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Book SynopsisPostmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists ''as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party'' - a party which includes such members as Cindy Sherman, Salman Rushdie, Jacques Derrida, Walter Abish, and Richard Rorty - creating a vastly entertaining framework in which to unravel the mysteries of the ''postmodern condition'', from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThis VSI is a terrific book. If you've ever had doubts about post-modernism and its manifestations in art, literature and identity politics, yet wondered how intelligent people came to be influenced by it ... if you are open-minded enough to consider whether there is anything worthwhile about postmodernism rather than just be mocked or dismissed out of hand ... this VSI is the book for you. * ANZ LitLovers *Table of Contents1. The rise of postmodernism ; 2. New ways of seeing the world ; 3. Politics and identity ; 4. The culture of postmodernism ; 5. The 'postmodern condition' ; References ; Further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates ''decreation'' - an activity described by Simone Weil as ''undoing the creature in us'' - an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?Anne Carson''s Decreation starts with form - the undoing of form. Form is various here: opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, list, montage. The undoing is tender, but tenderness can change everything, or so the author appears to believe.By turns exhilarating and bewildering, lucid and hermetic, Anne Carson is a maverick with a thrilling range of skills. As Charles Simic says, ''Carson takes risks, subverts literary conventions, and plays havoc with our expectations. She is a wonder: an unconventional, often difficult poet who has a huge following among today''s readers of poetry and whose work has been honoured with our most prestigious literary awards.''

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Book SynopsisOne of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.

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Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.

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Book SynopsisPublished posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, SeÃn Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. Sure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant moodTrade ReviewReading A Moveable Feast is a little like sitting down to a banquet with a host of bohemian luminaries * Observer *Here is Hemingway at his best. No one has ever written about Paris in the nineteen twenties as well as Hemingway * New York Times *The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is that it does live up to its billing . . . well worth having * The Atlantic *

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Book SynopsisGeorge Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning.

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Book SynopsisAlice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen''s to her own neice, ''aunt'' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

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Book SynopsisHow do we think? The author poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. She examines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication.Trade Review"Hayles is a rare and welcome voice.... A leading writer on the interplay between science and literature." -New Scientist "One book by Hayles is the equivalent of any five by the competition." -Science Fiction Studies "Hayles has once again produced a compelling synthesis of highly complex, widely scattered discourses.... The achievement is formidable." -American Book Review "Hayles's work is admirable in its open-ended, open-minded engagement of a continuously changing intellectual and artistic field." -Electronic Book Review"

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Book SynopsisOffers translations of Euripides' Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' The Trackers. In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.

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Book Synopsis"The Story of Sapho" makes available for the first time in modern English a self contained section from Scudery's novel "Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus". This edition also includes a translation of an oration in which Sapho extols the talents of women to persuade them to write.

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and termssuch as the implied author, the postulated reader, and the unreliable narratorhave become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty yearstwo decades that Booth describes as the richest in the history of the subject.

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Book SynopsisCritically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante's Divine Comedy, and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical theory to provide a reading of the poem, focusing on Dante's address to the reader.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare's drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare's dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionise our understanding of the early modern canon. -- .

