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In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented through concealment and spin, the roles display and disguise play in literature, thought and visual culture are...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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Die Prosaautorin und Dramatikerin Elena Garro (1916-1998) war eine der widersprüchlichsten und faszinierendsten Gestalten in der mexikanischen Kulturszene des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Ihre frühen Dramen verfasste Elena Garro für die von ihrem langjährigen Ehemann, dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-12-21
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Auf den Theaterbühnen wie im Feuilleton sorgen die Dramen des 1959 geborenen Norwegers Jon Fosse seit einigen Jahren für Furore. Die Studie untersucht zunächst das Echo auf Fosses Stücke in der skandinavischen und deutschsprachigen Presse, bevor sie die Dramen selbst in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle...A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger... An innocent man is hunted by government agents for an unspecified crime...A...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2010-10-21
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Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!'
The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-03-11
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'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!'
The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-03-11
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'At one and the same time the greatest of all works of English patriotism and a searing critique of warfare' Jonathan BateYoung King Henry wages war on France. Tainted by his family's past crimes and with enemies among his own men, he must face the difficult...
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Penguin
Parution :
2010-02-25
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Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-12-17
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Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-12-17
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-12-15
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-11-20
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Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble Kinsmen is set in Athens and was co-written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by N. W. Bawcutt with an introduction by Peter...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-29
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This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters.This alienation from others also entails a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-09-17
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This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters.This alienation from others also entails a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-09-17
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Ion
Orestes
The Phoenician Women
The Suppliant Women
In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and expediency with justice, and the idea that 'might is right' with the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-03-17
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-03-17
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This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-05
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Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-06
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