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Liverpool University Press Statius: Achilleid
Book SynopsisStatius' Achilleid is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. Yet the completed first book and the earliest part of the second have a charm and freshness matched only in some of Ovid's most lively and engaging work. The poem tells how the sea-nymph Thetis, in a vain attempt to save her son from his destined end in the Trojan war, hid him on the island of Scyros, disguised as a girl. There he fell in love with the beautiful Deidamia, but at the same time, with the idea of glory in war. His feminine disguise was eventually penetrated by Ulysses and Diomedes, who tricked him into exposure of his truly warlike aspirations. In relating this story Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic genre, while playfully and wittily positioning himself in the epic - and wider - poetic tradition. These themes are explored in a new introduction by Robert Cowan, which surveys the latest research on the poem. Its assessment, very much in the modern critical manner, contrasts with and complements the traditional textual and philological commentary by O.A.W. Dilke. The combination of these two distinct approaches will assist undergraduates and postgraduates in reading the text, and, at the same time, it will provide a valuable resource for the more advanced scholar.Trade ReviewThis slim volume contains far more than its size suggests; the Latin text of Statius’ Achilleid, an introduction and a learned commentary by D., and an additional introduction and bibliography to this revised edition by C. In a work of commendable philological knowledge, D. provides insightful comments on Statius’ use and manipulation of the Latin language… C.’s new introduction and bibliography enhance an already accomplished volume… the new introduction taken on its own as a source of basic information on Statius and the Achilleid, recommends this book to undergraduates, if only because of the clarity and tone with which C. presents his information.JACT, Summer... there has also been a recent reissue in paperback of O. A. W. Dilke’s commentary on Statius’ Achilleid, with a new introduction by Bob Cowan. Armed with Dilke in paperback and H’s excellent monograph, university teachers will now be able to consider offering the Achilleid, a manageable text of a little over 1100 lines, to their students.Journal of Classics Teaching, Vol. 10Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO NEW EDITION Statius and the 'Achilleid' Gender Genre Intertexuality Notes Select Bibliography ORIGINAL PREFACE ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION 1. Life of Statius 2. Date of Composition of the 'Achilleid' 3. Theme of the 'Achilleid' 4. Synopsis 5. Sources 6. Language and Style 7.Grammar and Syntax 8. Character-drawing 9. Influence of Statius 10. Manuscripts 11. Bibliography THE TEXT Book I Book II NOTES
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Solace in Oblivion: Approaches to Transcendence
Book SynopsisWe live in an era of global anxiety – about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward extinction. So it’s no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. But exploring the possibilities of transcendence of our materiality – whether through religion, philosophy, psychology, or literature – is not a new feature of thought, art, or action. This book explores approaches to the immanence-transcendence problem in works of French, German, Italian, and Russian literature and philosophy between 1762 and 2016, in an effort to understand how different thinkers have approached this dynamic. The volume is divided into four "suppression" approaches and four "infliction" approaches, sometimes combining sympathetic source material from different centuries and countries that take complementary stances. While this book takes a skeptical approach as to whether a person can experience sensory comprehension of transcendence of his or her own embodiment, we are clearly in need of literature that provides guidance for our current sociological and psychological circumstances in an effort to help us navigate our global future.Trade Review«In his captivating exploration of the tension between immanence and transcendence in modern and contemporary European literature, philosophy, and critical theory, Robert Cowan takes us on a compelling quest for responses to an enduring and multifaceted human aspiration – to trespass the limits of the material world and access the divine.» (Nicoletta Pireddu, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University) «In this important, wide-ranging literary and theoretical exploration of the drive for transcendence, Robert Cowan presents a comparative critique of global neo-Gnosticism. Grounded in varied, specific examples and a first-person point of view, Cowan compellingly shows how far the planet is from achieved secularization. Whatever we consider the secular or ‹worldly› to be, the more it seems to dominate, the more the otherworldly may manifest itself in the temptations of oblivion.» (Kirk Wetters, Professor and Chair of German, Yale University)Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Theorize Transcendence – Suppression – Rage Against Time: Leopardi and Cioran against Sloterdijk – Ghost Your Past: Fanon and Meinhof in NDiaye and Pinckney – Embrace the Silence: Bakhtin among Diderot and Pelevin – Follow the Fool: Schopenhauer between Wagner and Nietzsche – Infliction – Idolize the Inhuman: Musil through Scarry, Felman, and Laub – Imagine Going Nuclear: Beckett with Bataille or Levinas – Fall into Occidentalism: Cioran before the Maoïstes and the Alt-Right – Become a Corpse: Bloch and Blanchot around Dostoevsky – Practice Immanence.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Teaching Double Negatives
Book SynopsisTeaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to re-narrate and represent their lives. In seven years of teaching literature and philosophy at Brooklyn's only community college, Robert Cowan worked with many kinds of disadvantaged studentsthose on welfare or homeless, single moms and the formerly incarcerated, traumatized war veterans, and immigrants from over 140 countries. These students had many reasons for wanting to dissent from the social norms that sought to define and marginalize them. One might imagine that disadvantaged students would identify with texts that are subversive, challenge dominant race/class/gender paradigms, and try to interrogate the globalized systems in which we live. But do they? Do the philosophies of Debord and Heidegger, the novels of Christa Wolf and Jean Genet, contemporary slave narratives and Dead Trade Review“This ambitious collection of essays was a very powerful read for me as both a teacher and a scholar—brimming with depth, insight, and empathy. Robert Cowan’s engagement with his students and with provocative literary and philosophical texts is a call to action for critical educators, and a testament to the complexity of the diverse student populations