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Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. <i>Expression and Truth</i> rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and absence of speech, and the conjunction of address and reply. The theses are...
| Автор | Lawrence Kramer |
Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new...
| Автор | Robert Creeley |
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. <I>Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki</I> gathers the full range of Suzuki’s writings—both classic...
| Автор | Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki |
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile—permanently, as it turned out—at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often...
| Автор | Ovid |
Como una esponja capaz de absorber el mundo o un cuadro que se escapa del marco, emerge la imposibilidad concreta que es la poesía, la lengua tironeada entre la responsabilidad colectiva ante lo real y la posibilidad incierta de comunicar algo propio.
| Автор | Christian Anwandter Donoso |
After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually encompassed nearly every theme we now associate with lyric poetry in English. Many of the finest are on love and would later exert a profound influence on Latin love poets and, through them, on all the poetry of Europe and the West. This volume offers a representative selection of the best Greek...
| Автор | Gordon L. Fain |
Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics , a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about...
| Автор | Philip Thibodeau |
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces...
| Автор | Sara E. Johnson |
This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with 75 friends of Levertov, as well as on Levertov’s entire opus, Donna Krolik Hollenberg’s authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both woman and artist, and the dynamic world...
| Автор | Donna Hollenberg |
Eduard Breimann versteht es in seinem Roman, ein immer noch heikles Thema, das heutige Problem mit den Zwangsarbeitern des letzten Weltkriegs in Deutschland, auf eine unter die Haut gehende Weise, spannend und anrührend darzustellen. Der Roman beleuchtet Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, das Leben in Russland, wie auch die Verwicklungen, die durch das Eintreten einer Schüler-Projektgruppe für eine zügige Entschädigung, in einer rheinischen Kleinstadt ausgelöst werden.-
| Автор | Eduard Breimann |
Das plötzliche Verschwinden ihres Verlobten beunruhigt die wohlhabende Miss Sutherland: Ruhig und extrem verschlossen wie er war, weiß sie nicht viel über ihn. Merkwürdigerweise tippte er immer seine Briefe an sie, er schrieb nie per Hand und pochte darauf, dass sie ihre Briefe postlagernd an ihn sandte. Sherlock Holmes sieht ein Leichtes darin, den Fall aufzuklären, doch kann er seiner Klientin die Wahrheit sagen?-
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, <i>Trade of the Tricks</i> offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France’s most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also...
| Автор | Graham Jones |
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? <I>The Thought of Music</I> grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding that includes <I>Interpreting Music</I> and <I>Expression and Truth</I>, Lawrence Kramer...
| Автор | Lawrence Kramer |
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call are fluent English speakers, information will be shared seamlessly and without any misunderstanding. But is that really true?<BR />  <BR /><I>Words...
| Автор | Elizabeth Keating |
The Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911. While Yuki was extensively documented over the course of the twentieth century, there is relatively little in the way of actual published works on the language. Balodis discusses the language within the historical and cultural context of the people who spoke...
| Автор | Uldis Balodis |
Había una vez una cabrita blanca muy tozuda que un día regresando del colegio con su bicicleta se encontró a una cabrita negra al otro lado de un puente muy estrecho, hecho con el tronco de un árbol. La cabrita blanca quiso atravesar el barranco, y decidida se fue hacia el puente. La cabrita negra, que estaba del otro lado, quiso también atravesar el barranco en aquel preciso momento y se fue muy decidida hacia el puente.
| Автор | La Fontaine |
I wake up terrified, humiliated, and chained to a wall.The shackles around my wrists mean only one thing.He owns me now. With his dark glares and barked orders, he is dangerous.He is my tormentor, my captor, a threat to my very existence. Not to be toyed with.Even if my frightened mind whispersmaybeEven if I am very curious how such a man came to be.I am still his dark and twisted pet, to cherish or to scorn.And I am starting to love the darkness…
| Автор | Jessa James |
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody...
| Автор | Nicholas Harkness |
   Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth of contributions by famous and less-known woman that have been unavailable to...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the death of his daughter Susy. Their principal fable is that of a man who has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur...
| Автор | Марк Твен |