LIBROS DEL AUTOR: howard felperin

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: howard felperin

  • Love Roman Style
    Howard Felperin
    Several generations of Roman lyric poets are brought together here, freshly translated into modern English verse. What links them is the theme of love in all its variations, as much ?in the air? then and there as it is here and now. These great poets knew each other, were conversant with one another?s work, which they echoed, parodied, and paid homage in the forms and figures t...
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    20,04 €

  • Shakespearean Romance
    Howard Felperin / Howard M. Felperin
    If Shakespeare’s last plays-Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII-are to be neither debunked nor idealized but taken seriously on their own terms, they must be examined within the traditions and conventions of romance. Howard Felperin defines this relatively neglected literary mode and locates these plays within it. But, as he shows, romance was no...
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    71,79 €

  • Shakespearean Representation
    Howard Felperin / Howard M. Felperin
    We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward several older poets and examines Shakespeare in particular to show how literary mode...
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    47,46 €

  • In Another Life
    Howard Felperin
    In 1966, a young Ph.D. fresh from Harvard came down to New Haven to take up a teaching position in the Yale English department, then widely viewed as the best in the world. In Another Life focuses in lucid retrospect on that time, place, and career, and on that moment within it which would define his destiny. Would he succeed, through native wit, hard work, intense ambition, an...
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    21,29 €

  • Virgil’s Aeneid in Modern Verse
    Howard Felperin
    With its epic models, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid ranks among the greatest poems, not only of classical antiquity, but of all time. It tells the story of Aeneas, who leads a band of survivors from fallen Troy through wandering and war to found the city that will become imperial Rome. Fully equal to Homer in narrative sweep, dramatic power, and lyric intensity, Vi...
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    52,94 €

  • The Uses of the Canon
    Howard Felperin
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    80,18 €