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Random House Australia Frank Moorhouse Strange Paths
Book SynopsisFrank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work ? essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy ? an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now.Matthew Lamb shared many a luncheon table with Moorhouse and immersed himself in the archived life and cultural ephemera of Frank? s world. This landmark study, from Moorhouse? s own publisher, the first in a projected two volumes, is the fascinating and comprehensive story of how one of Australia? s most original writers and pioneer of the discontinuous narrative came to be.Fearless, sardonic and utterly dedicated to his creative life, his relationships with friends, other writers and lovers were complex and long-lasting. Lamb shares the strange paths that Frank traversed and gives us a cultural history of the times that shaped Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape.
£17.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Luke Skywalker Cant Read
Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for anyone who embraces the joy of fandom and geeking out, this collection of essays celebrates the fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, and much more.Pop Culture and sci-fi guru Ryan Britt has never met a monster, alien, wizard, or superhero that didn’t need further analysis. Essayist Ryan Britt got a sex education from dirty pictures of dinosaurs, made out with Jar-Jar Binks at midnight, and figured out how to kick depression with a Doctor Who Netflix-binge. Alternating between personal anecdote, hilarious insight, and smart analysis, Luke Skywalker Can’t Read contends that Barbarella is good for you, that monster movies are just romantic comedies with commitment issues, that Dracula and Sherlock Holmes are total hipsters, and, most shockingly, shows how virtually everyone in the Star Wars universe is functionally illiterate.
£19.05
Houghton Mifflin Lectures on Russian Literature
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov's famous lectures on nineteenth-century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol's Dead Souls and The Overcoat; Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorky's On the Rafts; Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment, The
£14.39
Harvest Books A Tale of Love and Darkness
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£15.26
Cengage Learning, Inc Aspects of the Novel
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£14.99
Houghton Mifflin Well Wrought Urn
£11.39
Oxford University Press Inc Jewish Literature
Book SynopsisThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the Pale of Settlement'' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the ingathering of Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.Trade ReviewReading Jewish literature becomes a stimulating journey; Stavans jumps from one author to another without clinging to either time or space. * Tessa Calders i Artís, Escola de libreria *Table of ContentsChapter One: People of the Book Chapter Two: After the Expulsion Chapter Three: The Age of Anxiety Chapter Four: Into the Abyss Chapter Five: Into the Mainstream Chapter Six: The Ingathering Chapter Seven: The Promised Land Chapter Eight: The Letterless Canon References Further Reading Index
£9.49
OUP India Classical Mythology in Context
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£92.14
OUP India Mothering India Womens Fiction in English Shaping
Book SynopsisMothering India concentrates on early Indian women's fiction, not only evaluating their contribution to the rise of Indian Writing in English (IWE), but also exploring how they reassessed and challenged stereotypes about Indian womanhood, thereby partaking in the larger debate about social reform legislations relating to women's rights in British India.
£61.68
OUP India IndoGerman Exchanges in Education
Book SynopsisIn 1930, when Rabindranath Tagore met Paul and Edith Geheeb in Germany, they formed a fruitful and long-term association resulting in the exchange of ideas and vision. Tagore''s Brahmacharya Ashram, founded in 1901 in Shantiniketan, and the Geheeb''s Odenwaldschule, established in Germany in 1910 (thereafter the Ecole d''''Humanité in Switzerland, established in 1934 after the couple fled Nazi Germany), emerged from vastly different cultural backgrounds and social exigencies. Yet, they recognized striking similarities between their educational endeavours. The meeting also initiated a close association between India and Germany, with the Geheebs attracting many Indian intellectuals and Indophile Germans to their schools. This book explores the areas where the lives of the Geheebs and Tagore, and their respective circles, overlap. Rather than being a biography, a history, or a comprehensive description, this study is a comparison of Tagore and the Geheebs and their schools. Making use ofTrade ReviewKämpchen's book is full of research insights that only come with years of experience. * Razak Khan, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *
£55.00
Oxford University Press Inc Tense Future
Book SynopsisTense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long interwar narratives that pit both their scale and their formal turbulence against total war''s portrait of the social totality, producing both ripostes and alternatives to that portrait in the practice of literary encyclopedism. The book''s introduction grounds both parts in the claim that industrialized warfare, particularly the aerial bombing of cities, intensifies an under-examined form of collective traumatization: a pretraumatic syndrome in which the anticipation of future-conditional violence induces psychic wounds. Situating this claim in relation to other scholarship on critical futurities, Saint-Amour discusses its ramifications for trauma studies, historical narratives generally, and the historiography of the interwarTrade ReviewBy moving our vision from earth to sky, from soldiers in the trenches to civilians under air raids, Paul Saint-Amour makes rich and surprising our understanding of the twentieth-century and its literature. Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and we ourselves emerge in the arresting light of this first modern collective anxiety. * Elaine Scarry, author of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom *This book is a tour de force, introducing an entirely new approach to the modernist imagination. Saint-Amour makes us hear the undertones of menace in interwar literature, thereby reconfiguring modernist fiction as meditations on disasters to come. * Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History *Paul Saint-Amour reinterprets culture during the years between World War I and World War II as an era of anxious anticipation. Thoughtful, penetrating, and important, Tense Future expands our understanding of war's destructive power. * Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences *Tense Future moves fluently through the cultural records of the First World War, interwar, Second World War, and Cold War. Creating a wholly new archive, Saint-Amour does nothing less than shift the tense of imaginative action in the literature of major record: from memory, which Paul Fussell established as its primary imaginative circumstance, to anticipation; from reverie to dread. Our way of reading the literature of a century of war will be changed by this comprehensive and compelling account. * Vincent Sherry, author of Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence *Intricately crafted and thoroughly documented, Tense Future not only redefines the modern epic but also lays the groundwork for reconceptualizing the interwar period and perspectives on temporality. * W. T. Martin, CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction: Traumatic Earliness ; I. Bukimi ; II. The Precincts of Time ; III. Collective Psychosis ; Facing Trauma ; Critical Futurities ; Three Interwars ; Weak Modernism ; Part One ; 1. On the Partiality of Total War ; The Case of L. E. O. Charlton ; Intimations of Totality ; Interwar Air Power Theory ; Rival Preemptions of Law and War ; National Totality and Colonial Air Control ; Bombing Display I ; Bombing Display II ; 2. Perpetual Suspense: Virginia Woolf's Wartime Gothic ; Morphologies of Suspense ; Mark Time ; Mrs. Dalloway and the Gaze of Total War ; The Years: Immunities Lost and Found ; <"Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid>" ; 3. Fantasias of the Archive: Hamilton's Savage and Jenkinson's Manual ; A Promise of Terror to Come ; Savage Foreclosures ; Declining Fertility ; Jenkinson's Manual ; War Archives: Theory and Performance ; Thoughts on Archives in an Air Raid ; The Death Drive of the Archive ; Part Two ; 4. Encyclopedic Modernism ; Against Epic ; Revisiting the Encyclopedie ; The Eleventh ; Encyclopedic Narrative ; Modern Epic ; Pace Bersani ; 5. The Shield of Ulysses ; Ulysses' Encyclopedism ; Encyclopedia Prophetica ; Urban Violence and Amity Lines ; Theater of Total War ; Scattering ; 6. War Shadowing: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End ; Uncyclopedia Britannica ; Total Worry ; Futures in Furniture ; Conclusion: Perpetual Interwar ; Appendix: Chapter Abstracts ; Bibliography ; Index
£34.84
Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout,Trade ReviewAssembling thought-provoking essays that encompass a vast range of poetry and poetics, The Oxford Handbook succeeds admirably at offering readers some of the best current approaches to reading modern and contemporary American poetry ... It is hard to envision a volume that would better take account of the present state of criticism and scholarship of American poetry. * Stephen Fredman, Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsList of Contributors ; Part I ; 1. A Century of Innovation: American Poetry from 1900 to the Present ; Cary Nelson ; Part II ; 2. Social Texts and Poetic Texts: Poetry and Cultural Studies ; Rachel Blau DuPlessis ; 3. American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism ; Robert Dale Parker ; 4. "Jeweled Bindings": Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality ; Melissa Girard ; 5. Hired Men and Hired Women: Modern American Poetry and the Labor Problem ; John Marsh ; 6. Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore ; Linda A. Kinnahan ; 7. Poetry and Rhetoric: Modernism and Beyond ; Peter Nicholls ; 8. Cezanne's Ideal of "Realization": A Useful Analogy for the Spirit of Modernity in American Poetry ; Charles Altieri ; 9. Stepping Out, Sitting In: Modern Poetry's Counterpoint with Jazz and the Blues ; Edward Brunner ; 10. Out With the Crowd: Modern American Poets Speaking to Mass Culture ; Tim Newcomb ; 11. Exquisite Corpse: Surrealist Influence on the American Poetry Scene, 1920-1960 ; Susan Rosenbaum ; 12. Material Concerns: Incidental Poetry, Popular Culture, and Ordinary Readers in Modern America ; Mike Chasar ; 13. "With Ambush and Stratagem": American Poetry in the Age of Pure War ; Philip Metres ; 14. The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry ; Karen Jackson Ford ; 15. Asian American Poetry ; Josephine Park ; 16. "The Pardon of Speech": The Psychoanalysis of Modern American Poetry ; Walter Kalaidjian ; 17. American Poetry, Prayer, and the News ; Jahan Ramazani ; 18. The Tranquilized Fifties: Forms of Dissent in Postwar American Poetry ; Michael Thurston ; 19. The End of the End of Poetic Ideology, 1960 ; Al Filreis ; 20. Fieldwork in New American Poetry: From Cosmology to Discourse ; Lytle Shaw ; 21. "Do our chains offend you?": The Poetry of American Political Prisoners ; Mark W. Van Wienen ; 22. Disability Poetics ; Michael Davidson ; 23. Green Reading: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Environmental Criticism ; Lynn Keller ; 24. Transnationalism and Diaspora in American Poetry ; Timothy Yu ; 25. "Internationally Known": The Black Arts Movement and U.S. Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop ; James Smethurst ; 26. Minding Machines / Machining Minds: Writing (at) the Human-Machine Interface ; Adalaide Morris ; Index
£47.02
Oxford University Press Inc The Aeneid
