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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1704
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022484676
Author : British Library,Jim Emmett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
ISBN : UVA:X000075467
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092332323
Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465592736
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author : Steven D. Smith
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922286
I, Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the rhetor Athenagorus, shall relate a love story that took place in Syracuse. Thus begins the earliest of the canonical Greek romances, the 1st century CE historical novel known as Callirhoe. Chariton's erotic tale is about the constancy of love in a world where virtue is always in danger of being corrupted. Chaereas and Callirhoe fall in love, but then are tragically separated after the heroine, believed dead, is buried alive. Each is eventually sold into slavery in the East, and Callirhoe herself contemplates the abortion of her unborn child when she is forced to marry a man she does not love. Hero and heroine are finally reunited in the foreign city of Babylon, only to be plunged into a war between Persia and Egypt.Classical Athenian historiography, philosophy, oratory, myth and drama were all integral in shaping this timely work of fiction set in the years following Athens' doomed Sicilian Expedition (415-413 BC). Chariton's novel is more, though, than just a romanticized representation of a famous episode from Greek history. The novel is clearly meant to be read for pleasure, but it also has a political edge. By imaginatively redeploying Athenian literature and political discourse in the construction of his fictional world, Chariton gives voice to contemporary concerns about freedom, tyranny, the ever-expanding meaning of Greek identity, and the role of Greek culture in a world dominated by Rome. This is a book that will be of value to anyone interested in Greek literature, the classical tradition, and the complex relationship between art and empire.
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041807239
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier’s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister. As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity—these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley’s era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it’s Italy. As the vacation winds down, we’re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture—the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important.
Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448
This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307829658
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:694060154
Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous.
Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : France
ISBN : NLS:B000287350
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781623569815
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Author : Kenneth J Freeman,M J Rendall
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019461918
Kenneth J. Freeman and M.J. Rendall's seminal study of ancient Greek education is a landmark work of classical scholarship. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the authors provide a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the educational practices and theories of the ancient Greeks, from the Homeric period to the end of the classical era. Essential reading for anyone interested in classical education or the history of ideas. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615566
Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
