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Walter de Gruyter Wettkämpfe in Literaturen Und Kulturen Des
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de Gruyter Le Sujet Amoureux Dans La Poésie Médiévale
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De Gruyter Ornamental Narration
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De Gruyter The Materiality of Narrative Dynamics
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Einführung in die Literaturtheorie
Book SynopsisWas ist Literatur? , fragt das mittlerweile legendäre Einleitungskapitel dieses Bandes. Pointiert und kritisch-souverän zugleich führt Eagleton an erste literaturtheoretische Fragen heran. Ebenso anschaulich erläutert der Autor in den weiteren Kapiteln die Grundlagen und Methoden der zentralen Ansätze der Literaturtheorie. Die 5. Auflage des erfolgreichen Buches enthält ein neues Vorwort Eagletons zur literaturtheoretischen Entwicklung der letzten 25 Jahre. Für die Annäherung an einen komplexen Stoff ohne Scheu und Verständnisschwierigkeiten.
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Springer Slam Poetry: Deutsch–US-amerikanische Studie zu
Book SynopsisMinu Hedayati-Aliabadi zeigt anhand ihrer deutsch–US-amerikanischen Studie, dass der Begriff Slam Poetry in erster Linie als Bedeutungsträger für performative, zeitgenössische und interaktive Literatur verwendet wird, während die reale Ausprägung bei Veranstaltungen weniger interaktiv ist. Sie setzt sich in Ihrer Arbeit mit den Ansichten und Handlungsweisen der beteiligten Akteure auseinander und untersucht das in 1986 in Chicago entstandene Veranstaltungsformat Poetry Slam. 1989 wurde dieses durch die Slam-Szene in New York City international bekannt und kann aufgrund der Ergebnisse der Studie in Deutschland heute als wenig elitäres, nicht kommerzielles, geplantes und kulturelles Event klassifiziert werden, das hauptsächlich von jungen Erwachsenen aus dem Bildungsbürgertum besucht wird. Table of Contents
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Universal Localities: The Languages of World
Book SynopsisThe volume features the work of leading scholars from the US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Russia and presents an important contribution to current debates on world literature. The contributions discuss various facets of the historically changing role and status of language in the construction of notions of universality and locality, of difference, foreignness, and openness; they explore the relationship between world literature and bilingualism, supranational languages, dialects, and linguistic inbetweenness. They also examine the larger social and political stakes behind both foundational and more recent attempts to articulate ideas of world literature. Mapping the space between philology, anthropology, and ecohumanities, the essays in this volume approach world literature with sophisticated methodological toolkits and open up new opportunities for engaging with this important discursive framework.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.- Contributors.- Preface.- Part I.- Toward a Global Philology.- World Literature – Theory – Translation: Considerations on a Fraught Relationship.- World Literature in China: Aspiration, Anxiety and Some Theoretical Questions.- Part II.- Arabic, American and/or World Literature: Kahlil Gibran’s Bilingualism and the Problem of Reception.- The Translational Movement of the Anglophone Gibran into Arabic, or “Arabization.- J.M. Coetzee as Latin American Writer: Simultaneous Translation – Foreignness – World Literature.- Other Americas, Other Immigrants: “World Memory” and “World Literature” in Maryse Condé’s Desirada.- Translating Endangered Nonhuman Worlds.- Part III.- How and What Does a Universal Language Signify: Latin in the Italian Humanist Age.- Between the Universal and the Local: Political Linguistics and Social Anthropology from Giambattista Vico to Luigi Serio.- The Anthropological Turn in Poetics: International Law and the Rise of World Literature.- Coda.- Beyond Circulation.- Index.
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J.B. Metzler Kleine Schritte und große Sprünge
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Beiträge.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Im Denkraum der Besonnenheit
Book SynopsisIm Denkraum der Besonnenheit.- Virginia Woolf – das Frösteln einer Dichterin.- Hermann Broch oder Die transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit des Menschen.- Jean-Paul Sartre – das Sein mit der Schlinge der Sprache einfangen.- Um einen Bertolt Brecht von innen bittend.- George Orwell – eine Kassandra der Moderne?.- Thomas Mann – Erdenkameradschaft trotz Gesamterkältung des Lebens.- Bertrand Russell – Napfschnecken, Skepsis und aufgeklärte Vernunft.- Ingrid Warburg-Spinelli – Handeln im Denkraum der Besonnenheit.- Personen, Personen, Personen.