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPowell's translation roves with the lows and highs of Vergil's Latin, matching the poem's emotive and stylistic variations turn for turn. With rich visual illustrations and explanatory notes on nearly every page, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem: in short, a book both good to think with, and good to teach with. * Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University *Powell's translation does more than just allow the Latin-less reader to appreciate the artistry of Vergil; it gives a glimpse into why we are still reading Vergil and why this 'handbook of empire' * with all of the attendant ambiguities and complexities of that phraseis still relevant today.Leah Kronenberg, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Book 1: The Shores of Africa ; Book 2: The Fall of Troy ; Book 3: Journey from Troy ; Book 4: The Death of Dido ; Book 5: Funeral Games ; Book 6: Descent into the Underworld ; Book 7: The Seeds of War ; Book 8: The Shield of Aeneas ; Book 9: Turnus Besieges the Trojan Camp ; Book 10: The Deaths of Pallas, Lausus, and Mezentius ; Book 11: The Mourning for Pallas and the Glory of Camilla ; Book 12: The Death of Turnus
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Oxford University Press Inc Vergils Aeneid The Essential Books
Book SynopsisBarry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the most important books and passages of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain obscure literary and historical references, while the rich visual program lightens the text and educates students in the history of Western art by presenting a single topic as represented over 2,000 years.The Aeneid''s first sentence charts the poem''s historical plot, taking us in one sweep of seven lines from Homer''s Troy to Augustus'' Rome. These two layers of time are felt all the way through the poem, from the distant past of Aeneas'' heroic and quasi-mythological time, over 1100 years before Vergil, down to the now of Augustus'' Rome, when Vergil was writing the poem between 30 and 19 BC, a period of ongoing political experimentation. The story of Aeneas--moving from one continent to another, undergoing and enforcing great transformatTrade ReviewPowell's translation roves with the lows and highs of Vergil's Latin, matching the poem's emotive and stylistic variations turn for turn. With rich visual illustrations and explanatory notes on nearly every page, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem: in short, a book both good to think with, and good to teach with. * Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University *Powell's translation does more than just allow the Latin-less reader to appreciate the artistry of Vergil; it gives a glimpse into why we are still reading Vergil and why this 'handbook of empire' * with all of the attendant ambiguities and complexities of that phraseis still relevant today.Leah Kronenberg, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Book 1: The Shores of Africa ; Book 2: The Fall of Troy ; Book 4: The Death of Dido ; Book 6: Descent into the Underworld ; Book 7: The Seeds of War (lines 1-121; 230-389; 659-end) ; Book 8: The Shield of Aeneas (lines 1-176; 352-end) ; Book 9: Turnus Besieges the Trojan Camp (lines 151-391) ; Book 10: The Deaths of Pallas, Lausus, and Mezentius (lines 1-116; 408-552; 626-end) ; Book 11: The Mourning for Pallas and the Glory of Camilla (lines 416-?) ; Book 12: The Death of Turnus (lines 384-end)
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Oxford University Press, USA Ciceros de Provinciis Consularibus Oratio
Book SynopsisPerhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero''s De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful triumviri (Caesar, Crassus and Pompey), whose aims he advances by appealing to the senators'' imperialistic and chauvinistic ideology. This oration, then, yields precious insights into several areas of late republican life: international relations between Rome and the provinces (Gaul, Macedonia and Judaea); the senators'' view on governors, publicani (tax-farmers) and foreigners; the dirty mechanics of high politics in the 50s, driven by lust for domination and money; and Cicero''s own role in that political choreography. This speech also exemplifies the exceptional range of Cicero''s oratory: the invective against Piso and Gabinius calls for biting irony, the praise of Caesar displays high rhetoric, the rejection of other senators'' recommendaTrade Review"This is a splendid work. Politics, history, the range of amicitia, constitutional complexity, philology, linguistics, rhetoric, and nuanced language are examined thoroughly and persuasively." --James S. Ruebel, Ball State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface ; Timeline ; Introduction ; Latin text (Peterson, OCT 1911) ; Commentary ; Glossary of rhetorical terms ; Maps ; Bibliography
£33.72
Oxford University Press Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Book SynopsisWritten by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles'' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.Trade ReviewMr. Goldhill joins the crowded field, but his work should stand out. * San Francisco Book Review *Goldhill's critical discussion of the historical and philosophical origin of several key concepts of Sophoclean tragedy is of great interest * rogueclassicism.com *A brilliant balancing act: Simon Goldhill combines close readings of Sophocles' plays with penetrating chapters on the language of tragic criticism since the nineteenth century. There is something for everyone in this exhilarating and adventurous book. * Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge *Following up on his landmark studies of Aeschylus and his influential Reading Greek Tragedy, Goldhill offers now a full-length look at Sophocles. With his customary versatility as critic and cultural historian, he offers a Janus-faced volume that looks in two directions. In the first instance, there are exemplary close readings with insistence on the rhetoric, politics, and history of 5th century Athens as essential background for articulating how the poet develops his own particular engagement with the language of tragedy. In the second, Goldhill spreads a wider net to expose the often unrecognized historicity of our own understanding of the tragic, established especially by 19th century German thinkers, for whom Sophocles represented the perfect paradigm. Like all his work, Goldhill challenges us to rethink inherited ideas and deepens our understanding at every turn of the fabled author of Oedipus the King and those who have cherished him. * Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University *With this latest book, Simon Goldhill brings his customary acumen and verve to reading the 'language' of Sophoclean tragedy from two very different perspectives. ... By placing between the same covers 'profoundly conservative' and 'rashly revolutionary' critical perspectives (3), Goldhill instills in the reader a new awareness of the interpretive practices that have sustained tragedy scholarship for centuries at the same time that he defamiliarizes them. His eye for telling detail, moreover, combined with his panoramic sweep of intellectual history, is...enthralling. * New England Classical Journal *Mr. Goldhill joins the crowded field, but his work should stand out. * San Francisco Book Review *Goldhill's critical discussion of the historical and philosophical origin of several key concepts of Sophoclean tragedy is of great interest. * rogueclassicism.com *A brilliant balancing act: Simon Goldhill combines close readings of Sophocles' plays with penetrating chapters on the language of tragic criticism since the nineteenth century. There is something for everyone in this exhilarating and adventurous book. * Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge *Following up on his landmark studies of Aeschylus and his influential Reading Greek Tragedy, Goldhill offers now a full-length look at Sophocles. With his customary versatility as critic and cultural historian, he offers a Janus-faced volume that looks in two directions. In the first instance, there are exemplary close readings with insistence on the rhetoric, politics, and history of 5th century Athens as essential background for articulating how the poet develops his own particular engagement with the language of tragedy. In the second, Goldhill spreads a wider net to expose the often unrecognized historicity of our own understanding of the tragic, established especially by 19th century German thinkers, for whom Sophocles represented the perfect paradigm. Like all his work, Goldhill challenges us to rethink inherited ideas and deepens our understanding at every turn of the fabled author of Oedipus the King and those who have cherished him. * Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Entrances and Exits ; Section 1: Tragic Language ; 1: Undoing: Lusis and the Analysis of Irony ; 2: The Audience on Stage: Rhetoric, Emotion and Judgment ; 3: Line for Line ; 4: Choreography: The Lyric Voice of Tragedy ; 5: The Chorus in Action ; Section 2: The Language of Tragedy ; 6: Generalizing about Tragedy ; 7: Generalizing about the Chorus ; 8: The Language of Tragedy and Modernity: How Electra Lost her Piety ; 9: Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood: The Tragic Language of Sharing ; Coda: Reading With or Without Hegel: From Text to Script ; Glossary ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Routes and Realms
Book SynopsisRoutes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.Trade ReviewAntrim's study...will effectively stimulate discussion on the very nature (and study) of early Islamic geography. * Paul L. Heck, Journal of Historical Geography *Zayde Antrim's monograph provides a guided tour through the menagerie of literatures that poets, litterateurs, religious schoalrs, travel writers , and geographers of this vast empire devised between the ninth and twelfth centuries. * American Historical Review *Most of the texts Antrim uses will be very familiar to scholars of early Islamic history, but she has a talent for reading these in new, engaging and informative ways. Antrim has produced an innovative analysis of real importance which should be considered carefully by all who work on early Islamic history and the Arabic and Persian literary texts of the period. * Harry Munt, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *The first comprehensive study of land and belonging in the premodern Islamic world Routes and Realms is a welcome addition to the study of medieval Muslim history. It challenges us to think about identity and belonging in new and compelling ways. It employs an innovative methodology for the analysis of texts that traverse conventional disciplinary boundaries and that highlights their extra-textual significance. It successfully makes the case for regionalism as a powerful category of belonging during the medieval period. * Steve Tamari, H-Net Reviews *Antrim's findings have ramifications for historians of the modern period. As ethnosymbolists have argued, pre-existing notions of a homeland, of the kind that Antrim traces in classical Arabic literature, are a necessary condition for the emergence of nationalism. But the complexity of the notions of home vs. nonhome, inside vs. outside, and local vs. stranger that she highlights contributes to an understanding of the alternative and competing types of nationalism that have emerged in the Middle East in the twentieth century, that is, pan-Arabism and pan-Islamic nationalism as well as nationalism at the level of individual countries. * Ahmed El Shamsy, American Historical Review *By exhaustively delineating early Muslim attitudes toward homeland, city, and regional identity, Zayde Antrim shows how early Muslims did, in fact, create their own ways of relating to the land beneath and around them, and hence a discourse of place with which any modern notions of nationhood would have needed to contend. It is a rare thing when the study of premodern history can enliven modern debates, but Antrim's work is one of those rarities. * Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania *Zayde Antrim's most significant contribution is that she challenges the dominant view that explains the rise of nationalism in the Middle East as a byproduct of the nineteenth century encounter with Europe. By critiquing this widely disseminated position, Antrim allows scholars of medieval and modern Middle East to realize that the concept of homeland represents at the same time continuity and change with the classical period, and therefore nationalism has invoked in the mind of medieval and modern Middle Easterners a complex web of legacies. She reminds us that good scholarship should be meticulous research and not speculation. * Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Note on Translations, Transliterations, and Dates ; Glossary ; Introduction: The Discourse of Place ; Part I: Home ; 1. Home as Homeland ; Part II: City ; 2. Cities and Sacred History ; 3. The Image of the City ; Part III: Region ; 4. Dividing the World ; 5. Routes and Realms ; Conclusion: Looking Forward ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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OUP USA Thieves of Book Row
