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The Eudaimonic turn : well-being in literary studies /

"In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice was often intended to demystify texts...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pawelski, James O., 1967-, Moores, D. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, NJ : Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Pound's Challenge to Ranciere's Treatment of the "Aesthetic Regime": Why Nietzsche Is Necessary for a Positive Account of Modernism in the Arts / Charles Altieri
  • 2. Thoreau and Health: Physician, Naturalist, Metaphysician / James Engell
  • 3. Falling from Trees: Arborescent Prosody in John Clare's Tree Elegies / Emma Mason
  • 4. Happiness, Catharsis, and the Literary Cure / John Channing Briggs
  • 5. Ramblers, Hikers, Vagabonds, and Flaneurs: America's Peripatetic Romantics and the Rituals of Healthy Walking / Michael West
  • 6. Spenser's "vertuous ... discipline" and Human Flourishing / Paola Baseotto
  • 7. Choices of Can You Forgive Her?: Literary Realism, Freedom, and Contentment / Amanpal Garcha
  • 8. Crosses We Bear: Religion, Readers, and Woman's Intellect in Augusta Jane Evans's St. Elmo / David Bordelon
  • 9. Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso": Prophetic Joy Anticipated / Daniel O'Day
  • 10. On Becoming Neighbor Rosicky: Willa Cather, William James, and the Constructs of Well-Being / Christine E. Kephart
  • 11. Career of Joy in the Twentieth Century / Adam Potkay.