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J.B. Metzler Narrating migration narrating futures
Book Synopsis- Introduction.- Narrative Research in Theory and Practice.- Global imaginaries and local imagining.- Narratives of conflict, crisis, and belonging.- Narrating an Elsewhere.- Narrating the global.- The diaspora narrates.- Conclusion.- References.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic From Laughter to Forgetting: A Source-Book of
Book SynopsisA comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the limited range of texts available outside the original languages. This book addresses that problem by offering a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and documentary sources from one of the most dynamic and original European avant-garde traditions: that of the first Czechoslovak Republic and of the Bohemian lands. The Czech avant-garde is in many respects the ideal “alternative” avant-garde to present in detail to a wider readership: it tracks Central European developments and was often influential internationally while being deeply embedded in particular cultural dynamics that produced original forms. This volume returns interwar Czech avant-garde writings to their place as a firmly embedded component of the European avant-garde.Table of Contents1. The Laughter of the Avant-Garde (1918-1929): Proletarian Art, Poetism, Constructivism Section IntroductionCapek, Karel: “Kritika slov”Capek, Josef: Nejskromnejší umení [extracts]Weiner, Richard: Trásnicky dejinných dnu [extracts]Šalda, F. X.: “O úpadku literatury—i mnohých vecí jiných... ”Hora, Josef: “K novému umení”U. S. DevetsilNeumann, Stanislav K.: “Devetsil”Teige, Karel: “Novým smerem”Teige, Karel: “Obrazy a predobrazy”Capek, Karel: “Poznámka k stati Karla Teiga ‘Obrazy a predobrazy‘“Capek, Karel: “Proc nejsem komunistou”Teige, Karel: “S novou generací”Vancura, Vladislav: “Rád nové tvorby”Götz, František: “O Hosta a o ty, kterí stojí za ním”Teige, Karel: “O expresionismu”Götz, František: “Trochu polemiky, trochu vyznání”Wolker, Jirí: “Proletárské umení”Literární skupina: “Naše nadeje, víra a práce”Šíma, Josef: “Reklama”Schulz, Karel: “Poetika”Štyrský, Jindrich: “Obraz”Teige, Karel: “Foto Kino Film”Teige, Karel: “Poetismus”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Papoušek na motocyklu cili o remesle básnickém”Cerník - Halas - Václavek: “Dosti Wolkera!”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Film”Teige, Karel: “Poezie pro pet smyslu”Teige, Karel: “Dada”Teige, Karel: “Vudce ceské moderny”Teige, Karel: “K teorii konstruktivismu”Kupka, František: “Tvorení v umení výtvarném”Rykr, Zdenek: TeigismTeige, Karel: “Slova, slova, slova”Štyrský, Jindrich a Toyen: “Populární uvedení do artificielismu”Voskovec, Jirí: “Želva, o které se nikdo nezminuje”Obrtel, Vít: “Harmonie”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Návestí o poetismu”Nezval, Vítezslav: “Kapka inkoustu”Teige, Karel: “Ultrafialové obrazy cili artificielismus”Teige, Karel: “Manifest poetismu”Klíma, Ladislav: Vterina a Vecnost [extracts]2. A Generation Splits: Avant-Garde in Crisis (1929-1932)Section IntroductionŠtyrský, Jindrich: “Koutek generace I”Štyrský, Jindrich: “Malá prolegomena”Václavek, Bedrich: “O marxistickou teorii umen픊toll, Ladislav: “Lidé v ‘ laboratori‘”Václavek, Bedrich: “Konec ‘revolucní‘ avantgardy”Obrtel, Vít: “O stavbe veží”Brouk, Bohuslav: “Na obranu individualismu”Obrtel, Vít: “Právo na teorii”Navrátil, Václav: “Kvart”Jakobson, Roman: “O dnešním brusicství ceském” [extracts]Capek, Josef: “Krize charakteru”3. Complicating the Real (1933-1938): Surrealism and Prague School Polyfunctionalism Section IntroductionTeige, Karel: “Básen, svet, clovek”Teige, Karel: “Deset let surrealismu” [extracts]Teige, Karel: “Socialistický Realismus a surrealismu” [extracts]Weiner, Richard: Lazebník (Poetika)Štyrský, Jindrich: “Surrealistické malírství (nekolik poznámek)”Štyrský, Jindrich: “ Surrealistická