Book SynopsisNo one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. The team picked for the job included two old hands known only as Paul and Swede, but all depended on a fresh face, a kid from Pinetown, North Carolina. In the Depression, some fellows were willing to try anything--even a heist in the rare book room of the New York Public Library.In Thieves of Book Row, Travis McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought it down. Author of The Book Thief and a curator of rare books, McDade transforms painstaking research into a rich portrait of Manhattan''s Book Row in the 1920s and ''30s, where organized crime met America''s cultural treasures in dark and crowded shops along gritty Fourth Avenue. Dealers such as Harry Gold, a tough native of the Lower East Side, became experts in recognizing the value of books and Trade ReviewThieves is an engaging cat-and-mouse account of porous libraries, scouts armed with 'gall, confidence, and oversized coats,' complicit salesmen and of G. William Bergquist, the dogged New York Public Library investigator who cracked the gang's most audacious caper: the theft in 1931 of first editions of The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick and a rare Edgar Allan Poe collection. * New York Times *McDade does a superb job of drawing a complete picture of the environment in which the Romm Gang operated. McDade makes a smart choice to spin his tale around the mostly forgotten individuals who participated in a widespread scheme to steal library books. * Los Angeles Times *McDade's account is a better-informed account of [thief Harry] Gold than those in other sometimes misty-eyed and less hard-nosed portraits of Book Row. By concentrating on just a few men, McDade not only avoids many pitfalls in writing about the trade more generally, but also manages to bring this tale chronologically to a conclusion. It is not a very satisfactory conclusion, for this book raises larger questions: pointing a moral as well as adorning a tale. * Times Literary Supplement *Definitive history... a fantastically colorful cast of characters and rich period detail will hook book lovers and historians of N.Y.C * Publishers Weekly *A compelling history. Rich in characterization and vividly set, this tale of Manhattan's Fourth Avenue, known then as 'Book Row,' and its bookleggers makes for grand reading. * Library Journal *With wit, erudition, and a nice sense of timing, McDade recreates the seamy side of the antiquarian book business in Depression-era New York and Boston. This immensely engaging story will appeal to cultural historians, literary scholars, bibliophiles, and true-crime lovers alike. * Joan Shelley Rubin, Professor of History, University of Rochester and author of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America *Thieves of Book Row chronicles a fascinating chapter in the history of the book trade, libraries, and organized crime. In a highly engaging narrative, McDade provides a wonderful portrait of books stolen and recovered and of many colorful characters ranging from rare book legends to petty thieves. * Thomas Hyry, Director of Special Collections, UCLA Library *Thieves of Book Row is an astonishing account of a highly organized and intrepid book-theft ring in New York during the 1920s and 1930s. * Renae Satterly, Library & Information History *McDade's narrative flows so well you forget you're reading actual events. He is somehow able to emphasise the close-calls and suspense of the story without sensationalising or exaggerating what occurred ... The book is very descriptive and involved, and I highly recommend it. * Diana La Femina, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Newsletter *Table of ContentsPrologue ; Chapter 1: The Antics of the Leading Industrials ; Chapter 2: The Accumulated Wisdom ; Chapter 3: A Purloined Poe ; Chapter 4: Scholarship and Investigation ; Chapter 5: The Boston Scene ; Chapter 6: Someone Qualified as a Bookman ; Chapter 7: The People of the State of New York and their Dignity ; Chapter 8: That's the End of the Rare Book ; Epilogue ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. The volume equally reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today: such activity ranges from the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is primarily represented in this Handbook: textual exegesis and criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking primarily to understand Aristotle in his oTrade ReviewA must-buy for libraries, this book brings together 25 of the world's top Aristotle scholars. Shields's editorial work is superb, and his own contributions are lucid. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface ; Notes on the Contributors ; List of Aristotle's Works ; I. Aristotle's Philosophical Milieu ; 1. Aristotle's Philosophical Life and Writings, Christopher Shields ; 2. Aristotle on Earlier Natural Science, Edward Hussey ; 3. Science and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle: a Platonic Provenance, Robert Bolton ; II. The Framework of Philosophy: Tools and Methods ; 4. Aristotle's Categorial Scheme, Paul Studtmann ; 5. De Interpretatione, Hermann Weidemann ; 6. Aristotle's Logic, Paolo Crivelli ; 7. Aristotle's Philosophical Method, C. D. C. Reeve ; 8. Aristotle on Heuristic Enquiry and Demonstration of What It Is, Kei Chiba ; III. Explanation and Nature ; 9. Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione, S. Marc Cohen ; 10. Teleology, David Charles ; 11. Aristotle on the Infinite, Ursula Coope ; 12. The Complexity of Aristotle's Study of Animals, James Lennox ; 13. Aristotle on the Separability of Mind, Fred D. Miller, Jr. ; IV. Being and Beings ; 14. Being qua Being, Christopher Shields ; 15. Substances, Coincidentals, and Aristotle's Constituent Ontology, Michael Loux ; 16. Actuality and Potentiality, Stephen Makin ; 17. Aristotle's Theology, Stephen Menn ; 18. Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics, David Bostock ; V. Ethics and Politics ; 19. Conceptions of Happiness, Terence Irwin ; 20. Aristotle on Becoming Good: Habituation, Reflection, and Perception, Richard Kraut ; 21. Aristotle's Politics, Pierre Pellegrin ; VI. Rhetoric and the Arts ; 22. Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion, Christof Rapp ; 23. Aristotle on Poetry, Annamaria Schiaparelli and Paolo Crivelli ; VII. After Aristotle ; 24. Meaning: Ancient Comments on Five Lines of Aristotle, Richard Sorabji ; 25. Aristotle in the Arabic Commentary Tradition, Peter Adamson ; 26. The Latin Aristotle, Robert Pasnau ; Bibliography ; Index Locorum ; Index Nominum ; Subject Index
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Oxford University Press Hesiods Theogony
Book SynopsisStephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod''s Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton''s own creation myth, which sought to soar above th'' Aonian Mount [i.e., the Theogony] ... and justify the ways of God to men. Scully also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern creation stories, including the Enûma elish and Genesis, as well as the most striking of modern scientific myths, Freud''s Civilization and its Discontents. Scully reads Hesiod''s poem as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, arguing that Olympus is portrayed as an idealized polity and - with but one exception - a place of communal harmony. This reading informs his study of the Theogony''s reception in later writings about polity, discord, and justice. The rich and various story of reception pays particular attention to the long Homeric Hymns, Solon, the Presocratics, Pindar, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Plato in the Archaic and Classical periods; to the Alexandrian scholars, Callimachus, Euhemerus, and the Stoics in the Hellenistic period; to Ovid, Apollodorus, Lucan, a few Church fathers, and the Neoplatonists in the Roman period. Tracing the poem''s reception in the Byzantine, medieval, and early Renaissance, including Petrarch and Erasmus, the book ends with a lengthy exploration of Milton''s imitations of the poem in Paradise Lost. Scully also compares what he considers Hesiod''s artful interplay of narrative, genealogical lists, and keen use of personified abstractions in the Theogony to Homeric narrative techniques and treatment of epic verse.Trade ReviewScully has long been interested in the polis, as his excellent 1990 study, Homer and the Sacred City, demonstrated, and this new volume about Hesiod's Theogony is, in a sense, an extension of that interest. An equally exciting aspect of this comprehensive study is its clear and full discussion of Hesiod's until-now overlooked literary methods, in which personification reflects psychological reality, or flows from action, and in which common nouns, in their shifting meanings, follow the narrative arc of the poem. * Helaine L. Smith, Semicerchio: Rivista di poesia comparata *The heart of Stephen Scully's book is a masterful inquiry into the place of the Theogony in literary history, in the course of which he makes important observations about the evolution of ancient Greek ideas of the cosmos, divinity, sexuality and gender, justice, and the polis. He prefaces his historical investigations with a careful reading of the poem on its own terms, before looking backward toward its sources and then forward toward the influence it exerted on later texts. Literary analysis and literary history are carefully interwoven, as Scully's initial reading of the poem provides a road map for the historical sections of the book. * Deborah Lyons, American Journal of Philology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter I: Points of Comparison: Hesiod and Homer; the Theogony and Genesis ; Chapter II: The Theogony ; Chapter III: The Theogony and Eastern Parallels: City-State Succession Myths? ; Chapter IV: The Theogony in the Archaic and Classical periods ; Chapter V: Echoes of the Theogony in the Hellenistic and Roman periods ; Chapter VI: Theogonic shadows: Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance, Milton's Paradise Lost ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Modernisms Other Work
Book SynopsisModernism''s Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernism''s commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, it argues that modernism''s core aesthetic problem-the artwork''s status as an object, and a subject''s relation to it-poses fundamental questions of agency, freedom, and politics. With fresh accounts of works by canonical figures such as William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp, and transformative readings of less-studied writers such as William Gaddis and Amiri Baraka, Siraganian reinterprets the relationship between aesthetic autonomy and politics. Through attentive readings, the study reveals how political questions have always been modernism''s critical work, even when writers such as Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis boldly assert the art object''s immunity from the world''s interpretations. Reorienting our undeTrade ReviewIn moving nimbly between modernism and postmodernism, accounting for a politics of aesthetics, and negotiating multiple media, this is modernist criticism at its athletic best. Siraganian's stringent argument for meaning's autonomy not only makes for provocative groupings but can change the way we understand autonomy and what it bequeaths. Moreover, Siraganian writes like the best prosecuting attorney you could hope for-or fear. * Jessica Burstein, University of Washington *Modernism's Other Work represents a real advance in how we read some major writers, and in how we understand their own views of their art. Lisa Siraganian argues that important modernists pursued a vision of art at odds with our assumptions about what they believed. She is a fine guide to artists like Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, and others. Anyone interested in what modernists did, in what modernists thought, in what their successors can do, about writing and bodies and visual art, will surely learn much from Siraganian's good book." * Stephen Burt, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Theorizing Art and Punctuation: Gertrude Stein's Breathless Poetry ; Satirizing Frameless Art: Wyndham Lewis's Defense of Representation ; Breaking Glass to Save the Frame: William Carlos Williams and Company ; Challenging Kitsch Equality: William Gaddis's and Elizabeth Bishop's "Neo" Rear-Garde Art ; Administering Poetic Breath for the People: Charles Olson and Amiri Baraka ; Coda: Universal Breath
