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  • African American Writers & Classical Tradition

    par William W. Cook, James Tatum ...
    Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as ... En savoir plus

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    Collections series Canto Classics
    The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it ... En savoir plus

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  • The Buried Book

    The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

    par David Damrosch ...
    A "lively and accessible" history of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, and its sensational rediscovery in the nineteenth century ( The Boston Sunday Globe).Composed in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history: the Bible, Homer, The Thousand and One Nights. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the ... En savoir plus

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  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    par Marina Warner ...
    Collections series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... En savoir plus

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  • Homer's Turk

    par Jerry Toner ...
    Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on Greek and Roman literature to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Even today, the Classics frame the West’s relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China. ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

    par Gregory Nagy ...
    The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today, Gregory Nagy argues—and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and Herakles.In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities by virtue of being descended ... En savoir plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Modifié par Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Epic Trickster in American Literature

    From Sunjata to So(u)l

    par Gregory E. Rutledge ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic ... En savoir plus

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  • Anne of France: <I>Lessons for my Daughter</I>

    par Sharon L Jansen ...
    Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was referred to by her contemporaries as Madame la Grande, and remained an activeand influential figure in France throughout her life. As the fifteenth century drew to a close, Anne composed a series of enseignements, "lessons", for her daughter Suzanne of ... En savoir plus

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  • A World of Heroes

    Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles

    par Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course ...
    Collections series Reading Greek
    A World of Heroes is a reader designed for students who have just completed an introductory course in ancient Greek and wish to read substantial passages of ancient authors in the original language. It introduces three of ancient Greece's most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles, and includes such gripping and influential stories as the battle of Thermopylai (from Herodotus' ... En savoir plus

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  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    par Jeannine Marie DeLombard ...
    Collections series Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... En savoir plus

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  • Peach Blossom Shangri-la of Tao Yuan Ming

    par Tao Yuan Ming ...
    This ebook "Tao Hua Yuan Ji" is including English translation and the Chinese original.The Peach Blossom Land was a fable by Tao Yuanming in 421 about a chance discovery of an ethereal utopia where the people lead an ideal existence in harmony with nature, unaware of the outside world for centuries."Peach Blossom Spring" was written during a time of political instability and national disunity. The ... En savoir plus

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