Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian
Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian…
Depuis la publication de 'Bonjour tristesse' en 1954, Françoise Sagan s'est imposée dans le paysage littéraire français. Elle est aujourd'hui l'une des écrivaines les plus lues et les plus connues dans le monde, mais aussi l'une des plus controversées. En dépit de son immense succès, Sagan n'a pas retenu l'attention des universitaires soucieux/ses de promouvoir la richesse de l'écriture des femmes. Il faut dire que la prépondérance qu'elle accorde dans ses livres à l'amour comme seule source d'épanouissement et de bonheur, ainsi que ses critiques publiques envers certaines revendications du mouvement des femmes, n'encouragent pas au premier abord une lecture féministe. Mais cela signifie-t-il qu'une lecture féministe est impossible? C'est à cette question que ce livre tente de répondre.
Depuis la publication de 'Bonjour tristesse' en 1954, Françoise Sagan s'est imposée dans le paysage littéraire français. Elle est aujourd'hui l'une des écrivaines les plus lues et…
This book gives a political reading of E. L. Doctorow's fiction. For Doctorow, there was a tension between the ideals of his socially aware family and those of the new critics under whom he studied as an undergraduate. This tension, making him skeptical about the possibilities of political involvement, has been beneficial because it has enabled Doctorow to avoid the excesses of both polemical writing and formalism. Through a stance Tokarczyk terms "skeptical commitment," he has written political fiction of high literary quality. In part, he has done so by adapting genres such as the western and the romance. Furthermore, Doctorow has used experimental techniques to express political and historical themes, thereby writing a kind of postmodern fiction that still maintains the possibility of establishing some truths, while acknowledging indeterminacy.
This book gives a political reading of E. L. Doctorow's fiction. For Doctorow, there was a tension between the ideals of his socially aware family and those of the new critics…
The structural device of the "story within a story," variously labeled "frame," "Chinese box," "Russian doll," or "embedded" narrative, is so widely found in the literature of all cultures and periods as to approach universality. Despite its durable
The structural device of the "story within a story," variously labeled "frame," "Chinese box," "Russian doll," or "embedded" narrative, is so widely found in the literature of all…
This work represents one of the few serious works on magical elements in Elder Futhark inscriptions. Although more recent works have come out, this survey is still important because the author deals with details like dates of finds, etc. While some of his conclusions are debated, the value of the work is not.
In comparison to other works on the subject, this work stands out in its attempt to provide some descriptions of formuleic elements in the inscriptions. These formuleic elements provide a basis for better understanding the magical uses of the Runes and their relation to descendant literary and poetic traditions. The MacLeod and Mees misses this important element, for example. Secondly, this work attempts to put magical uses of the Runes into a context of magical theories worked out by sociologists and anthropologists and is still entirely unique in this way.
This is a hard-to-find work but is extremely worth reading.
This work represents one of the few serious works on magical elements in Elder Futhark inscriptions. Although more recent works have come out, this survey is still important…
