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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Heroic Temper written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard M. Knox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341775
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Heroic Temper written by Bernard M. Knox and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy. A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."
Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520049574
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Heroic Temper written by Bernard Knox and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy. A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."
Author : Sangeeta Bhadra
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 177138025X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Sam's Pet Temper written by Sangeeta Bhadra and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam is so frustrated waiting his turn at the playground that a Temper shows up. Within seconds, the beastly, wild thing clears the place, and Sam happily plays alone with his new pet. But his Temper follows him everywhere, causing more and more trouble, until Sam realizes he needs to put a stop to it. How is the question ƒ Kids will laugh at the relatable situations, while parents and teachers will enjoy the chance to talk about pet Tempers and ways to tame them.
Author : Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Heroic Temper written by Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Tanzer
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 132871036X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Creatures of Will & Temper written by Molly Tanzer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightful, dark, and entertaining romp . . . Molly Tanzer is at the top of her form in this beautifully constructed novel.” — Jeff VanderMeer, best-selling author of the Southern Reach trilogy Victorian London is a place of fluid social roles, vibrant arts culture, fin-de-siècle wonders . . . and dangerous underground diabolic cults. Fencer Evadne Gray cares for none of the former and knows nothing of the latter when she’s sent to London to chaperone her younger sister, aspiring art critic Dorina. At loose ends after Dorina becomes enamored with their uncle’s friend, Lady Henrietta “Henry” Wotton, a local aristocrat and aesthete, Evadne enrolls in a fencing school. There, she meets George Cantrell, an experienced fencing master like she’s always dreamed of studying under. But soon, George shows her something more than fancy footwork—he reveals to Evadne a secret, hidden world of devilish demons and their obedient servants. George has dedicated himself to eradicating demons and diabolists alike, and now he needs Evadne’s help. But as she learns more, Evadne begins to believe that Lady Henry might actually be a diabolist . . . and even worse, she suspects Dorina might have become one too. Combining swordplay, the supernatural, and Victorian high society, Creatures of Will and Temper reveals a familiar but strange London in a riff on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray that readers won't soon forget. “An artful, witty, Oscar Wilde pastiche with the heart of a paranormal thriller.” — Diana Gabaldon, best-selling author of Outlander
Author : Mary Ellen Boyd
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ISBN 13 : 9781734088175
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Temper the Wind written by Mary Ellen Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captive bride, a new land, and a chance at an everlasting love.
Author : Joseph P. Wilson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086887
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Hero and the City written by Joseph P. Wilson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without resorting to the jargon often employed by contemporary critics, this book covers all major aspects and questions raised by the play. The text contains a thorough examination of the contrast between Athens and its dramatic opposite, Thebes, a contrast best represented by the comparison between each city's primary representative, Theseus or Creon. Wilson offers a radical rereading of the Oedipus riddle and concludes with a substantial discussion of the play's (and playwright's) role in providing a political and moral education for the troubled Athenian polis in the last decade of the tumultuous fifth century. Joseph P. Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Scranton.
Author : John Burroughs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Writings of John Burroughs. [v.1-20 written by John Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Burroughs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies written by John Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Burroughs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Writings of John Burroughs written by John Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Harrison Lehman
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Carlyle's Theory of the Hero: Its Sources, Development, History, and Influence on Carlyle's Work written by Benjamin Harrison Lehman and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Roth
Publisher : NorthSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 9780735842748
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Hold Your Temper, Tiger written by Carol Roth and published by NorthSouth Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful look at managing tempers for tigers of every age. Little Tiger has a temper! He stomps his paws, cries, and growls when he doesn't want to do something. But when his mom says “Hold your temper or else,” Little Tiger has to make some changes. Where will he hold his temper? In his pocket . . . in his underwear?
Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187746
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Mirror of Justice written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "pure" and "free" law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siècle works, and the effects of totalitarianism, the theory of universal guilt, and anarchism in the twentieth century. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, the book locates the works in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. It thereby associates and illuminates these masterpieces from an original point of view and contributes a new dimension to the study of literature and law. In contrast to prevailing adherents of Law-and-Literature, this book professes Literature-and-Law, in which the emphasis is historical rather than theoretical, substantive rather than rhetorical, and literary rather than legal. Instead of adducing the literary work to illustrate debates about modern law, this book consults the history of law as an essential aid to the understanding of the literary text and its conflicts.
Author : Victor Brombert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075433
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (754 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Antiheroes written by Victor Brombert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero—the antihero—has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of mythic heroes, antiheroes are not necessarily "failures." They display different kinds of courage more in tune with our time and our needs: deficiency translated into strength, failure experienced as honesty, dignity achieved through humiliation. Brombert explores these paradoxes in the works of Büchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hašek, Frisch, Camus, and Levi. Coming from diverse cultural and linguistic traditions, these writers all use the figure of the antihero to question handed-down assumptions, to reexamine moral categories, and to raise issues of survival and renewal embodying the spirit of an uneasy age.
Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721860
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Moral Wisdom and Good Lives written by John Kekes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument that considers the adversities inherent in the human condition and assists in the achievement of good lives. The possession of moral wisdom, Kekes asserts, is a matter of degree: more of it makes lives better, less makes them worse. Exactly what is moral wisdom, however, and how should it be sought? Ancient Greek and medieval Christian philosophers were centrally concerned with it. By contrast, modern Western sensibility doubts the existence of a moral order in reality; and because we doubt it, and have developed no alternatives, we have grown dubious about the traditional idea of wisdom. Kekes returns to the classical Greek sources of Western philosophy to argue for the contemporary significance of moral wisdom. He develops a proposal that is eudaimonistic—secular, anthropocentric, pluralistic, individualistic, and agonistic. He understands moral wisdom as focusing on the human effort to create many different forms of good lives. Although the approach is Aristotelian, the author concentrates on formulating and defending a contemporary moral ideal. The importance of this ideal, he shows, lies in increasing our ability to cope with life's adversities by improving our judgment. In chapters on moral imagination, self-knowledge, and moral depth, Kekes calls attention to aspects of our inner life that have been neglected because of our cultural inattention to moral wisdom. He discusses these inner processes through the tragedies of Sophocles, which can inspire us with their enduring moral significance and help us to understand the importance of moral wisdom to living a good life.
Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482786
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Against Liberalism written by John Kekes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kekes argues further that the liberal conceptions of equality, justice, and pluralism require treating good and evil people with equal respect, distributing resources without regard to what recipients deserve, and restricting choices to those that conform to liberal preconceptions. All these policies are detrimental to good lives. Kekes concludes that liberalism cannot cope with the prevalence of evil, that it is vitiated by inconsistent commitments, and that - contrary to its aim - liberalism is an obstacle to good lives.