fotografie”Štyrský, Jindrich and Vítezslav Nezval: “Pokus o poznání iracionality fotografie”Štyrský, Jindrich et al: “Pokus o poznání iracionality plnicího pera”Toyen: TBCNezval, Vítezslav: “K ceskému surrealismu”Mukarovský, Jan: “Místo estetické funkce mezi ostatními”Mukarovský, Jan: “Individuum v umení”Mukarovský, Jan: “Dialektické rozpory moderního umení”Mukarovský, Jan: “Francouzská poezie Karla Capka”Ladislav Novomeský: “Cesko-slovenský kulturní vztah“Kalandra, Záviš: “Nadskutecno v Surrealismu“Kalandra, Záviš: “Cin André Bretona“Kalandra, Záviš: “Princip slasti a princip reality v umení“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Slovo o situaci nadrealismu u nás“Brouk, Bohuslav: “Máchuv kult“Cerný, Václav: “Surrealismus proti proudu“4. Deaths of the Avant-garde (1938-1942): The Myth of EverydaynessSection IntroductionNavrátil, Václav: “K novému mýtu“Navrátil, Václav: “O krizi krizeologie“Navrátil, Václav: “O smutku, lásce a jiných vecech“Rykr, Zdenek: “K našemu modernímu umení“Soucková, Milada: “K novému románu“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Smysl moderního umení“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Svet, v nemž žijeme“Chalupecký, Jindrich: “Umení napodobí skutecnost“Kolár, Jirí: Nový don Quijote [extracts]
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De Gruyter Narrative Purpose in the Novella
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. INTENSITY AND EXPANSION IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELLA -- II. THEMATIC COMPLEXITY IN THE NOVELLA -- III. REPETITIVE STRUCTURE AND ITS FUNCTION -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter
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Springer Verlag, Singapore History of Chinese Folk Literature
Book SynopsisThis book mainly addresses the position, function, influence, and values of folk oral literature in the history of Chinese literature. Divided into 14 chapters, it systematically covers central aspects of folklore literature such as ballads, folk songs, Bianwen, Zajuci, Guzici, Zhugongdiao, Sanqu, Baojuan, Tanci, Zidishu, and so on from the Pre-Qin to the late Qing Dynasties, filling several gaps in literary history studies. It is a comprehensive literary work, and many of the materials cited here are rare and difficult to find. In addition, the book proposes some important theories, especially six highly generalized qualities of folk literature, namely that it is: popular, collective, oral, fresh, effusive, and innovative.With detailed, extensive materials, and quotations, the book represents the most systematic and comprehensive work to date on ancient Chinese folk literature. It is mutually complementary with Guowei Wang’s A Textual Research of the Traditional Chinese Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and Xun Lu’s A Brief History of Chinese Fiction; all three works are regarded as the most essential classics for researching the history of Chinese literature.Table of ContentsChapter 1 What Is Folk Literature?.- Chapter 2 Ancient Ballads.- Chapter 3 Folk Literature in the Han Dynasty.- Chapter 4 Folk Songs in the Six Dynasties.- Chapter 5 Odes and Songs in the Tang Dynasty.- Chapter 6 Bianwen, a Popular Form of Literature in the Tang Dynasty.- Chapter 7 Zajuci, a Popular Literary Form in the Song and Jin Periods.- Chapter 8 Guzici and Zhugongdiao, Popular Literary Forms Featured with Singing and Saying.- Chapter 9 Sanqu, A Type of Verse in the Yuan Dynasty.- Chapter 10 Folk Songs in the Ming Dynasty.- Chapter 11 Baojuan, a Literary Form Featured with Story-telling and Singing.- Chapter 12 Tanci, a Literary Form Featured with Story-telling to the Accompaniment of Stringed Instrument.- Chapter 13 Guci and Zidishu, Popular Literary Forms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties .- Chapter 14 Folk Songs in the Qing Dynasty.- Academical Chronology of Zheng Zhenduo.- Zheng Zhenduo and His History of Chinese Folk Literature.