served by many urban community colleges. After reading, I continue to ponder over the layered probing of humanism and posthumanism, literary analyses embodied in service learning and social action, and the challenge to ‘use the past to rein in the present in the service of the future.’” —Limarys Caraballo, Associate Professor of English Education, Queens College & The Graduate Center, CUNY“In Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College, Robert Cowan and his student participants show us the negative function of criticism in community college composition courses. Appropriating Enlightenment philosophy, Adorno’s negative dialectics, and critical engagements of popular culture, Cowan’s negation of the negation, as Marx once put it, affirms symptomatic reading and writing as the practice of educational freedom. Cowan’s narrative is a convincing portrayal of teaching and learning not only as acts waged by the critical mind but the search for an ethical life.” —Zeus Leonardo, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Race, Whiteness, and Education
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Teaching Double Negatives
Book SynopsisTeaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to re-narrate and represent their lives. In seven years of teaching literature and philosophy at Brooklyn's only community college, Robert Cowan worked with many kinds of disadvantaged studentsthose on welfare or homeless, single moms and the formerly incarcerated, traumatized war veterans, and immigrants from over 140 countries. These students had many reasons for wanting to dissent from the social norms that sought to define and marginalize them. One might imagine that disadvantaged students would identify with texts that are subversive, challenge dominant race/class/gender paradigms, and try to interrogate the globalized systems in which we live. But do they? Do the philosophies of Debord and Heidegger, the novels of Christa Wolf and Jean Genet, contemporary slave narratives and Dead Trade Review“This ambitious collection of essays was a very powerful read for me as both a teacher and a scholar—brimming with depth, insight, and empathy. Robert Cowan’s engagement with his students and with provocative literary and philosophical texts is a call to action for critical educators, and a testament to the complexity of the diverse student populations served by many urban community colleges. After reading, I continue to ponder over the layered probing of humanism and posthumanism, literary analyses embodied in service learning and social action, and the challenge to ‘use the past to rein in the present in the service of the future.’” —Limarys Caraballo, Associate Professor of English Education, Queens College & The Graduate Center, CUNY“In Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College, Robert Cowan and his student participants show us the negative function of criticism in community college composition courses. Appropriating Enlightenment philosophy, Adorno’s negative dialectics, and critical engagements of popular culture, Cowan’s negation of the negation, as Marx once put it, affirms symptomatic reading and writing as the practice of educational freedom. Cowan’s narrative is a convincing portrayal of teaching and learning not only as acts waged by the critical mind but the search for an ethical life.” —Zeus Leonardo, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Race, Whiteness, and Education
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Emerald Publishing Limited DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENTS EXPLAINED BY COWAN R
Book SynopsisDesign and access statements are important interface between local authorities and planning applicants. The quality of the statements and local authorities' skill in using them will help to determine the quality of design. This guide explains what design and access statements are for, how to prepare them, and how to use them.Table of ContentsWhat is a design statement? When will a planning applicant have to submit a design statement? Design statements for outline planning applications Government policy and guidance on design statement how does a design statement help local authorities and planning applicants? What is required for a design statement? What form should the design statement take? Procedures for decision-making Other types of statement Professional advice Ten common defects of design statements Checklist for preparing a design statement Good practice examples of design statements for proposals at different scales of size and complexity
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Oxford University Press Satires and Epistles
Book SynopsisHorace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries in his Satires, and the Epistles include the famous Art of Poetry, whose advice on poetic style influenced many later writers and dramatists. John Davie's new prose translations perfectly capture the ribald style of the original.
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Underlying Rhythm: On Translation, Communication,
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, scholarly essays, and tributes in honor of Burton Pike (1930–2022), a renowned translator of Robert Musil, Rilke, Goethe, Gerhard Meier, and others, as well as a scholar of literary Modernism and the image of the city. He was also an extraordinary teacher, mentor, and inspiration to a generation. The pieces are mostly written by former students, colleagues, and admiring friends, but the book also includes two interviews with Pike, along with Pike’s own previously unpublished lecture on Thomas Mann’s last novel, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction – An Interview with Burton Pike – Growing Up in Language and Music: An Interview with Burton Pike – With All the Senses: A Translation of Klaus Mann’s "Gimietto" with Commentary – Short Prose from Contemplation by Franz Kafka, with Commentary – Translation of a Passage from Madame Bovary, with Commentary – An Ode to Rome, and a Translation of Lucio Mariani’s "Roman Ode" – Letters on The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil – Armand de Kroullosta: Thomas Mann’s Confessions of the Confidence Man—A Lecture – The City as TK – Accessing Ludwig Hohl – Arnheim and His Discontents in Musil’s The Man without Qualities – The Birth of Modern Czech Out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment – Diderot and Musil: Negative Capability as Ironic Acting – Pre- Existing Conditions: The Diseased Urban Self in Andrei Bitov’s The Pushkin House – The Utopia of Metaphor as Translation – The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion – Acceptance Speech for the Friedrich Ulfers Prize, 2016 – Laudation for Burton Pike as He Is Awarded the 2016 Friedrich Ulfers Prize [Adapted and Updated in 2022] – Stalking the Ineffable – A Tribute to Burt Pike – Celebrating Burton Pike – Burton Pike in Vienna, circa 1994 – Reminiscence – A Mental Desk with Many Drawers – Tribute.
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