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Author: Meredith Curtis Publisher: ISBN: 9781535554770 Category : Languages : en Pages : 236
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Are you ready for a journey back in time? Let's discover the authors and writings from the foundation of Western Literature, as well as reading some great historical fiction and fairy tales. The foundations of Western Literature include Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and modern works. Starting with the Book of Genesis from the HOLY BIBLE, we will time travel through history by reading classic literature that has stood the test of time from Creation to the Middle Ages. Writing assignments help students to present ideas and information in an engaging way through sentences, paragraphs, paraphrases, thesis statements, essays, blog posts, paraphrases, and writing their own fairy tale. Use this course in a book club, family, or co-op setting. You will need to purchase the following books: The Book of Genesis from THE HOLY BIBLE (can be downloaded free online) Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick Hittite Warrior by Joann Williamson The Iliad for Boys & Girls by A.J. Church (both can be downloaded free online) The Odyssey for Boys & Girls by A.J. Church (both can be downloaded free online) Aesop's Fables by Aesop (can be downloaded free online) The Aeneid for Boys & Girls by A.J. Church (both can be downloaded free online) The Gospel of Matthew from THE HOLY BIBLE (can be downloaded free online) Lantern Bearer by Rosemary Sutcliff The Book of Acts from THE HOLY BIBLE (can be downloaded free online) Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard City of God by St. Augustine (can be downloaded free online) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (can be downloaded free online) Tales from the Arabian Nights (can be downloaded free online) Grimm's Fairy Tales compiled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (can be downloaded free online) Collection Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (can be downloaded free online) D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire & Edgar Parin D'aulaire The Following Writings are Included in this Foundations of Western Literature Book The Holy Bible: "David & Goliath," "Prodigal Son," & "The Sower and the Seed"
Author: Meredith Curtis Publisher: ISBN: 9781535554770 Category : Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
Are you ready for a journey back in time? Let's discover the authors and writings from the foundation of Western Literature, as well as reading some great historical fiction and fairy tales. The foundations of Western Literature include Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and modern works. Starting with the Book of Genesis from the HOLY BIBLE, we will time travel through history by reading classic literature that has stood the test of time from Creation to the Middle Ages. Writing assignments help students to present ideas and information in an engaging way through sentences, paragraphs, paraphrases, thesis statements, essays, blog posts, paraphrases, and writing their own fairy tale. Use this course in a book club, family, or co-op setting. You will need to purchase the following books: The Book of Genesis from THE HOLY BIBLE (can be downloaded free online) Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick Hittite Warrior by Joann Williamson The Iliad for Boys & Girls by A.J. Church (both can be downloaded free online) The Odyssey for Boys & Girls by A.J. Church (both can be downloaded free online) Aesop's Fables by Aesop (can be downloaded free online) The Aeneid for Boys & Girls by A.J. Church (both can be downloaded free online) The Gospel of Matthew from THE HOLY BIBLE (can be downloaded free online) Lantern Bearer by Rosemary Sutcliff The Book of Acts from THE HOLY BIBLE (can be downloaded free online) Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard City of God by St. Augustine (can be downloaded free online) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (can be downloaded free online) Tales from the Arabian Nights (can be downloaded free online) Grimm's Fairy Tales compiled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (can be downloaded free online) Collection Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (can be downloaded free online) D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire & Edgar Parin D'aulaire The Following Writings are Included in this Foundations of Western Literature Book The Holy Bible: "David & Goliath," "Prodigal Son," & "The Sower and the Seed"
Author: Marcia L. Colish Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300078527 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
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This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the eleventh-century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to stamp its imprint well beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Marcia Colish argues that the foundations of the Western intellectual tradition were laid in the Middle Ages and not, as is commonly held, in the Judeo-Christian or classical periods. She contends that Western medieval thinkers produced a set of tolerances, tastes, concerns, and sensibilities that made the Middle Ages unlike other chapters of the Western intellectual experience. She provides astute descriptions of the vernacular and oral culture of each country of Europe; explores the nature of medieval culture and its transmission; profiles seminal thinkers (Augustine, Anselm, Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Ockham); studies heresy from Manichaeism to Huss and Wycliffe; and investigates the influence of Arab and Jewish writing on scholasticism and the resurrection of Greek studies. Colish concludes with an assessment of the modes of medieval thought that ended with the period and those that remained as bases for later ages of European intellectual history.