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Book SynopsisPurgatorio is the second of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dantes' masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Similar to Vol. I: The Inferno, this translation will be into English prose, emphasizing the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages and includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship. A new addition to the notes will be the Intercantica a section for each canto that discusses its relation to the Inferno.Trade Review'This new edition of Inferno is distinctly user-friendly....Serious students-in or out of the classroom-who...examine the original poem alongside a readable and reliable prose translation will find this edition excellently suited to their needs.' -The Christian Science Monitor 'A useful volume for students and first-time visitors to Dante's cosmos.'- Publishers Weekly 'In this new translation, Durling tries to be as concrete as possible, producing a version that is more fluent and accurate than the versions of Mandelbaum and Musa.... Highly recommended.' -Library Journal 'Like the Inferno edition that preceded it, the Durling-Martinez Purgatorio, with its beautiful translation and superb apparatus of notes, is simply the best edition of Dante's second canticle in English. No other version offers anything close to what we find gathered here in one volume.' -Robert Harrison, Professor of Italian, Stanford University "As Durling and Martinez complete their monumental three-volume presentation of Dante's masterpiece, we can sense their triumph and elation, despite their characteristic modesty. This, after all, is the volume with which they can demonstrate the fullness and consistency of Dante's great project, its final approach to what they describe in one footnote as 'a pitch of intensity unique in all literature.' The scholarship, as always, is graceful, comprehensive, and acute, and it surrounds a translation that is so carefully considered and fully realized as to be, at times, quite breathtaking." --David Young, translator of The Poetry of Petrarch "Durling and Martinez deliver Paradiso in elegant English prose faithful to Dante's Italian. The general introduction and succinct notes to each canto enable an informed reading of a frequently daunting text, while the longer 'Additional Notes,' bibliography, and indices will more than satisfy the most exigent critic. Marvelous, in the richest medieval sense of the term." --Michael Wyatt, author of The Italian Encounter with Tudor England "At the end of his poem Dante claims that his 'high imagining failed of power,' but Durling and Martinez have suffered no such fate in completing their translation of the Divine Comedy. Their Paradiso is a crowning achievement, a work of lucid prose and of impeccable accuracy. Readers will find themselves rewarded by the succinct, richly informative notes at the end of each canto and the extended essay-notes at the back of the volume. A splendid accomplishment." --Richard Lansing, editor of The Dante EncyclopediaTable of ContentsCONTENTS Abbreviations, xv Introduction, 2 PARADISO CANTO 1 Notes to Canto 1 CANTO 2 Notes to Canto 2 CANTO 3 Notes to Canto 3 CANTO 4 Notes to Canto 4 CANTO 5 Notes to Canto 5 CANTO 6 Notes to Canto 6 CANTO 7 Notes to Canto 7 CANTO 8 Notes to Canto 8 CANTO 9 Notes to Canto 9 CANTO 10 Notes to Canto 10 CANTO 11 Notes to Canto 11 CANTO 12 Notes to Canto 12 CANTO 13 Notes to Canto 13 CANTO 14 Notes to Canto 14 CANTO 15 Notes to Canto 15 CANTO 16 Notes to Canto 16 CANTO 17 Notes to Canto 17 CANTO 18 Notes to Canto 18 CANTO 19 Notes to Canto 19 CANTO 20 Notes to Canto 20 CANTO 21 Notes to Canto 21 CANTO 22 Notes to Canto 22 CANTO 23 Notes to Canto 23 CANTO 24 Notes to Canto 24 CANTO 25 Notes to Canto 25 CANTO 26 Notes to Canto 26 CANTO 27 Notes to Canto 27 CANTO 28 Notes to Canto 28 CANTO 29 Notes to Canto 29 CANTO 30 Notes to Canto 30 CANTO 31 Notes to Canto 31 CANTO 32 Notes to Canto 32 CANTO 33 Notes to Canto 33 THE NICENE CREED BOETHIUS' O QUI PERPETUA MUNDUM RATIONE GUBERNAS Notes to "O qui perpetua' ADDITIONAL NOTES 1. The Figure of Beatrice (After Canto 2) 2. The Paradiso and the Monarchia 3.The Primacy of the Intellect, the Sun, and the Circling Theologians (After Canto 14) 4. Dante and the Liturgy (After Canto 15) 5. The Religious Orders in the Paradiso 6. The Threshold Cantos in the Comedy 7. The Fate of Phaethon in the Comedy 8. Circle-Cross-Eagle-Scales: Images in the Paradiso 9. The Final Image 10. The Neoplatonic Background 11. Dante and Neoplatonism 12. Dante's Astrology 13. The Heavens and the Sciences: Convivio 2 14. The Paradiso as Alpha and Omega Textual Variants Bibliography Index of Italian, Latin, and Other Foreign Words Discussed in the Notes Index of Passages Cited in the Notes Index of Proper Names in the Notes Index of Proper Names in the Text and Translation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAthenaze, Books I and II, presents a thoughtful, reading-based approach to learning ancient Greek. Both books are interspersed with superbly written cultural and historical essays that introduce readers to the signature characteristics of Greek culture. * Stephen Esposito, Boston University *I have found Athenaze's methodology successful with today's broad range of student learning styles and varied levels of language sophistication. * Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University *Athenaze is an excellent adaptation of the reading approach for ancient Greek, with excellent Greek readings. * Nicholas Rynearson, University of Georgia *The approach is student friendly, the readings are varied and interesting, and the grammatical explanations are clear. * Laurie Cosgriff, Portland State University *Athenaze is the best text for learning ancient Greek. Period. * George Rudebusch, Northern Arizona University *The storyline and characters of the text readily draw students into the language and culture of the Greeks. Athenaze is arguably the best first-year Greek text on the market. * Richard L. Phillips, Virginia Tech University *Table of ContentsPreface List of Historical Essays List of Maps List of Color Plates About the Authors Introduction Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea 1. O *DIKAIO*PO*LI*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings 2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement 3. U se of the Definite Article Reading The Athenian Farmer O *DIKAIO*PO*LI*S (*b) Grammar 4. Accents Readings O K*LHPO*S Classical Greek: Heraclitus New Testament Greek: Title page of the Gospel of Luke 2. O *XAN*CIA*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular 2. Proclitics 3. The Imperative Readings Slavery Greek Wisdom: Cleobulus of Lindos O *XAN*CIA*S (*b) Grammar 4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases 5. U ses of the Cases 6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives 7. Recessive Accent of Verbs Readings O *DO*U*LO*S Classical Greek: Callimachus New Testament Greek: Luke 3.22 3. O APOTO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives Reading The Deme and the Polis O APOTO*S (*b) Grammar 2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases 3. Accent Shifting Readings OI *bOE*S Classical Greek: Menander New Testament Greek: Luke 6.46 4. *PPO*S THI KPHNHI (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural 2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives 3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension Readings Women Greek Wisdom: Pittacus (of Mitylene) *PPO*S THI KPHNHI (*b) Grammar 4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension 5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension 6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives 7. Two