Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Rubén Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth, Napoleon III installed Maxi…
"Due in no small part to his aversion to solitude, Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships--and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of …
"Due in no small part to his aversion to solitude, Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships--and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of …
"Due in no small part to his aversion to solitude, Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships--and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of …
Alexander's Marshals- Front Cover -- Alexander's Marshals -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Map of Alexander's empire -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1: The house of Attalos -- Attalos uncle of Kleopatra-Eurydik…
The House of Attalos -- The House of Aëropos -- Antipatros son of Iolaos -- Parmenion and Philotas -- Black Kleitos and his relatives: the House of Dropidas -- Koinos son of Polemokrates -- Hephaistion son of Amyntos -- Meleagros son of Neoptolemos -- Leonnatos son of Anteas -- …
Introduction. Drawing on art and artists -- 1. Critiques of the ocular : Duchamp and Paris Dada -- 2. The spectacle of film : Duchamp and Dada experiments -- 3. Endgame strategies : art, chess, and creativity -- 4. Pointing fingers : Dali's homage to Duchamp -- 5. The apparatus …
This volume explores the central importance of appropriation, collaboration, influence, and play in French artist Marcel Duchamp's (1887-1968) work -- and in Dada and Surrealism in general -- to show how the concept of art itself became the critical fuel and springboard for ques…
How Duchamp and his collaborators creatively challenged the meaning of art and authorship.
Married to the canon : writing the history of western philosophy / Jennifer Forestal & Menaka Philips -- Xanthippe : shrew or muse / Arlene Saxonhouse -- Self-sacrifice as wifely virtue in Aristotle's political theory / Sara Brill -- Authoring Machiavelli : Barbera Salutati la M…
Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among th…
"Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among t…