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- The teachings of Epicurus, whose philosophy focused on the pursuit of happiness, attracted adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. The Philosophy of Epicurus contains a long introductory essay on the philosophy of Epicurus and a selection of primary texts. In inGeorge K. Strodach translates...
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- Ancient and Classical
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Epicurus and George K. Strodach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1963
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- Book
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- Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French writer Romain Rolland remains best known for his epic coming-of-age tale, Jean Christoph. InA Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland William Thomas Starr Starr painstakingly collects the information on all writings by and about this prolific author through 1949. Organized into two...
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- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William Thomas Starr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
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- Book
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- Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan is the first critical, annotated translation in English of the collected work of poet Aimeric de Peguilhan. In itWilliam P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers provide translations and introductory material to the work of the medieval French troubadour.
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- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- William P. Shepard, Aimeric de Peguilhan, and Frank M. Chambers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
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- Book
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- Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship provides one the earliest attempts to write a theoretical method for evidence within plays to help determine authorship or to help distinguish the work of one author from another. Samuel Schoenbaums study remains valuable, for the attempt to attribute unattributed plays to one or...
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- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- S. Schoenbaum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1966
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Science and the Humanitiescontains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C. P. Snow.
- Keyword:
- General
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moody E. Prior
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
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- Book
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- Glenn OMalleys Shelley and Synesthesia examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelleys poetry, offering a history of synesthesia and engaging in close readings of Shelleys poetry, focusing primarily on his longer works. OMalley explores the internal structure of Shelleys poems to concentrate on patterns of imagery and symbolism, bringing attention...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Glenn O’Malley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1964
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- In Selected Prose of N. M. Karamzin, Henry Nebels translation and extensive introductory material presents a collection of primary sources by a Russian author whose tales explore the creative exploitation of sentimentalisms potentialities.
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- Russia
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- N. M. Karamzin and Henry M. Nebel Jr.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Containing details of 390 L.P. and E.P. recordings,African Music on LP: An Annotated Discographycontributed to the scholarship of African music at a time when very little had been written. Organized by record label and arranged in alphabetical order, Allen P. Merriam assesses the stylistic characteristics of each recording, providing new...
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Alan P. Merriam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- The English Novel in the Magazines, 17401815, explores the popularity of magazines in the nineteenth century and the ways that much of the published fiction of the time appeared serially in these publications. Robert D. Mayos groundbreaking study remains important to scholars of the nineteenth century as one of the...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Robert D. Mayo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- The Anatomy of Disillusion is an introduction to Heideggers phenomenology that focuses on Heideggers notion of truth. Unlike many of his contemporaries, W.B. Macomber presents Heidegger as a systematic thinker, whose phenomenology is inextricably bound up with his ontology and epistemology.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- W. B. Macomber
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1967
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Three Nigerian Emirates:A Study in Oral History is a widely held study on a scarcely examined region of Nigeria. Victor N. Low presents a detailed account of the leaders, people, and culture of the Hadejia, Katagum, and Gombe regions documented in a transcribed oral history. This work presents a valuable...
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- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Victor N. Low
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- InReason and Evidence in Husserls PhenomenologyDavid Michael Kleinberg-Levinexamines Husserls concept of necessary, a priori, and absolutely certain indubitable evidence, which he terms apodictic, and his related concept of complete evidence, which he terms adequate. To do so it explicates some of the more general relevant features of phenomenology as a...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- The Epistemology of G. E. Mooreis an examination of the philosophy of G. E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of the twentieth century.This book, together with Reinhardt Grossmanns Reflections on Freges Philosophy and Moltke Grams Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori, seeks to redress an imbalance in...
- Keyword:
- Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- E. D. Klemke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
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- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as Fair Rosamondwhich has its origins as a theme in medieval literaturethrough its use in poetry and plays and novels, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Heltzels book retains its importance today for scholars tracing...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Virgil B. Heltzel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1947
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- Book
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- John Donnes poetry is often difficult and perplexing, even more so because it undergoes a shift away from secular topics after he converts and begins to lead a religious life. Robert S. Jacksons John Donnes Christian Vocation is one of the first studies that takes seriously the ways that Donnes...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Robert S. Jackson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori is a close studyof Kants conception of metaphysical propositions. In it Moltke Gram aimsto show in what sense Kant is offering a theory of metaphysical propositions about objects in general. Gram presents a criticism of the tendency to focus on Kants theory of dialectic...
- Keyword:
- Metaphysics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moltke S. Gram
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1968
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Originally published in 1945, An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology provides a comprehensive listing of the most important works written up to that time on cryptography, as well as works in related fields in which cryptography appears. It includes a vast range of materials: scientific and...
- Keyword:
- Reference
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Joseph S. Galland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1945
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic E. Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently....
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Frederic E. Faverty
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1951
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynicchronicles British novelist William Thackerays ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during the major crises of his life in terms of those attitudes. Lambert Ennis examines the emotional tensions in Thackerays life and the impact they had in his work. In so doing, he illustrates...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Lambert Ennis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1950
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult) remains one of the most popular romances ever written. Although the tale was believed to have originated in Germany, bards in France and Britain composed their own versions of the story, a tale of adultery, betrayal, mistaken identity, and thwarted love. In The Tristan...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Sigmund Eisner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book