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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xxvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 593 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm Notes. Bibliography. Index. "... Engaging with philosophers and theorists as diverse as Wittgenstein, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, and Stanley Fish, and illustrating his ideas through readings of works by Swift, Woolf, Appelfeld, and Dickens, among others, this book presents a systematic defense of humanism in literary studies, and of the study of the Humanities more generally". Soft Cover. Near Fine.
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  • Publisher Indiana University Press
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  • Date Published 2015
  • Keywords Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

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