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the new sense of wonder involved both skepticism and imagined possibility
she continually remade herself and became a poet
17086 JASP21Author Using their astute powers ofOng brings together existentialist philosphies of Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Beauvoir with readings of the literary novel to discuss how novels address our knowledge of existence. She reframes classic debates about novels in her readings of Tolstoy, Eliot, Austen, James, Flaubert, and Zola. Philisophical ideas of self knowledge, freedom, authority, the individual's relationship with the world, and the project of improving humanness are examined. How do