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Oxford University Press Inc Helen of Troy
Book SynopsisAncient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man''s name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. The myth of Helen is the central site in which the ancient Greeks expressed and reworked their culture''s anxieties about erotic desire. Despite the passage of three millennia, contemporary culture remains almost obsessively preoccupied with all the power and danger of female beauty and sexuality that Helen still represents. Yet Helen, the embodiment of these concerns for our purported cultural ancestors, has been little studied from this perspective. Such issues are also central to contemporary feminist thought. Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that botTrade Reviewthe book is a good survey of Helen in Greek literature and a decent introduction to Helen for undergraduate Classics students, but is a bit thin for those seeking more advanced, in-depth analysis. * Stephanie L. Budin, Collingswood, New Jersey, Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of ContentsIllustrations ; Preface ; 1. The Problem of Female Beauty ; 2. Helen, Daughter of Zeus ; 3. Self-Blame and Self-Assertion: the Iliad ; 4. Happily Ever After? The Odyssey ; 5. Refractions of Homer's Helen: Archaic Lyric ; 6. Behind the Scenes: Aeschylus' Oresteia ; 7. Spartan Woman and Spartan Goddess: Herodotus ; 8. Playing Defense: Gorgias' Encomium of Helen ; 9. Enter Helen: Euripides' Trojan Women ; 10. Two-Faced Helen: the Helen of Euripides ; 11. Helen MacGuffin: Isocrates ; Epilogue ; Bibliographical Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Commonwealth of Letters
Book SynopsisCommonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature after the war. How did some of modernism''s leading figures of the 1930s--such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender--come to admire late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Similarly, why did late colonial and early postcolonial writers--including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Claude McKay, and Ngugi wa Thiong''o--actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? Peter Kalliney''s original and extensive archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to treat one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antTrade ReviewIt is the mapping of the literary networks, rivalries, allegiances and collaborations that marks Kalliney's book out as an important contribution in this turn of postcolonial studies to interaction with modernist periodicity and aesthetics ... Kalliney offers a truly expansive study of the importance of migration in the developmental history of modernism. * Robert McLaughlan and Neelam Srivastava, Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Commonwealth of Letters is an original and revisionist account of the historical encounter between the writers and institutions of English modernism and late colonial intellectuals, informed by solid archival research and refreshing new readings of the postcolonial canon, and keenly attuned to the complex history of cultural exchanges across the Atlantic. * Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste *For too long, modernist autonomy and postcolonial politics were thought to be antithetical. This book's splendid research deals this dichotomy a convincing blow. With illuminating insights into crossracial networks in radio, publishing, and other cultural institutions, Kalliney brilliantly shows how modernism enriched African and Caribbean literatures and was itself sustained by them. * Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics *A fascinating study which explores how modernist ideas influenced a generation of black and white writers-often working sideby-side-and created international networks of affiliation which rise up above race or geography. An illuminating and convincing examination of Anglophone literary history in the second half of the twentieth century. * Caryl Phillips, author of Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 *This densely argued study covers a lot of ground, from literary modernism to postcolonial Anglophone literature from the West Indies and Afria. The book's bibloiography testifies to Kalliney's prodigious research." -M.S. Vogeler, emerita, California State University, Fullerton, CHOICEKalliney's argument is extensive, meticulously researched, and compellingly revisionist... Kalliney provides a startling and thorough reimagining of the complex lines of aesthetic, philosophic, and institutional affiliation between metropolitan and colonial authors in the period 1930-70. * Novel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions ; 1. Modernist Networks and Late Colonial Intellectual ; 2. Race and Modernist Anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound ; 3. For Continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o ; 4. Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors ; 5. Developing Fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber ; 6. Metropolitan Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African Writers Series ; 7. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual ; Conclusion ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Athenaze Workbook II
Book SynopsisCombining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Revised Third Edition, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. This student workbook includes self-correcting exercises, cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and additional readings for the material covered by Athenaze, Book II, Revised Third Edition.Table of ContentsBook 1: INTRODUCTION ix Readings Grammar 1 ? ??????????? (?) 2 1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings 4 2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement 4 3. Labeling Functions of Words in Sentences 6 The Athenian Farmer 6 4. Use of the Definite Article 6 ? ??????????? (?) 8 5. Accents 9 ? ?????? 10 Classical Greek: Heraclitus 11 New Testament Greek: Title of the Gospel of Luke 11 2 ? ??????? (?) 12 1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular 13 2. Proclitics 14 3. The Imperative 15 Slavery 15 Greek Wisdom: Cleobulus of Lindos 16 ? ??????? (?) 18 4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases 20 5. Uses of the Cases 20 6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives 20 7. Recessive Accent of Verbs 21 ? ?????? 22 Classical Greek: Callimachus 23 New Testament Greek: Luke 3.22 23 3 ? ?????? (?) 24 1.Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives 26 file:///Q|/Higher-Ed/firm/9780199363247.FIRM.Balme.Athenaze-Book-I.3rd-ed.html[10/28/2014 9:49:06 AM] The Deme and the Polis 28 ? ?????? (?) 30 2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases 31 3. Accent Shifting 32 ?? ???? 34 Classical Greek: Menander 35 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.46 35 4 ???? ??? ?????? (?) 36 1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural 38 2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives 40 3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension 40 Women 43 Greek Wisdom: Pittacus of Mitylene 45 ???? ??? ?????? (?) 46 4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension 47 5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension 48 6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives 48 7. Formation of Adverbs 50 8. The Definite Article as Case Indicator 50 ?? ???????? ???? ?????? ????????? 51 Classical Greek: Callimachus 53 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.45 53 5 ? ????? (?) 54 1. Contract Verbs in -?- 56 2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs 56 3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause 58 4. Elision 58 Gods and Men 59 Greek Wisdom: Chilon of Sparta 61 ? ????? (?) 62 5. Agreement of Subject and Verb 64 6. Personal Pronouns 64 7. Attributive and Predicate Position 66 8. Possessives 66 9. The Adjective ?????, -?, -? 68 ? ????? ?? ??????? ?????? 69 Greek Wisdom: The Seven Wise Men 70 Classical Greek: Anacreon 71 New Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 24 71 6 ? ????? (?) 72 1. Verb Forms: ???? 74 2. Verbs: Voice 75 3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice 76 4. Deponent Verbs 78 Myth 81 ? ????? (?) 84 5. Middle Voice: Meaning 86 6. Some Uses of the Dative Case 88 7. Prepositions 89 ? ?????? ??? ???????? ?????????? 91 Classical Greek: Marriage 93 New Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-16 93 7 ? ?????? (?) 94 1. Substantive Use of Adjectives 96 2. Nouns: Declensions 97 3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems 97 4. Reflexive Pronouns 100 Homer 102 ? ?????? (?) 104 5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems 106 6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Labial and Liquid Stems 107 7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: ??????, ??????, of sound mind; prudent; self-controlled 107 8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective 108 9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective 109 ? ??? ?????? ????? ??????????? 110 Classical Greek: Sophocles 111 Greek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus 111 8 ???? ?? ???? (?) 112 1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice 114 Athens: A Historical Outline 117 file:///Q|/Higher-Ed/firm/9780199363247.FIRM.Balme.Athenaze-Book-I.3rd-ed.html[10/28/2014 9:49:06 AM] Classical Greek: Archilochus 121 New Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21 121 ???? ?? ???? (?) 122 2. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Stems in -?- 124 3. Two Important Irregular Nouns: ? ????, ??? ????????, woman; wife, and ? ????, ??? ??????, hand 125 4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective ???, ????, ???, all; every; whole 126 Greek Wisdom: Periander of Corinth 127 5. Numbers 128 6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time within Which 128 ? ???????? ??? ? ?????? 130 Classical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament 131 9 ? ????????? (?) 132 1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active Voice 135 The City of Athens 139 ? ????????? (?) 142 2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -??- 145 3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: ? ????? and ?? ???? 145 4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels: ? ???????? and the Irregular Nouns ? ???? and ? ???? 146 5. Uses of the Genitive Cases 147 6. Some Uses of the Article 148 ? ???????? ??? ? ????? 149 Classical Greek: Simonides 151 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the Mount 151 REVIEW OF VERB FORMS 152 PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS 154 10 ? ??????? (?) 156 1.Verb Forms: Verbs with sigmatic Futures 158 2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in ???? 159 3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs 159 4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures 159 Festivals 162 Classical Greek: Theognis 163 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the Mount 163 ? ??????? (?) 164 5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 166 6.The Irregular Verb ???? 