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17 produkter
In Search of the Classic
Reconsidering the Greco-Roman Tradition, Homer to Valéry and Beyond
Häftad, 1994
691 kr
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The "classical," Steven Shankman argues, should not be confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity, although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman's book searches for and attempts to formulate the …
Siren and the Sage
Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
Av Steven Shankman, Stephen Durrant
Häftad, 2000
1790 kr
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A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to …
Early China/Ancient Greece
Thinking through Comparisons
Av Steven Shankman, Stephen W. Durrant
Häftad, 2002
487 kr
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The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of …
Turned Inside Out
Reading the Russian Novel in Prison
Inbunden, 2017
1568 kr
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In Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison, Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates. These persecuted writers—Shankman argues that …
Siren and the Sage
Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
Av Stephen Durrant, Steven Shankman
E-bok, 2003
503 kr
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The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for …
Pope's "e;Iliad"e;
Homer in the Age of Passion
E-bok, 2009
507 kr
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Explaining why the English Augustan Age could more accurately be called the "e;Age of Passion"e; than the "e;Age of Reason,"e; this book recovers the interpretive and stylistic aims of Pope and his contemporaries and addresses objections that have lost Pope's Iliad the audience it …
Siren and the Sage
Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
Av Steven Shankman, Stephen Durrant
E-bok, 2000
1929 kr
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A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to …
Early China/Ancient Greece
Thinking through Comparisons
Av Steven Shankman, Stephen W. Durrant
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of …
Other Others
Levinas, Literature, Transcultural Studies
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other."In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social …
Other Others
Levinas, Literature, Transcultural Studies
Inbunden, 2010
1111 kr
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Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other."In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social …
