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  • Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

    Richest to the Richest

    de Cairns Craig ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot
    It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.Concentrating on their writings in the period up to the 1930s, this study, first published in 1982, helps to ... Leer más

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  • The Golden Bough

    A Study in Comparative Religion

    de J.G. Frazer ...
    Series Libro 29 - Canongate Classics
    Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic led Scottish anthropologist J.G. Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. His observations on the mysteries of fertility and death, and the rites of the sacrificial king who must die to save his people, overturned much of ... Leer más

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  • Scotland as Science Fiction

    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can ... Leer más

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  • Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

    Edición de Randall Stevenson, Cairns Craig ...
    Series series
    Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and challenging audiences in equal measure. Yet modern Scottish drama has a history of controversy, conflict and entertainment going back to the 1920s, notable at ... Leer más

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    Meet the Gods, Heroes, Kings, Fairies, Monsters, and Ghosts of Yore

    Edición de Bob Curran ...
    An Irish folklorist presents a collection of little-known ancient myths, fireside tales, and modern fictions to celebrate the Celtic art of storytelling.Steeped in the oral traditions of rural Northern Ireland, Bob Curran celebrates the lore and legends of his people. This volume includes some of the oldest tales to be passed down across the centuries, as well as newer stories inspired by these ... Leer más

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  • Golden bough

    de J. G. Frazer ...
    WHO does not know Turners picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi Dianas Mirror, as it was called by the ancients. No one who has seen that calm water, lapped in a green hollow of the Alban hills, can ... Leer más

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  • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

    A Novel

    de Robin Sloan ...
    A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstoreThe Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a ... Leer más

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  • Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from the highly irrational to the firmly analytical. Thus Spoke Zarathustra introduced the 'superman' and The Twilight of the ... Leer más

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book ... Leer más

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  • Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes

    A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s

    de Martha Long ...
    Series Libro 1 - Memoirs of Dublin
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