168 7. Future Participle to Express Purpose 170 8. Impersonal Verbs 170 9. Review of Questions 171 ? ???????? ???? ???????? ????????? 171 Classical Greek: Menander 173 New Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-32 173 11 ? ?????? (?) 174 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist 176 2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist 177 3. Aspect 178 4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles 180 5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists 180 Greek Science and Medicine 183 Classical Greek: Theognis 185 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The Beatitudes 185 ? ?????? (?) 186 6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems 189 7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives 189 8. Augment 190 ? ????????? ??? ??????? ???????? 192 New Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount 193 12 ???? ??? ??????? (?) 194 1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist 196 2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles 199 Trade and Travel 200 Classical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in Life 203 New Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost Sheep 203 ???? ??? ??????? (?) 204 3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems 207 4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists 208 5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs 209 ? ??????? ??? ????????? ???????? 210 Greek Wisdom: Bias of Priene 211 file:///Q|/Higher-Ed/firm/9780199363247.FIRM.Balme.Athenaze-Book-I.3rd-ed.html[10/28/2014 9:49:06 AM] 13 ???? ??? ???????? (?) 212 1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense 213 2. Aspect 216 The Rise of Persia 218 ???? ??? ???????? (?) 222 3. Relative Clauses 224 4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -??- 226 5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -?- and -?- 227 ? ?????? ??? ??????????? ????????? 228 Greek Wisdom: Solon of Athens 230 Classical Greek: Archilochus 231 CONTENTS Introduction, iii Chapter 1, ? ???????????, 1 Reading: ? ?????, 3 Chapter 2, ? ???????, 4 Reading: ???? ??????????, 7 Chapter 3, ? ??????, 8 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ??? ??????? ??????, 11 Chapter 4, ???? ??? ??????, 12 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ? ?????, 17 Chapter 5, ? ?????, 18 Grammar: Clauses of Result with ????, 20 Reading: ? ?????? ??? ???? ?? ?????, 24 Vocabulary: Chapters 1-5, 25 Chapter 6, ? ?????, 28 Reading: ? ??????????? ?????????, 32 Chapter 7, ? ??????, 34 Reading: ?? ??? ????? ?????, 37 Chapter 8, ???? ?? ????, 39 Reading: ?? ???? ???? ???????????? ????????, 40 Reading: ? ?????????? ??? ?? ??????, 46 Chapter 9, ? ?????????, 49 Reading: ?? ??? ???????? ????, 53 Vocabulary: Chapters 6-9, 55 Chapter 10, ? ???????, 59 Reading: ?? ?????? ???????, 61 Grammar: ??????? and ????, 63 Reading: ? ???????? ?????? ?????, 66 Chapter 11, ? ??????, 68 Grammar: Some Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists, 68 Grammar: Some Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems, 72 Reading: ?? ??? ??????, 74 Chapter 12, ???? ??? ???????, 78 Grammar: Some Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists, 81 Reading: ? ???? ????? ?????, 83 Chapter 13, ???? ??? ????????, 85 Reading: ? ????? ??? ??? ????? ?????, 91 Vocabulary: Chapters 10-13, 93 Chapter 14, ? ?? ???? ??????????? ????, 97 Grammar: Review of Uses of the Cases, 99 Reading: ??? ???????? ?????????, 104 Chapter 15, ? ?? ??? ???????? ????, 109 Reading: ?? ???? ??? ?????? ????????, 114 Chapter 16, ???? ??? ?? ??? ???????? ?????, 117 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ??? ???????? ?????????, 118 Grammar: Review of Prepositions, 120 Reading: ? ???????? ??? ??? ????????? ????????, 125 Vocabulary: Chapters 14-16, 130 Answer Key, 134 Book 2 CONTENTS Introduction, v Chapter 17, ? ????????? (?), 1 Reading: ??????? ????? I, 5 Chapter 17, ? ????????? (?), 6 Reading: ??????? ????? II, 9 Chapter 18, ? ????????? (?), 10 Reading: ??????? ????? III, 13 Chapter 18, ? ????????? (?), 14 Reading: ??????? ????? III, 17 Chapter 19, ? ?????? (?), 19 Reading: ??????? ????? IV, 23 Chapter 19, ? ?????? (?), 24 Reading: ??????? ????? V, 29 Chapter 20, ? ?????? (?), 30 Reading: ??????? ????? VI, 33 Chapter 20, ? ?????? (?), 35 Reading: ??????? ????? VII, 39 Vocabulary: Chapters 17-20, 40 Chapter 21, ? ???????? (?), 44 Reading: ??????? ????? VIII, 49 Chapter 21, ? ???????? (?), 50 Reading: ??????? ????? IX, 53 Chapter 22, ? ????????? (?), 55 Reading: ??????? ????? X, 59 Chapter 22, ? ????????? (?), 60 Reading: ??????? ????? XI, 63 Chapter 23, ? ?????? (?), 64 Reading: ??????? ????? XII, 67 Chapter 23, ? ?????? (?), 69 Reading: ??????? ????? XIII, 73 Chapter 24, ?? ?????????? (?), 74 Reading: ??????? ????? XIV, 77 Chapter 24, ?? ?????????? (?), 78 Reading: ??????? ????? XV, 81 Vocabulary: Chapters 21-24, 82 Chapter 25, ? ??????? ??? ?????? ??????? (?), 87 Reading: ??????? ????? XVI, 91 Chapter 25, ? ??????? ??? ?????? ??????? (?), 92 Reading: ??????? ????? XVII, 95 Chapter 26, ? ??????? ??? ????? ????????? (?), 96 Reading: ??????? ????? XVIII, 99 Chapter 26, ? ??????? ??? ????? ????????? (?), 101 Reading: ??????? ????? XIX, 103 Chapter 27, ? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ??????????? (?), 105 Reading: ??????? ????? XX, 109 Chapter 27, ? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ??????????? (?), 110 Reading: ??????? ????? XXI, 113 Chapter 28, ? ??????? ??? ??????? ?????? (?), 114 Reading: ??????? ????? XXII, 119 Chapter 28, ? ??????? ??? ??????? ?????? (?), 120 Reading: ??????? ????? XXIII, 123 Vocabulary: Chapters 25-28, 124 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 128 Reading: ??????? ????? XXIV, 129 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 131 Reading: ??????? ????? XXV, 133 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 134 Reading: ??????? ????? XXVI, 135 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 136 Reading: ??????? ????? XXVII, 137 Chapter 29, ???? ?? ??? ???????? ?????? (?), 138 Reading: ??????? ????? XXVIII, 139 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 141 Reading: ??????? ????? XXIX, 143 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 144 Reading: ??????? ????? XXX, 145 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 146 Reading: ??????? ????? XXXI, 147 Chapter 30, ??????? (?), 148 Reading: ??????? ????? XXXII, 149 Vocabulary: Chapters 29-30, 152 Supplementary Grammar, 156 Aspect, Time, and Tense, 156 Articles, 162 Uses of the Cases, 166 Correlatives: Interrogative, Indefinite, Demonstrative, and Relative Pronouns and Adjectives, 172 Uses of ????, 175 Uses of ??, 176 Uses of the Negative, 178 Uses of the Participle, 181 Third Person Imperatives, 184 Review of Prepositions, 186 Answer Key, 189 Chapters 17-30, 189 Supplementary Grammar, 213 The Tablet of Cebes XXXIII-XLI, 217
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Oxford University Press Inc Black is a Church
Book SynopsisIn Black is a Church, Josef Sorett maps the ways in which black American culture and identity have been animated by a particular set of Protestant ideas and practices in order to chart the mutually reinforcing discourses of racial authenticity and religious orthodoxy that have made Christianity essential to the very notion of blackness. In doing so, Sorett reveals the ways that Christianity, white supremacy, and colonialism coalesced in the modern category of religion and became formative to the emergence of black identity in North America. Black is a Church examines the surprising alliances, peculiar performances, and at times contradictory ideas and complex institutions that shape the contours of black life in the United States. The book begins by arguing that Afro-Protestantism has relied upon literary strategies to explain itself since the earliest years of its formation. Through an examination of slave narratives and spiritual autobiographies, it shows how Protestant Christianity Trade ReviewBlack is a Church is an ambitious and compelling account of the entanglement of Afro-Protestantism and blackness. In the tradition of Charles Long, the book is, at once, a provocation and an invitation to think differently about Black lives, about secularism, and Christianity. Sweeping in its scope, imaginative in its theoretical interventions, Sorett has written an important book that scholars of black life across a number of disciplines must confront and respond to. * Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguish University Professor, Princeton University *Black is a Church is a clear, compelling, and brilliant explication of the centrality of Protestantism to the formation of Black art, politics, and identity. Sorett moves us beyond descriptions of why and how the church has mattered to Black people, to an understanding of how essential 'church' as a concept is to what it means to be Black in America, regardless of individual religious affiliation. This is a critically important work. * Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation *Josef Sorett's Black is a Church is a brilliant study from one of the nation's leading historians and theorists of black religion. With vivid detail, great imagination, and a deep engagement with the expansive literature on Black religion, Sorett demonstrates how Afro-Protestantism has shaped black subjectivity and social life from the late 18th century to our contemporary moment. This is a work of astonishing intellectual breadth, an indispensable and welcomed addition to the fields of Black Studies, Religious Studies, and American religious history. * Claudrena Harold, author of When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip Hop Eras *Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Literary Beginning(s) of Afro-Protestantism Chapter 2 Afro-Protestantism, Pluralism(s) and the Problem of the Color Line Chapter 3 Afro-Protestantism and the Politics of (Studying) Black Life Chapter 4 The Afterlives of Afro-Protestantism Notes Works Cited
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Oxford University Press Inc Curious Subjects
Book SynopsisWhile nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women''s agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity. Women protagonists in the novel are always both curiosities: strange objects worthy of our interest and actors who are themselves actively curious--relentless askers of questions, even (and perhaps especially) when they are commanded to be content and passive. What kinds of curiosity are possible and desirable, and what different kinds of knowledge do they yield? What sort of subject asks questions, seeks, chooses? Can a curious woman turn her curiosity on herself? Curious Subjects takes seriously the persuasive force of the novel as a form that intervenes in our sense of what women want to know and how they can
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Oxford University Press American Poetry
Book SynopsisA leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America''s major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country''s distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign. On the other hand, American poetry welcomes techniques, styles, and traditions that originate from far beyond its borders. The force of these two competing characteristics, American poetry''s emphasis on its uniqueness and its transnationalism, drives both individual accomplishment and the broader field. These two characteristic features energize American poetry, quickening its development into a great national literature that continues to inspire poets in the contemporary moment.American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction moves through history and honors the poets'' artistry by paying close attention to the verse forms, meters, and styles they employ. Examples range from Anne Bradstreet, writing a century before the United States was founded, to the poets of the Black Lives Matter movement. Individual chapters consider how other major figures such as T.S. Eliot, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden, and Langston Hughes emphasize convention or idiosyncrasy, and turn to American English as an important artistic resource. This concise examination of American poetry enriches our understanding of both the literature''s distinctive achievement and the place of its most important writers within it.
