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At Stanford Since: 1963. Robert Polhemus has interests in the workings of literary history; 19th-century British literature--especially the novel; 20th-century British fiction; the visual arts (including film); and cultural psychology.
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Robert Polhemus. Internal Faculty Fellow 1984-85, 2005-06. English, Stanford University. Robert Polhemus has interests in the workings of literary history; 19th-century British literature — especially the novel; 20th-century British fiction; the visual arts (including film); and cultural psychology.
Robert M. Polhemus is Chair of the English Department and Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture.
Robert Polhemus of Stanford University finishes the first day of this 2006 conference devoted to Lewis Carroll by discussing "Lewis Carroll and the Idolatry ...
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In this profoundly original and far-reaching study, Robert M. Polhemus shows how novels have helped to make erotic love a matter of faith in modern life. Erotic faith, Polhemus argues, is an emotional conviction--ultimately religious in nature--that meaning, value, hope, and even the possibility of transcendence can be found in love.
Apr 4, 2006 · Robert Polhemus uses the term ‘the Lot complex’ to describe the outworking of the reception history of the story of Lot, his wife, and his daughters, in the shape of the relationship of fathers and daughters, older men and younger women, in Western culture.
