Strangers, Gods, and monsters : interpreting otherness /
This is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Richard Kearney shows, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters,
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Strangers and scapegoats
- 2. Rights of sacrifice
- 3. Aliens and others
- 4. Evil, monstrosity and the sublime
- 5. On terror
- 6. Hamlet's ghosts : from Shakespeare to Joyce
- 7. Melancholy : between gods and monsters
- 8. The immemorial : a task of narrative
- 9. God or Khora
- 10. Last gods and final things : faith and philosophy.