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Punishment and Modern Society
A Study in Social Theory
Häftad, 1991
956 kr
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Winner of the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, USAThe first comprehensive account of the role of punishment in modern society, …
Frogs
Av Aristophanes, Kenneth Dover
Häftad, 1994
797 kr
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A brilliant new commentary on one of the most famous comedies from ancient Greece, Aristophanes' Frogs. Edited by one of the world's leading scholars on Aristophanes, the book includes the complete Greek text, a comprehensive introduction, and a full and lively commentary covering just about every …
Radical Underworld
Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840
Häftad, 1993
1337 kr
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This is a paperback edition of a highly acclaimed study of English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government `Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. Challenging conventional distinctions between `high' and `low' culture, Iain McCalman brilliantly reveals …
Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance
Häftad, 1988
683 kr
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This study sets out to place the remarkable cultural events of the early Renaissance in a full historical perspective. Dealing with both literary and visual art, it describes the world of Dante and Giotto and explains the circumstances in which their innovations became possible. The political, …
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe
Häftad, 1994
1170 kr
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This is a study of magic in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. Valerie Flint explores its practice and belief in Christian society, and examines the problems raised by so-called `pagan survivals' and superstition'. She unravels the complex processes at work in the early medieval Christian …
Discerning the Mystery
An Essay on the Nature of Theology
Av Andrew Louth
Häftad, 1989
1133 kr
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This book seeks to exorcize the spectre of the Enlightenment by drawing on H. G. Gadamer's demonstration of `how little the traditions in which we stand are weakened' by the legacy of the Enlightenment. It then applies these insights to theology where the importance of tradition and the unity …
Medea
Av Seneca, C. D. N. Costa
Häftad, 1989
1654 kr
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This paperback edition of the Medea is the first full-scale edition with introduction, text, apparatus criticus, and commentary, of any play by Seneca. Its purpose is primarily to elucidate the play itself, but at the same time it is easily accessible to students of English and French literature …
The Socialist System
The Political Economy of Communism
Av Janos Kornai
Häftad, 1992
1335 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the structure, conduct, and performance of the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe, the USSR, Communist China and the Marxist LDCs, looking at 26 nations in all.The author focuses on reform, perhaps the most important issue facing countries …
Not Just Deserts
A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice
Av John Braithwaite, Philip Pettit
Häftad, 1992
1177 kr
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A new approach to sentencingNot Just Deserts inaugurates a radical shift in the research agenda of criminology. The authors attack currently fashionable retributivist theories of punishment, arguing that the criminal justice system is so integrated that sentencing policy has to be considered in the …
Shakespearean Negotiations
The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
Häftad, 1990
956 kr
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Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method - he asks how collective beliefs and experiences are shaped, …
Lysistrata
Av Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson
Häftad, 1990
776 kr
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In addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources for the life of women in antiquity: unlike epic, tragedy, and oratory, Attic comedy draws its characters and plots from everyday life and provides a …
Bacchae
Av Euripides, E. R. Dodds
Häftad, 1986
683 kr
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Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... …
Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364-425
Häftad, 1990
1393 kr
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The central theme of this book is the relationship between the `public' and `private' lives of the men who were involved in the politics of the western Roman Empire in the later fourth and early fifth centuries. A postscript updates the book with regard to the last fifteen years of related …
Gladstone: 1809-1874
Häftad, 1988
794 kr
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was both the most characteristic and the most extraordinary of Victorians. His huge public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic. His private life was a most curious blend of …
Philosophical Papers
Av J. L. Austin, J. O. Urmson m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
1041 kr
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The influence of J. L. Austin on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death, at the height of his powers, in 1960. Philosophical Papers, first published in 1961, was the first of three volumes of Austin's work to be edited by J. O. Urmson and …
Town, City and Nation
England 1850-1914
Av P. J. Waller
Häftad, 1983
1356 kr
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By the outbreak of the First World War England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 per cent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in English urban society had taken place.This book …
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Häftad, 1989
1113 kr
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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England. Ellen Harris's comprehensive study examines the work in its historical and cultural context, with detailed coverage of contemporary performance practice and of the work's performance history and …
I Saw the World End
A Study of Wagner's Ring
Av Deryck Cooke
Häftad, 1979
1412 kr
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Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly common sense in this study of how and why The …
Exploding English
Criticism, Theory, Culture
Häftad, 1991
582 kr
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What is going on in English studies? Bernard Bergonzi, a literary critic and teacher, who has also published poetry and fiction and has been involved in university administration, seeks to answer this frequently-raised question. With the advent of theory and the accompanying bitter controversies, …
Popular Fiction before Richardson
Narrative Patterns 1700-1739
Häftad, 1992
844 kr
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Now issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England during the first forty years of the eighteenth century, but which have been hitherto neglected or despised by historians of the novel. …
Shakespeare the Theatre-Poet
Häftad, 1991
418 kr
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How subject to interpretation is Shakespeare? The valid options his plays afford can seem infinite; yet in fact they are not. This book seeks to come fully to terms with Shakespeare's openness to interpretation while respecting the primacy of his creative presence. It sees Shakespeare the …
Johnson's Shakespeare
Av G. F. Parker
Häftad, 1991
713 kr
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This study concerns itself with Shakespeare no less than with Johnson. For Johnson;s account of `the poet of nature' is here maintained to be no dead commonplace but a radically challenging proposition; its cutting edge is brought out by a series of contrasts with the leading Romantic critics - …
Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c.1100-c.1375
The Commentary-Tradition
Av Alastair J. Minnis, A. J. Minnis m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
1767 kr
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This anthology of texts in translation, here presented in a fully revised and updated form, covers the single most important branch of medieval literary theory and criticism, the commentary tradition, in one of the most significant periods of its development. The majority of the texts are here …
Poets in their Time
Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin
Häftad, 1992
523 kr
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In Poets in their Time Barbara Everett brings her extraordinary ability to read closely and her intimate knowledge of the period to an examination of Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Pope, Keats, Browning, Eliot, Auden, and Philip Larkin. The implicit argument of these twelve essays is designed …
The Beauty of Inflections
Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory
Häftad, 1988
1113 kr
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This collection of studies, which spans the past decade, was first published in hardback in 1985. As well as exploring the fault-lines marking the various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from the New Criticism to Post-Structuralism, it develops a fully elaborated socio-historical criticism …
The Ages of Man
A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought
Av J. A. Burrow
Häftad, 1988
336 kr
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Medieval Europe inherited from antiquity a rich and varied tradition of thought about the aetates hominum. Scholars divided human life into three, four, six, or seven ages, and so related it to larger orders of nature and history in which similar patterns were to be found. Thus, the seven ages …
In Defence of Rhetoric
Häftad, 1989
1872 kr
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Setting out to reinstate rhetoric, this book opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as developed in classical times. In Defence of Rhetoric surveys and analyses material from Aristotle to Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul …
The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century
Häftad, 1990
1041 kr
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Originally published in 1976, this highly acclaimed, full-scale account of Restoration drama is now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710, the author fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect …
The Elements of Life
Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England
Häftad, 1992
776 kr
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In this ambitious study, Richard Wendorf establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost completely unexplored. By focusing on the great age of English portraiture - from the arrival of Van Dyck to …
Medieval English Prose for Women
Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse
Av Bella Millett, Bella Millett m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
1704 kr
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The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related religious works of the `Katherine Group', offer a vivid insight into the religious life of the time, and their rich and varied prose style blends Latin and native …
