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Hannah Arendt
Life Is a Narrative
Inbunden, 2001
378 kr
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In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. Kristeva's aim is to clarify …
Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry
Av Ronald Crane
Häftad, 1953
366 kr
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These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less …
Race of Time
Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography
Häftad, 1967
208 kr
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Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time …
Fools of Time
Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy
Häftad, 1996
409 kr
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In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life that flows …
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
Häftad, 1999
361 kr
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Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a …
In Search of Chaucer
E-bok, 1960
263 kr
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In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds raises questions about the kind of …
Rhythm in the Novel
Av E.K. Brown
E-bok, 1950
263 kr
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The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is …
Mirror of Minds
Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
E-bok, 1962
506 kr
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The aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with …
Renaissance and English Humanism
Av Douglas Bush
E-bok, 1962
286 kr
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The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been …
Race of Time
Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography
E-bok, 1967
302 kr
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Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time …
Northern Element in English Literature
E-bok, 1933
431 kr
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In 1931, Sir William Craigie gave the Alexander Lectures in English at the University of Toronto entitled The Northern Element in English Literature with a focus on proving the existence of a Northern literary culture, comparing English literature with Northern literature, especially that of the …
Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry
Av Ronald Crane
E-bok, 1953
470 kr
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These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less …
Virtues Reconciled
An Iconographical Study
Häftad, 1947
249 kr
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This volume contains the Alexander Lectures in University College, University of Toronto, for the session 1945-46, delivered by Samuel C. Chew, Professor of English Literature at Bryn Mawr College and author of Byron in England and The Crescent and the Rose. For a number of years Professor Chew has …
Experience Into Thought
Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks
Häftad, 1979
216 kr
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Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist. The aim here has been to examine his experiences, moods, thoughts, and reactions as a whole and their relation to poems such as Christabel, the Ancient Mariner, and the Dejection ode, and to his prose works, and also to …
Northern Element in English Literature
Häftad, 1933
313 kr
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In 1931, Sir William Craigie gave the Alexander Lectures in English at the University of Toronto entitled The Northern Element in English Literature with a focus on proving the existence of a Northern literary culture, comparing English literature with Northern literature, especially that of the …
In Search of Chaucer
E-bok, 1960
330 kr
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In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds raises questions about the kind of …
Rhythm in the Novel
Av E.K. Brown
E-bok, 1950
338 kr
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The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is …
Mirror of Minds
Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
E-bok, 1962
544 kr
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The aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with …
Renaissance and English Humanism
Av Douglas Bush
E-bok, 1962
394 kr
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The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been …
Mirror of Minds
Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
Häftad, 1962
441 kr
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The aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with …
Renaissance and English Humanism
Av Douglas Bush
Häftad, 1962
281 kr
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The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been …
In Search of Chaucer
Häftad, 1960
233 kr
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In this volume, Professor Bronson is primarily interested in the three worlds which appear in Chaucer's poetry: the dream world; the world of the mundane existence and waking observation; and the world of imagined life through reading. A study of these worlds raises questions about the kind of …
Rhythm in the Novel
Av E.K. Brown
Häftad, 1950
233 kr
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The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is …
Virtues Reconciled
An Iconographical Study
E-bok, 1947
281 kr
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This volume contains the Alexander Lectures in University College, University of Toronto, for the session 1945-46, delivered by Samuel C. Chew, Professor of English Literature at Bryn Mawr College and author of Byron in England and The Crescent and the Rose. For a number of years Professor Chew has …
Experience Into Thought
Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks
E-bok, 1979
244 kr
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Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist. The aim here has been to examine his experiences, moods, thoughts, and reactions as a whole and their relation to poems such as Christabel, the Ancient Mariner, and the Dejection ode, and to his prose works, and also to …
Northern Element in English Literature
E-bok, 1933
356 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1931, Sir William Craigie gave the Alexander Lectures in English at the University of Toronto entitled The Northern Element in English Literature with a focus on proving the existence of a Northern literary culture, comparing English literature with Northern literature, especially that of the …
Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry
Av Ronald Crane
E-bok, 1953
454 kr
Lägg i varukorg
These vigorous lectures deal with some of the many ways in which the question of structure in poetry (here synonymous with the whole range of artistic creation in words) can be discussed. Criticism has never been, Professor Clare argues, a single discipline, but a collection of more and less …
Virtues Reconciled
An Iconographical Study
E-bok, 1947
356 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume contains the Alexander Lectures in University College, University of Toronto, for the session 1945-46, delivered by Samuel C. Chew, Professor of English Literature at Bryn Mawr College and author of Byron in England and The Crescent and the Rose. For a number of years Professor Chew has …
Experience Into Thought
Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks
E-bok, 1979
300 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist. The aim here has been to examine his experiences, moods, thoughts, and reactions as a whole and their relation to poems such as Christabel, the Ancient Mariner, and the Dejection ode, and to his prose works, and also to …
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
E-bok, 1999
469 kr
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Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a …
