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Product Description: Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not only answers these questions but explains why they are worth asking in the first place...read more

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9780195188561 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 3, 2012, cover price $61.00

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9780199378203 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 15, 2014), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables?

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Product Description: Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning such traditionally philosophical issues as knowledge, self-deception, selfhood, love, friendship, and art--and literary, in that its situations are imaginary and its stylization inescapably prominent, Proust's novel presents us with a conundrum...read more

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9780195169393 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 19, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

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9780195389357 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 26, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Product Description: This book aims at refocusing critical reflection on thematics in the arts, a topic that has been neglected recently. The volume is divided into four sections: theoretical essays, applications to literature, reflections on thematics in music and the visual arts, and a conclusion...read more

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9780791421673 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: This book aims at refocusing critical reflection on thematics in the arts, a topic that has been neglected recently.

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9780791421680 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Book by

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