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Oxford University Press Inc Galen
Book SynopsisGalen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of the Graeco-Roman world. Galen: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive range of his medical, philosophical, and autobiographical works in English, each accompanied by a brief introduction and explanatory notes. Grouped by themes, the selected texts encompass the scope and variety of Galen's work, from the nature of his medical practice to the content of his philosophical theories. This anthology includes revised translations of Galen's most accessible and interesting shorter works alongside fresh translations of excerpts from the most important longer ones--texts which are in many cases inaccessible or out of print. The translations rely on the latest scholarly research, and in the case of several works, on the findings of a recently disc
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Oxford University Press Inc The Only Wonderful Things The Creative
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather''s creative process What would Willa Cather''s widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book on Cather''s relationship with her life partner, author Melissa J. Homestead counters the established portrayal of Cather as a solitary genius and reassesses the role that Lewis, who has so far been rendered largely invisible by scholars, played in shaping Cather''s work. Inviting Lewis to share the spotlight alongside this pivotal American writer, Homestead argues that Lewis was not just Cather''s companion but also her close literary collaborator and editor. Drawing on an array of previously unpublished sources, Homestead skillfully reconstructs Cather and Lewis''s life together, from their time in New York City to their travels in the American Southwest that formed the basis of the novels The Professor''s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. After Cather''s death and in the midst of the Cold War panic over homosexuality, the story of her life with Edith Lewis could not be told, but by telling it now, Homestead offers a refreshing take on lesbian life in early twentieth-century America.Trade ReviewThe Only Wonderful Things opens up new ways for critics and biographers to read love, intimacy, and creative partnership in the queer archives. * Jada Ach, Arizona State University, Western American Literature *The Only Wonderful Things paves the way for further studies depicting the partnerships that sustain and shape the lives of writers—studies that, like this one, avoid prioritizing one partner over the other and instead position writers and their partners as coequals. * Kelsey Squire, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association *By demonstrating how some of Cather's most powerful, compressed sentences—the style for which she was celebrated—were in fact the result of revisions by Lewis, Homestead reassesses the nature of Cather's authorship, not diminishing individual creativity but illuminating the power of collaboration. In a literary world in which single authorship is most prized, in which the lone genius produces masterwork, Homestead demonstrates the efficacy of another form of artistry generated by creative and professional reciprocity. * Jennifer Haytock, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *Homestead's greatest contribution is how intensely she examines the final years of Cather's life through Lewis....Homestead honors Lewis's pain with tenderness and reverence, prioritizing space within the narrative to allow the grieving Lewis to be seen fully and truthfully as the widow she was. * Charmion Gustke, Resources for American Literary Study *In Homestead's book, Cather's partner Edith Lewis emerges as a fascinating figure: intellectually sophisticated, professionally accomplished, and socially skilled...Described by a coworker as 'the best boss I ever had, the most intelligent, the most just, the kindest, and the bluntest,' Lewis brought these qualities to the editing of Cather's most celebrated novels. * Evan Carton, Provincetown Independent *This work is critical for scholars of Cather as well as those interested in the relationship between these two accomplished women. * Dr. Jillian L. Wenburg, Park University and Johnson County Community College, Nebraska History Magazine *This is a masterpiece of scholarly literary biography. * CHOICE *Homestead is the first to recover the central and influential role Lewis played in Cather's life and in her writing career ... this meticulously researched book is a very important addition to the literature on Cather. * C. Johanningsmeier, CHOICE *This book is a meticulously researched portrait of the life that Cather and Lewis shared ... The Only Wonderful Things gives us a fascinating portrait not only of a marriage but of American culture at a particular time and place. * Andrew Holleran, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *At last! — an in-depth look at how Edith Lewis, the woman with whom Willa Cather lived in domestic partnership for almost forty years, was central to both her life and her literary career. By foregrounding the crucial role played by Lewis (remarkable in her own right), Homestead gives us valuable new insights into the way Cather, the artist, worked and the way Cather, the woman who loved women, lived her life. * Lillian Faderman, author of To Believe In Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America — a History *Melissa Homestead has accomplished something beautiful and profound: she has recovered a decades-long relationship that has been ignored and minimized, introducing us to the complex life of Edith Lewis and reframing what we thought we knew about Willa Cather and her writing. The research is remarkable, the product of years of dogged work, and it is woven together to tell a story of love and creativity that we all need to know. I cherish the book and the vision it offers. * Andrew Jewell, co-editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather *This book is cause for celebration...For decades, the Cather industrial complex, skittish that any hint of sapphism might tarnish the reputation of Nebraska's first lady of letters, seemed eager to downplay the significance of the woman Cather chose as her literary executor and trustee...Melissa Homestead's long-awaited book is a truly wonderful thing for Cather studies. * Marilee Lindemann, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Nebraska, New England, New York: Mapping the Foreground of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's Creative Partnership Chapter 2: Office Bohemia: At Home in Greenwich Village, At Work in the Magazines Chapter 3: "Our Wonderful Adventures in the Southwest": Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's Southwestern Collaborations Chapter 4: "The Thing Not Named": Edith Lewis's Advertising Career and Willa Cather's Fiction and Celebrity in the 1920s Chapter 5: "Edith and I hope to get away to Grand Manan": Work, Play, and Community at Whale Cove Chapter 6: "We are the only wonderful things": The Late Lives and Deaths of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Epilogue: The Edith Lewis Ghost Notes
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Oxford University Press Inc Toni Morrison
Book SynopsisWhen Toni Morrison declares that she can''t wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work, she raises an issue at the heart of modern political thought: How should we understand freedom? And what does freedom mean in the shadow of racial slavery and colonialism? In this study of Toni Morrison''s writing, Lawrie Balfour explores Morrison''s reflections on the idea of freedom in her novels and nonfiction. While Morrison''s literary achievements are widely celebrated, her political thought has yet to receive the same attention. Balfour shows how Morrison''s writing illuminates the meanings of freedom and unfreedom in a democratic society founded on both the defense of liberty and the right to enslavement. Morrison''s fiction and meditations on the power of language challenge wishful notions of color-blindness and complaints that it is time to move beyond thinking and talking about race. Her attentiveness to the experiences of people no one inquired of--esTrade ReviewToni Morrison is yet another brilliant contribution to Balfour's body of work examining the political thought of black intellectuals, DuBois, and Baldwin. It makes a tremendous contribution to Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Black Studies, and American Intellectual History. Morrison scholars will find it especially important as well. * Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Freedom and Word-Work 1.
