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Fellini’s Eternal Rome
Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini
Av Alessandro Carrera, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2018
1790 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 …
James Joyce and Classical Modernism
Av Leah Culligan Flack, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2020
1385 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 …
James Joyce and Classical Modernism
E-bok, 2020
579 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 …
James Joyce and Classical Modernism
E-bok, 2020
579 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
559 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
559 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 …
James Joyce and Classical Modernism
Av Leah Culligan Flack, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2021
542 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
526 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
1304 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
494 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
E-bok, 2023
538 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
E-bok, 2023
522 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
1304 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
Av Adam Lecznar
E-bok, 2024
1434 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
Av Adam Lecznar
E-bok, 2024
1434 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
473 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
494 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 …
Kathleen Raine
Classics and Consciousness
Av Jenny Messenger, Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2025
1223 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
E-bok, 2025
1344 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 …
Kathleen Raine
Classics and Consciousness
E-bok, 2025
1344 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 …
Kathleen Raine
Classics and Consciousness
Av Jenny Messenger, Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2027
473 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
1466 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
Av Mario Telò
E-bok, 2024
520 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 …
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Av Mario Telò
E-bok, 2024
520 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 …
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Häftad, 2026
469 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
478 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
Av Nancy Worman
E-bok, 2018
590 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 …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Av Nancy Worman
E-bok, 2018
596 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 …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Inbunden, 2018
1790 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
1304 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 …