Irregular Adjectives 8. Formation of Adverbs 9. The Definite Article as Case Indicator Readings AI *G*UNAIKE*S TO*U*S AN*DPA*S *PEI*CO*U*SIN Classical Greek: Callimachus New Testament Greek: Luke 6.45 5. O *L*UKO*S (a) Grammar 1. Contract Verbs in -a- 2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs 3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause 4. Elision Readings Gods and Men Greek Wisdom: Chilon of Sparta O *L*UKO*S (*b) Grammar 5. Agreement of Subject and Verb 6. Personal Pronouns 7. Attributive and Predicate Position 8. Possessives 9. The Adjective a)u*t)o*S, -)n, -)o Readings O AP*GO*S TA *PPO*bATA *S*WIZEI Greek Wisdom: The Seven Wise Men Classical Greek: Anacreon New Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 24 6. O M*U*CO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: *P*L)e*W 2. Verbs: Voice 3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice 4. Deponent Verbs Reading Myth O M*U*CO*S (*b) Grammar 5. Middle Voice: Meaning 6. Some Uses of the Dative Case 7. Prepositions Readings O *CH*SE*U*S THN APIA*DNHN KATA*LEI*PEI Classical Greek: Marriage New Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-16 7. O K*UK*L*W*V (a) Grammar 1. Substantive Use of Adjectives 2. Nouns: Declensions 3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems 4. Reflexive Pronouns Reading Homer O K*UK*L*W*V (*b) Grammar 5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems 6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: *b, *P, *Q (Labial) and *L, p (Liquid) Stems 7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: *S)w*Qp*Wv, *S*W.*Qpov, of sound mind; prudent; self-controlled 8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective 9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective Readings O TO*U *CH*SE*W*S *PATHP A*PO*CNHI*SKEI Classical Greek: Sophocles Greek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus 8. *PPO*S TO A*ST*U (a) Grammar 1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice Readings Athens: A Historical Outline Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21 *PPO*S TO A*ST*U (*b) Grammar 2. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Stems in -p- 3. Two Important Irregular Nouns: )N *G*Uv)n, *tH.*S *G*Uva*iK)o*S, woman; wife, and )N *Y*e)Ip, *tH.*S *Y*e*ip)o*S, hand 4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective: *Pa.*S, *Pa.*Sa, *Pa.v, all; every; whole Reading Greek Wisdom: Periander of Corinth Grammar 5. Numbers 6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time Within Which Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S KAI O AIO*LO*S Classical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament 9. H *PANH*G)yPI*S (a) Grammar 1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active Voice Reading The City of Athens H *PANH*G*UPI*S (*b) Grammar 2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -v*t- 3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: )N *P)o*L*i*S and *t)O )a*S*t*U 4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels: (o *ba*S*i*L*e)y*S and the Irregular Nouns )N va*U.*S and (o *bo*U.*S 5. U ses of the Genitive Case 6. Some Uses of the Article Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S KAI H KIPKH Classical Greek: Simonides New Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the Mount REVIEW OF VERB FORMS PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS 10. H *S*UM*QOPA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Verbs with Sigmatic Futures 2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in -)I*z*W 3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs 4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures Readings Festivals Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the Mount H *S*UM*QOPA (*b) Grammar 5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 6. The Irregular Verb *e(I)Yµ*i 7. Future Participle to Express Purpose 8. Impersonal Verbs 9. Review of Questions Readings O O*D*U*S*SE*U*S TO*U*S ETAIPO*U*S A*PO*L*L*U*SIN Classical Greek: Menander and Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-32 11. O IATPO*S (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist 2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist 3. Aspect 4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles 5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists Readings Greek Science and Medicine Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The Beatitudes O IATPO*S (*b) Grammar 6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems 7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives 8. Augment Readings O *DHMOKH*DH*S TON *bA*SI*LEA IATPE*UEI New Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount 12. *PPO*S TON *PEIPAIA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist 2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles Readings Trade and Travel Classical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in Life New Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost Sheep *PPO*S TON *PEIPAIA (*b) Grammar 3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists 5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs Readings O K*W*LAIO*S TON TAPTH*S*SON E*UPI*SKEI Greek Wisdom: Bias of Priene 13. *PPO*S THN *SA*LAMINA (a) Grammar 1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense 2. Aspect Reading The Rise of Persia *PPO*S THN *SA*LAMINA (*b) Grammar 3. Relative Clauses 4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -*e*S- 5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -*U- and -*e- Readings O *XEP*XH*S TON E*L*LH*S*PONTON *DIA*bAINEI Greek Wisdom: Solon of Athens Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 21.1-4: The Widow's Mite 14. H EN TAI*S *CEPMO*P*U*LAI*S MA*YH (a) Grammar 1. Comparison of Adjectives 2. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives 3. Comparison of Adverbs 4. U ses of Comparatives and Superlatives Readings The Rise of Athens Classical Greek: Archilochus New Testament Greek: Luke 10.25-29: The Good Samaritan (concluded 14 (B)) H EN TAI*S *CEPMO*P*U*LAI*S MA*YH (*b) Grammar 5. Demonstrative Adjectives 6. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs Readings OI *PEP*SAI TA *U*PEP *CEPMO*P*U*L*WN *STENA AIPO*U*SIN Classical Greek: Theognis New Testament Greek: Luke 10.30-37: The Good Samaritan (concluded) 15. H EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YH (a) Grammar 1. Athematic 2nd Aorists 2. More 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems in -*e*S- Readings Aeschylus's Persae New Testament Greek: Luke 2.1-14: The Birth of Jesus H EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YH (*b) Grammar 3. Contract Verbs in -o- 4. Contract Nouns of the 2nd Declension 5. More Numbers 6. U ses of )W*S and Its Compounds Reading OI *PEP*SAI TA*S A*CHNA*S AIPO*U*SIN 16. META THN EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YHN (a) Grammar 1. The Passive Voice Reading The Athenian Empire META THN EN THI *SA*LAMINI MA*YHN (*b) Grammar 2. Verbs with Athematic Presents and Imperfects: *D)yvaµa*i, K*e*i.µa*i, and )E*P)I*S*taµa*i Readings O *XEP*XH*S *PPO*S THN A*SIAN ANA*Y*WPEI Classical Greek: Sappho: Love's Power Classical Greek: Simonides New Testament Greek: Luke 2.15-20: The Birth of Jesus (concluded) Verb Charts Syllables and Accents Enclitics and Proclitics Forms Forms of Definite Article, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns Laid Out in Case Order N, V, A, G, D Index of Language and Grammar Greek to English Vocabulary English to Greek Vocabulary General Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAthanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well-known to theologians and historians alike as a champion of orthodoxy against the Arian' heresy and a proponent of the ascetic life.

