An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Pope's Essay on Criticism

Pope's Essay on Criticism PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Milton and Free Will

Milton and Free Will PDF Author: William Myers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639333
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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First published in 1987. Milton and Free Will is an incisive, ambitious and comprehensive analysis and defence of the concept of free will, using Milton as an example and exemplar. Written with passion, and out of a lifelong engagement with the poetry of Milton and the philosophical and theological problems it encompasses, the book will illuminate both Milton studies and philosophical debate. The author engages with all the major currents of the free will debate, starting with Aristotle and Aquinas and considering arguments advanced by Hume and Kant as well as those of a number of modern philosophers including Polanyi, Kenny, Parfit, Plantinga, Swinburne, Dennett and Davidson. He pays particular attention to the Marxist formalism of Bakhtin, the Catholic phenomenology of Pope John Paul II and the evolutionism of Monod and Sober. He concludes with a rebuttal of the deconstructionism of Barthes, Derrida and Foucault. He claims that all the major difficulties faced by defenders of free will can be overcome if a notion of willing implicit in the work of Milton is properly understood. Freedom as Milton represented and understood it, he suggests, is a condition of mind arising out of inter-personal awareness and not a property or consequence of practical reasoning. He finds supporting evidence for this view in the writings of Newman and in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady, which he reads as a narrative structurally reversing Milton’s representation of the fall of Eve in Paradise Lost. The author systematically analyses and reanalyses key passages in his texts in the light of the many arguments for and against free will, seeking thereby to affirm the validity in principle, and the personal and political importance in practice, of the Christian humanist tradition of which he sees Milton, Newman and the Pope as important (if sometimes misleading) spokesmen.

Essay on Man

Essay on Man PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : Didactic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Justice as Translation

Justice as Translation PDF Author: James Boyd White
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226894967
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When Words Lose Their Meaning, and asks how Americans can and should criticize this culture and the texts it creates. In determining if a judicial opinion is good or bad, he explores the possibility of cultural criticism, the nature of conceptual language, the character of economic and legal discourse, and the appropriate expectations for critical and analytic writing. White employs his unique approach by analyzing individual cases involving the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution and demonstrates how a judge translates the facts and the legal tradition, creating a text that constructs a political and ethical community with its readers. "White has given us not just a novel answer to the traditional jurisprudential questions, but also a new way of reading and evaluating judicial opinions, and thus a new appreciation of the liberty which they continue to protect."—Robin West, Times Literary Supplement "James Boyd White should be nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, solely on the strength of this book. . . . Justice as Translation is an important work of philosophy, yet it is written in a lucid, friendly style that requires no background in philosophy. It will transform the way you think about law."—Henry Cohen, Federal Bar News & Journal "White calls us to rise above the often deadening and dreary language in which we are taught to write professionally. . . . It is hard to imagine equaling the clarity of eloquence of White's challenge. The apparently effortless grace of his prose conveys complex thoughts with deceptive simplicity."—Elizabeth Mertz, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities "Justice as Translation, like White's earlier work, provides a refreshing reminder that the humanities, despite the pummelling they have recently endured, can be humane."—Kenneth L. Karst, Michigan Law Review

Two Discourses

Two Discourses PDF Author: Jonathan Richardson
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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An Essay on Criticism, and Other Poems

An Essay on Criticism, and Other Poems PDF Author: Alexander Pope
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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The Essayistic Spirit

The Essayistic Spirit PDF Author: Claire de Obaldia
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198151944
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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The Essayistic Spirit explores this potential on the borders of philosophy, literature (especially the novel), and criticism, by referring our post-Romantic conception of literature and literary history back to Montaigne's Essais, and to a whole related tradition of philosophical scepticism. But precisely because of what is implied by 'potential', this exploration never loses sight of what de Obaldia regards as the real limits of essayism.