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Oxford University Press Ancient Greece A Political Social and Cultural
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ancient Greece is a sweeping, accessible historical narrative, punctuated by social and economic insights of one of the most complex and intriguing cultures of antiquity."--David Graf, University of Miami "This text is an excellent choice for those seeking a comprehensive treatment of ancient Greek history. Its chronological reach is long, and it devotes a great deal of attention to social and cultural topics along with the standard political and military ones."--Eric Wild Robinson, Indiana University "Ancient Greece is a very clear, comprehensive overview of Greek history, in its political, social, cultural, and intellectual dimensions, with particularly good coverage of the Archaic and Classical Periods, written by some of the top scholars in the field."--Philip Kaplan, University of North FloridaTable of ContentsMaps and Battle Plans: Preface: New to the Fourth Edition: Translations Used by Permission: Timeline: INTRODUCTION A Bird's-Eye View of Greek History Sources: How We Know About the Greeks Retrieving the Past: The Material Record Retrieving the Past: The Written Record Periodization Frogs Around a Pond City-States Greek City-States I. EARLY GREECE AND THE BRONZE AGE Domestication Sources for Early Greek History The Land of Greece Greece in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3000-1600 BC) Minoan Civilization Greece and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC) The Years of Glory (c. 1400-1200 BC) The End of the Mycenaean Civilization II. THE EARLY IRON AGE (C. 1200-750/700 BC) Sources for the Early Iron Age Decline and Recovery, Early Iron Age I (c. 1200-900 BC) The New Society of Early Iron Age II (900-750/700 BC) Revival (c. 900-750 BC) Homer and Oral Poetry Homeric Society Community, Household, and Economy in the Early Iron Age II * The End of Early Iron Age II (c. 750-700 BC) III. ARCHAIC GREECE (750/700-480 BC) Sources for the Seventh and Sixth Centuries The Formation of the City-State (Polis) Government in the Early City-States Emigration and Expansion: The Colonizing Movement Economic and Social Divisions in the Early Poleis Hesiod: The View from Outside The Hoplite Army The Archaic Age Tyrants Art and Architecture Lyric Poetry Philosophy and Science Panhellenic Religious Institutions Relations Among States IV. SPARTA Sources for Spartan History and Institutions The Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period The Spartan System Demography and the Spartan Economy Spartan Government Sparta and Greece Historical Change in Sparta The Spartan Mirage in Western Thought V. THE GROWTH OF ATHENS AND THE PERSIAN WARS Sources for Early Athens Athens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic Age The Reforms of Solon Pisistratus and His Sons The Reforms of Cleisthenes The Rise of Persia The Wars Between Greece and Persia The Other War: Carthage and the Greek Cities of Sicily VI. THE RIVALRIES OF THE GREEK CITY-STATES AND THE GROWTH OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY Sources for the Decades After the Persian Wars The Aftermath of the Persian Wars and the Foundation of the Delian League The "First" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC) Pericles and the Growth of Athenian Democracy Literature and Art Oikos and Polis The Greek Economy VII. GREECE ON THE EVE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Sources for Greece on the Eve of the War Greece After the Thirty Years' Peace The Breakdown of the Peace Resources for War Intellectual Life in Fifth-Century Greece Historical and Dramatic Literature of the Fifth Century Currents in Greek Thought and Education The Physical Space of the Polis: Athens on the Eve of War VIII. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Sources for Greece During the Peloponnesian War The Archidamian War (431-421 BC) The Rise of Comedy Between Peace and War The Invasion of Sicily (415-413 BC) The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 BC) Fallout from the Long War The War in Retrospect IX. THE GREEK WORLD OF THE EARLY FOURTH CENTURY Sources for Fourth-Century Greece Social and Economic Strains in Postwar Greece Law and Democracy in Athens The Fourth-Century Polis Philosophy and the Polis X. PHILIP II AND MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY Sources for Macedonian History Early Macedonia Macedonian Society and Kingship The Reign of Philip II Macedonian Domination of Greece XI. ALEXANDER THE GREAT Sources for the Reign of Alexander Consolidating Power From Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 BC) From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 BC) The High Road to India: Alexander in Central Asia India and the End of the Dream Return to the West XII. ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS AND THE COSMOPOLIS A New World Sources for the Hellenistic Period The Struggle for the Succession The Regency of Perdiccas The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed Birth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 BC) The Place of the Polis in the Cosmopolis The Macedonian Kingdoms Hellenistic Society Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture Social Relations in the Hellenistic World EPILOGUE The Arrival of the Romans A Greco-Roman World Glossary: Art and Illustration Credits: Index:
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Oxford University Press Inc The Philosophy of Comics What They Are How They
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe author's writing style is conversational and engaging, and Kurt Shaffer's illustrations are quite amusing,...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Category of Comics Chapter 2: Formal Definitions of Comics Chapter 3: The Media of Comics Chapter 4: Narrative, Time, and Space Chapter 5: Adaptation Chapter 6: Evaluating Comics Chapter 7: Social and Moral Problems Afterword References
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OUP USA The Oxford Reader
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Oxford University Press Inc Before the Scrolls
Book SynopsisBefore the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Although scholars understand that the material of composition was the scroll rather than the codex, they persist in imagining the form as a single textual object. This assumption pervades centuries of scholarship and drives many of the questions asked about biblical composition. Nathan Mastnjak raises the question of the original physical format of biblical texts and argues that many of the literary works that would eventually become the Bible''s prophetic books were not written initially as books. Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel were originally composed on loosely organized collections of multiple short papyrus scrolls and sheets. Though rarely considered in scholarship, the realia of a text''s form, format, production, and material substance have a profound influence on the meaning of the text. Unlike works committed to single book-scrolls, these collectioTrade ReviewThis book provides an important corrective to the scholarly tendency to import anachronistic assumptions about contemporary books into study of ancient biblical texts. An exciting entry in the emergent field of material historical study of the Bible, Mastnjak's work introduces a "collection model" that has major implications for the interpretation of biblical books and study of their formation." * David M. Carr, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Union Theological Seminary *Almost two centuries after biblical scholars began the conversation of hypothetical documents lying behind the present text, Mastnjak puts flesh on what those earlier texts looked like as objects, the organizational logic behind their collection, and the process by which these smaller scrolls were brought together in the large scrolls found at Qumran. This is an important volume for Hebrew Bible scholarship which will in turn generate rich insights into the development of the biblical text." * Thomas Bolin, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, St. Norbert College *Mastnjak has produced a remarkable study that offers an elegant and convincing solution to the problem of the earliest material forms of biblical literature. His bold and convincing arguments combine recent discoveries about ancient technologies of writing with careful textual analysis and will change how scholars imagine the literary form of the earliest manuscripts of biblical texts." -Brennan W. Breed, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological SeminaryMastnjak's Before the Scrolls should be a cornerstone for any biblical scholarship that considers notions of materiality in ancient Israelite and Judean (and Jewish) texts. * William Brown, The Biblical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Materiality of the Prophetic Literature 2 Prophetic Scrolls in the Persian Period 3 The Multi-Volume Sefer 4 The Prophetic Library 5 Isaiah, the Twelve, and the Prophetic Anthology 6 Jeremiah and the Prophetic Book as Narrative 7 Narrative in the Books of Ezekiel 8 Conclusion Bibliography Subject Index
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Oxford University Press Counting Bodies
Book SynopsisQuantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for population in the sense of numbers of people, nor agreement that monarchs should count their subjects. Much of the work of naturalizing the view that people can be represented as populations took place far outside government institutions and philosophical treatises. It occurred instead in the work of colonial writers who found in the act of counting a way to imagine fixed boundaries between intermingling groups. Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies. By repositioning and unearthing a literary pre-history of population science, the book shows that representing individuals as numbers was a central element of colonial projects. Early colonial writings that describe routine and even intimate interactions offer a window into the way people wove the quantifiable forms of subjectivity made available by population counts into everyday life. Whether trying to make sense of plantation slavery, frontier warfare, rapid migration, or global commerce, writers framed questions about human relationships across different cultures and generations in terms of population.Trade ReviewFarrell's Counting Bodies examines ways of counting people in the British Colonial Atlantic using forms of literature such as poetry, captivity narratives and travel writing and mortality bills. Farrell makes the claim that such texts, disparate as they may be, nonetheless offer insight into what she terms 'human accounting' in the seventeenth and eighteenth century colonial context. * Philippa Chun, British Society for Literature and Science *I was continually excited by this book, and was especially struck by the way that Farrell's focus on the literary representation of population, and particularly on bodies that are difficult to count, might open up new possibilities for thinking about the complexity and variability of colonial American ideas of community. I'm persuaded, for example, that her book can help us think about colonial understandings of disability, another form of human categorization that was just beginning to emerge during this period. ... Just as important, however, is her careful attention to how writers in early America obstructed, disallowed, and resisted this kind of counting. Farrell's book is worth thinking with, and I'm eager to see how her methods and conclusions might further expand and enliven our understanding of what it meant to count and be counted in colonial communities. * Nicholas Junkerman, Common Place *Counting Bodies takes a very stimulating approach to its subject matter, and as an alternative route to understanding the emergence of population ideas it is to be welcomed. * Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography *If we take the counting of bodies today as an ordinary act of the state, Farrell invites us to consider a time when counting bodies was unusual and, further, takes us deep into the historical quandaries surrounding the counting of bodies. What is a countable body? Where does one body stop and another begin? In this book, Farrell brilliantly sounds the literary pre-history of the concept of population on colonial ground, illuminating the work that gender and race perform in the history of settler colonialism and European imperial expansion in early America. * Elizabeth Dillon, author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 *By providing the reader with insight into the history of biopolitics before 'biopolitics' became the chief method of government, Farrell accomplishes something quite remarkable. Still more to her credit, she adds to the growing archive of early American texts by exploring the aesthetic dimension of literature, which doubled the perspective of these same procedures to expose the blindnesses induced by numerical representations of human life. * Leonard Tennenhouse, author of Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres *This is a marvellously rich reading of the conceptual logics associated with counting peoples. Treating colonialism, mortality, race and constitutionalism, Counting Bodies offers a compelling poetics of the enumerative imagination. It powerfully highlights the political implications of counting people * dead, alive or unbornpopulating the margins of systems of race, gender and religion.Peter Thompson, co-editor of State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Stories of Cataclysm and Population Chapter 1: Poetics of the Ark Ashore Chapter 2: Measuring Caribbean Aesthetics Chapter 3: Counting in King Philip's War Chapter 4: The Death and Life of Colonial Mortality Bills Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Henry James
