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Drawing on a distinguished 40-year university career, Allen Thiher probes the subjects that serve as a basis for higher education in the twenty-first century. Addressing the general reader as well as the scholar, he argues that all the best about contemporary culture springs directly from the unfettered rationalism of the Enlightenment. Provocatively, Thiher argues that today's education system is failing to produce students with the enlighten...

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Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In Understanding Franz Kafka, Allen Thiher addresses the development of Kafka's work by analysing it in terms of its chronological unfolding, emphasizing the various phases in Kafka's life that can be discerned in his constant quest to find a meaning for his writing.

Allen Thiher demonstrates that major modernists were not only concerned with the sciences, but they also were influenced by them. He argues that there are direct relations between science and the formal shape of fiction developed by some of the most important modernists.

This text describes the epistemic rivalry that the major 19th-century French novelists felt in dealing with science. It focuses on "realist" novelists. According to Thiher, each of these novelists considered himself to be in competition with science to make the novel an instrument for knowledge.

Provies an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing works both published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative.

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Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve. ---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism "The scope of this book is daunting, ranging from madness in the ancient Greco-Roman world, to Christianized concepts of medieval folly, through the writings of early modern authors such as Shakespeare, Cervantes...

A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present

Presents critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (1880-1942). This book maps Musil's development as a writer, illustrating how his work evolved in response to catastrophic historical events such as World War I, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Hitler's seizure of power.