Simonides Lyricus. Essays on the 'other' classical choral lyric poet, Hardback - ***

Articles covering important questions in the lyric poetry of Simonides of Keos.Illustrations: 2 b&wEditor(s): Lucia Prauscello

Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when c...

Reducere. Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau's popular essays included here: Civil Disobed...

Reducere. Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau's popular essays included here: Civil Disobed...

To whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like intimate conversation? Like...

Reducere. Can man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most decidedly he can Man has always decreed that which has appeared in his world and is today dec...

Reducere. Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his chi...

Reducere. Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions fromNiepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson...

Reducere. This volume rejects the notion that Islam's sacred text is error free and cannot be critically evaluated. The study of the Koran must develop and m...

Reducere. The cult phenomenon Battle Royale has been lauded as a masterpiece and decried as exploitative gore, but it's always remained in the public conscio...

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection o...

Publisher: Nine Arches PressNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Ian Hump...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M MontaigneNumber of pages: 656Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 204 x 57Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Law is an 1850 book by Fr d ric Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution and a few months befor...

Reducere. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronologica...

Contributor(s): Author: Rosemary PardoeIntroduction by: David SuttonTHE GHOSTLY WORK OF M. R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is...

Reducere. What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of the...

Reducere. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Be...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Presents essays on the giants of world literature that explore the links between literature, history and politics. This title discusses common them...

Reducere. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evol...

Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accur...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Erving GoffmanNumber of pages: 352Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x...

Publisher: Free Association BooksAuthor(s): Tom MainNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 238 x 153 x 21Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Carole HillenbrandIllustration(s): 36 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

Reducere. Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius - set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you...

Reducere. Designed to inspire students to think differently about the much-feared assignment of essay writing, this collection of imaginative, rule-breaking,...

Reducere. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as "one of the best scientist/writers of our time, " a collectio...

Southeast Asia has been an emerging frontier for internet technology startups, with talent and capital flooding into the region's technology market...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 360Collection: Law and Practical ReasonPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 27Cover t...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 185 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175 x 249 x 36Cover type: Hard...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressNumber of pages: 324Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Adam CzerniawskiRed...

Publisher: Scarecrow PressAuthor(s): Russell A. HammarNumber of pages: 377Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 145 x 223 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Life and work of a celebrated Great War poet. Hodgson and the Devons perished on the first day of the Somme battle 1 July 1916.

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

G A Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, h...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTranslator: Daniel GarberNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 1991Dimensio...

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...