This book uses texts from classical and modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and "sympathy for the weak", as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society.
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First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal …
1. Mock sovereignty : Henry V -- 2. Theatricality and power -- 3. The betrayal of the gaze : Richard II -- 4. The spectacle of punishment -- 5. Macbeth and the politics of rapture.
First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal …
Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.
The propaganda of power: the role of panegyric late antiquity
by Whitby, Mary
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The propaganda of power: the role of panegyric in late antiquity
by Whitby, Mary
fromMnemosyne
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Type: Book
The propaganda of power: the role of panegyric in late antiquity
by Whitby, Mary
fromMnemosyne
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Type: Book
The thirteen essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are …
