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Touché : The Duel in Literature / John Leigh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (330 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780674286986
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.933559 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Honored in the Breach -- 2. The Comical Duel -- 3. The Poignant Duel -- 4. The Judicial Duel -- The “Romantic” Duel -- 6. The Duel and Self- Realization -- 7. The Grotesque Duel -- 8. Paradoxes of the Duel -- Epilogue: 1918 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674286986

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Honored in the Breach -- 2. The Comical Duel -- 3. The Poignant Duel -- 4. The Judicial Duel -- The “Romantic” Duel -- 6. The Duel and Self- Realization -- 7. The Grotesque Duel -- 8. Paradoxes of the Duel -- Epilogue: 1918 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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