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Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

By: Philip R. Hardie

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Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, philosophy, religion and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest students and scholars of Latin and later European literatures. All foreign languages are accompanied by translations.

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382

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Cambridge University Press

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0521800870

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9780521800877

Supplement to A California Flora

By: Philip A. Munz

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Supplement to A California Flora

By: Philip A. Munz

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

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230

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Univ of California Press

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0520336917

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9780520336919

A Flora of Southern California

By: Philip A. Munz

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A Flora of Southern California

By: Philip A. Munz

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1094

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Univ of California Press

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0520338650

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9780520338654

American Transcendentalism

A History

By: Philip F. Gura

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American Transcendentalism

A History

By: Philip F. Gura

A comprehensive history of American transcendentalism which originated with a number of nineteenth-century intellectuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and examines their philosophical and religious roots in Europe and opposition to slavery.

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386

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Macmillan

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0809034778

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9780809034772

Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

By: Philip Ranlet

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Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

By: Philip Ranlet

Richard B. Morris, an internationally known early American scholar, was a historian at both City College of New York and Columbia University. His dissertation, Studies in the History of American Law, helped establish American legal history as a field. This biography is based primarily upon Morris' extensive papers and the recollections of historians who knew him well.

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238

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University Press of America

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0761829172

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9780761829171

Man’s Better Angels

Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Philip F. Gura

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Man’s Better Angels

Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Philip F. Gura

Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness. Animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance, they became prophets of a new moral order: if only their fellow countrymen would call on each individual’s God-given better instincts, the most intractable problems could be resolved. Inspired by this reformist fervor, Americans took to strict dieting, water cures, phrenology readings, mesmerism, utopian communities, free love, mutual banking, and a host of other elaborate self-improvement schemes. Vocal activists were certain that solutions to the country’s ills started with the reformation of individuals, and through them communities, and through communities the nation. This set of assumptions ignored the hard political and economic realities at the core of the country’s malaise, however, and did nothing to prevent another financial panic twenty years later, followed by secession and civil war. Focusing on seven individuals—George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown—Philip Gura explores their efforts, from the comical to the homicidal, to beat a new path to prosperity. A narrative of people and ideas, Man’s Better Angels captures an intellectual moment in American history that has been overshadowed by the Civil War and the pragmatism that arose in its wake.

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326

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Harvard University Press

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0674978145

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9780674978140

Pastors in the Classics

Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World Literature

By: Leland Ryken,Philip Ryken,Todd Wilson

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Pastors in the Classics

Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World Literature

By: Leland Ryken,Philip Ryken,Todd Wilson

Throughout the history of English literature, church ministers have figured prominently in novels, plays, morality tales, and even poetry. Pastors in the Classics is a unique, unprecedented collection of relevant literary masterpieces in which the pastor's experience is a major part of the story. Part 1 is a reader's guide to twelve important classics written over four centuries and covering seven different nationalities. Each chapter not only describes and interprets the work in question, it also highlights a specific feature of pastoral ministry explored in the work. Part 2 is a handbook that defines the canon of literary masterpieces that deal with the pastor's experience, offering reading suggestions for both ministers and lovers of literature. From the familiar (The Canterbury Tales; Cry, the Beloved Country; and The Scarlet Letter) to the lesser-known (Silence, Witch Wood) to the surprising (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), this collection uncovers the good, the bad, and the ugly ways in which pastors have been presented to the reading public for the past half millennium.

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192

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Baker Books

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1441235884

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9781441235886

The Art of Travel

Essays on Travel Writing

By: Philip Dodds

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The Art of Travel

Essays on Travel Writing

By: Philip Dodds

First published in 1982. The Art of Travel is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature. For this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing; travel writing ranges from works such as Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence whose status as a novelist guarantees his travel books some attention, through the essays and books of Victorian middle-class travellers into working-class London, to the work of V.S. Naipaul, a contemporary writer, who has increasingly preferred the travel book to the novel.

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171

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Routledge

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1134726740

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9781134726745

Book's by Philip Greene

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

Supplement to A California Flora

Supplement to A California Flora

A Flora of Southern California

A Flora of Southern California

American Transcendentalism

American Transcendentalism

Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

Man’s Better Angels

Man’s Better Angels

Pastors in the Classics

Pastors in the Classics

The Art of Travel

The Art of Travel

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