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  1. Transformations of the Supernatural
    Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag

    Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his... more

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    Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839437759
    RVK Categories: HK 1935
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: Knowledge; Literature; Literary Studies; British Studies; Self; Fiction; Evidence; Supernatural; Singular Experience; Cultural Sciences; Das Übernatürliche
    Other subjects: Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Transformations of the Supernatural
    Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag

    Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his... more

    Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Bibliothek
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    Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839437759
    RVK Categories: HK 1935
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: Knowledge; Literature; Literary Studies; British Studies; Self; Fiction; Evidence; Supernatural; Singular Experience; Cultural Sciences; Das Übernatürliche
    Other subjects: Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource