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29 produkter
Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past
The Literary Agenda
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2016
300 kr
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of ''the literary'' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how …
Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past
The Literary Agenda
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2016
300 kr
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of ''the literary'' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how …
Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past
The Literary Agenda
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2016
485 kr
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how …
Prospero's Son
Life, Books, Love, and Theater
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2013
206 kr
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This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is, as fits our latter days, altogether more …
Prospero's Son
Life, Books, Love, and Theater
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2014
161 kr
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Seth Lerer's moving memoir Prospero's Son is rooted in the age-old problem of the fraught relationship between fathers and sons. But at the same time, it is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of stories in a young man's life, and the transformative magic of words and performance. …
Children's Literature
A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2009
262 kr
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Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". The …
Shakespeare's Lyric Stage
Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2018
974 kr
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What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s …
Shakespeare's Lyric Stage
Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2018
301 kr
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What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s …
Shakespeare's Lyric Stage
Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2018
584 kr
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What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s …
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2003
1472 kr
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How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book …
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2003
727 kr
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How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book …
Inventing English
A Portable History of the Language
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2007
281 kr
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Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer's Inventing …
Inventing English
A Portable History of the Language
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2015
208 kr
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Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This …
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2003
548 kr
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How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book …
Yale Companion to Chaucer
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2007
776 kr
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This new collection of specially commissioned essays on Chaucer’s poetry is a single-volume guide to the best and most inventive work in Chaucerian studies today. The first such book written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind, The Yale Companion to Chaucer provides up-to-date …
Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 1997
881 kr
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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
Av Seth Lerer, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern …
Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 1997
1872 kr
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern …
Chaucer and His Readers
Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 1996
1114 kr
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Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers …
Chaucer and His Readers
Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2020
820 kr
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Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer''s work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers …
Boethius and Dialogue
Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2014
535 kr
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This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy. Originally published in …
Boethius and Dialogue
Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy. Originally published in …
Literary History and the Challenge of Philology
The Legacy of Erich Auerbach
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 1996
975 kr
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A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on the place of historical criticism in the construction of literary history, on the relations between intellectual activity and political action, and …
Introducing the History of the English Language
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2024
856 kr
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This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. Introducing the History of the English Language first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the …
Introducing the History of the English Language
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2024
856 kr
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This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. Introducing the History of the English Language first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the …
Introducing the History of the English Language
Av Seth Lerer
Häftad, 2024
653 kr
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This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. Introducing the History of the English Language first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the …
Introducing the History of the English Language
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2024
2590 kr
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This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. Introducing the History of the English Language first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the …
Boethius and Dialogue
Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy
Av Seth Lerer
E-bok, 2014
642 kr
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This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy.Originally published in …
Children`s Literature – A Reader`s History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
Av Seth Lerer
Inbunden, 2008
535 kr
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Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". The …
