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Christie McDonald
To the extent that writing has long been considered a substitute for living conversation, dialogue has been a quintessential metaphor for language as communication. This volume closely analyses dialogue, both…
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A biography of Anne Eisner: from her early years and art in New York to the Ituri Forest in Congo with Patrick Putnam, and back.
The essays in this collection focus on the desire within humanistic enquiry to seek a point of contact between personal experience and intellectual reflection, and the need for a new…
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The relationship between France’s national territory and other regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of…
This 2010 volume examines Rousseau’s many approaches to the concept of freedom, in the context of his thought on literature, religion, music, theater, women, the body and the arts. By…
Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist’s complex relation to the arts. It examines many of Proust’s key…
The goal of this collective work is to reconstruct literary history from the Middle Ages to the present day in terms of interactions between cultures and populations both within and…
Jacques Derrida
Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida’s working styles. –South Atlantic Review
Christy Simpson,Fiona McDonald
There are ethically relevant differences between rural health practice and rural health services delivery and urban practice and delivery that go beyond the stereotypes associated with rural life and rural…
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