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Wonder Confronts Certainty - Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contest between unyielding dogmatism and open-minded wonder, rendering the Russian literary canon at once distinctive and universally human.

DKK 361.95

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Family Law Reimagined - Jill Elaine Hasday

This is the first book to explore the canonical narratives, stories, examples, and ideas that legal decisionmakers invoke to explain family law and its governing principles. Jill Elaine Hasday shows how this canon misdescribes the reality of family law, misdirects attention away from actual problems family law confronts, and misshapes policies.

DKK 481.95

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The Southern Tradition - The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism - Eugene D. Genovese

Tracing a certain strain of conservatism to sources in a rich southern tradition, this book opens a powerful perspective on contemporary politics. As much a work of political and moral philosophy as of history, it reconstitutes the historical canon, re-envisions strengths and weaknesses of the conservative tradition, and broadens political debate.

DKK 353.95

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Still the New World - American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction - Philip Fisher

This provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of American literary tradition argues against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940 the book reconsiders key works in the American canon-from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West.

DKK 361.95

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People of the Book - Canon, Meaning, and Authority - Moshe Halbertal

Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.

DKK 484.95

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Literature in the First Media Age - Britain between the Wars - David Trotter

Communications technology is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. Some of the writers who first woke up to this fact lived and wrote in Britain between the World Wars. Here, David Trotter creates a new literary canon of works distinguished by their alertness to the implications of new media and materials.

DKK 382.95

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Beyond Greek - The Beginnings of Latin Literature - Denis Feeney

A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history...

DKK 289.95

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