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Book SynopsisExistentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a clear account of the key themes of the movement which emphasized individuality, free will, and personal responsibility in the modern world. Drawing in the movement''s varied relationships with the arts, humanism, and politics, this book clarifies the philosophy and original meaning of ''existentialism'' - which has tended to be obscured by misappropriation. Placing it in its historical context, Thomas Flynn also highlights how existentialism is still relevant to us today.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1. Philosophy as a Way of Life ; 2. Becoming an Individual ; 3. Humanism, For and Against ; 4. Authenticity ; 5. A Chastened Individualism? Existentialism and Social Thought ; 6. What is Living and What is Dead in Existentialist Thought?

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Book SynopsisWere it not for the Marquis de Sade''s explicit use of language and complete disregard for the artificially constructed taboos of a religious morality he despised, the novelty and profundity of his thought, and above all, its fundamental modernity, would have long since secured him a place alongside the greatest authors and thinkers of the European Enlightenment. This Very Short Introduction aims to disentangle the ''real'' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation of the past two hundred years. Phillips examines Sade''s life and work: his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewA brisk and lively introductory book. * John Phillips, Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. Beyond the Myth: The real Marquis de Sade ; 2. Man of Letters ; 3. Martyr of Atheism ; 4. Sade and the French Revolution ; 5. Theatres of the Body ; 6. Apostle of Freedom ; References ; Further Reading

