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Scripture, Canon and Commentary - A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis - Bog af John B. Henderson - Hardback

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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy - The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 - Bog af Nancy G. Siraisi - Paperback

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especi

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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy - The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 - Bog af Nancy G. Siraisi - Hardback

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Upward Mobility and the Common Good - Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State - Bog af Bruce Robbins - Paperback

We think we know what upward mobility stories are about - virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. This book overturns these assumptions and exposes a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon.

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Reading Asian American Literature - From Necessity to Extravagance - Bog af Sau-ling Cynthia Wong - Paperback

How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the 'mainstream' canon and other 'minority' literatures? This book explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda.

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Ambassadors of Culture - The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing - Bog af Kirsten Silva Gruesz - Paperback

Argues that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, this title proposes a major revision of the 19th-century US canon and its historical contexts.

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Beethoven Hero - Bog af Scott Burnham - Paperback

Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, this book explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. It is of interest to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force.

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The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 1 - Bog af Bertrand Harris Bronson - Paperback

This is the musical counterpart to the famous Francis James Child collection of English and Scottish ballads from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Professor Child's canon established the texts; Professor Bronson's work provides both tunes and texts. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technolo

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Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power - Bog af John D. Cox - Paperback

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-p

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Chaucer and His Readers - Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England - Bog af Seth Lerer - Paperback

Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate'

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The Hero of the Waverley Novels - With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition - Bog af Alexander Welsh - Paperback

One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the \passive

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The Rise of Eurocentrism - Anatomy of Interpretation - Bog af Vassilis Lambropoulos - Paperback

In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct

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Self, Text, and Romantic Irony - The Example of Byron - Bog af Frederick Garber - Paperback

Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982). Using patterns in Byron's canon as models, he focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a

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The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 2 - Bog af Bertrand Harris Bronson - Paperback

Continuing the monumental work begun in Volume I, Bertrand Bronson presents here the words and music for Child Ballads 54 through 113. The texts are those established in the famous Child canon of English and Scottish ballads. To them, Mr. Bronson has added more than a thousand variant tunes grouped to show their melodic kinship, and the characteris

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Making a Match - Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society - Bog af Ann Jennalie Cook - Paperback

Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare. Across the canon, wooing may command either a casual reference or a central position in the action, but no play escapes a connection of some kind. Instead of taking a fixed position on an

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Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching - Bog af Kidder Smith - Paperback

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has been one of the two or three most influential books in the Chinese canon. It has been used by people on all levels of society, both as a method of divination and as a source of essential ideas about the nature of heaven, earth, and humankind. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Sung dynasty literati turne

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Making the Modern Reader - Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies - Bog af Barbara M. Benedict - Paperback

Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, \Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?\ She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing..

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Making the Modern Reader - Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies - Bog af Barbara M. Benedict - Hardback

Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, \Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?\ She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing..

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The Rise of Eurocentrism - Anatomy of Interpretation - Bog af Vassilis Lambropoulos - Hardback

In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered..

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Blake and Antiquity - Bog af Kathleen Raine - Paperback

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New Age William Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking. Blake and Antiquity situates this brilliant and enigmatic artist within the Western esoteric canon, revealing his indebtedness to Neoplatonism, the Gnostics, alchemy, and astrology. In this book, Kathleen Raine demonstrates how Blake rejected conventional orthodoxy and went in search among the occult..

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How Women Became Poets - Bog af Emily Hauser - Hardback

\This book that shows how ancient poets broke the silence of literary gender norms to express their own voices, and thus illuminating long neglected discussions of gender in the ancient world. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser provides a startling new history of classical literature that redefines the canon as a constant struggle to be heard through, and sometimes despite, gender. By bringing together recent studies in ancient authorship, gender, and performativity, Hauser offers gendered..

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The Global Rules of Art - Bog af Larissa Buchholz - Paperback

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwide Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of \international\ contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on the margins. The Global Rules of Art examines how this discriminatory situation has changed in recent decades. Drawing from abundant..

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The Making of Barbarians - Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia - Bog af Haun Saussy - Hardback

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates..

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Tales of the Narts - Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians - Bog - Paperback

An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the Caucasus The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts expands the canon of this precious body of lore by presenting a wide selection of fascinating tales that are part of a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia. A mythical tribe of nomad warriors, the Narts are courageous, bold,..

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Against the Current - Essays in the History of Ideas, Second Edition - Bog af Isaiah Berlin - Paperback

\A Jewish refugee from Bolshevik Russia who found a home in the British establishment, Isaiah Berlin was always drawn to the traffic between insiders and outsiders, between fugitive experiences and dominant norms. We see this attraction in these classic essays: not only in his article on nationalism, which he saw as the work of non-nationals, but also in his continuous effort to introduce strange figures into the canon and to make canonical figures strange. Paddling against the current, Berlin made..

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