Author | : Vettius Valens d'Antioche |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004301410 |
Author | : Vettius Valens d'Antioche |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004301410 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004341862 |
Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.
Author | : Andrew Hunter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351878956 |
In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific publishing has mushroomed, developed new forms, and the academic discipline and popular appreciation of the history of science have grown apace. This fourth edition discusses these changes and ponders the implications of developments in publishing at the end of the twentieth century, while concentrating its gaze upon the dissemination of scientific ideas and knowledge from Antiquity to the industrial age. In this shift of focus it departs from previous editions, and for the first time a chapter on Islamic science is included. Recurrent themes in several of the ten essays in the present volume are the definition of ’science’ itself, and its transmutation by publishing media and the social context. Two essays on the collecting of scientific books provide a counterpoint, and the book is grounded on a rigorous chapter on bibliographies. The timely publication of Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors comes at the coincidence of the advent of electronic publishing and the millennium, a dramatic moment at which to take stock.
Author | : Teresa Seruya |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027271437 |
Among the numerous discursive carriers through which translations come into being, are channeled and gain readership, translation anthologies and collections have so far received little attention among translation scholars: either they are let aside as almost ungraspable categories, astride editing and translating, mixing in most variable ways authors, genres, languages or cultures, or are taken as convenient but rather meaningless groupings of single translations. This volume takes a new stand, makes a plea to consider translation anthologies and collections at face value and offers an extensive discussion about the more salient aspects of translation anthologies and collections: their complex discursive properties, their manifold roles in canonization processes and in strategies of cultural censorship. It brings together translation scholars with different backgrounds, both theoretical and historical, and covering a wide array of European cultural areas and linguistic traditions. Of special interest for translation theoreticians and historians as well as for scholars in literary and cultural studies, comparative literature and transfer studies.
Author | : Chris Brennan |
Publisher | : Amor Fati Publications |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2017-02-10 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0998588903 |
Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was practiced in the Mediterranean region from approximately the first century BCE until the seventh century CE. It is the source of many of the modern traditions of astrology that still flourish around the world today, although it is only recently that many of the surviving texts of this tradition have become available again for astrologers to study. Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune is one of the first comprehensive surveys of this tradition in modern times. The book covers the history, philosophy, and techniques of ancient astrology, with a special focus on demonstrating how many of the fundamental concepts underlying the practice of western astrology originated during the Hellenistic period.
Author | : Irma McDonough |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 1980-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487586426 |
This third, completely revised edition contains hundreds of new entries for a total of almost 2,000 children's books and magazines carefully selected and described by a team of children's librarians. Entries are arranged by subject, with reading levels indicated where necessary, and are also listed in a separate author-title index. A list of prize-winning Canadian children's books and a basic book list for librarians, teachers, and parents are included in this charmingly illustrated volume.
Author | : Tamysn Barton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134836538 |
An account of astrology from its beginnings in Mesopotamia, focusing on the Greco-Roman world, Ancient Astrology examines the theoretical development and changing social and political role of astrology.
Author | : Andrew Pettegree |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1638 |
Release | : 2007-11-30 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9047422449 |
This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.
Author | : Bette G. Hirsch |
Publisher | : Heinle |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780669215212 |
For intermediate-level students, this anthology is an excellent introduction to French literary masterpieces. Each of the six chapters contains readings from a given century, chosen for popular appeal and linguistic accessibility. The text can be used alone or in conjunction with a grammar review. Authors include Rabelais, Montaigne, de Sévigne, Rousseau, Sand, Beauvoir, and Ionesco.