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Book SynopsisAeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks'' extraordinary victory over Persia in 480 BC. The Persians'' aggression is inhuman in scale, and offends the gods, but while celebrating the Greek triumph, Aeschylus also portrays the shock of the defeated with some compassion. In Seven Against Thebes a royal family is cursed with self-destruction, in a remorseless tragedy that anticipates the grandeur of the later Oresteia. Suppliants portrays the wretched plight of the daughters of Danaus, fleeing from enforced marriage; as refugees they seek protection, and must plead a moral and political case to gain it. And in Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is relentlessly persecuted by Zeus for benefitting mankind in defiance of the god.Christopher Collard''s highly readable new translation is accompanied by an introduction that sets the plays in their original context, and together with the notes considers theatrical and poetic issues, as well as details of content and language. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewExcellent...as scholarly and reliable as anyone could wish for...clear and judicious. * Mark Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Note on the Text ; Bibliography ; Chronology ; PERSIANS ; SEVEN AGAINST THEBES ; SUPPLIANTS ; PROMETHEUS BOUND ; Maps ; Explanatory Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds.

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisA landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the first time       Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere and forged new lives in exile. Much of their subsequent work, published in Russian language magazines and books, is entirely unknown in the West and has only been recently discovered in Russia itself. As well as including stories by the most famous émigré writers, Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin, this collection introduces many lesser known voices: Yuri Felzen, known as the Russian Proust, Nadezhda Teffi, the hugely popular and funny story writer, and Georgy Ivanov, whose work of poetic prose The Atom Explodes is a brilliant, haunting response to the upheaval and trauma of emigration. Exploring themes of displacement, nostalgia, loss and new beginninTrade ReviewA brilliant, poignant anthology -- Alexis Levitin * Los Angeles Review of Books *A rich anthology ... Editor and lead translator Bryan Karetnyk has done a marvellous job ... The translations maintain a high standard of literary quality and precision. Admirably equipped with biographical and explanatory notes, this anthology presents to the Anglophone reader, for the first time, a unified representation of the authors and disparate, yet interlinked cultural contexts of first-wave Russian emigration -- Judges, Read Russia Prize 2018Compelling ... Karetnyk's anthology transports the reader into the motley lives and imaginations of Russian émigrés in Paris, Berlin and beyond. Highly recommended reading for anyone fascinated by prerevolutionary Russian culture as preserved among the ranks of the two million-odd Whites that formed the first wave of emigration from Bolshevik Russia. -- Anna Gunin * The Riveter *Ably translated ... Bryan Karetnyk has produced that most welcome artefact in this age of the floating text: an 'enhanced' paperback whose fictive stories are fully equipped with their histories. Writers' biographies, historical chronology, a list of Russian émigré venues, and well-researched footnotes serve to anchor each narrative in its own peripatetic time and space -- Caryl Emerson * Times Literary Supplement *A powerful reminder of the trauma of civil war and hardships of displacement ... The stories evoke a lost world with attendant nostalgia, sorrow, fear and anger ... Rarely has the term 'unjustly neglected' rung more true * Country Life *Brilliantly translated by Bryan Karetnyk ... A truly wonderful selection * Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour *

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Book SynopsisSince the 1950s, Abe Kobo (19241993) has achieved an international reputation for his surreal or grotesque brand of literature. Bolton explores how this reconciliation of ideas and dialects is for Abe part of the process whereby texts and individuals form themselvesa search for identity that occurs at the level of the self and society at large.