Book SynopsisAn elegant introduction to one of America''s most complex and influential writers.From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique body of fiction that represents one of the greatest achievements in the nation''s literary history. James''s transnational life in the US and England and his extraordinary siblings (the philosopher William James and diarist Alice James) made his life as complicated as the fictions he produced. In this elegant introduction to the work of Henry James, Susan L. Mizruchi places the notoriously difficult and obscure writings in their historical and biographical context. As James grew in confidence as a writer, his fictions evolved accordingly. These complex accounts of human experience engage with the vital issues of both James''s era and our own. Among the works treated in this introduction are Washington Square, The Europeans, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl, and The Turn of the Screw. Through his novels, as well as his journalistic and critical endeavors, James explores themes related to gender relations, human sexuality, the nature of modernity, the threat of relativism, the rise of mass culture, and the role of art.Since their creation, James''s writings have been a consistent subject of both literary theory and popular culture, receiving a diverse array of theoretical treatments, from formalism, deconstruction, phenomenology, and pragmatism to Marxism, new historicism, and gender and queer theory. James''s novels have been adapted into numerous films by directors including William Wyler, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Winner, Merchant/Ivory, and Jane Campion. The impact of Henry James cannot be overstated.Trade ReviewThis is a swift, efficient approach to James's oeuvre, perfect for students and general readers. * Publisher's Weekly *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Prologue 1 Becoming Henry James 2 Global apprenticeship 3 The James brand 4 Professional author 5 Masterpieces Epilogue References Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press Lothair Oxford English Novels
Book SynopsisA scholarly edition of a work by Benjamin Disraeli. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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Oxford University Press Russian Literature
Book SynopsisThis book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera.Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, ''the Russian Shakespeare'' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they''ve been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West 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 ReviewIt is written in a lively and stimulating manner...and displays a range to which few of Dr. Kelly's peers in the field of Russian scholarship are equal.' * Dr Philip Cavendish *This is a brilliant essay, written with elegance, informed, incisive, provocative...[Dr Kelly] is in the forefront of scholars of Russian literature...she will make her readers engage with a wide variety of authors and texts. * Professor Anthony Cross, head of Slavonic Studies Department, Cambridge University *It seems to me brilliant and original, taking an unexpected approach to the subject, and it is written with great confidence and clarity. * Professor Peter France, University of Edinburgh *Table of ContentsPREFACE; LIST OF FURTHER READING
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Oxford University Press Barthes
Book SynopsisThis acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the ''incomparable enlivener of the literary mind'' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a ''science of literature'', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. 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 ReviewReview from other book by this author It is impossible to imagine a clearer treatment of the subject, or one that is, within the given limits of length, more comprehensive. Culler has always been remarkable for his expository skills, and here he has found exactly the right method and tone for his purposes. * Sir Frank Kermode *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Man of parts ; 2. Literary Historian ; 3. Mythologist ; 4. Critic ; 5. Polemicist ; 6. Semiologist ; 7. Structuralist ; 8. Hedonist ; 9. Writer ; 10. Man of Letters ; 11. Barthes after Barthes ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Praeterita
Book Synopsis''For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.''John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the language. Ruskin''s incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious mental illness at the end of his career, and is an eloquent analysis of the guiding powers of his life, both public and private. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin''s intense childhood, his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, and, most of all, his journeys across France, the Alps, and northern Italy. Attentive to the human or divine meaning of everything around him, Praeterita is an astonishing account of revelation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s ClassicsTrade Reviewa valuable addition to Ruskin studies ... Francis O'Gorman is a sensitive, intelligent and eloquent guide to Praeterita ... detailed and helpful endnotes. * The Companion *The editing and annotation are exemplary * Jan Marsh, Times Literary Supplement *Thanks to O'Gorman, the experience of reading Praeterita has achieved luminous transparency, and it is to be hoped that his new, very finely edited edition finds its way on to book shelves and into syllabuses ... O'Gorman's introduction deserves special praise ... The explanatory notes provide essential guidance and clarification, especially for the neophyte reader of Ruskin. * Carlyle Studies Annual *
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Oxford University Press Kafka
Book Synopsis''When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...'' So begins Franz Kafka''s most famous story Metamorphosis.Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and The Man Who Disappeared [America], were published after his death and helped to found Kafka''s reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century.Kafka''s fiction vividly evokes bizarre situations: a commercial traveller is turned into an insect, a banker is arrested by a mysterious court, a fasting artist starves to death in the name of art, a singing mouse becomes the heroine of her nation. Attending both to Kafka''s crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion after Nietzsche had proclaimed ''the death of God''. The result is an up-to-date and accessible portrait of a fascinating author which shows us ways to read and make sense of his perplexing and absorbing work.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. Life and Myth ; 2. Reading Kafka ; 3. Bodies ; 4. Institutions ; 5. The Last Things ; References and Further Reading
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Oxford University Press Classical Mythology A Very Short Introduction
Book SynopsisFrom Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires?This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction goes beyond a simple retelling of the stories to explore the rich history and diverse interpretations of classical myths. It is a wide-ranging account, examining how classical myths are used and understood in both high art and popular culture, taking the reader from the temples of Crete to skyscrapers in New York, and finding classical myths in a variety of unexpected places: from arabic poetry and Hollywood films, to psychoanalysis, the bible, and New Age spiritualism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized Table of ContentsForeword ; 1. Without bulls there would be no Europe ; 2. Contexts, then and now ; 3. Gods and heroes ; 4. Metamorphoses of mythology ; 5. On the analyst's couch ; 6. The sexual politics of myth ; 7. Mythology, spirituality, and the New Age ; Conclusion ; References and further reading ; Timeline
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Oxford University Press Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies
Book SynopsisThis original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics.Trade ReviewRendered with uncanny clarity and intrinsic energy, the translation shows great patience, ingenuity, and learning in the capturing of the Greek original. It is lucid, smooth, elegant, and musical, captivating readers instantly. Choice deeply rewarding version ... It outshines all the other versions that I have to hand and (I would guess) those that I don't. Malcolm Heath, Greece and RomeTable of ContentsOEDIPUS THE KING; AIAS; PHILOCTETES; OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
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Oxford University Press Antigone and other Tragedies
Book SynopsisThese original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.Trade ReviewMy enthusiasm is undiminished ... a notable achievement. * Malcolm Heath, Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Priorities of this Translation Notes on text, spellings, stage-directions etc Selected Bibliography Antigone Deianeira Electra Explanatory Notes
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OUP Oxford Antigones
Book SynopsisThe Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.
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Oxford University Press Aristophanes Frogs and Other Plays
Book SynopsisThis vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy.Trade ReviewIt would be hard to find a better companion to Aristophanes, for classicists but perhaps especially for the general reader Altogether a fine effort, to be recommended for all classes of reader. * Colin McDonald, Classics for All *Halliwell pairs his fluency in rendering verse with deftness at capturing the complexities of Aristophanes' language, which gives his translations particular verve. * The Classical Journal *Table of ContentsPREFACE; INTRODUCTION; NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; CLOUDS; WOMEN AT THE THESMOPHORIA; FROGS; APPENDIX: THE LOST PLAYS OF ARISTOPHANES; NOTES; INDEX OF NAMES
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Oxford University Press Fasti
Book Synopsis''Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.''Ovid''s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and legends associated with particular dates. Written in the late years of the emperor Augustus, and cut short when the emperor sent the poet into exile, the poem''s tone ranges from tragedy to farce, and its subject matter from astronomy and obscure ritual to Roman history and Greek mythology. Among the stories Ovid tells at length are those of Arion and the dolphin, the rape of Lucretia, the shield that fell from heaven, the adventures of Dido''s sister, the Great Mother''s journey to Rome, the killing of Remus, the bloodsucking birds, and the murderous daughter of King Servius. The poem also relates a wealth of customs and beliefs, such as the unluckiness of marrying in May.This new prose transTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'a thorough and meticulous work, distinguished by accuracy and fidelity to the Latin, and it will surely suit the serious Latinless reader who desires a reliable guide to this challenging and remarkable poem' * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2012.04.36 *
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Oxford University Press A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic
Book SynopsisArden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English TravellerIn about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre''s usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of ''domestic'' drama, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage, crime, and property rather than war and power. Arden dramatizes a notorious murder case of forty years earlier, in which a wealthy husband was killed by his wife and her lover.In Thomas Heywood''s A Woman Killed with Kindness, a wife is caught by her husband in bed with his best friend, only to find that he takes unusual reprisals. The Witch of Edmonton combines a true-life story of witchcraft with a fictitious tale of bigamy and wife-murder, and The English Traveller deals with the unexpected and unwelcome changes people find when they return home after a lengthyTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Note on the Texts ; Select Bibliography ; A Chronology of the Plays and their Genre ; THE TRAGEDY OF MASTER ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM ; A WOMEN KILLED WITH KINDNESS ; THE WITCH OF EDMONTON ; THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER ; Appendix 1: The Unknown Author of Arden of Faversham ; Appendix 2: The Date of The English Traveller ; Explanatory Notes ; Glossary
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