Author: Gunilla FlorbyPublisher: Cwk Gleerup
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Painful Passage to Virtue
Author: Gunilla FlorbyPublisher: Cwk Gleerup
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Echoing Texts
Author: Gunilla FlorbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789197402385
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Review: "Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron is an intertextual study, offering a close comparative exploration of the discourses behind Chapman's text and the text itself with a view to activating the interpretive potential of the intertextual links. Chapter 2 investigates the French chronicle material from Edward Grimeston's General Inventorie and how Chapman's departures from this material influence our reading. Chapters 3 and 4 look at the effects of the classical subtexts, above all transpositions from Homer's Iliad, Plutarch's Moralia and Seneca's Oedipus, but also Lucan's Pharsalia. Chapter 5 deals with the cultural and political negotiations in the double play, tracing references to the earl of Essex and his rebellion and allusions to topical issues of Stuart kingship." "The intertextual reading projects a problematization of the concept of the patriarchical monarch and the absolute state and a veiling of the representative of liberty and individual heroism in a nostalgic light. Together with the overlays of meaning caused by the classical texts, the changes in the chronicle material and the topical allusions register an ideological stance. Repressed, represented in sometimes devious ways, Chapman's version of near-contemporary history nevertheless makes a powerful statement about the relationship between ruler and ruled, pointing to problems of contemporary statecraft."--BOOK JACKET
Aristotle and the Virtues
Author: Howard J. CurzerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199693722
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.
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ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
The Book of Virtues
Author: William J. BennettPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126259
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 2005
Book Description
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
The Works of George Chapman ...
Author: George ChapmanInner Virtue
Author: Nicolas BommaritoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190673389
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Inner virtue and vice -- Pleasure -- Emotion -- Attention -- The relevance of inner virtue
The Little Virtues
Author: Natalia GinzburgPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628729023
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review
Homer's Batrachomyomachia
Author: HomerusVirtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Author: David O. BrinkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192549375
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, in ancient philosophy but also in later periods and in systematic philosophy. The contributors discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond. The editors offer an introduction charting the scholarly contributions of Fine and Irwin and assessing their individual and joint impact, together with a complete bibliography of their writings.