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most accomplished of Jane Austen’s novels, Emma is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular. Film and television adaptations testify to the world’s enduring affection for headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her romantic schemes. This is an illuminating gift edition that will be treasured by readers.Trade ReviewIts large size and heavy weight, complemented by thick, wood-textured endpapers, acid-free cream-vellum paper, generous margins and woven bindings suggest an object important in its own right, an object and a form that will not go quietly into the good night. Its rich illustrations range from frontispieces and portraits to caricatures and Regency fashion plates, including a fine one for the Beaver Hat. Tandon’s explanatory notes are similarly comprehensive and serve to link Austen not only to contemporaries such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and Charles Lamb, but also to lexical and thematic lines that run backwards, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding to Seneca, and forwards to James Joyce and the contemporary novelist Edward St Aubyn… Tandon’s notes often function as brief scholarly and historic articles in their own right, and the combined effect of these notes and illustrations is an edition of almost Talmudic ambition, but one that carries its erudition without sacrificing readability… Tandon’s notes are superb… One of the great merits of Tandon’s edition is that, without breaking the spell of Austen’s fiction, he presents her work as so very much of her time, whether that be in her conceptual relation to moralists such as Samuel Johnson, or in the social resonances of foodstuffs, clothing and card games. -- Jonathan Sachs * Times Literary Supplement *Scholar and critic Bharat Tandon, who has previously written Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation, now delivers an enriching set of footnotes to one of the most cherished novels of English literature. Praised for both his lightness of touch and depth of scholarship, Tandon provides, along with copious marginal glosses, a stimulating introduction and a fine selection of illustrations to heighten the reader’s involvement and understanding. * Barnes & Noble Review *I literally swooned when I received a review copy of Emma: An Annotated Edition edited by Bharat Tandon. Readers of this blog know how much I have cherished this annotated series of Jane Austen’s novels by Harvard University Press… Foremost, the books are lushly illustrated, beautifully produced, and well-researched by known Jane Austen scholars. Emma: An Annotated Edition is no exception… Annotated books are such treasures for the serious reader of Jane Austen’s novels, explaining her words and old-fashioned idioms and making long dead customs come alive. This generously illustrated annotation from Harvard University Press both instructs and entertains with its running commentary along the margins, enhancing our enjoyment of one of Jane Austen’s most perfectly realized novels… Emma: An Annotated Edition is well worth the purchase. -- Vic Sanborn * Jane Austen’s World *The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press’ growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat—luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstores…this season. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *This lovely edition includes images related to the text as well as notes by Tandon. -- Molly Driscoll * Christian Science Monitor *Austenites can rejoice over this striking new annotated edition of Emma. * Entertainment Weekly *For die-hard fans of Emma, this annotated edition is a must-have. For readers new to Jane Austen’s work, it’s the perfect way to start what might likely turn out to be a lifelong love affair with her work… A highly readable, wonderfully illustrated and remarkably enlightening annotation of Emma. -- Roni K. Devlin * Shelf Awareness *Emma remains one of Austen’s most popular works, and in this annotated edition (the third in Harvard’s annotated series after Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion), readers will find the charming story enhanced by color illustrations and well-crafted annotations. In his introduction, Tandon places Austen in literary and historical context before moving on to a discussion of Emma in particular. The novel follows, with the annotations arranged in the oversized book’s margins. The annotations, addressing topics from the mundane to the esoteric, comment on the prose itself and on the styles and etiquette of the times… Tandon’s annotations will appeal to readers of all levels, and his effort to increase appreciation of Emma should meet with success. This carefully prepared edition is sure to meet the needs of Austen lovers and scholars alike. -- Catherine Gilmore * Library Journal *A superb new edition which combines weighty scholarship with exemplary lightness of touch. Bharat Tandon contributes not only a sparkling introduction, but also a bold set of notes that work like little keyholes, allowing us to peer into the most distant corners of Austen’s world. Many of the novel’s most subtle touches have been muffled by the passage of time; this edition brings them back to life. Suddenly a novel we thought we knew looks as fresh as it did on its first appearance almost 200 years ago. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, University of OxfordBharat Tandon’s edition of Emma is a delight to read, as pleasurable as it is thought-provoking. He captures both the delights of Austen’s novel and the way that those delights are shadowed by darker intimations. -- Deidre Lynch, University of TorontoBharat Tandon brings Emma to life like no previous editor. His extensive and engaging annotation throws searching new light on even its most familiar moments, while his splendid choice of illustrations reveals the world of the novel—its people, musical instruments, dresses, dances, games, furniture, food, carriages, books, and beautiful rural landscapes—in unmatched detail and immediacy. -- Robert Morrison, Queen’s University

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Book SynopsisMenander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize in Athens in 317 BC.Trade ReviewAn excellent guide to Menander… Arnott has given us fine texts, clear translations, brief and useful introductions, and the help that is needed to make sense [of the] fragments. -- David Konstan * Scholia Reviews *

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Book SynopsisThe poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. His Odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Love and political concerns are frequent themes of the Epodes.

