Imperfection and Defeat : the Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society.
Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Herndon :
Central European University Press,
2006.
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| ISBN: | 9789637326578 963732657X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |