Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Time of Christ
Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Time of Christ

Author: Alfred Edersheim

Publisher:

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781600969973

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In this comprehensive look at life in the time of Jesus, Edersheim examines Jewish homelife, marriage customs, worship, literature, and much more. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

The Twilight of the Avant-garde
The Twilight of the Avant-garde

Author: Jonathan Mayhew

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1846311837

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Twilight of the Avant-Garde addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.