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Book SynopsisAlthough Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought.Trade ReviewMayhew's new edition and translation are sure to draw more English-speaking readers to this fascinating text, whose present neglect is all the more startling given its former influence on Classical Arabic and Early Modern natural philosophy...Mayhew's new edition is extremely welcome, a huge advance on its predecessor, and the best value edition currently available in any language. -- Oliver Thomas * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

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Book SynopsisNo marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra chronicle a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, and memorable. At the same time, the letters reveal much about their author. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything—animals, people, speech, landscapes and cityscapes—and glimpse his ceaseless work on his poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays, and translations. This delightful volume is enhanced by twenty-one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters and the puzzles and drawings Vladimir often sent to Véra. With 8 pages of photographs and 47 illustrations in text

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Book SynopsisKundera''s essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janácek with his little nation; and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. The moral trial of the twentieth century''s art, from Celine to Mayakovsky; the passage of time which blurs the boundaries between the ''I'' of the present day and the ''I'' of the past; modesty as an essential concept in an age based on the individual and indiscretion which, as it becomes the habit and the norm, heralds the twilight of individualism; the testaments, the betrayed testaments - of Europe, of art, of the art of the novel and of artists.

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Book SynopsisInspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, this book offers a consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people.Trade Review"If Oprah would only join the ranks of Cervantes's fans, he'd have a chance at today's bestseller list." -- Brigitte Weeks, Washington Post Book World "Every Book Its Reader reminds us that books, in all their myriad forms, are necessary equipment for living." -- Los Angeles Times "These essays...occupy a corner of the grand salon of the history of ideas." -- Amanda Heller, Boston Globe "'Affection, laughter, argument'--aptly characterize the work of this great contemporary celebrant of the common, and the uncommon reader, Basbanes." -- Michael Dirda, Weekly Standard "First-rate reporting...[EBIR] allows us to step away from our myopic fixation on writers and consider the reader." -- Karen Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer "No living person has thought more about the extraordinary power of books than Nicholas Basbanes." -- Ellis Henican, Newsday "[An] admirably wide excursion into literature, history and biography." -- Kathleen Burke, Smithsonian Magazine "Nicholas Basbanes is the Pied Piper of bibliophiles." -- John Harper, Orlando Sentinel

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Book SynopsisUncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, 'a man of humanity,' as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward 'the peculiar institution' and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families 'sold down the river.' An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study, cosponsored by the Christian College Coalition, addresses questions faced by students in introductory literature courses. It examines literature as a form of human action and argues that the reading and writing of literary works provide vital ways for men and women to act as responsible agents in God's world.Building upon the doctrine of Creation, the authors show how the reading of literature helps us to be more effective interpreters of the stories and images we encounter daily. They demonstrate that great works of literature open up a realm of beauty and truth and help us gain an understanding of ourselves, God, and the world.

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Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachussetts, where she lived most of her life as a recluse, seldom leaving the house or receiving visitors. She published just a handful of poems in her lifetime, her first collection appearing posthumously in 1890.

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Book SynopsisFed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father''s grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O''Donnell has accepted his aunt''s invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of his departure, he is not happy to be leaving Ballybeg.With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama.

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Book SynopsisFor nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague. — Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer''s life.In these short essays, Annie Dillard—the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood—illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillard’s own experiences while writing her works, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions.

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Book SynopsisThe Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan War and the temptations, delays, and dangers he faced at every turn.

