of Houston.; Writer.; Writing.; Zimbabwe.
    Scope: 1 online resource (232 p.)
  5. Beyond practical virtue :
    a defense of liberal democracy through literature /
    Author: Johnson, Joel A.,
    Published: c2007.
    Publisher:  University of Missouri Press,, Columbia :

    "Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new... more

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    "Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new insight into the relationship between the state and the individual"--Provided by publisher.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-8262-6579-0
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: American fiction; Liberalism in literature.; Democracy in literature.; Individualism in literature.; Liberalism.; Democracy.; Individualism.
    Other subjects: Cooper, James Fenimore, (1789-1851); Twain, Mark, (1835-1910); Howells, William Dean, (1837-1920)
    Scope: 1 online resource (196 p.)
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    Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index.

    Intro -- Beyond Practical Virtue A Defense of Liberal Democracy through Literature -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Aesthetic Critique of Democratic Liberty -- 2 Democratic Liberation -- 3 The Democratic Struggle and Individual Development -- 4 Individual Development and the Public Sphere -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  6. The Sixth Sense :
    Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760 /
    Author: Finch, Robert,
    Published: [2019]; ©1966
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto :

    It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here... more

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    It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging to the first half of the century, who may appropriately be called individualistes and who are in various ways characteristic of a definite and important trend of their time. The authors he has chosen were selected from the larger group of individualists because each provides, in addition to his poems, a complete statement of his own conception of poetry and of that conception which is common to the group as a whole. Since the works treated are comparatively unfamiliar the author has considered them from a historical and an analytical as well as a critical point of view. In addition he has devoted three special chapters to a literary historian (Evrard Titon du Tillet) and to three critical theorists (Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Yves-Marie André, and Charles Batteux) whose contemporary writings, while they may or may not have influenced the poets here examined, support, reflect, or confirm their ideas and practice. Texts of these poets are not easily available and the numerous representative "ations from the poems given in this book will be welcomed by the reader.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781487595210
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: French poetry; French poetry; Individualism.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
    Scope: 1 online resource
  7. Beyond practical virtue
    a defense of liberal democracy through literature /
    Author: Johnson, Joel A.,
    Published: c2007.
    Publisher:  University of Missouri Press,, Columbia :

    "Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new... more

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    "Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new insight into the relationship between the state and the individual"--Provided by publisher.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: American fiction; Liberalism in literature.; Democracy in literature.; Individualism in literature.; Liberalism.; Democracy.; Individualism.
    Other subjects: Cooper, James Fenimore, (1789-1851); Twain, Mark, (1835-1910); Howells, William Dean, (1837-1920)
    Scope: xiii, 179 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index.
  8. The political thought of Henry David Thoreau :
    privatism and the practice of philosophy /
    Author: McKenzie, Jonathan,
    Published: 2016.; ©2016
    Publisher:  University Press of Kentucky,, Lexington, Kentucky :

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Individualism.; Simplicity.; Democracy.; Conduct of life.
    Other subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, (1817-1862.)
    Scope: 1 online resource (215 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    The philosophical risks of politics -- Reflective simplification: the questions of a philosophical life -- Poverty eternal -- Life near the bone -- Wildness: the phenomenology of freedom -- How to mind your own business -- The fullness of life.