Author: Renee Shea Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education ISBN: 1319471005 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 2420
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Foundations of Language and Literature provides all 9th grade ELA learners with the skills and practice needed to achieve success in high school and beyond.
Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547546483 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 751
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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review). Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”—Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
Author: Paul F. Kisak Publisher: ISBN: 9781975902056 Category : Languages : en Pages : 574
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This 2 volume set gives a synopsis of more than 500 of these Great Books of The Western World by 161 authors which originally consisted of over 6 feet of books in 54 volumes.The Great Books of Western The Western World are books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture. Specified sets of great books typically range from 100 to 150, though they differ according to purpose and context. For instance, some lists are built to be read by undergraduates in a college semester system (130 books, Torrey Honors Institute), some are compiled to be sold as a single set of volumes (500 books, Mortimer Adler), while some lists aim at a thorough literary criticism (2,400 books, Harold Bloom).The great books are those that tradition, and various institutions and authorities, have regarded as constituting or best expressing the foundations of Western culture (the Western canon is a similar but broader designation); derivatively the term also refers to a curriculum or method of education based around a list of such books. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:* the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;* the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit; "This is an exacting criterion, an ideal that is fully attained by only a small number of the 511 works that we selected. It is approximated in varying degrees by the rest." * the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries. The Great Books of the Western World is a hardcover 60-volume collection (originally 54 volumes) of the books on the great books list (about 517 individual works). Many of the books in the collection were translated into English for the first time.This book is designed to be a state of the art, superb academic reference work and provide an overview of the topic and give the reader a structured knowledge to familiarize yourself with the topic at the most affordable price possible.The accuracy and knowledge is of an international viewpoint as the edited articles represent the inputs of many knowledgeable individuals and some of the most current knowledge on the topic, based on the date of publication.
Author: Inderjeet Parmar Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231517939 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship. Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on managing social, political, and economic change than on solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting rare documents and other archival materials, he recounts how the American intellectuals, academics, and policy makers affiliated with these organizations institutionalized such elitism, which then bled into the machinery of U.S. foreign policy and became regarded as the essence of modernity. America hoped to replace Britain in the role of global hegemon and created the necessary political, ideological, military, and institutional capacity to do so, yet far from being objective, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations often advanced U.S. interests at the expense of other nations. Incorporating case studies of American philanthropy in Nigeria, Chile, and Indonesia, Parmar boldly exposes the knowledge networks underwriting American dominance in the twentieth century.
Author: Edward W. Said Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0804153868 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 434
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A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.
Author: Mark Robson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1405182946 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 632
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An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. ‘What is literature?’ is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. What is Literature? reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art. The anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms, provocations and mysteries. What is Literature? brings together in one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring fascination with the idea of literature. This important guide: Contains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the topic of literature Includes leading writers from ancient times to the most recent thinkers on literature and criticism Encourages readers to reflect on the varied meanings of “literature” What is Literature? A Critical Anthology is a unique collection of texts that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and literary criticism in the European tradition.
Author: Ann Ward Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000452506 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 213
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This book examines politics through the lens of art and literature. Through discussion on great works of visual art, literature, and cultural representations of political thought in the medieval, early modern, and American eras, it explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship and statesmanship that it implies, in contrast to that of the ‘global community’. The essays in this volume focus on shifting notions of various core political concepts like citizenship, republicanism, and nationalism from antiquity to the present-day to provide a systematic understanding of their evolving histories through Western Art and literature. It highlights works such as the Bayeux Tapestry, Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twain’s Joan of Arc and Hermann’s Nichts als Gespenster, among several other canonical works of political interest. Further, it questions if we should now look beyond the nation-state to some form of tans-national, global community to pursue the human freedom desired by progressives, or look at smaller forms of community resembling the polis to pursue the friendship and nobility valued by the ancients. The volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory and philosophy, visual arts, and world literature.
Author: Meredith Curtis
Author: Meredith Curtis
Author: Marcia L. Colish
Author: Thomas F. X. Noble
Author: Renee Shea
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: Paul F. Kisak
Author: Inderjeet Parmar
Author: Edward W. Said
Author: Mark Robson
Author: Ann Ward