This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis combining anthropology political and social history and the close reading of central Greek texts to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy. the representation of ritual and... Lees meer.

A study of those narratives which although neglected by historians of the novel provide us today with examples of highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal the traveller-merchant the persecuted maiden and the aristocrati... Lees meer.

Two philosophers take opposing viewpoints to debate the fundamental question of whether the Big Bang was created by God or whether it occurred according to scientific theory. Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exis... Lees meer.

This book based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017 argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature as... Lees meer.

A scholarly edition of a work by Charles Dickens. The edition presents an authoritative text together with an introduction commentary notes and scholarly apparatus.... Lees meer.

This is a study of a single community in early modern England. The authors examine the interaction of demographic economic social administrative and cultural change on the villagers of Terling between 1525 and 1700. This classic study of a single community in earl... Lees meer.

This is a biography of Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926 the 20th-century lyric poet whose works - the New Poems the Duino Elegies the Sonnets to Orpheus and in prose the Cornet and the Malte Laurids Brigge are of lasting importance to European literature. Th... Lees meer.

This volume contains a new translation of and commentary on Cicero s defense of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero s political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speech... Lees meer.

Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities as opposed to absolute Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers and analysis he extends his approach to set theory and shows how to di... Lees meer.

Intellectual property rights IPRs are increasingly significant elements of economic policy. they are vital to developed countries in an age of global trade. Today s new technologies stemming from the digital and biotechnological revolutions are creating new problems... Lees meer.

Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation vital to natural processes of generation and evolution growth and decay yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs i... Lees meer.

This is an account of how moral concepts such as forgiveness praise guilt and punishment apply to human interaction and behaviour. The author attempts to reach conclusions about which versions of traditional Christian doctrines utilizing such notions are morally accep... Lees meer.

David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume s Treatise one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This second volume contains their historical account of how the Treatise was written and published an explanation of how they have e... Lees meer.

A critical edition of John Locke s Essay concerning Toleration based on manuscripts and other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Providing contextual guidance this book is meant for historians of early modern philosophy of legal political... Lees meer.

This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel s Aesthetics the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I he considers the... Lees meer.