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Springer Environmental Humanities in India
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Environmental Humanities in India.- 2. Indigenous Native Epistemology as A Model in Environmental Humanities in India.- 3. The Environment in Hindu Consciousness: Revisiting the Sacred Texts.- 4. Cultural Practices and Indigenous Traditions of the Garo and Bodo: Reinterpreting 'Man-Nature' Convergences in Wangala and Bathou.- 5. Indigenous Nature Conservation in Meghalaya: Environmental and Religious Dimensions of Tribal Land Ownership Among the Khasi Community.- 6. Philosophy for Environmental Policy and Law in India.- 7. The Secular in Ecological Consciousness.- 8. Multispecies Conviviality, Bioregionalism, And Vegetal Politics in Kodagu, India.- 9. When The Black Half of The Kunni Seed Whitens: Plant-Lore and The Plantationocene in Ambikasuthan Mangad's Swarga.- 10. Mourning the Loss of Mother Earth: Reclaiming the Path of Recovery in Akkineni Kutumbarao's Softy Dies a Lake.- 11. Leave City, Leave Reality; Enter Forest, Enter Fantasy: Representing Ecotopian Space as a Protest against Urbanization in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay's Literary Oeuvre.- 12. Connecting and Creating Narratives: Interrogating Myth and Identity in Ghosh's Gun Island.- 13. Amitav Ghosh's Storyworlds for Environmental Dwelling: Multimodal Iterations and Performativity in/of Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban.- 14. Ecomusicology in India: Voicing the Unvoiced Anthropocene through Popular Culture.
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Editorial Anagrama De eso se trata Efectos personales
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Editorial La Muralla, S.A. Literatura comparada e intertextualidad una
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Quaderns Crema Literatura rabe
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Oxford University Press Saint Foucault Towards a Gay Hagiography Towards a Gay Hagiography
Trade ReviewPassionate, comprehensive, and personal defence against attacks on the Franco-Californian sage's ideas and personal life - and on Halperin's own. Strongly recommended, both as a thorough introduction to Foucault and current issues, and for many intriguing ideas and observations by the author. * Alan Sinfield, Gay Times, October 1995 *Seeks to rescue Foucault from his critics and to portray him as a model of an engaged gay life, an attempt that requires a certain intellectual sleight of hand and close reading of the sort Halperin excels at. The book is remarkably engaging, combining elements of both brilliance and silliness. * Arena Magazine *a provocative read ... Halperin's book is highly engaging. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
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Oxford University Press, USA Mikhail Bakhtin An Aesthetic for Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin''s work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin''s work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular-festive culture, and the phenomenology of everyday life revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. A detailed examination of the major works reveals the careful interweaving of philosophical and historical argument which makes Bakhtin at once so compelling and so frustrating a writer. Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages, but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe. As a consequence, Bakhtin becomes a more sober but alsoTrade ReviewHirschkop's study excels on numerous levels: meticulous and elegant in execution and style, exhaustively researched, acribically documented, and rigorously argued, it betrays its author's masterful grip of his subject - both biographical-historical and conceptual-philosophical ... has certainly set new critical standards for Bakhtin scholarship to come. * Poetics Today *This is an important and long-awaited book by one of the country's leading experts on Bakhtin and Bakhtinian theory. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *The book is rounded off with an extremely useful and up-to-date bibliography which includes a detailed bibliography of Bakhtin's writings organised according to genre and chronology and also those of his "circle". * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Very illuminating on Bakhtin's relationship with Saussure and linguistics. * The Yearbook of English Studies *Undoubtedly the most reliable and up-to-date biographical excursus on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle available in English. * Galin Tihanov, Times Higher Education Supplement *Intellectually vigorous ... subtle and wide-ranging interpretation ... asks several compelling qustions. * Galin Tihanov, Times Higher Education Supplement *
