Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and JohnsonUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 262 من الصفحات During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism was a considered response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. |
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... actions , we regard only the motives that produced them , and consider the actions as signs or indications of certain prin- ciples in the mind and temper . The external performance has no merit . We must look within to find the moral ...
... actions , we regard only the motives that produced them , and consider the actions as signs or indications of certain prin- ciples in the mind and temper . The external performance has no merit . We must look within to find the moral ...
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... actions are , by their very nature , temporary and perishing " ( Inquiry . . . Understanding 107 ) . Only those actions can be reconstructed for which evidence happens to survive . Gibbon's famous assertion that history is " little more ...
... actions are , by their very nature , temporary and perishing " ( Inquiry . . . Understanding 107 ) . Only those actions can be reconstructed for which evidence happens to survive . Gibbon's famous assertion that history is " little more ...
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... actions " that permit " the causal necessity of every element to be instantaneously apparent ” ( 76 ) . Gibbon's ... action . Racine's tragedy puts before our eyes several moments [ plusieurs instants ] of this action , and these various ...
... actions " that permit " the causal necessity of every element to be instantaneously apparent ” ( 76 ) . Gibbon's ... action . Racine's tragedy puts before our eyes several moments [ plusieurs instants ] of this action , and these various ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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