wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II
ISBN: 9783031114724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, theIliadand theOdyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of the...
This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, theIliadand theOdyssey, in light of t...
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173,46 zł |
Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees
ISBN: 9783030788568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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501,19 zł |
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance
ISBN: 9783319887302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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424,07 zł |
Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development
ISBN: 9781137589279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial. This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters s... |
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192,74 zł |
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance
ISBN: 9783319692029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek w...
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424,07 zł |
Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees
ISBN: 9783030788599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates’ History (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method... This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugee... |
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501,19 zł |
Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development
ISBN: 9781349954728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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192,74 zł |
Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook
ISBN: 9781107187795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presents a comprehensive account of the late Byzantine romances, offering comparative East/West perspectives in light of new theoretical developments.
Presents a comprehensive account of the late Byzantine romances, offering comparative East/West perspectives in light of new theoretical developments.
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437,85 zł |
Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook
ISBN: 9781316646540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The definitive work on the late Byzantine romances, the dozen or so works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials of aristocratic young lovers. Demonstrates the cultural value of these works and their centrality to the European and Mediterranean literary traditions.
The definitive work on the late Byzantine romances, the dozen or so works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which ...
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143,58 zł |
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9789004276505 / Starogrecki / Twarda / 2016 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived from roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth sought to build a new world from the ashes of one marked by two world wars, global economic depression, the rise of nationalism, and the collapse of empires. By surveying the modernist appropriation of Ancient Greece and Rome, the fourteen chapters in this volume demonstrate how the Classics, as foundational texts of the old order, were nevertheless adapted to...
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived fr...
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594,67 zł |
Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas
ISBN: 9789004468573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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823,05 zł |
Allegories of the Odyssey
ISBN: 9780674238374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The twelfth-century Byzantine scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes composed the verse commentary Allegories of the Odyssey to explain Odysseus's journey and the pagan gods and marvels he encountered. This edition presents the first translation of the Allegories of the Odyssey into any language alongside the Greek text.
The twelfth-century Byzantine scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes composed the verse commentary Allegories of the Odyssey to explain Odysseus's jo...
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163,21 zł |