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Clarendon Press States of Fantasy
Book SynopsisStates of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose''s much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English'', and for the importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of our literary and historical lives, Rose looks at Israel/Palestine and South Africa, and their place in the English literary and cultural imagination.Jacqueline Rose''s fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities, and in these pages she pushes her investigation further into what might at first glance seem unlikely places. In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first non-racial democratic elections. States of Fantasy persuasively puts the case that nowhere demonstrates more clearly than these two arenas of historic conflict the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. In so doing, this book shows how Trade ReviewJacqueline Rose, with verve, imagination and ingenuity, argues that fantasy is central to modern politics: it is the psychic glue that holds together our social reality. Rose writes with engaging directness. * New Statesman and Society *The governing metaphor in Rose's study, deployed with splendid resourcefulness, is of unconscious histories, buried affiliations, broken and rejoined lines of influence...this is a work intimate with the detail of Israeli politics as it is with Jacques Lacan. Rose is an intellectual of the diaspora who, after a long detour through theory, has turned back to base in order to know the place for the first time, in all of its embracing, excluding the difference. * London Review of Books *It is the great virtue of Jacqueline Rose's new book ... that in it the reader is bracingly confronted with a genuinely innovative and adventurous style of investigating literary texts. Although she writes with in a recognizable psychoanalytic tradition solidly based in Freud, there is no jargon to get past. Rose's argument is both daring and convincing. Above all, I think it is her critical intelligence that impresses one the most. This isn't a mawkish kind of "personal criticism" - autobiographical meanderings through one's soul - but a capably expressed energy that takes her reader through the moral, cultural and psychological experiences that matter most to her. That we, too, feel them as important and consequential is a mark of her achievement. * Times Literary Supplement *a good and important read, politically engaged, personal and intellectual all in one. * Radical Philosophy 84, July/August 1997 *States of Fantasy is a brilliant, stimulating book, which exhibits a refreshing disregard for literary canon ... more provocative is its terminological novelty: the book's title heralds a departure from the more conventional 'culture and identity' approach. * Alasdair Pettinger, New Formations, 30 Winter 96/97 *Table of ContentsPART I. THE CLARENDON LECTURES ; PART II. THE LIMITS OF CULTURE
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Clarendon Press Stanley Cavell
Book SynopsisStephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory. It is not properly appreciated that Cavell''s project originated in his interpretation of Austin''s and Wittgenstein''s philosophical interest in the criteria governing ordinary language, and is given unity by an abiding concern with the nature and the varying cultural manifestations of the sceptical impulse in modernity. This book elucidates the essentially philosophical roots and trajectory of Cavell''s work, traces its links with Romanticism and its recent turn towards a species of moral pefectionism associated with Thoreau and Emerson, and concludes with an assessment of its relations to liberal-democratic political theory, Christian religious thought, and feminist literary studies. It will be of interest to anyonTrade ReviewDespite what his book's title might suggest, Stephen Mulhall's thorough explication of Stanley Cavell's philosophy is anything but ordinary. At the outset Mulhall makes it clear that he intends to address Cavell's exceptional formidability, and set himself `not to attempt to do what can and must only be done by Cavell's own prose, but to clear the space that is required for it to do so'....to Mulhall's credit...he has cleared the space for such a return. * Philosophy and Literature *Table of ContentsPART I: PATTERNS, AGREEMENT, AND RATIONALITY ; PART II: CRITERIA, SCEPTICISM, AND ROMANTICISM ; PART III: COMMON THEMES, COMPETING PERSPECTIVES ; PART IV: PHILOSOPHY, PEFECTIONISM, AND RELIGION
