Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy 9781503635272, 9781503630864, 2022025214, 1503635279

This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writ

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Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy
9781503635272, 9781503630864, 2022025214, 1503635279

As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural cent

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Studies the works of Spenser and Milton to look at critique and focus on early modern literature and literacy scholarshi

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This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial cri

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In the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, Mark C. Murphy explores the extent of God's rule over cre

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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No

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As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argu

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This book offers a ‘genealogical’ explanation of law’s normativity. The term ‘genealogical’ conveys a commitment to a no

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