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by Julen Etxabe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual...
Cover of PHEDRE
by PLATON
Language: French
Release Date: December 30, 2013

Description : Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: SOCRATE. Où vas-tu donc, mon cher Phèdre, et d’où viens-tu...
Cover of La Consolation philosophique de Boèce
by Boèce, Louis Judicis de Mirandol
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 2014

Extrait :  Le bonheur, qui jadis inspirait mes accents, A fait place aux sombres alarmes ; C’est une Muse en deuil qui me dicte ces chants, Aujourd’hui trempés de mes larmes. Oui, les Muses, du moins, m’ont escorté sans peur Dans la voie où mon cœur succombe ; Gloire de mon printemps, d’une dernière fleur Elles parfumeront ma tombe.
Cover of Les Légendes des Hautes-Pyrénées
by Eugène Cordier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016

Extrait : "On chercherait peut-être vainement dans les poésies nationales du Béarn et de la Bigorre, à part quelques récits d'histoire effacés, d'autres peintures que celles de la vie pastorale, d'autre sentiment que celui de l'amour, d'autres tristesses que celles de la misère. La muse simple,...
Cover of Contes et légendes étiologiques dans l'espace européen
by Galina Kabakova
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2015

Cet essai littéraire permettra de mieux comprendre l'origine de certains contes étiologiques européensLe conte étiologique ou explicatif est appelé à fournir une réponse aux questionnements sur l’ordre des choses, l’origine des espèces, leurs particularités, etc. Dans l’absolu, le corpus...
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Les Passionnés du livre

Essai littéraire

by Firmin Maillard, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015

Extrait : "Il est, parmi les gens de lettres, une caste d'individus qui, tout en ayant de nombreux rapports avec eux, ne vivent pas moins à part, ont des mœurs différentes, une religion particulière, ne se préoccupent guère que du passé, pensent peut-être quelquefois à l'avenir, mais font peu...
Cover of Les écritures de la douleur dans l'épistolaire de l'Antiquité à nos jours
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: May 22, 2013

La douleur, qu'il s'agisse de la sienne ou de celle des autres, est l'une des thématiques majeures de l'art épistolaire. Lorsqu'il s'agit de la douleur physique et de ses manifestations, médecine et philosophie s'y croisent, notamment lorsqu'il est question de rechercher des remèdes. La souffrance...
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The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology

Essays on Revisions and Influences

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

At the 2013 “Celebrating The Hobbit” conference at Valparaiso University—marking the 75th anniversary of the book’s publication and the first installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies—two plenary papers were presented: “Anchoring the Myth: The Impact of The Hobbit on Tolkien’s...
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Poetic Interplay

Catullus and Horace

by Michael C.J. Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009

The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's...
Cover of Catullus
by Julia Haig Gaisser
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all...
Cover of Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante
by Elena Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval...
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The Serbian Folk Epic

It's Theology and Anthropology

by Rev. Krstivoj Kotur
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

This is a thorough and well-documented study, examining the theology and anthropology of the Serbian folk epic. The book opens a new field in Slavic folklore and offers scholars material heretofore not readily available in English. The work sheds light also on the Serbian soul and culture.   Conceptions...
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The Hidden Chorus

Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric

by L. A. Swift
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

The Hidden Chorus investigates the relationship between the chorus of Greek tragedy and other types of choral song in Greek society. Choruses performed on a range of occasions in Greek culture, ranging from private weddings and funerals to large-scale religious festivals, yet the relationship between...
Cover of The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales
by Frank Richard Stockton
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Frank Richard Stockton was a popular 19th century American author who remains best known for writing a series of acclaimed children's fairy tales. His books are still read across the world today.
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