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Editorial El Drac, S.L. Coser y llevar bolsos de tela
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Editorial El Drac, S.L. Coser y vestir a Luna Lapin una mueca con un
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Visor Trayectorias de la novela policial en Espaa
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Visor La trama impresa de Celestina
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Visor Gramática canon e historia literaria 1750 y 1850
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Visor Máscaras y juegos de identidad en el teatro
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Visor De este mundo y los otros
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Visor libros, S.L. Espacio poema en prosa de Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Ma Non Troppo Más Allá del Coronavirus: ¿El Fin de Los Tiempos?
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Taylor & Francis Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context
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Taylor & Francis African Language Media Development Economics and Management Routledge African Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd African Language Media
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Satakas of Bhartrihari Trubners Oriental S
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Taylor & Francis Roads to Consciousness
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1974, Roads to Consciousness has for its protagonist the idealistic truth-seeking young man who sees that men are evil and righteously condemns the ways of this wicked world, but then falls into cynicism and despair when he discovers at last that he too is a man, and he too is evil. Through a discussion of works of literature ranging from Hamlet to Lady Chatterley's Lover, the author explores the arduous journey to Consciousness or maturity, which liberates the Hamletian hero from doubt and despair.This strikingly original account of the evolution of the Hamletian hero is accomplished by means of a number of masterly interpretations of individual works of literature, but in the final analysis this book should perhaps be regarded as a novel kind of idealised spiritual autobiography under the guise of literary criticism. This book should appeal to those interested in literature in the universities and outside, and also to thoughtful people who are concerned with the spiritual maladies of our time.
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Cambridge University Press Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt
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Cambridge University Press Plato Phaedo
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Cambridge University Press Modernism the Visual and Caribbean Literature
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Drama
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and the Russian People
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Cambridge University Press Last Essays
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Cambridge University Press Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
Book SynopsisBy tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Edward Ragg presents a new, revisionist study of the work of Wallace Stevens. This book embraces philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens's place within and resistance to Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, representation and 'the imagination'.Trade Review'Ragg's book shows what can be done by scrupulous scholarship on a carefully chosen and crucial individual feature of a poet's oeuvre. Ragg brings to the topic of abstraction an enviable combination of elegant clarity, subtle and imaginative readings, the construction of an engaging and rich dialectic within Stevens' own career and incisive philosophical analysis that provides a significant conceptual place for the role of idealization in poetry.' Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley'Edward Ragg's Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction is a major contribution to Stevens studies. Ragg is an internationally renowned Stevens expert. In this book he approaches head on the vexed question of 'abstraction' in Stevens' poetry. As Ragg shows, Stevens' notions of abstraction and his practice of 'the aesthetics of abstraction' evolved over the years, from book to book of poetry and from essay to essay as he tried to account in the latter for his poetic practice. The evolution was an attempt to strike the right balance between abstraction and reference to things, 'the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them'. Particularly valuable is the detailed account of Stevens' tendency to abandon the specific idiom of abstraction that dominates the poetry of the early 1940s and its replacement as the decade wore on with a poetry that is still abstract but no longer so much uses just one repertoire of terms. Dr. Ragg's investigation is carried on by way of brilliant close reading of difficult poems, for example the admirable readings of 'Montrachet-Le-Jardin' and 'The Pure Good of Theory'. Anyone interested in Stevens' poetry should have this superb book.' J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine'Ragg's is the rare book that combines intellectual rigor with literary sensitivity in all areas, harmonizing the discussion of ideas and debates with well-informed, multifaceted, and sensitive readings of poems. 'It Must Bring Pleasure' and it does.' Beverly Maeder, University of Lausanne'Ragg's meticulous scholarship will surely inspire further debate on this vexed and central question of Stevens studies …' The Journal of American Studies'Ragg's work has garnered much deserved praise, and it will be of use both to readers of Stevens and to anyone working on the relationship between poetry and painting … Ragg's work is exceptionally well done … and his claim for the central importance of painterly abstraction in the development of Stevens' poetics is established compellingly. The majority of Ragg's focus falls on Stevens' works from 1923 to 1945, and the close analysis he offers of 'Landscape with Boat' from Parts of a World … is particularly useful for the classroom as well as scholarship. This reviewer has used Ragg's approach for seminars with good effect, and this may be the lasting contribution of his work. Instructors teaching Stevens' poetry will find [this] a highly useful resource during lecture preparation, especially given Ragg's tendency to move from critical assertions to the accumulation of evidence through extensive close reading.' James Gifford, The Year's Work in English Studies'[This book] is tightly argued throughout, drawing upon Stevens' essays and letters to illustrate the poet's engagement with modernist art theory and philosophy, and to map his evolving sense of an abstract aesthetic … Ragg makes a particularly strong case for considering Stevens' gustatory imagination. Ever alert to the pleasures of eating and drinking in Stevens' poetry, [he] argues that the physical and sensual 'are often the sites for the catalysis of his abstract imagination', adding that 'the tendency to oppose the sensual to the abstract denies readers insight into this aspect of Stevens' work'.' Alex Runchman, Irish Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: 'Stevensian' and the question of abstraction 1935–2009; 1. The abstract impulse: from anecdote to 'new romantic' in Harmonium (1923) and Ideas of Order (1935); 2. The turn to abstraction: Owl's Clover (1936) and the 'un-locatable' speaker in The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937); 3. The 'in-visible' abstract: Stevens' idealism from Coleridge to Merleau-Ponty; 4. Abstract figures: the curious case of the idealist 'I'; 5. Abstract appetites: food, wine and the idealist 'I'; 6. The pure good of theory: a new abstract emphasis; 7. Bourgeois abstraction: poetry, painting and the idea of mastery in late Stevens.