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Book SynopsisMorrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a perspective sure to alter conventional notions about American literature.Trade ReviewThis is a major work by a major American author… It is an exuberant exercise, conducted by a writer in her prime who knows that her own work makes steady inroads on the unspeakable. -- Diane Middlebrook * Los Angeles Times *In Playing in the Dark, Morrison explores how the temptation to enslave others instead of embracing freedom has shaded our national literature, and how an acceptance of this truth will enable us to see that literature’s struggles and fears, and so better understand its exuberance… Her wisdom is to locate strength in what appears to be weakness. -- Jane Mendelsohn * Voice Literary Supplement *In this beautifully written, immensely quotable study, Morrison attempts to overturn pervasive critical agendas that ignore racial representations in white texts and thus impoverish literary studies… Morrison’s interest is not to designate texts as ‘racist’ but to read the ways that the ‘racial’ operates. -- Linda Krumholz * Signs *Morrison’s delivery of the distinguished Massey lectures at Harvard in 1990 showed off her prowess as critic, for she brings the indomitable spirit of her fiction to her feelings about literature. In Playing in the Dark, the published lectures, Morrison argues that a black, or Africanist, presence exists throughout the history of American literature, and its understanding is essential to any body of criticism. Identifying what she calls ‘the rhetoric of dread and desire,’ then tracing its manifestations through works by Poe, Cather and Hemingway, Morrison believes that to ignore the presence of race in literature is to rob fiction of its power… But the most telling test of any critical argument, at least for those of us who prefer passion to theory, is whether such speculation will send you back to primary sources. By the time I’d finished Playing in the Dark, the floor around me was littered with Huck Finn and James Baldwin and Faulkner. -- Gail Caldwell * Boston Globe *In three compact and skillful essays, Morrison explores and illumines the gaggle of literary devices—conceits, tropes, metaphors—that have been mostly unconsciously deployed by white writers to refract the rays of blackness through the prism of literary silence, repression or avoidance. Morrison ably applies her therapeutic textual intervention to make these rays visible and to imaginatively envision how an Africanist presence was essential in forming and extending an American national literature… [This is her] impressive debut as a critical intellectual. -- Michael Eric Dyson * Chicago Tribune *A brief and compelling dissection of U.S. fiction. -- Paul Skenazy * San Francisco Chronicle *[Her] thesis is an engaging one, and it becomes more so in a sequence of a few compressed but inspired readings of American works, Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, and Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. -- Mark Edmundson * Washington Post Book World *Table of Contents1. black matters 2. romancing the shadow 3. disturbing nurses and the kindness of sharks

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Book SynopsisThe once influential theory Neoanalysis held that motifs and episodes in the Iliad derive from the Aethiopis. Given its vast potential implications for the Iliad’s origins, the recent revival of Neoanalysis in subtler form inspires this critical reappraisal by Malcolm Davies of that theory’s more sophisticated reincarnation.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World''s Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of ''the 1950s''. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.Trade ReviewThe 1950s has been transformed in the scholarly literature from a "tranquillized" decade to an almost "tumultuous" one, and therefore is badly in need of a restorative balance. This is the achievement of Martin Halliwell's superb account of a postwar period that, for all of its familiarity, remains tantalizingly elusive. By showing the persistence of the varieties of cultural modernism, he advances the retrospective understanding of a decade that was not merely the lengthened shadow of the Cold War. His book is thoughtful, expansive and engaging. -- Stephen J. Whitfield, Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University, Massachusetts The author has a good command of the variety of cultural forms in the period and has planned the shape and contents of the book thoughtfully. -- Professor Lucy Maddox, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The 1950s has been transformed in the scholarly literature from a "tranquillized" decade to an almost "tumultuous" one, and therefore is badly in need of a restorative balance. This is the achievement of Martin Halliwell's superb account of a postwar period that, for all of its familiarity, remains tantalizingly elusive. By showing the persistence of the varieties of cultural modernism, he advances the retrospective understanding of a decade that was not merely the lengthened shadow of the Cold War. His book is thoughtful, expansive and engaging. The author has a good command of the variety of cultural forms in the period and has planned the shape and contents of the book thoughtfully.Table of ContentsAmerican Culture in the 1950s; Martin Halliwell; Contents;; Illustrations; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1950s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Fiction and Poetry; 2. Drama and Performance; 3. Music and Radio; 4. Film and Television; 5. The Visual Arts beyond Modernism; Conclusion: Rethinking the 1950s; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsRemerciements Présentation Liste des abréviations I. Un grand homme de province à Paris (1689-1773) Introduction: Piron, un Voltaire provisoire 1. Années dijonaises (1689-1719) 2. Prologue parisien (1719-1727)3. Melpomène et Thalie (1727-1745) 4. La difficile condition d'auteur 5. Le Bourguignon, un type de lettré au dix-huitième siècle 6. Heurs et malheurs 'd'un ouvrier dramatique' (1745-1754) 7. 'Adieux de M. Piron aux Muses' (1754-1773) 8. Un indifférent railleur II. Etude de l'œuvre Introduction 9. Piron, versificateur 10. Piron épistolier et chroniqueur de la vie parisienne 11. Piron, auteur dramatique: l'Opéra-Comique et la petite comédie en vaudevilles 12. Piron, auteur dramatique: le Théâtre-Français Post-face Annexe: répertoires des écrits pironiens Bibliographie Index

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