Search results for "tag:"Author David Elmer""
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group March Was Made of Yarn
Book SynopsisIn time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild.On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path—highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses—leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to such a tragedy, in what is a fascinating, enigmatic and poignant collection.
£15.37
Repristination Press A Comprehensive Explanation of Holy Baptism and the Lord's Supper (1610)
£20.81
De Gruyter Paul and Mark: Comparative Essays Part I. Two Authors at the Beginnings of Christianity
Book SynopsisThe hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was heavily influenced by Pauline theology and/or epistles was widespread in the nineteenth century, but fell out of favour for much of the twentieth century. In the last twenty years or so, however, this view has begun to attract renewed support, especially in English language scholarship. This major and important collection of essays by an international team of scholars seeks to move the discussion forward in a number of significant ways – tracing the history of the hypothesis from the nineteenth century to the modern day, searching for historical connections between these two early Christians, analysing and comparing the theology and christology of the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and assessing their reception in later Christian texts. This major volume will be welcomed by those who are interested in the possible influence of the apostle to the Gentiles on the earliest Gospel.
£144.40
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies The Singer of Tales
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1960, The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry—from South Slavic epic songs to the Iliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, and beyond. This edition offers a corrected text and is supplemented by an open-access website with audio recordings.
£18.86
Johns Hopkins University Press The Poetics of Consent
Book SynopsisThe Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad.Trade ReviewAn excellent book that puts the boundaries socio-historic interpretation and textual semantics to a serious test. It is of great relevance to both historians and philologists... Overall, this is a great and thought-provoking book with a fascinating argument. -- Werner Tietz Bryn Mawr Classical Review The thesis that the Iliad's conflict-ridden communities in fact reinforce communitarian values is persuasive, the identification of those communities with the interpretive communities that propagated Homeric poetry is intriguing, and both of these ideas are sure to play a significant role in shaping the interpretative of epic poetry in the future. -- James Marks Phoenix If The Poetics of Consent were to find a broad readership, it could, as I believe it should, transform the face of Homeric scholarship. -- Roger Travis New England Classical Journal The book is remarkably well written and engaging, always seeking clear explanations of complex concepts. The book also synthesizes and extends the current state of scholarship on the Iliad, addressing, as well as any recent book, the different (often divergent) approaches to the politics and poetics of the epic. -- Dean Hammer Classical Journal The book is exemplary in approaching large poetic and cultural issues through details of language and patterns of formulaic usage. -- William G. Thalman American Journal of Philology ... The Poetics of consent is an in-depth study of one word, epainos ('approval'), and its occurrence throughout the Iliad. But, in Elmer's expert hands, It becomes the means like an Ariadne thread, of tracing a way through the Iliad's bigger picture, this book will be a trustworthy companion for future generations if Homeric scholars. HermathenaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Texts, Translations, and TransliterationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: From Politics to PoeticsPart I: Frameworks and Paradigms1. The Grammar of Reception2. Consensus and Kosmos: Speech and the Social World in an Indo- European Perspective3. Achilles and the Crisis of the Exception4. Social Order and Poetic Order: Agamemnon, Thersites, and the Cata logue of ShipsPart II: The Iliad's Political Communities5. In Search of Epainos: Collective Decision Making among the Achaeans6. A Consensus of Fools: The Trojans' Exceptional Epainos7. The View from Olympus: Divine Politics and MetapoeticsPart III: Resolutions8. The Return to Normalcy and the Iliad's "Boundless People"9. The Politics of Reception: Collective Response and Iliadic Audiences within and beyond the TextAfterword: Epainos and the OdysseyNotesBibliographyNotes
£45.00
New York University Press Love Death Fame
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