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Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter.
All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-23
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Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter.
All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-16
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This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential link between the...
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Collège de France
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2017-02-12
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Leçons inaugurales
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Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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Frances Weetman's writing challenges the basis of current economic thinking. She shows how economics does not have true scientific credibility and how excessive confidence in what is actually a belief system may be having disastrous effects not only on our economy but...
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Virago
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2017-02-02
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love,...
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Penguin
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2016-11-24
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-11-03
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A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush.These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent.Each of these varied contributors - settlers, explorers, anthropologists,...
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E-Penguin
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2016-10-31
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'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh-
blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-21
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'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh-
blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-20
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**THE BRILLIANT & IRREVERENT GUIDE FROM AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND STAR OF THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE AND JOE LYCETT'S GOT YOUR BACK **Also seen on Epic Win, The Time it Takes, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster. He's seen everywhere in fact. 'Joe is...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-10-20
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'Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WARNER, INDEPENDENT 'With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right' GUARDIAN'Her writing occupies a unique...
Editeur :
Virago
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2016-10-06
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Virago Modern Classics
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