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31 produkter
Anne Carson: Antiquity
Av Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2021
1560 kr
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From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson’s engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the …
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics
Av Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2025
1467 kr
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an …
The Roman Paratext
Frame, Texts, Readers
Av Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2014
1797 kr
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What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting …
The Roman Paratext
Frame, Texts, Readers
Av Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2017
640 kr
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What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting …
Borges' Classics
Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past
Av Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of reading' the classics, which privileges a …
Borges' Classics
Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past
Av Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2018
1872 kr
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In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of reading' the classics, which privileges a …
Roman Paratext
Frame, Texts, Readers
Av Laura Jansen
E-bok, 2014
619 kr
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What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts ''paratextually''? And what does this approach suggest about a work''s original modes of plotting …
Roman Paratext
Frame, Texts, Readers
Av Laura Jansen
E-bok, 2014
638 kr
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What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts ''paratextually''? And what does this approach suggest about a work''s original modes of plotting …
James Joyce and Classical Modernism
Av Leah Culligan Flack, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2020
1396 kr
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James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce’s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. Responding to a long-standing critical paradigm that has viewed the classical world as a means of …
Fellini’s Eternal Rome
Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini
Av Alessandro Carrera, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2020
563 kr
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*** Winner of the 2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies ***In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 2020
563 kr
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In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's …
Anne Carson: Antiquity
Av Laura Jansen
E-bok, 2021
538 kr
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From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson''s engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the …
Anne Carson: Antiquity
Av Laura Jansen
E-bok, 2021
538 kr
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From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson''s engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the …
James Joyce and Classical Modernism
Av Leah Culligan Flack, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2021
547 kr
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James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce’s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. Responding to a long-standing critical paradigm that has viewed the classical world as a means of …
Tony Harrison
Poet of Radical Classicism
Häftad, 2022
531 kr
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Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThis is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should …
J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics
Av Hamish Williams, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2023
1315 kr
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This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien’s engagement with the ancient world often …
J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics
Av Hamish Williams, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2024
498 kr
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This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien’s engagement with the ancient world often …
Wole Soyinka
Tragic Classicism
Inbunden, 2024
1315 kr
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This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka’s engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his oeuvre has become seminal to postcolonial literature. The frequent …
Wole Soyinka
Tragic Classicism
Häftad, 2026
477 kr
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This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka’s engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his oeuvre has become seminal to postcolonial literature. The frequent …
Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity
Learning to Speak the Truth
Av Paul Allen Miller, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2023
498 kr
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In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège de France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants, his topic will be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in relation to truth. On the other, the …
Anne Carson: Antiquity
Av Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2023
498 kr
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From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson’s engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the …
Kathleen Raine
Classics and Consciousness
Av Jenny Messenger, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2025
1233 kr
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For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality. Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, this book is the first study of her engagement with classical antiquity. Raine’s interpretation …
Kathleen Raine
Classics and Consciousness
Av Jenny Messenger, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2027
477 kr
Kommande
For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality. Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, this book is the first study of her engagement with classical antiquity. Raine’s interpretation …
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Inbunden, 2024
1478 kr
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Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed …
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Häftad, 2026
482 kr
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Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed …
Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean
Av Justine McConnell, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2024
482 kr
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Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best-known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a lengthy and lively dialogue that Walcott …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Inbunden, 2018
1805 kr
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In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's …
Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity
Learning to Speak the Truth
Av Paul Allen Miller, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2021
1315 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège de France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants, his topic will be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in relation to truth. On the other, the …
Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean
Av Justine McConnell, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2023
1315 kr
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Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best-known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a lengthy and lively dialogue that Walcott …
Fellini’s Eternal Rome
Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini
Av Alessandro Carrera, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2018
1805 kr
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*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies ***In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic …
