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  1. Playing the hand we are dealt
    the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life
    Author: Jackson, Michael
    Published: 2025
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York

    "The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'hand we are dealt' which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book... more

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    "The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'hand we are dealt' which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as beyond its utility of making meaning. It is a way of recovering agency in the face of overwhelming experiences. In juxtaposing factuality and fiction, the author makes a case for a radically empirical approach to human experience"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781805397045
    Subjects: Literature; Fate and fatalism in literature; Books and reading; Literary criticism
    Scope: pages cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Playing the hand we are dealt
    the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life
    Author: Jackson, Michael
    Published: 2025
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York

    "The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'hand we are dealt' which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book... more

     

    "The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'hand we are dealt' which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as beyond its utility of making meaning. It is a way of recovering agency in the face of overwhelming experiences. In juxtaposing factuality and fiction, the author makes a case for a radically empirical approach to human experience"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781805397045
    Subjects: Literature; Fate and fatalism in literature; Books and reading; Literary criticism
    Scope: xiii, 256 Seiten