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  • The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

    Redigeret af Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge ... Læs mere

    432,96 kr.

  • English Translation and Classical Reception

    Towards a New Literary History

    af Stuart Gillespie ...
    Serier serie Classical Receptions
    English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical ... Læs mere

    851,61 kr.

  • Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture

    Arden Critical Companion

    Redigeret af Neil Rhodes, Stuart Gillespie ...
    Serier serie Arden Critical Companions
    While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular ... Læs mere

    1.082,39 kr.

  • AIDS and Rural Livelihoods

    Dynamics and Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa

    Redigeret af Anke Niehof, Gabriel Rugalema, Stuart Gillespie ...
    AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. Yet despite millions of dollars of aid and research, there has previously been little detailed on-the-ground analysis of the multifaceted impacts on rural people ... Læs mere

    602,61 kr.

  • Shakespeare's Books

    A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources

    af Stuart Gillespie ...
    Serier serie Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, ... Læs mere

    396,48 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Food Fight

    From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

    af Stuart Gillespie ...
    Fortalt af Stuart Gillespie ...

    Uforkortet

    9 timer 43 min

    'Essential' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'Punchy' JULIAN BAGGINI'Gripping' TIM SPECTORFood is life but our food system is killing us.Our global food system lies in the tight grip of a handful of powerful players who are prioritising profit at any cost – despite rising obesity, ill-health and a worsening climate crisis – aided by governments who are letting them get away with it.Stuart Gillespie, a vetera... ... Læs mere

    304,59 kr.

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  • Soul of the Age

    The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

    af Sir Jonathan Bate ...
    How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare's plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a king? And why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned?Weaving a dazzling tapestry of Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues, Soul of the Age leads us on an ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Redigeret af Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Læs mere

    280,62 kr.

  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    af Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Læs mere

    210,99 kr.

  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

    af Peter Brown ...
    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest ... Læs mere

    72,08 kr.

  • Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613

    Redigeret af Andrew J. Power, Rory Loughnane ...
    In fourteen specially commissioned chapters by leading Shakespeare scholars from around the globe, Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 provides an essential reappraisal of the final phase of Shakespeare's writing life. Arranged for the first time in the best-established chronological sequence, Shakespeare's last seven extant plays are discussed in detail in dedicated chapters, from Pericles to the other ... Læs mere

    424,94 kr.

  • Global Problems, Smart Solutions

    Costs and Benefits

    Redigeret af Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how ... Læs mere

    360,80 kr.