Polyeuctus ; The Liar ; Nicomedes
Author | : Pierre Corneille |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pierre Corneille |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Péguy |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1532650752 |
Charles Peguy (1873-1914) was a French religious poet, philosophical essayist, publisher, social activist, Dreyfusard, and Catholic convert. There has recently been a renewed recognition of Peguy in France as a thinker of unique significance, a reconsideration inspired in large part by Gilles Deleuze's Difference et repetition, which ranked him with Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. In the English-speaking world, however, access to Peguy has been hindered by a scarcity of translations of his work. This first complete translation of one of his most important prose works, with accompanying interpretive introduction and notes, will introduce English-speaking readers to a new voice, which speaks in a powerful and original way to a modern West in a condition of cultural and spiritual crisis. The immediate circumstance of the writing of this last prose essay, unfinished at the time of Peguy's early death, was the placing of Henri Bergson's philosophical works on the Catholic Index, and Peguy's undertaking to defend his former teacher from his critics, both Catholic and secular. But the subject of Bergson is also a springboard for the exploration of the perennial themes--philosophical, theological, and literary--most central to Peguy's thought.
Author | : Julia Kristeva |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2001-12-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231518439 |
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and philosophy. In her latest book on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, Kristeva focuses on an intriguing new dilemma. Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in our contemporary "entertainment" culture, is rebellion still a viable option? Is it still possible to build and embrace a counterculture? For whom—and against what—and under what forms? Kristeva illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three twentieth-century writers: the existentialist John Paul Sartre, the surrealist Louis Aragon, and the theorist Roland Barthes. For Kristeva the rebellions championed by these figures—especially the political and seemingly dogmatic political commitments of Aragon and Sartre—strike the post-Cold War reader with a mixture of fascination and rejection. These theorists, according to Kristeva, are involved in a revolution against accepted notions of identity—of one's relation to others. Kristeva places their accomplishments in the context of other revolutionary movements in art, literature, and politics. The book also offers an illuminating discussion of Freud's groundbreaking work on rebellion, focusing on the symbolic function of patricide in his Totem and Taboo and discussing his often neglected vision of language, and underscoring its complex connection to the revolutionary drive.
Author | : Chris Smith |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-05-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0750991720 |
John Cairncross was among the most damaging spies of the twentieth century. A member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, he leaked highly sensitive documents from Bletchley Park, MI6 and the Treasury to the Soviet Union – including the first atomic secrets and raw decrypts from Enigma and Tunny that influenced the outcome of the Battle of Kursk. In 2014, Cairncross appeared as a secondary, though key, character in the biopic of Alan Turing's life, The Imitation Game. While the other members of the Cambridge Ring of Five have been the subject of extensive biographical study, Cairncross has largely been overlooked by both academic and popular writers. Despite clear interest, he has remained a mystery – until now. The Last Cambridge Spy is the first ever biography of John Cairncross, using newly released material to tell the story of his life and espionage.
Author | : Pierre Corneille |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1976-01-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780140443127 |
This volume compiles three of Corneille's most lauded plays: The Cid, Corneille's masterpiece set in medieval Spain, was the first great work of French classical drama; Cinna, written three years later in 1641, is a tense political drama; and The Theatrical Illusion, an earlier work, is reminiscent of Shakespeare's exuberant comedies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Keith M. May |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1990-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349098825 |
Keith May discusses the development, and frequent misunderstanding of, tragedy - explaining the insights of Nietzsche in "The Birth of Tragedy". He looks at its history from the early Greek playwrights, to Renaissance drama, up to more modern writers of tragedy such as Ibsen and Hardy.
Author | : O. Classe |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9781884964367 |
Author | : Peter France |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199247844 |
This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).
Author | : Anne Lynn Birberick |
Publisher | : Rookwood Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781886365001 |
Reprint of an internationally praised collection of essays by a team of cutting-edge La Fontaine scholars.
Author | : Julia Kristeva |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780231126298 |
As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today's neurotic. The Portable Kristeva is the only fully comprehensive compilation of Kristeva's key writings. The second edition includes added material from Kristeva's most important works of the past five years, including The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, Intimate Revolt, and Hannah Arendt. Editor Kelly Oliver has also added new material to the introduction, summarizing Kristeva's latest intellectual endeavors and updating the bibliography.