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Volpone, or The Fox
Av Ben Jonson, Alvin B. Kernan
Häftad, 1977
523 kr
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Volpone, or “The Fox,” is one of Jonson’s most popular plays and through the years has been a favorite of both theater-goers and readers. Professor Kernan offers his own interpretation, in a critical introduction that fully exploits the rich imagery, intricate plot development, and skillful …
Alchemist
Av Ben Jonson, Alvin B. Kernan
Häftad, 1977
523 kr
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In none of Ben Jonson’s plays is Renaissance heroic humanism converted to comic reality more obviously and successfully than in The Alchemist. Here the aspiration of the Renaissance to control and remake the world is imaged as a great swindle, alchemy. Jonson parodies philosophers, scientists, the …
Death of Literature
Häftad, 1992
502 kr
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Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades—a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished professor of humanities looks at some of the agents that have contributed to literature's demise …
Shakespeare, the King's Playwright
Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
Häftad, 1997
553 kr
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Soon after James Stuart became king of England in 1603, William Shakespeare, while still working in the public theater, became the royal playwright, and his acting troupe became the premier playing company of the realm. How did this courtly setting influence Shakespeare's work? What was it like to …
In Plato's Cave
Häftad, 2000
580 kr
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In this delightful and candid memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during a distinguished career in some of higher education’s most hallowed halls. With his customary wit and insight, Kernan recounts his experiences at Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, …
Fruited Plain
Fables for a Postmodern Democracy
Inbunden, 2002
983 kr
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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today’s more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of …
Ben Jonson: Sejanus
Av Ben Jonson, Alvin B. Kernan m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
481 kr
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One of Jonson’s greatest plays, Sejanus, has seldom been edited, and is here published, with full notes and introduction, for the first time since 1911. Mr. Barish shows that Jonsonian tragedy can be understood and appreciated only by clearing the mind of Shakespearean preconceptions. The present …
Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print
(Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson)
Häftad, 1989
563 kr
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The description for this book, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson), will be forthcoming.
Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print
(Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson)
E-bok, 2021
820 kr
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The description for this book, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson), will be forthcoming.
What's Happened to the Humanities?
Häftad, 2014
1014 kr
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This volume of specially commissioned original essays presents the thoughts of some of the most distinguished commentators within the American academy on the fundamental changes that have taken place in the humanities in the latter part of the twentieth century. In the transformation of American …
Imaginary Library
An Essay on Literature and Society
Häftad, 2014
779 kr
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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest …
What's Happened to the Humanities?
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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This volume of specially commissioned original essays presents the thoughts of some of the most distinguished commentators within the American academy on the fundamental changes that have taken place in the humanities in the latter part of the twentieth century. In the transformation of American …
Imaginary Library
An Essay on Literature and Society
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest …
Imaginary Library
An Essay on Literature and Society
E-bok, 2014
574 kr
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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest …
What's Happened to the Humanities?
E-bok, 2014
604 kr
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This volume of specially commissioned original essays presents the thoughts of some of the most distinguished commentators within the American academy on the fundamental changes that have taken place in the humanities in the latter part of the twentieth century. In the transformation of American …
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons
Häftad, 2007
239 kr
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