LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jan h blits

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  • Rome and the Spirit of Caesar
    Jan Blits / Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    This book is a thorough examination and fresh interpretation of Shakespeare’s presentation of the final throes of republican Rome’s decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism. Speech by speech and line by line, it brings out Shakespeare’s understanding of the political substance and the historical significance of republican Rome’s collapse. ...
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    58,73 €

  • Heart of Rome
    Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    Jan H. Blits’ The Heart of Rome: Ancient Rome’s Political Culture examines the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Blits emphasizes treating the writings of ancient historians of Rome as works of thoughtful reflection rather than as works of technical research. ...
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    64,11 €

  • New Heaven, New Earth
    Jan Blits / Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    New Heaven, New Earth is a philosophical study ofAntony and Cleopatra. Showing that the play is as much a history play as a love story, it closely examines Shakespeare’s presentation of the transition from the pagan to the Christian world_from the aftermath of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the decline of the pagan gods to the emergence of the Roman Empire and the condi...
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    74,85 €

  • Spirit, Soul, and City
    Jan H Blits / Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    Spirit, Soul, and City offers a new reading of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s most political play and the last of his great tragedies. Portraying the founding of the Roman republic and the life and soul of its legendary warrior, Coriolanus, the play brings to light not only the hidden working of Rome’s mixed regime but the inherent tragic tensions in the soul’s spirited tendency to ...
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    66,93 €

  • Soul of Athens
    Jan H Blits / Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' studies Shakespeare’s portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard’s most memorable comedies. Coupling careful attention to detail with interpretive breadth, The Soul of Athens examines the nature of love, the natural doubleness of human thinking and the ambiguous relation of image a...
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    70,83 €

  • Deadly Thought
    Jan H Blits / Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet’s famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. ...
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    82,98 €

  • End of the Ancient Republic
    Jan H Blits / Jan H. Blits / Jan HBlits
    While recent criticism of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has stressed the corruption of both the common people and the Republic’s enemies within the patrician class, this book argues that at the core of the play lies the less obvious but more important corruption of the regime’s leading defenders, particularly Brutus. ...
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    60,42 €