Raamatud: Literature & literary studies

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1. Story of Myth

Sarah Iles Johnston
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674185074)
Sarah Iles Johnston argues that the nature of myths as gripping tales starring vivid characters enabled them to do their most important work: sustaining belief in the gods and heroes of Greek religion. She shows how Greek myths-and the stories... Loe edasi...
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2. Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy

Yi-Ping Ong
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674983656)
In this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowl... Loe edasi...
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3. Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights

Paulo Lemos Horta
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674986596)
Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri... Loe edasi...
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4. Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Denis Feeney
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674986589)
A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature see... Loe edasi...
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5. Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics

Casey Due
Sari: Hellenic Studies Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, ISBN-13: 9780674987364)
Casey Due, coeditor of the Homer Multitext, explores both the traditionality and multiformity of the Iliad. Due argues this multiform nature gives us glimpses of the very long history of the text, access to even earlier Iliads, and a greater aw... Loe edasi...
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6. Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

William Brockliss
Sari: Hellenic Studies Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, ISBN-13: 9780674987357)
William Brockliss, responding to George Lakoffs and Mark Johnsons analysis of metaphor, explores the Homeric poets use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences understanding of abstract concepts.... Loe edasi...
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7. In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia

Brian P. Sowers
Sari: Hellenic Studies Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, ISBN-13: 9780674987371)
Examining Aelia Eudocias writings as a unified whole and in context, Brian P. Sowers reveals an exceptional author representing three late-antique communities: poets interested in transforming classical literature; Christians positioned outsid... Loe edasi...
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8. London Journal

James Boswell
Sari: Dover Thrift Editions
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Dover Publications Inc., ISBN-13: 9780486828497)
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9. American World Literature: An Introduction: An Introduction

Paul Giles
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119431640)
A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phe... Loe edasi...
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10. Visions of England: Poems selected by the Earl of Burford

Nicholas Hagger
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: O Books, ISBN-13: 9781789040487)
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11. Critique of Forms of Life

Rahel Jaeggi, Ciaran Cronin
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Belknap Press, ISBN-13: 9780674737754)
For liberals, the question Do others live rightly? seems to demand a follow-up question: Who am I to judge? Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But Rahel Jaeggi argues that criti... Loe edasi...
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12. Literature: Why It Matters

Robert Eaglestone
Sari: Why It Matters
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Polity Press, ISBN-13: 9781509532322)
Despite centuries of arguments, no one can agree on what literature is, or how to study it. But, argues Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject of study. Literature is a... Loe edasi...
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13. Literature: Why It Matters

Robert Eaglestone
Sari: Why It Matters
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Polity Press, ISBN-13: 9781509532315)
Despite centuries of arguments, no one can agree on what literature is, or how to study it. But, argues Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject of study. Literature is a... Loe edasi...
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14. Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form

Sandra Macpherson
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421429014)
Macphersons original insights continue to have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the novel.... Loe edasi...
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15. Fool and The Bee

Martin Corless-Smith
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Shearsman Books, ISBN-13: 9781848616448)
The Fool & the Bee is a fabulous book of the poetic imagination. -Peter Gizzi A stunning, pleasurable book. - Alice Notley... Loe edasi...
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16. Our Lady of Pain: Poems of Eros and Perversion

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Mark Scroggins
Sari: Shearsman Classics
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Shearsman Books, ISBN-13: 9781848616455)
Our Lady of Pain is the first selection of Swinburnes poetry to focus precisely on what his early readers found most objectionable: erotic passion, in both its normal and perverse varieties. Swinburnes treatment of physical passion, and t... Loe edasi...
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17. Year of the Crab: El ano del cangrejo

Mariano Peyrou, Terence Dooley
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Shearsman Books, ISBN-13: 9781848616387)
The Year of the Crab tells the story of an endless seaside summer. It is a musical interplay of emotions and ideas, with recurring motifs and characters, often very funny, often profound, with a sense of childhood discovery remembered in maturi... Loe edasi...
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18. J.G. Farrell's Empire Novels: The decline and fall of the human condition

Rebecca Ziegler
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Four Courts Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781846827570)
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19. Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery

Keith Williams, Sophie Aymes, Jan Baetens, Chris Murray
Sari: Word and Image Interactions
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Brill, ISBN-13: 9789004361102)
Art and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across art, literature and the sciences, focusing on engagements with natural forms and forces, and other fields of knowledge across a sp... Loe edasi...
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20. Chance Magazine: Issue 7, Issue 7

Chance Magazine Editorial Chance Magazine Editorial Staff
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Chance, ISBN-13: 9780990569459)
With original photo shoots and incisive artistic commentary, Chance Magazine: Issue 7 offers many more glimpses into the work of leading designers of sets, costumes, lighting, video, and projection, as well as the work of playwrights, dir... Loe edasi...
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