“…When we think about the 1960s U.S. space program and obscure scientific computer code, we might not first think about the Watts riots, Shakespeare, Winnie the Pooh, T.S. Eliot, or scatological jokes. Yet these cultural references and influences along with many more are scattered throughout the body of the code that powered the compact digital computer that successfully guided astronauts to the Moon and back and in July of 1969. …”

“…Jahrhunderts zeichnet sich jedoch ein ganz anderes Bild ab: Kreditfiktionen von Autorinnen und Autoren wie Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Gottfried Keller oder Herman Melville präsentieren den Kredit als volatile und ruinöse Fiktion, die soziale Reibungen und Konflikte erzeugt und die Realität selbst in ein verkäufliches Gut ummünzt. …”

“…., including Nidhi Aggarwal, Product and Strategy Lead; Byron Berk, Customer Success Lead; Gideon Goldin, Senior UX Architect; Matt Holzapfel, Product Marketing; and Eliot Knudsen, Field Engineer. Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup, helps companies understand and unify their disparate databases…”

“…It also examines the extent to which Darwin's ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News. Bringing together scholars from biology, literature, history, psychology, psychiatry and paediatrics, the volume provides an invaluable reassessment of Darwin's contribution to a new understanding of the moral sense and emotional life, and considers the urgent scientific and ethical implications of his ideas today…”

“…In the first full-length study of modernism and World War II, Marina MacKay offers historical readings of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Henry Green and Evelyn Waugh set against the dramatic background of national struggle and transformation. …”
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“…From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. …”

“…It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock, and from Thatcher to Blair.A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers" -- Editor…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La contradanza ideológica de Emilia Pardo Bazán en sus cuentos antiyanquis -- Capítulo 9. Dalí-Buñuel-Eliot: Tiresias y el fantasma de la homosexualidad en los tres primeros filmes de Luis Buñuel -- Capítulo 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Existence, Logos, and Imagination -- Contextualizing Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Concept of Fabulation -- The Mythic Journey of a Changeling -- Aura; Ontological Materiality of Existence and Fabulation -- Sartre’s Phenomenology of History: Community, Agency and Comprehension -- Historical Fabulation as History by Other Means: Shakespeare’s Caesar and Mofolo’s Chaka as Opposites in Rubiconesque Leadership -- The Dialectics Between Self, Time and Historical Change According to Milan Kundera -- Lived Images/Imagined Existences: A Phenomenology of Image Creation in the Works of Michel Tournier and Photography -- Aesthetic And Historical Framework of Russian Manor as a Genre -- The Portrait of A Real Live Man: Individuality, Moral Determination and Historical Myth in the Light of Henry James’s The American -- Healing Personal History: Memoirs of Trauma and Transcendence -- Once I Was: A Philosophical Excursion into the Metaphors of the Mind -- Existence and Historical Fabulation: The Example of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties -- Metaphysical Fabulation in the Berkshires: Melville’s ‘Arrowhead’ and the Anachrony of Thought -- Being is Believing: The Underpinnings of Walter Benjamin’s Deconstruction of Historicism -- Historic Fabulation and T. S . Eliot’s “Little Lidding” -- Harmonious Balance as the Ultimate Reality in Artistic and Philosophical Interpretation of the Taiji Diagram -- Time After Time: The Temporality of Human Existence in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury -- Toward Destiny -- Destiny in the Literature of Walker Percy, Leo Tolstoy and Eudora Welty -- The Interior Quest: Memoir, Lens of Personal Destiny -- Collective Intentions and the Phenomenology of Time – The Theory of Non-Domination in Communication -- Interpretation Of Destiny -- Human Destiny at the Edge of Existential Categories of Life: Musil and Kundera in Dialogue -- Aspiring Beyond:French Romanticism, Nietzsche And Saint-John Perse -- Words Turn into Stone Haruki Murakami’s After The Quake -- On the Modern Opposition of Fate, Destiny, Life, Doom and Luck in the Light of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady -- Gail Godwin: Negotiating With Destiny in The Odd Woman and “Dream Children” -- The Soul and its Destiny: Readings and Dialogues on Science, Philosophy and Religion - A Meeting with Vito Mancuso and Orlando Franceschelli…”

