• Erasmus and Luther: first and foremost, a pattern established
• Voltaire and Rousseau: never a peace
• Passages of history: from mundanity to philosophy
• Turgenev and Dostoevsky: 'what is there in common?'
• Sartre and Camus: ' revolt changes camps'.

Dualism is a motif that runs through literature of all genres and historical contexts, inspiring argumentation at the highest level and showing the formation of ideas in association as a creative exchange. It arises with special pertinence in western literature since the Renaissance and Reformation. In Dualisms, noted scholar Ricardo J. Quinones considers four major intellectual encounters: Erasmus and Luther, Voltaire and Rousseau, Turgenev and Dostoevsky, and Sartre and Camus. These four instances, Quinones argues, are important for what they are and what they represent: major intellectual contests that created the modern era and remain the 'agons' of our time. Through in-depth analysis, this study looks at the clarifications that emerged from four famous polemics. Discerning an 'itinerary of their encounters, ' Quinones suggests a shared paradigm of development that is true for each of the examples of dualism. In all four cases, the two participants represented the vanguard of their time, and all of the debates started from shared intellectual positions until subsequent events revealed substantially different temperaments. It is the inescapable tension and connection between prior affinities and the discord of debate that continue to intrigue us. Dualisms is a tour-de-force, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy, theology, and literary criticism. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most famous intellectual debates in all of literature, and considers the implications that they continue to have for the study of the humanities in the modern world.
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• *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*Chapter One. CITIZEN CAIN, pg. 23*Chapter Two. MONSTROUS CAIN, pg. 41*Chapter Three. CAIN AS SACRED EXECUTIONER, pg. 62*CHAPTER FOUR. Byron's Cain and Its Antecedents, pg. 87*Chapter Five. THE SECRET SHARER, pg. 109*Chapter Six. DEMIAN, pg. 122*Chapter Seven. THE NEW AMERICAN CAIN: EAST OF EDEN AND OTHER WORKS OF POST-WORLD WAR II AMERICA, pg. 135*Chapter Eight. BILLY BUDD, pg. 155*Chapter Nine. AMADEUS AND PRICK UP YOUR EARS, pg. 167*Chapter Ten. ABEL SANCHEZ, pg. 173*Chapter Eleven. CAIN OF FUTURE HISTORY, pg. 185*Chapter Twelve. TWINNING THE TWAIN, pg. 215*EPILOGUE, pg. 238*NOTES, pg. 249*INDEX, pg. 279.
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Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story. "Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank "Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture...Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction..." --James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review "Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--Choice Ricardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton). Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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• *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 1*I. The Collapse of Historical Values, pg. 21*II. The Family, the Machine and the Paradox of Time, pg. 40*III. Transformations, pg. 87*IV. The Modernist Sensibility, pg. 120*V. 'The Songs That I Sing", pg. 164*VI. Three Major Works, pg. 192*VII. The Bite of Time, pg. 222*CONCLUSION: Purviews and Purposes, pg. 246*Notes, pg. 259*Index, pg. 297.
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Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the 1920s. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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• The collapse of historical values
• The family, the machine and the paradox of time
• Transformations
• The modernist sensibility
• "The songs that I sing"
• Three major works
• The bite of time.

Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the 1920s. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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