Studies in ontology in twentieth century literature /
This book is a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century. It consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers' absorption with the nature of man and his 'being in this world.' The volume discusses Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Fr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book is a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century. It consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers' absorption with the nature of man and his 'being in this world.' The volume discusses Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Milan Kundera, Eugène Ionesco, Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, Toni Morrison and Nathalie Sarraute as reflecting ontological concerns These writers, although not subscribing to the Sartrean proclamation that 'existence precedes essence', did consider the related existential questio. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781527512221 1527512223 |