A permanent beginning : R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish literary modernity / by Lewis, Yitzhak, 1981-

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Kierkegaard and the quest for unambiguous life : between Romanticism and Modernism : selected essays / by Pattison, George, 1950-

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Modernism, Christianity, and apocalypse /

Table of Contents: “…Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Christianity, Modernist Culture, and Visions of Apocalypse; 1 Versions of the Wasteland: The Sense of an Ending in Theology and Literature in the Modern Period; 2 The Cup of Suffering: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Discipleship and German Expressionism; 3 Christian Prehistories of Literary Modernism in G.K. Chesterton and Allen Upward; 4 Modernist Anti-Modernists: T.E. …”
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How to do things with affects : affective triggers in aesthetic forms and cultural practices /

Table of Contents: “…Cavafy's diary / Maria Boletsi -- (An)aesthetics of affect: the case of hyper-realism / Pietro Conte -- Relational affect: perspectives from philosophy and cultural studies / Jan Slaby -- (Nearly) nothing to express: horror: some tread: a toroid / Eugenie Brinkema -- Integrating affect and language: essayism as an affective practice in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities / Annie Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann -- Affective disfigurations: faceless encounters between literary modernism and the great war / Tomáš Jirsa -- Monstruous resonances: affect and animated pornography / Susanna Paasonen -- Reading for affects: Francis Bacon and the work of sensation / Ernst van Alphen -- Affectively effective: affect as an artistic-political strategy / Mieke Bal -- Affect is the medium / Christiane Voss -- Et in academia ego: affect and academic writing / Bernd Herzogenrath -- The Arab Spring's stranger: the affective media phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra / Christina Riley -- Affective exchange in portraiture: to follow J. …”
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Wittgenstein and modernism / by LeMahieu, Michael, Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen

Table of Contents: “…/ John Gibson -- Wittgenstein and literary modernism -- In the condition of modernism: philosophy, literature, and the sacred fount / Kristin Boyce -- The world as Bloom found it: "Ithaca," the Tractatus, and "looking more than once for the solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life" / Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé -- Lectures on ethics: Wittgenstein and Kafka / Yi-ping Ong -- Bellow's private language / Michael LeMahieu.…”
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Understanding Bergson, understanding modernism / by Gontarski, S. E.

Table of Contents: “…Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- About the year 1910": Bergson and Literary Modernism -- Notes -- Part 1: Conceptualizing Bergson -- Chapter 1: (Re)Reading Time and Free Will: (Re)Discovering Bergson for the Twenty-First Century -- Intuition -- Intensity, duration, and freedom -- Intensity -- Duration -- Freedom -- Circling back: (Re)reading and (re)thinking -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Bergson's Matter and Memory: From Time to Space -- Time for space -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Comedies of Errors: Bergson's Laughter in Modernist Contexts -- Backgrounds in theory -- Bergson's theory of laughter -- Theory and resistance -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Sub Specie Durationis, or the Free Necessity of Life's Creativeness in Bergson's Creative Evolution -- The problem of "life": Between philosophy and science -- Collège de France 1902-3 lectures: "Histoire de l'idée de temps" -- Creative evolution -- A different kind of Vitalism, perhaps? …”
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