This book harvests the author's work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts.

A Fred Will Reader samples the writings of Frederic Will, compiling excerpts of his poetry, travel work, agricultural sociology, short stories and novels, speculative philosophy, and cultural history. Naming the world, Will says, is at least half of world, the half that gives in to us. The other half, the world that reading invents, is supplied by the reader. By reading each other globally, Will argues that we should learn to share ways of reconstructing the often broken totality of the human condition.

This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, drama, satire, lyric, and philosophy. It profiles some of the key issues and authors of each period, characterizes the literature of each period, and sprinkles quotes through the whole. Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture, including language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class...

This collection of film profiles, comprising 37 discussions, covers a variety of films from the twentieth century. It will appeal to a wide reading audience interested in exploring the relevance of films to literature, and culture more broadly. At the same time, the films under consideration are viewed as moves in mind, by which we trade with one another the look of things brought to presence by the shocking directness of eyesight.

This collection of film profiles, comprising 37 discussions, covers a variety of films from the twentieth century. It will appeal to a wide reading audience interested in exploring the relevance of films to literature, and culture more broadly. At the same time, the films under consideration are viewed as moves in mind, by which we trade with one another the look of things brought to presence by the shocking directness of eyesight.

This book highlights the writing act, humanity's determinant cultural investment. Writing, which is labor, that is work against resistance, is the way we record and reconsider what we have been, and, at its best, what our most useful imaginations and social constructions have been. Our greatest imaginations include a wide range of social achievements, from the initial brilliance of relating words to things and ideas, to the construction of social bonds, to our orientation in the natural or religious worlds, where we play for the ultimate game, salvation, Writing is at the heart of all those...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeare's plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great writer regularly generates. The 'help rendered' is largely referential, reminding the reader who said what and thought what at which point within the plays. Some of the critical issues discussed include: What is the secret of the rounded Shakespearean character (for instance, Falstaff)? What is a problem play, and what kind of philosophical arguments does Shakespeare introduce in such plays? What is the value of Shakespeare's perspective for...

Montaigne's essays penetrate the intimate feelings, perceptions, attitudes, anxieties and hopes which make up the texture of daily life. With urbanity and irony, he makes his way through the fine texture of these formative traits of lived life. Tackling each issue as it arises, Montaigne probes the spectrum of human experiences, and shares his own wisdom with the human kind that will read him. The reader of this book, which is a blend of Montaigne's observations with those of the author, should find in Montaigne, a mirror of his or her own experiences and the joy or solace of knowing that...

This book explores the extant works of the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The principal characters, their motivations, and the reputations and interactions of the authors are considered, both in the context of their own times and what their legacies mean to us today. This work will appeal to a wide reading audience interested in exploring the enduring influence of Classical Greek drama on modern culture.

This book highlights the writing act, humanity's determinant cultural investment. Writing, which is labor, that is work against resistance, is the way we record and reconsider what we have been, and, at its best, what our most useful imaginations and social constructions have been. Our greatest imaginations include a wide range of social achievements, from the initial brilliance of relating words to things and ideas, to the construction of social bonds, to our orientation in the natural or religious worlds, where we play for the ultimate game, salvation, Writing is at the heart of all those...