Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine Dark-Sea

Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson-renowned translator of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad -explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures o…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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Wolfram Grajetzki
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

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Thomas Wright, Paul Kinsella
Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of hi…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Lili Berger,
On the Waves of Destiny

Lili Berger wrote about the most traumatic and transformative developments of the twentieth century to which she herself was an eyewitness. On the Waves of Destiny presents an anthology that reflects her …

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Ann Radcliffe,
The Italian; Or, the Confessional of the Black Penitents: Volume 6

The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents (1796) was the final novel that Ann Radcliffe published in her lifetime. With her monumental The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), it is widely consider…

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Joe Freeman, Aung Naing Soe
Frontline Poets

Combining poems by contemporary Burmese poets along with their life stories. The book demonstrates the power of the written word and is both a parallel story of Burmese political turmoil and the life-affi…

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Steve Courtney
Bewitching Place

A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the author's home, literary legacy, and…

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Carl Kerényi,
Zeus and Hera

A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and mythWhat did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human co…

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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicide…

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Carl Kerényi,
Dionysos

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In…

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Carl Kerényi,
Asklepios

A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetypeTo the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mytho…

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Eleni Bozia
Politics of Language

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who u…

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Troubled Lands

A landmark book---the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a lead…

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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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