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  1. A cultural history of causality
    science, murder novels, and systems of thought
    Published: ©2004
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691115230; 1400826233; 9781400826230
    Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology; HISTORY / Historiography; Causation in literature; Murder in literature; Causation; Fiction; Fiction; Kausalität <Motiv>; Roman; Mord <Motiv>; Kriminalroman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (437 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index

    This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels

  2. A cultural history of causality
    science, murder novels, and systems of thought
    Published: c2004
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691115230
    Subjects: Causation in literature; Murder in literature; Causation; Fiction; Fiction; Kausalität <Motiv>; Kriminalroman; Mord <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 437 p
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-423) and index

  3. A cultural history of causality
    science, murder novels, and systems of thought
    Published: c2004
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Medien- und Informationszentrum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691127689; 0691115230; 9780691115238; 9780691127682; 9781400826230; 9781282157804
    Subjects: Fiction; Murder in literature; Causation; Causation in literature; Fiction
    Scope: Online-Ressource (437 p), 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-423) and index

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