A philosophical novelist : George Santayana and the last puritan /

In the preface to the second edition of The Last Puritan, George Santayana wrote that he saw this "memoir in the form of a novel" as an exemplification of his own spirit. H.T. Kirby-Smith uses Santayana's 1936 novel The Last Puritan as both an occasion and a means for bringing into fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirby-Smith, H. T. (Henry Tompkins), 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1997.
Temas:
Santayana, George, > 1863-1952. > Last puritan.
Santayana, George. > Last puritan.
Philosophy in literature.
Philosophie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: A Question of Style
  • 2. Some Sources of Santayana's Philosophy
  • 3. Spinoza
  • 4. The Realm of Essence
  • 5. The Realm of Matter
  • 6. Detachment from Persons and Places and Things
  • 7. In Search of Substance
  • 8. The Realm of Spirit: The Last Puritan
  • 9. Philosophy into Fiction
  • 10. Santayana and His Critics
  • App. An Unpublished Letter.

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