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Adapting Poe: re-imaginings in popular culture

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"Adapting Poe collects new interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars that combine the latest work in adaptation theory with fresh discussions of Poe, his work, and popular culture. The book examines a range of genres and media into which Poe has been adapted, such as film, co…

The invention of a people: Heidegger and Deleuze on art and the political

by Sholtz, Janae

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A multi-layered reading of the intersections between two of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heidegger's thought and Deleuze's novelty, focusing on the parallels between their emphasis on the…

What Galileo saw: imagining the scientific revolution

by Lipking, Lawrence

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"The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective…

The last Trojan hero: a cultural history of Virgil's Aeneid

by Hardie, Philip R.

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"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores". The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passe…

The romance between Greece and the East

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Pe…

The romance between Greece and the East

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Pe…

Coleridge and Kantian ideas in England, 1796-1817: Coleridge's responses to German philosophy

by Class, Monika

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"Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10,1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the British transmission of German idealism in the nineteenth century. The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge's thought is traditionally seen as the…

Shakespeare's stage traffic: imitation, borrowing and competition in Renaissan…

by Clare, Janet

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"Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of …

Nabokov's Shakespeare

by Schuman, Samuel

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"Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which the works of Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, penetrate the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, the finest English …

The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy, and Language

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Machiavelli beyond Republicanism: Politics, Philosophy, and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society.

Airpower reborn: the strategic concepts of John Warden and John Bo…

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"Airpower Reborn is well written and logically structured. It brings together a century of airpower theory in one concise reference, providing airpower's historical roots as well as its contemporary theory. Not all readers will agree with certain theoretical aspects, but most wi…