Excidium Troiae
Author: Virgil Keeble Whitaker
Publisher:
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781258390051
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Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace
Author: S. J. Harrison
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 995
ISBN-13: 0191615900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKS. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.
Toleration in Conflict
Author: Rainer Forst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0521885779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.
Touching Photographs
Author: Margaret Olin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-05-21
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0226626466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography’s ability to “touch” us through a series of essays that shed new light on photography’s role in the world. Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger communities, analyzing how photography affects the way people handle cataclysmic events like 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, takes us into Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, Touching Photographs is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context
Author: Harriet Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1316715175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the challenging and radical nature of the Mirror's politics, its significance as a work of material culture, its relationship to oral culture as print was becoming ever more important, and the complicated evolution of its diverse texts. Other chapters discuss the importance of the book as the first major work that represented Roman history for a literary audience, the sly humour contained in the tragedies and their influence on major writers such as Spenser and Shakespeare.
The Cambridge World History
Author: Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521761628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.
Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Author: A.P. Coudert
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9401146330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh's Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent years. Although we have hosted many special seminars on such subjects as rare books, the Huguenots, and Irish church history, this was the first time that a seminar was held which was specifically related to the books in our own collection. It seems surprising that this type of seminar has never been held before although the reason is obvious. Since there is no printed catalogue of the Library scholars are not aware of its contents. In fact the collection of books by late seventeenth and early eighteenth century European authors on, for example, such subjects as biblical criticism, political and religious controversy, is one of the richest parts of the Library's collections. Some years ago we were informed that of the 25,000 books in Marsh's at least 5,000 English books or books printed in England were printed between 1640 and 1700.
Species
Author: John S. Wilkins
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0520271394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive work, John S. Wilkins traces the history of the idea of "species" from antiquity to today, providing a new perspective on the relationship between philosophical and biological approaches.--[book cover].
Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work
Author: Damiano Benvegnù
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 3319712586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholars, the complex and extensive animal imagery Levi employed in his literary works offers new insights into the aesthetical and ethical function of testimony, as well as an original perspective on contemporary debates surrounding human-animal relationships and posthumanism. The three main sections that compose the book mirror Levi’s approach to non-human animals and animality: from an unquestionable bio-ethical origin (“Suffering”); through an investigation of the relationships between writing, technology, and animality (“Techne”); to a creative intellectual project in which literary animals both counterbalance the inevitable suffering of all creatures, and suggest a transformative image of interspecific community (“Creation”).
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy
Author: Matteo Soranzo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9004416161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy, Matteo Soranzo offers the first in-depth study of the life and works of Augurello, Italian alchemist, poet and art connoisseur from the time of Giorgione. Analysed, annotated and translated into English for the first time, Augurello’s poetry reveals a unique blend of late medieval alchemical doctrines, Northern Italian antiquarianism and Marsilio Ficino’s Platonism, enriching conventional narratives of Renaissance humanism.
