Ulysses And The Sirens

Author : Bernard Evslin
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-04
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : 0812412249

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The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin Pdf

The occasion of forty years of teaching at Amherst by William H. Pritchard, the renowned critic of Frost, Jarrell, and many others, has generated a remarkable collection of essays by former students, colleagues, and friends.The essays themselves are a spectrum of contemporary, criticism, ranging from classroom memoirs to analytic essay-in-criticism to assessment of the state of academic letters today. These contributions, a tribute, by reason of their very range, are a salute to the breadth of William Pritchard's circle of literary acquaintance. Under Criticism demonstrates the fine persistence in certain manners of approach and habits of focus that go, among that circle, lander the name of criticism.Drawing foremost on their engagement with the literature before them, Christopher Ricks, Helen Vendler, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Neil Hertz, David Ferry, Paul Alpers, Joseph Epstein, and Frank Lentricchia -- as well as fifteen other critics and men and women of letters -- reinforce Professor Pritchard's prescription that in order to have a hearing, the critic needs to keep listening.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464011446

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Ulysses and the Sirens by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judith Peraino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520215870

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Listening to the Sirens by Judith Peraino Pdf

Judith Perraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with an examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens, she goes on to consider musical creatures, gods, humans and music-addled listeners.

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521223881

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Ulysses and the Sirens by Jon Elster Pdf

This book was first published in 1984, as the revised edition of a 1979 original. The text is composed of studies in a descending sequence from perfect rationality, through imperfect and problematical rationality, to irrationality. Specifically human rationality is characterized by its capacity to relate strategically to the future, in contrast to the myopic 'gradient climbing' of natural selection. There is trenchant analysis of some of the parallels proposed in this connection between the biological and the social sciences. In the chapter on imperfect rationality the crucial notion is that of 'binding oneself', as Ulysses did before setting out to the Sirens, when weakness of will may prevent us from using our capacity for perfect rationality. The second half of the book deals with rational-actor theory, comparing its logical power and success to rival approaches, and with the varieties of irrationality expressed in contradictory beliefs and desires.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

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 : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107192652

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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Ethics
ISBN : PRNC:32101066077247

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Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0750937254

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Ulysses Found by Ernle Bradford Pdf

Having settled in Malta after the end of World War 2, Ernle Bradford decided to trace the route of Ulysses. This book is a journal of his travels, describing both the amazing sights and the pitfalls that befell Homer's character.

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Odysseus (Greek mythology)
ISBN : OXFORD:590577777

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The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb Pdf

Author : Jon Elster,John E. Roemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052145722X

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Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being by Jon Elster,John E. Roemer Pdf

Constituting the most advanced and comprehensive treatment of one of the cardinal issues in social theory, a diverse group of social scientists address the problems, principles and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals.

Author : Andrew Lang,Samuel Henry Butcher
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0819628816

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The Odyssey of Homer by Andrew Lang,Samuel Henry Butcher Pdf

Author : Jon Elster,Ole-Jørgen Skog
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521640083

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Getting Hooked by Jon Elster,Ole-Jørgen Skog Pdf

The essays in this volume offer a thorough discussion of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This book-length treatment of the subject includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists and economists. Contrary to the widespread view that addicts are subject to overpowering and compulsive urges, the authors in this volume demonstrate that addicts are capable of making choices and responding to incentives. At the same time they disagree with Gary Becker's argument that addiction is the result of rational choice. The volume offers an exposition of the neurophysiology of addiction, a critical examination of the Becker theory of rational addiction, an argument for a 'visceral theory of addiction', a discussion of compulsive gambling as a form of addiction, several discussions of George Ainslie's theory of hyperbolic discounting, analyses of social causes and policy implications, and an investigation of the problem of relapse.

Author : Bernard Evslin
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1555462588

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The Sirens by Bernard Evslin Pdf

Describes the origins of the sirens, half-women, half-birds, who lured sailors to their deaths with their irresistible voices, and relates their encounter with Ulysses.

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521662130

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Ulysses Unbound by Jon Elster Pdf

This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edmund Dulac
Publisher : The Planet
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909115064

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Tanglewood Tales: Greek Myths Retold for Children (Illustrated Edition) by Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edmund Dulac Pdf

Tanglewood Tales is a collection of famous Greek myths beautifully retold and adapted for young readers. The collection includes six tales: the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, the myth of Antaeus and the Pygmies, the myth of the Dragon's Teeth, the myth of Circe's Palace, the myth of the Pomegranate Seed, the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. This edition features color illustrations by Edmund Dulac.