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Oxford University Press Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide to the richness and diversity of the Romantic field. It includes 46 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of leading scholars and combines chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - ''Romantic Orientations'', ''Reading Romanticism'', ''Romantic Forms'' and ''Romantic Afterlives''.Table of ContentsPART 1 ; ROMANTIC ORIENTATIONS ; 1. The Historical Context ; 2. The Literary Background ; 3. Classical Inheritances ; 4. Sensibility ; 5. The Visual Arts and Music ; 6. Print Culture ; 7. Romanticism and Science ; 8. Religion and Philosophy ; 9. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland ; 10. Europe ; 11. Easts ; 12. Americas ; PART 2 ; READING ROMANTICISM ; 13. Historicist/Marxist Approaches ; 14. Feminist Approaches ; 15. Ecological Approaches ; 16. Psychoanalytic Approaches ; 17. Postcolonial Approaches ; 18. Formalist Approaches ; PART 3 ; ROMANTIC FORMS ; 19. Introduction to Romantic Forms ; 20. The Lyric ; 21. Epic ; 22. The Sonnet ; 23. Narrative Poetry ; 24. The Novel ; 25. Satire ; 26. Drama ; 27. Essays, Newspapers and Magazines ; 28. Biography and Autobiography ; 29. Romance ; 30. Gothic ; 31. Fragments ; 32. Forgeries ; 33. Non-Fictional Prose ; 34. Travel Writing ; 35. Letters, Diaries and Journals ; PART 4 ; ROMANTIC AFTERLIVES ; 36. Literary Criticism and Theory ; 37. The Poetic Tradition ; 38. The Novel ; 39. Film ; 40. Romantic Afterlives and Legacies in the Theatre ; 41. Idea of the Author ; 42. Modernism and Postmodernity ; 43. Politics ; 44. Science ; 45. Environmentalism ; 46. Romanticism in the Electronic Age
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Oxford University Press Iliad
Book SynopsisHomer''s Iliad is one of the foundational texts of Western Civilization. The timelessness of its story, of men battling fate amidst the horrors of war, still stirs the imaginations of readers year after year. What is offered here is the first translation by someone who is both an eminent scholar and published poet. Based on his thorough familiarity with Homeric language, Powell''s free verse translation preserves the clarity and simplicity of the original, while recreating the original feel and sound of the oral-formulaic style. By avoiding the stylistic formality of earlier translations, and the colloquial and sometimes exaggerated effects of recent attempts, he deftly captures and conveys the most essential truths of this vital text. Helpfully included in this edition are a detailed introduction, illustrations, maps, and notes. Modern and pleasing to the ear while accurately reflecting the meaning of the Greek, Powell steers a middle path between the most well-known translations and Trade Reviewcomprehensive and authoritative ... user friendly ... This generous scholarly gift will be joined by Powell's forthcoming Odyssey (2014) ... Highly recommended. * R. Cormier, CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; List of Maps ; List of Figures ; Preface ; Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; About the Translator ; Maps ; Homeric Timeline ; Book 1: The Anger of Achilles ; Book 2: False Dream and the Catalog of Ships ; Book 3: A Duel to the Death ; Book 4: Trojan Treachery, Bitter War ; Book 5: The Glory of Diomedes ; Book 6: Hector and Andromache Say Goodbye ; Book 7: The Duel Between Hector and Ajax ; Book 8: Zeus Fulfills his Promise ; Book 9: The Embassy to Achilles ; Book 10: The Exploits of Dolon ; Book 11: The Glory of Agamemnon and The Wounding of the Captains ; Book 12: Attack on the Wall ; Book 13: The Battle at the Ships ; Book 14: Zeus Deceived ; Book 15: Counterattack ; Book 16: The Glory of Patroklos ; Book 17: Fight Over the Corpse of Patroklos ; Book 18: The Shield of Achilles ; Book 19: Agamemnon's Apology ; Book 20: The Dual Between Hector and Ajax ; Book 21: Fight with the River; Battle of the Gods ; Book 22: The Killing of Hector ; Book 23: The Funeral of Patroklos ; Book 24: The Ransom of Hector ; Bibliography ; Credits ; Pronouncing Glossary/Index
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