Classics In Extremis

Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350017276

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Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from American public-school classrooms to contemporary right-wing politics. How does the reception of the ancient world change under impossible strain? Its protagonists are 'marginal' figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the 'marginal' shapes the 'central' as much as vice versa – and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of 'centre' and 'margins' produce? How can 'marginal' receptions be recovered most effectively? Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception.

Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350017269

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Classics in Extremis by Edmund Richardson Pdf

Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from American public-school classrooms to contemporary right-wing politics. How does the reception of the ancient world change under impossible strain? Its protagonists are 'marginal' figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the 'marginal' shapes the 'central' as much as vice versa – and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of 'centre' and 'margins' produce? How can 'marginal' receptions be recovered most effectively? Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception.

Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350017280

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Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception by Edmund Richardson Pdf

Author : Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473545380

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In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum Pdf

The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world and her anecdotes about encounters with figures like Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat were incomparable. She was much admired, and as famous for her wild parties as for the extraordinary lengths to which she went to tell the story. Fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum draws on unpublished diaries and interviews with friends, family and colleagues to produce a story of one of the most daring and inspirational women of our times. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYD

Author : Germán Campos Muñoz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350170278

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The Classics in South America by Germán Campos Muñoz Pdf

This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes across Latin America. The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods, fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western – a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004468658

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Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas opens a window onto classical receptions across the Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone and Anglophone Americas during the early modern period, examining classical reception as a phenomenon in transhemispheric perspective for the first

Author : Lorna Hardwick,Stephen Harrison,Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198907121

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Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen by Lorna Hardwick,Stephen Harrison,Elizabeth Vandiver Pdf

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied at school, whereas for Owen, who struggled with Latin, classical texts were a part of his aspirational literary imagination. Rosenberg's education was limited but he encountered some Greek and Roman literature through translations, and through mediations in English literature. The various ways in which the poets engaged with classical literature are analysed in the commentaries, which are designed to be accessible to classicists and to users from other subject areas. The extensive range of connections made by the poets and by subsequent readers is explained in the Introduction to the volume. The commentaries illuminate relationships between the poems and attitudes to the war at the time, in the immediate post-war years, and subsequently. They also probe how individual poems reveal various facets of the poetry of unease, the poetry of survival, and the poetics of war and ecology. References to the accompanying online Oxford Classical Receptions Commentaries will enable readers to follow up their special interests. This volume differs from the shorter volume Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections in that it covers the whole output of the four poets, and not just their war poems.

Author : Neil Bartlett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783197934

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In Extremis by Neil Bartlett Pdf

On the night of 24th March 1895, Mrs Robinson, a society palm-reader, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, 'Bosie', was urging him to sue the Marquis of Queensberry (Bosie's father) for criminal libel. But Wilde's friends, wary of Queensberry's power, were warning him to leave town. In Extremis reveals the strange turmoil of that night, as a man at the height of his fame turns to a complete stranger for advice about a potentially life-changing decision. In Extremis was first presented in November 2000 at the National Theatre alongside De Profundis to mark the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Resurrection House
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982663950

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In Extremis by John Shirley Pdf

In this collection of darkly funny, disquieting stories, John Shirley brings his substantial talent to bear on human morality through the absurd, violent blunderings of his characters. In Extremis features more than twenty of Shirley’s most intense stories, including two never-before-published pieces that are sure to roil the genre’s most hardened readers.

Author : Emanuela Bianchi,Sara Brill,Brooke Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192528223

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Antiquities Beyond Humanism by Emanuela Bianchi,Sara Brill,Brooke Holmes Pdf

Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human and dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things. Antiquities beyond Humanismseeks to explode the presumed dichotomy between the ancient tradition and the twenty-first century "turn" by exploring the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human. Greek philosophy in particular is filled with metaphysical explanations of the cosmos grounded in observations of the natural world, while other areas of ancient humanistic inquiry - poetry, political theory, medicine - extend into the realms of plant, animal, and even stone life, continually throwing into question the ontological status of living and non-living beings. By casting the ancient non-human or more-than-human in a new light in relation to contemporary questions of gender, ecological networks and non-human communities, voice, eros, and the ethics and the politics of posthumanism, the volume demonstrates that encounters with ancient texts, experienced as both familiar and strange, can help forge new understandings of life, whether understood as physical, psychical, divine, or cosmic.

Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780595140411

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In Extremis by Deborah Baker Pdf

In Extremis is hte first major biography of a major 20th century modernist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Classical antiquities
ISBN : UIUC:30112111459233

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Classics Pamphlet Collection by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015569119

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The American Catholic Quarterly Review ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Andrew Corcoran,Patrick John Ryan,Edmond Francis Prendergast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433081754685

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The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran,Patrick John Ryan,Edmond Francis Prendergast Pdf

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473547995

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In Extremis by Tim Parks Pdf

Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies. But he's set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in time? Will he be able to say what he couldn't say before? He can't concentrate on what is happening now: his mind won't sit still. Should he try to solve his friend's marital crisis? Should he reconsider his separation from his own wife? And why does he need to pee again? In Extremis is Tim Parks's masterwork: a darkly hilarious and deadly serious novel about infidelity, mortality and the frailties of the human body.