Author: Cedric CliffePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Racine's 'Athalie', Act II, Scene V
Author: Cedric CliffeRacine's Athalie Act II, Scène V, by Cedric A-L. Cliffe,...
Author: Cedric A. L. Cliffe"Athalie", Act 2, Scene V
Author: Jean RacineRacine's "Athalie"
Author: Jean RacineAthalie, act II, scene V
Author: Jean Racine (Dichter, Historiograph)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
The Book of All Books
Author: Roberto CalassoPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374601909
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed—more than any other—is the book from which they originate Roberto Calasso’s The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch—every verse—may offer some revelation. Where a man named Saul becomes the first king of a people because his father sent him off to search for some donkeys that had gone astray. Where, in answer to an invitation from Jerusalem’s king, the queen of a remote African realm spends three years leading a long caravan of young men, girls dressed in purple, and animals, and with large quantities of spices, to ask the king certain questions. And where a man named Abraham hears these words from a divine voice: “Go away from your land, from your country and from the house of your father toward the land that I will show you”—words that reverberate throughout the Bible, a story about a separation and a promise followed by many other separations and promises. The Book of All Books, the tenth part of a series, parallels in many ways the second part, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. There, gods and heroes of the Greek myths revealed new physiognomies, whereas here many figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed is the book—more so than any other—from which they originate.
Greek Verse
Author: Gaisford prizeStatues
Author: Michel SerresPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472522060
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body to the human condition. Each section covers a different time period and statuary topic, ranging from four thousand years ago to 1986; from Baal, the paintings of Carpaccio, and the Eiffel Tower, to Rodin's The Gates of Hell, the Challenger disaster and the literature of Maupassant, La Fontaine and Jules Verne. Expository, lyrical, fictionalized and hallucinatory, Statues plays with time and place, history and story in order to provoke us into thinking in entirely new ways. Through mythic and poetic meditations on various kinds of descent into the underworld and new insights into the relation of the subject and object and their foundation in death, Statues contains great treasures and provocations for philosophers, literary critics, art historians and sociologists.
Homiletics
Author: Alexandre Rodolphe VinetPublisher:
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Category : Preaching
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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