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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"evil in literature"”.
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Per un'etica della letteratura: la cornice il doppio legame nell'opera di J. M. Coetzee
… elusive fiction of J. M. Coetzee is not a work in which you can read fixed ethical stances. I suggest testing the potentialities of a logic based on frames and double binds in Coetzee's novels. A double bind is a dilemma in communication which consists on tho conflicting messages, with the …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… dissertation argues that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary culture, and that response to the so-called “problem of evil” was one of its major leitmotifs. With chapters spanning from the Elizabethan to the Restoration eras, its interpretations of canonical …
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"The way of the world is to bloom and flower and die": the palindrome of knowing in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Meaning has been the topic of much commentary on Cormac McCarthy’s work. Critics posit an array of conclusions about meaning in his corpus, ranging from its impossibility to its excess. Much work concludes that if meaning exists, it is generated from an interplay between the natural world that …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
… The Sacred Canopy argues that explanations of evil are necessary for social systems to stay themselves against chaotic forces. Individuals survive crises based on explanations of evil. In chapter one, I examine in Alexander Pope's personal letters how his reliance upon religious resignation, …
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From the tide pool to the stars : a study of the evolution of John Steinbeck's attitude towards good and evil
… of my thesis to trace the evolution of Steinbeck's view, in his non-fiction of what the conflict between good and evil consists, along with the development of this concern, and its related stylistic influence, on his fiction, in order to show that Steinbeck's major concern was for man's …