Illness Disease And Death In The Poems Of Constantine Cavafy

Author : Iakovos Menelaou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527584624

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Illness, Disease and Death in the Poems of Constantine Cavafy by Iakovos Menelaou Pdf

Constantine Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragility of the human condition, and his attention to illness, disease and death, old age, alcohol consumption and homosexuality continue to attract and challenge his readers. In turning anew to these themes, this book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new and integrated framework. The medical humanities provide us with a new framework through which Cavafy’s poetry can be investigated, not only by scholars in literary studies and world literature, but also by medical practitioners and researchers in the history of medicine.

Author : Iakovos Menelaou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527584615

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Illness, Disease and Death in the Poems of Constantine Cavafy by Iakovos Menelaou Pdf

Constantine Cavafy's preoccupation with the fragility of the human condition, and his attention to illness, disease and death, old age, alcohol consumption and homosexuality continue to attract and challenge his readers. In turning anew to these themes, this book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new and integrated framework. The medical humanities provide us with a new framework through which Cavafy's poetry can be investigated, not only by scholars in literary studies and world literature, but also by medical practitioners and researchers in the history of medicine.

Author : Constantine Cavafy,Geōrgios P. Savvidēs
Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0701205512

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Collected Poems by Constantine Cavafy,Geōrgios P. Savvidēs Pdf

Author : Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Greek poetry
ISBN : 0007523378

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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn Pdf

This volume includes the English translation of 30 unfinished poems that Constantine Cavafy left in drafts when he died. Daniel Mendelsohn provides an in-depth introduction and commentary situating each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context.

Author : Duane Michals,Constantine Cavafy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0891690433

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Homage to Cavafy by Duane Michals,Constantine Cavafy Pdf

Author : Constantine Cavafy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156198207

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The Complete Poems of Cavafy [i.e. K. P. Kabaphēs] by Constantine Cavafy Pdf

Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem "Ithaca." Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.

Author : Constantine Cavafy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Greek poetry, Modern
ISBN : 1848612664

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Complete Plus by Constantine Cavafy Pdf

This book contains the 154 canonical Collected Poems, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems, and just one of his rejected, early poems, 'Ode and Elegy of the Street, ' used here as a kind of overture to the collection.

Author : Constantine Petrou Cavafy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59245505

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The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Constantine Petrou Cavafy Pdf

Author : Constantine Cavafy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:271083839

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The Complete Poems of Cavafy by Constantine Cavafy Pdf

Author : Hala Halim
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823251766

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Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism by Hala Halim Pdf

Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city's culture and simultaneously places things Egyptian under the sign of decline. The book goes beyond this civilization/barbarism binary to trace other modes of intercultural solidarity. Halim presents a comparative study of literary representations, addressing poetry, fiction, guidebooks, and operettas, among other genres. She reappraises three writers--C. P. Cavafy, E. M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell--whom she maintains have been cast as the canon of Alexandria. Attending to issues of genre, gender, ethnicity, and class, she refutes the view that these writers' representations are largely congruent and uncovers a variety of positions ranging from Orientalist to anti-colonial. The book then turns to Bernard de Zogheb, a virtually unpublished writer, and elicits his Camp parodies of elite Levantine mores in operettas one of which centers on Cavafy. Drawing on Arabic critical and historical texts, as well as contemporary writers' and filmmakers' engagement with the canonical triumvirate, Halim orchestrates an Egyptian dialogue with the European representations.

Author : Kimon Friar
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004095603

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Modern Greek Poetry by Kimon Friar Pdf

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Author : Krista Tippett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0143113186

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Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett Pdf

A thought-provoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this book, she draws on her own life story and her intimate conversations with both ordinary and famous figures, including Elie Wiesel, Karen Armstrong, and Thich Nhat Hanh, to explore complex subjects like science, love, virtue, and violence within the context of spirituality and everyday life. Her way of speaking about the mysteries of life-and of listening with care to those who endeavor to understand those mysteries--is nothing short of revolutionary.

Author : Kirstie Blair
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191534386

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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart by Kirstie Blair Pdf

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets - including Aurora Leigh, 'Empedocles on Etna', In Memoriam, and Maud - while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.

Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107189058

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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho by P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly Pdf

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

Author : Apostolos J Polyzoides
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782841548

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Alexandria by Apostolos J Polyzoides Pdf

Herewith an historical journey from the third century to the multiethnic metropolis of the twentieth century, bringing together two diverse histories of the city. Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Ptolemies who in thirty years completed the first lighthouse and the grand library and museum which functioned as a university with the emphasis on science, known as 'The Alexandrian School', attracting scholars from all over the ancient world. Two of the most eminent were Euclid, the father of geometry, and Claudios Ptolemy, writer of The Almagest, a book on astronomy. These are the oldest surviving science textbooks and the city was known as "the birthplace of science". Herein there are stories about scientists, poets and religious philosophers, responsible for influencing the western mind with their writings. Modern Alexandria was rebuilt in 1805 by multiethnic communities who created a successful commercial city and port with an enviable life-style for its inhabitants for 150 years. In 1952 the Free Officers of the Egyptian Army masterminded a coup to free the country from the monarchy and British domination. In 1956 the socialist regime under Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Suez Canal, resulting in the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion. This outburst of Egyptian nationalism and military revolution by this understandably anti-Western regime included the confiscation of property belonging to foreigners and the subsequent mass exodus of business and artisan classes that hitherto had made the city so successful. The author was an eye-witness to these events and he sets out the political errors and failures of both Egyptian and Western leaders. The legacy of the resulting political and social confusions is deeply apparent in the continuing unrest in the Middle East, and in particular in Egypt.