A Cultural History of Causality : Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought /

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This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kern, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Murder in literature.
Fiction.
Causation in literature.
Causation.
HISTORY > Historiography.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Roman > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Meurtre dans la litterature.
Causalite dans la litterature.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (448 pages).
ISBN:9781400826230

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