Author: Cynthia Damon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A much-needed cultural study of parasitic people in Roman drama, politics, and society
The Mask of the Parasite
Author: Cynthia Damon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A much-needed cultural study of parasitic people in Roman drama, politics, and society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A much-needed cultural study of parasitic people in Roman drama, politics, and society
The Masks of Menander
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543521
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543521
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
The Mask
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Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Menander, New Comedy and the Visual
Author: Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.
An End to Enmity
Author: L. L. Welborn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110263300
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
“An End to Enmity” casts light upon the shadowy figure of the “wrongdoer” of Second Corinthians by exploring the social and rhetorical conventions that governed friendship, enmity and reconciliation in the Greco-Roman world. The book puts forward a novel hypothesis regarding the identity of the “wrongdoer” and the nature of his offence against Paul. Drawing upon the prosopographic data of Paul’s Corinthian epistles and the epigraphic and archaeological record of Roman Corinth, the author shapes a robust image of the kind of individual who did Paul “wrong” and caused “pain” to both Paul and the Corinthians. The concluding chapter reconstructs the history of Paul’s relationship with an influential convert to Christianity at Corinth.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110263300
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
“An End to Enmity” casts light upon the shadowy figure of the “wrongdoer” of Second Corinthians by exploring the social and rhetorical conventions that governed friendship, enmity and reconciliation in the Greco-Roman world. The book puts forward a novel hypothesis regarding the identity of the “wrongdoer” and the nature of his offence against Paul. Drawing upon the prosopographic data of Paul’s Corinthian epistles and the epigraphic and archaeological record of Roman Corinth, the author shapes a robust image of the kind of individual who did Paul “wrong” and caused “pain” to both Paul and the Corinthians. The concluding chapter reconstructs the history of Paul’s relationship with an influential convert to Christianity at Corinth.
The Play in the System
Author: Anna Watkins Fisher
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012323
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect subversion from within hegemonic structures. Fisher tracks the ways in which artists on the margins—from hacker collectives like Ubermorgen to feminist writers and performers like Chris Kraus—have willfully abandoned the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anticapitalism and feminism. Space for resistance is found instead in the mutually, if unevenly, exploitative relations between dominant hosts giving only as much as required to appear generous and parasitical actors taking only as much as they can get away with. The irreverent and often troubling works that result raise necessary and difficult questions about the conditions for resistance and critique under neoliberalism today.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012323
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect subversion from within hegemonic structures. Fisher tracks the ways in which artists on the margins—from hacker collectives like Ubermorgen to feminist writers and performers like Chris Kraus—have willfully abandoned the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anticapitalism and feminism. Space for resistance is found instead in the mutually, if unevenly, exploitative relations between dominant hosts giving only as much as required to appear generous and parasitical actors taking only as much as they can get away with. The irreverent and often troubling works that result raise necessary and difficult questions about the conditions for resistance and critique under neoliberalism today.
The Parasite
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452942625
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452942625
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.
Modernist Parasites
Author: Sebastian Williams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666921300
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, Sebastian Williams posits that the “parasite” came to be humanity’s ultimate other—a dangerous antagonist. But many authors such as Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell reconsider parasitism. Ultimately, parasites inherently depend on others for their survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666921300
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, Sebastian Williams posits that the “parasite” came to be humanity’s ultimate other—a dangerous antagonist. But many authors such as Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell reconsider parasitism. Ultimately, parasites inherently depend on others for their survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities.
Parasite Rex
Author: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074320011X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074320011X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.
The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
Author: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.