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Cambridge University Press Sentimental Literature and AngloScottish Identity 17451820 86 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 86
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Cambridge University Press Johnsons Milton
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Cambridge University Press Satire in an Age of Realism 72 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 72
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Cambridge University Press The Metaphysics of Text
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Cambridge University Press Youth Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether
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Cambridge University Press The Representation of War in German Literature
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Cambridge University Press Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing 76 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 76
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Cambridge University Press Lysias Selected Speeches Cambridge Greek and
Book SynopsisThe Greek prose writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century BC. Six of his professional legal speeches are selected in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and because the language is accessible even to the comparative beginner. In his introduction Dr Carey discusses Lysias' life and place in the evolution of Greek prose style, and the development of Greek rhetoric. He approaches the speeches in terms of their function, as attempts to secure a verdict favourable to the speaker, and assesses how effectively the selection and deployment of arguments promote this end. In the commentary he addresses problems of Lysias' style and syntax, and textual issues where necessary, but the particular focus is always literary: Lysias' use of rhetorical devices, his marshalling of fact and argument and his manipulation of contemporary values and prejudices are examined in detail. These speeches are invaluable historiTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Life; 2. Speeches and speechwriters; 3. Lysias as speechwriter; 4. Authenticity; 5. The text; Lysias: Selected Speeches: 1. On the murder of Eratosthenes; 3. Against Simon; 7. On the olive-stump; 14. Against Alkibiades; 31. Against Philon; 32. Against Diogeiton; Commentary; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Selected Plays of John Webster
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Cambridge University Press Plays by David Garrick and George Colman the Elder
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Cambridge University Press The Foolish Virgin
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Cambridge University Press Young Mrs. Burton
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Cambridge University Press Henry James
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Cambridge University Press Plays by Dion Boucicault
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Cambridge University Press Plays by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton
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Cambridge University Press Plutarch Life of Antony Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisPlutarch's Life of Antony is a work remarkable for its colourful narrative and vivid characterisation of Antony and Cleopatra. This book presents the Greek text of the Life, accompanied by an extensive introduction and a detailed commentary. Dr Pelling is concerned throughout to discuss the work as literature. The introduction sets the life in its historical and literary context and the commentary pays particular attention to discussing the value of Plutarch's narrative as a historical source for the period and to explaining points of linguistic difficulty. An especially interesting and friutful approach used by Dr Pelling is to compare the work with Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (which was almost wholly based to Plutarch's Life), bringing out how much Shakespeare's conception of the character and destiny of his protagonists owes to Plutarch, and tracing its transposition into dramatic form. Intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduate students, this edition will neverthelesTable of ContentsList of maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Plutarch and Rome; 2. The Life of Antony; 3. Comparison: Demetrius and Antony; 4. Sources and methods; 5. Plutarch and Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra; 6. The text; Ploutarchou Antonios; Commentary; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Plays by William Hooker Gillette
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Cambridge University Press Plays by Augustin Daly
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Cambridge University Press Plays by A. W. Pinero
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Cambridge University Press Plays by James Robinson Planche
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Cambridge University Press Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy
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Cambridge University Press Plays by H. J. Byron
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Cambridge University Press Plays by Charles Reade
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Cambridge University Press Sophocles Trachiniae Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisSophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience. Making full use of recent Sphoclean scholarship, Mrs Easterling attempts in her Introduction a detailed literary analysis of Trachiniae, helping the reader to understand better its intricate structure, the treatment of Deianira and Heracles, and the meaning of the final scenes. The notes in the Commentary of grammar, syntax and style include material which will be helpful to comparative beginners in the language, but the commentary as a whole is intended for anyone with a close interest in Greek tragedy. This is an edition for classical scholars, undergraduates, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction is designed to be of use to readers who do not know Greek, as well as to specialists.Trade Review'Mrs Easterling has written a work which is marked by tact, clarity and balanced judgement. It is an edition which could be profitably consulted at different levels, but it should be particularly helpful to students.' The Joint Association of Classical Teachers BulletinTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The play; 2. Stage action; 3. The myth; 4. The date; Trachiniae; Commentary; Appendices; Glossary of metrical terms; Indexes; Map of Trachis and the Malian Gulf.
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