Lectures on Literature

Reducere. "One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."--Boston Globe "A brilliant, original a...

Reducere. This collection of review lectures on topics in theoretical high energy physics has few rivals for clarity of exposition and depth of insight. Deli...

In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar...

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be co...

Reducere. From the first moment that he proclaims the Kingdom of God, Jesus appeals to our imagination. He makes that appeal through the parables of the king...

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One s Own is an extended essay about the ...

Reducere. Much current literature on church worship rarely mentions preaching, and vice versa. Worship is often seen as restricted to music and liturgy while...

DescriptionTolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien ...

The theory of Lyapunov exponents originated over a century ago in the study of the stability of solutions of differential equations. Written by one...

Reducere. Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the American Psychological Associa...

A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for par...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philippe PaquetAn award-winning biography of one of the greats.Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born ...

Reducere. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets thems...

This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (19131980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetic...

Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years aft...

Reducere. "You see, Japan does not actually rest atop an infinite pile of turtles, but on the back of a giant carp . . ."In his mid-thirties, Australian free...

Reducere. Barbara Hannah was a straightforward, modest, yet a grand woman, a lover of literature, and a colleague and friend of C. G. Jung, Emma Jung, and Ma...

Reducere. The Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch'an and Zen Buddhist litera...

Reducere. This book is written for students who ever wondered about the mysterious and fascinating world of particle accelerators. What exciting physics and ...

DescriptionThis book is intended for self-study or as a companion of lectures delivered to post-graduate students on the subject of the computation...

Reducere. Greg Johnson's Graduate School with Heidegger is unique in the vast literature on Heidegger. Written by a self-proclaimed "failed academic" for int...

Reducere. Essays and occasional writings from one of literature's iconic voices Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature,...

Reducere. Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena -- do the gods and goddesses of Greece have anything to say to us that we haven't already heard? In this b...

Reducere. Internationally known and one of the most influential philosophers of his day (and for a time almost a cult figure in France, where his lectures dr...

DescriptionHumanity is confronted by and attracted to extremes. Extreme events shape our thinking, feeling, and actions; they echo in our politics,...

Reducere. Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz is the author of some 100 feature-length films, along with numerous plays and multi-media installations. In Poetics of...

"Twain wrote that Huck was based on Tom Blankenship, a poor white boy he knew in Hannibal, MO. But Shelley Fishkin found an 1874 article where Twai...

Reducere. Home Education is the first volume of Charlotte Mason's six part homeschooling series, a series that is considered one of the finest ever written o...

Reducere. Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example of interdis...

Reducere. Rudolf Steiner gave thousands of lectures in his lifetime, usually without notes, and, with very few exceptions, with nothing more than chalk and a...

Reducere. This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have fro...

"We don't need books about teaching so much as books that teach." Considering Jesus himself taught in a variety of ways--parable, discussion, mirac...

Reducere. From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation ...

DescriptionNow in paperback, this is a new cultural history of the ghost--one of the most popular and pervasive subjects worldwide. Spanning from t...

Reducere. This is the story about one woman's quest to answer the questions: From where and whom did Ralph Waldo Emerson learn about the Scandinavian Vikings...

Reducere. Raphael is a spiritual being who appears in many places in the literature of the Old and New Testaments. Dr. Glöckler cites the many miracles of he...