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Book Synopsis Upheavals of Thought by : Martha C. Nussbaum
Download or read book Upheavals of Thought written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical examination of the emotions as highly discriminating responses to what is of value.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry by : Neil Roberts
Download or read book A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry written by Neil Roberts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Book Synopsis Pastoral Palimpsests by : Michael Paschalis
Download or read book Pastoral Palimpsests written by Michael Paschalis and published by Michael Paschalis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dante’s Testaments by : Peter S. Hawkins
Download or read book Dante’s Testaments written by Peter S. Hawkins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Dante's reading and how he transformed what he found, this book argues that the independence and strength of Dante's poetic stance stems from deep and sustained experience of Christian scriptures.
Book Synopsis Virgil: The Aeneid by : K. W. Gransden
Download or read book Virgil: The Aeneid written by K. W. Gransden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aeneid is a landmark of literary narrative and poetic sensibility. This 2004 guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of Virgil's epic, and discusses the poet's use of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the most celebrated episodes in the poem, including the tragedy of Dido and Aeneas' visit to the underworld. The volume examines Virgil's psychological and philosophical insights, and explains the poem's status as the central classic of European culture. The final chapter considers the Aeneid's influence on later writers including Dante and the Romantics. The guide to further reading has been updated and will prove to be an invaluable resource to students coming to The Aeneid for the first time.
Book Synopsis Dante & the Unorthodox by : James L. Miller
Download or read book Dante & the Unorthodox written by James L. Miller and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2005-04-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante's allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed "way of salvation." Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book's eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet's conflicted relation to orthodoxy.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by J. Gibson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-03-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen published novels and the fame they brought him, and then, the culmination of his life as writer, his emergence in his remaining thirty years as one of the very greatest of English poets and the writer of The Dynasts.
Book Synopsis Sporting with the Classics by : Estelle Haan
Download or read book Sporting with the Classics written by Estelle Haan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the original Latin poetry of William Dillingham, a 17th-cent. editor, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Univ. It does so in an attempt to disprove claims that Dillingham’s talent lay in criticism rather than in original composition, and that his Latin verse shows his complete independence of the old school of classical imitation. This study highlights both the classical and the contemporary intertexts with which this hitherto neglected poetry engages. This highly talented verse “sports” with the classics in several ways: first in its self-consciously interaction with the Latin poets Virgil and Ovid; second in its appropriation of a classical world and its linguistic medium to describe such 17th-cent. sports or pastimes as bowling, horticulture, and bell-ringing.
Book Synopsis Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain by : Brad Kent
Download or read book Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain written by Brad Kent and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland’s leading social and political critic in the period following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays by O’Faolain on a wide range of subjects – from canonical writers to architecture, from religious scandals to economics, from nationalism to internationalism, from long-dead historical figures to recent controversies. O’Faolain’s fearlessness in taking on the major political, cultural, and religious figures of his day, his masterly use of rhetoric, and his intellectual acuity have contributed to his works being quoted often by scholars working across several disciplines. Many of these essays appear here in print for the first time since they were published in the foremost periodicals of their day. An extensive introduction and helpful annotations contextualise and explain them for a new audience. In his re-readings of history and challenges to dominant historiographical trends, O’Faolain has become a pariah to some and a hero to others. The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain bridges some of these competing visions, presenting a more complex figure through his varied corpus of writing.
Book Synopsis The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by : Dante Alighieri
Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana by : P. G. Walsh
Download or read book Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana written by P. G. Walsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walsh's book should be a vade mecum for anyone who would teach the Carmina Burana on any level and be of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.--New England Classical Newsletter and Journal "Teachers, students, and any reader interested in medieval lyric will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically interesting texts.--Renaissance Quarterly "The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of these captivating lyrics that has yet appeared in English.--Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge "A superb volume, fully worthy of these famous but often misunderstood poems. P. G. Walsh's unmatched erudition in Latin literature furnishes lucid grammatical explanations, incisive analysis of goliardic literary values and technique, and illuminating references to ancient and medieval parallels. His prose translations make the poems accessible also to those with little or no Latin.--Janet M. Martin, Princeton University
Book Synopsis Latin for the Illiterati by : Jon R. Stone
Download or read book Latin for the Illiterati written by Jon R. Stone and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This solidly researched handbook was ten years in the making, evolving from a handwritten help list of frequently occurring phrases to this comprehensive reference tool. Featuring more than 6,000 entries--including 300 abbreviations--Latin for the Illiterati is a perfect companion for every reader, student, and scholar on his or her lifelong journey.
Book Synopsis The Voice That Is Great Within Us by : Hayden Carruth
Download or read book The Voice That Is Great Within Us written by Hayden Carruth and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1983-09-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each. “Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”—Robert Lowell
Book Synopsis The Letters of T. S. Eliot by : T. S. Eliot
Download or read book The Letters of T. S. Eliot written by T. S. Eliot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Eliot's correspondence covers his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, when he married and settled in England. Volume two covers the time period of Eliot's publication of The Hallow Men and his developing ideas about poetry.
Book Synopsis The Alternative Trinity by : The late A. D. Nuttall
Download or read book The Alternative Trinity written by The late A. D. Nuttall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious. The Trinity for Blake is, conspicuously, not a happy family: the Father and the Son do not get on. It might be thought that so cumbersome a notion is inconceivable before the rise of Romanticism but the Ophite Gnostics of the second century AD appear to have thought that God the Father was a jealous tyrant because he forbade Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and that the serpent, who led the way to the Tree of Knowledge, was really Christ. This book explores the possibility of an underground 'perennial heresy', linking the Ophites to Blake. The 'alternative Trinity' is intermittently visible in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and even in Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake's notorious detection of a pro-Satan anti-poem, latent in this 'theologically patriarchal' epic is less capricious, better grounded historically and philosophically, than is commonly realised.
Book Synopsis The First Six Books of Vergil's Aeneid by : Virgil
Download or read book The First Six Books of Vergil's Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selections from Virgil's Aeneid Books 1-6 by : Ashley Carter
Download or read book Selections from Virgil's Aeneid Books 1-6 written by Ashley Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted questions. The book can be used as a source of one-off unseen passages or as a reader for students working through individual books or the whole poem. The commentary notes explain references to characters, places and events, provide linguistic and grammatical help on more challenging Latin phrases, and point out stylistic features. The questions test students' comprehension of the characters and storyline, and give them practice in handling literary terms. The passages are linked by summaries of the continuing plot, so students can grasp the progression of the poem as a whole. An in-depth introduction sets the story of the Aeneid in its mythological, literary and historical contexts; a glossary of literary devices and sections on style and metre are included. At the end of the book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list.
