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Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520037328
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Partial Magic written by Robert Alter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Stonehill
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280732X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Self-Conscious Novel written by Brian Stonehill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Naoise Dolan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062968777
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Exciting Times written by Naoise Dolan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.” —Vogue A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * Debutiful An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal." Enter Edith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her—and wants her. And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life—and announces herself as a singular new voice.
Author : Yann Martel
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307375633
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Self written by Yann Martel and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day Orlando—edgy, funny and startlingly honest—Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.
Author : Daniel M. Wegner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262290553
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Illusion of Conscious Will written by Daniel M. Wegner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will.
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674009493
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Consciousness & the Novel written by David Lodge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in light of recent investigations in the sciences.
Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780416326307
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Metafiction written by Patricia Waugh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Marcus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192845632
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind written by Eric Marcus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation between one person's beliefs. Here, Eric Marcus argues that the unity of the rational mind--what makes it one mind--is what explains why, given what we already believe, we can't believe certain things and must believe certain others in this special sense. What explains this is that beliefs, and the inferences by which we acquire them, are constituted by a particular kind of endorsement of those very states and acts. This, in turn, entails that belief and inference are essentially self-conscious: to hold a belief or to make an inference is at the same time to know that one does. An examination of the nature of belief and inference, in light of the phenomenon of rational necessity, reveals how the unity of the rational mind is a function of our knowledge of ourselves as bound to believe the true. Rational self-consciousness is the form of mental togetherness.
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0374146128
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Work written by Andrew Martin and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer, he gets a glimpse of what he imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982967
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Self-Consciousness written by John Updike and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike’s memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his foreword states, “to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.” In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest, matchlessly precise, and self-effacingly humorous. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, and beyond self-importance, into sheer wonder at the miracle of existence.