“…Among the authors whom Foley treats are Defoe, Scott, George Eliot, Joyce, Isherwood, Dos Passos, William Wells Brown, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines…”

“…Those texts, now part of the literary canon, raise problems of deciphering/comprehension which defer and displace the question of interpretation. From Stein to Eliot, several canonical texts foil reading, articulation, and commentary. …”

“…Desasosegados ante el recuerdo de tantos amigos ya fallecidos, la extravagante pareja busca una luz de esperanza en compañía de la poesía de T. S. Eliot. En ¡Adiós, libros míos!, el premio Nobel de literatura Kenzaburo Oé hace balance de su carrera literaria como escritor y como lector, y construye un homenaje estimulante y sorprendente del mundo de los libros. …”

“…A principios de enero, tres de quienes serán los más influyentes escritores del siglo XX se reúnen para cenar en casa de otro no menos importante: Ezra Pound. James Joyce y T. S. Eliot acaban de terminar respectivamente la escritura de Ulises y La tierra baldía, que se publicarán ese mismo año gracias al apoyo del anfitrión. …”

“…Swinburne vio en él un precedente claro de El molino del Floss de George Eliot. Combinando elementos de cuentos de hadas con recursos de melodrama y una romántica observación de la naturaleza, Gaskell ahonda además en los entresijos de la vida doméstica, y muestra cómo el amor y la bondad pueden ser armas de doble filo, a menudo utilizadas con fines innobles. …”

“…Los poemas de Hölderlin, Byron, Eliot o Gimferrer; las novelas de Cervantes, Víctor Hugo, Henry James o Eugenia Ginzburg; los ensayos de Montaigne, Orwell, Steiner o Sánchez Ferlosio, entre otros, transcurren en paralelo con las vivencias del autor, en un viaje cargado de ironía y deslumbramiento. …”

“…De Aspasia e Hipatia a Simone de Beauvoir y Ayn Rand, pasando por Ninon de Lanclos, Julie de Lespinasse, Mary Shelley, George Sand, George Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Emily Dickinson, Madame Blavatsky o Emma Goldman, incontables pensadoras han transformado para siempre nuestra realidad social desde el activismo y el feminismo. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Somerset Maugham / On writing for the films -- Bertolt Brecht / Concerning the film -- T.S. Eliot / Preface to the film version of Murder in the Cathedral -- Truman Capote / The writer and motion pictures -- William Faulkner / The writer and motion pictures -- The Hollywood Experience: William Faulkner / My Hollywood experience -- Theodore Dreiser / The real sins of Hollywood -- F. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Presentació / Francesco Ardolino, Jordi Manent, Jordi Marrugat i Andrea Montoya ; (Estudis, interpretacions, recepció (La publicació del dietari de Marià Manent: història d’una construcció literària / Arnau Vives Piñas ; Comentari del «Nou cant a la vinya» de Marià Manent / Gemma Pellissa Prades ; Algunes notes sobre la influència de T. S. Eliot en la crítica literària de Marià Manent / Andrea Pereira ; Les «Notícies d’art» de Marià Manent / Jordi Malé i Pegueroles ; Manent, antòleg: «El gran vent i les heures» (1983) o la configuració d’una poètica / Andrea Montoya Gil ; John Keats i Marià Manent: una relació de per vida / Maria Eugènia Perea Virgili ; Pels volts de Ganduxer 55: Marià Manent, Ester de Andreis, Dámaso Alonso i Vicente Aleixandre / Blanca Ripoll Sintes ; La relació epistolar de dos anglòfils catalans: Joan Gili i Marià Manent / Laura Vilardell ; Història del Premi de poesia Marià Manent / Jordi Manent i Tomàs ; Marià Manent i les rutes literàries / Fina Anglès Soronellas) ; Galeria d'imatges ; Mirades d'autor («La mel secreta de l’Eternitat» : (El sentit de l’elegia en la poesia de Marià Manent) / Jordi Llavina ; La «gran festa» poètica de Marià Manent / Vicenç Llorca ; Les ombres de l’acàcia. …”

“…While classic nineteenth-century realism rests on a sympathy-based model of moral relations, novels by authors such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner present instead an ethical recognition of the distance between self and other. …”
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