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Languages : iw
Pages : 0
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Rut Ples oral history (interview code: 27423)
Author: Rut Dor oral history (interview code: 30105)
Author: Rut Gros oral history (interview code: 44980)
Author: Rut Tzim oral history (interview code: 32593)
Author: Rut Ben Tsvi oral history (interview code: 40305)
Author: Rut Ben-Daṿid oral history (interview code: 45190)
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Author: Preface to Plato
Author: Eric A. HAVELOCKPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction-Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
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The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories
Author: Sudhā MūrtiPublisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143330066
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A princess thinks she was a bird, a coconut that cost a thousand rupees, and a shepherd with a bag of words...Kings and misers, princes and paupers, wise men and foolish boys, the funniest and oddest men and women come alive in this sparkling new collection of stories. The clever princess will only marry the man who can ask her a question she cannot answer; the orphan boy outwits his greedy uncles with a bag of ash; and an old couple in distress is saved by a magic drum. Sudha Murty's grandparents told her some of these stories when she was a child; others she heard from her friends from around the world. These delightful and timeless folktales have been her favourites for years, and she has recounted them many times over to the young people in her life. With this collection, they will be enjoyed by many more readers, of all ages. Age group of target audience is 8+.