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Author: Peter Mahon
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-11-02
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0826487912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the most commonly studied texts, it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work.
Author: Jeff Love
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1441101136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCount Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the most important writers in the Western tradition. His two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, cover an enormous range of basic human experiences with a precision and probing spirit that, in the words of one critic, are simply "unmatched by any other writer." This guide offers students a clear introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including Hadji Murat and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The guide also covers major themes including sex, death, authority and evil and offers an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical thought. A final chapter assesses his lasting influence in the spheres of literature and culture, religion and philosophy and on major figures including Joyce, Ghandi, Wittgenstein and Heidegger.
Author: Sean Sheehan
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1441196838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek's work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that fill Žižek's writings, the book explores his influences, including Lacan, Kant, Hegel and Marx. From there, a chapter on 'Reading Žižek' guides the reader through the ways that he applies these core theoretical concepts in key texts like Tarrying With the Negative, The Ticklish Subject and The Parrallax View and in his books about popular culture like Looking Awry and Enjoy Your Symptom! Major secondary writings and films featuring Žižek are also covered.
Author: W. Terrence Gordon
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-02-25
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1441143807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to prominence in the 1960s. The Woodstock generation found him cool; their parents found him perplexing. By 1963, McLuhan was Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and would be a public intellectual on the international stage for more than a decade, then linked forever to his two best known coinages: the global village and the medium is the message. Taken as a whole, McLuhan's writings reveal a profound coherence and illuminate his unifying vision for the study of language, literature, and culture, grounded in the broad understanding of any medium or technology as an extension of the human body. McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. The overriding objective is to clarify all of McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreading, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions.
Author: Lee Spinks
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009-01-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748639462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Joyce: A Critical Guide presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the great modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to his mature prose masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, the book provides detailed textual analysis of each of his major works. It also provides an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform Joyce's writing and a wide-ranging discussion of the multiple strands of Joyce criticism that have established themselves over the last eighty years. The book's combination of sustained close reading of individual texts and critical breadth makes it an ideal companion for both undergraduate students and the wider community of Joyce's readers.
Author: Josef Stern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 022645763X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoses Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation—in Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, French, English, and other modern languages—rather than in its original Judeo-Arabic. This volume is the first to tell the story of the translations and translators of Maimonides’ Guide and its impact in translation on philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present day. A collection of essays by scholars from a range of disciplines, the book unfolds in two parts. The first traces the history of the translations of the Guide, from medieval to modern renditions. The second surveys its influence in translation on Latin scholastic, early modern, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, as well as its impact in translation on current scholarship. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be essential reading for philosophers, historians, and religious studies scholars alike.
Author: Mary Klages
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780826490735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Guide introduces theory in a clear, accessible way, focusing on the major approaches and theorists.
Author: Tim Conley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1487502508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Textual Functions -- 1 Guidance Systems -- 2 Misquoting Joyce -- 3 Limited Editions, Edited Limitations -- 4 Translation, Annotation, Hesitation -- Part Two: Cultural Appropriations -- 5 Make a Stump Speech Out of It -- 6 Win a Dream Date with James Joyce -- 7 The Stephen Dedalus Diet -- Conclusion: Means Without End -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author: Len Platt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1441165460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the work of James Joyce, the literary, historical and political contexts in which he wrote and his critical reception up to the present day.
Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1441190031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements, this book considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature in a clear, accessible manner.
