"Nous avons souhaité ce livre pour rendre hommage à Alain de Libera et fêter son travail. Celles et ceux qui écrivent ici sont des maîtres, des pairs, des collègues, d'anciens étudiants ; en divers sens, ce sont tous des amis. Plutôt que d'imposer une présentation, nous avons ch…
Chilean writers Marta Brunet, María Luisa Bombal, and Diamela Eltit present a female subject that resists legal imperatives, sexual contracts, and the patriarchal literary canon. From different perspectives and through different aesthetic paradigms, the narratives of these autho…
Chilean writers Marta Brunet, María Luisa Bombal, and Diamela Eltit present a female subject that resists legal imperatives, sexual contracts, and the patriarchal literary canon. From different perspectives and through different aesthetic paradigms, the narratives of these autho…
Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.
"It has been clear form the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in "William Blake on Self and Soul", Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of sub…