Author: Diana von Finck
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 9783826036521
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Neil L. Rudenstine
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Shakespeare's sonnets are the greatest single work of lyric poetry in English, as passionate and daring as any love poems we may ever encounter, and yet, they are often misunderstood. Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets reveals an underlying structure within the 154 poems that illuminates the entire work, and provides a guide—for first-time readers as well as scholars—that inspires a new understanding of this complex masterpiece. Elizabethan scholar and former Harvard University president Neil L. Rudenstine makes a compelling case for the existence of a dramatic arc within the work through an expert interpretation of distinct groups of sonnets in relationship to one another. The sonnets show us a poet in turmoil whose love for a young man—who returns his affections—is utterly transformative, binding him in such an irresistible way that it survives a number of infidelities. And the poet and the young man are drawn in to a cycle of lust and betrayal by a "dark lady," a woman with the "power to make love groan." Rudenstine's reading unveils the relationship between major groups of poems: the expressions of love, the transgressions, the longings, the jealousies, and the reconciliations. This critical analysis is accompanied by the text of all of Shakespeare's sonnets. Accessible and thought-provoking, Ideas of Order is an invaluable companion to this cornerstone of literature.

Author: Vilho Harle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313030057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Harle focuses on the perennial issue of social order by providing a comparative analysis of ideas on social order in the classical Chinese political philosophy, the Indian epic and political literature, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, the classical Greek and Roman political thought, and early Christianity. His analysis is based on the religious, political, and literary texts that represent their respective civilizations as both their major achievements and sources of shared values. Harle maintains that two major approaches to establishing and maintaining social order exist in all levels and types of social relations: moral principles and political power. According to the principle-oriented approaches, social order will prevail if and when people follow strict moral principles. According to the contending power-oriented approach, orderly relations can only be based on the application of power by the ruler over the ruled. The principle-oriented approaches introduce a comprehensive civil society of individuals; the power-oriented approaches give major roles to the city-state, its government and relationships between them. The question of morality can be recognized also within the power-oriented approaches which either submit politics to morality or maintain that politics must be taken as nothing else than politics. This book is a contribution to peace and international studies as well as political theory and international relations.

Author: Charles Doyle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136212809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134499132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.

Author: Jacqueline Gargus
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: The Design Studio for Social Intervention
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570273681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects. With this simple premise, this radically accessible systems design book makes a compelling case for arrangements as a rich and overlooked terrain for social justice and world building. Unpacking how ideas like racism and sexism remain sturdy by embedding themselves in everything from physical and social infrastructure to everyday speech and thought habits, this book gives readers the tools to sense, intervene in and imagine new arrangements.

Author: Neil L. Rudenstine
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374280150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Counsels readers on the art of pleasurably enjoying Shakespeare's poetry, making a case for the existence of a dramatic, underlying narrative within the poems that relates them to each other and reflects thematic, transformative realities in the bard's personal life.

Author: Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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