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016921
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New York, Oxford University Press, 2010.
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xiii, 413pBrown Spine
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This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the plays. Edith Hall argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it always depicts terrible human suffering and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effects, This enquiry was played out in the bright sunlight of open-air theatre, which became a key marker of the boundary between living and dead. The first half of the book is divided into four chapters which address the social and physical contexts in which the plays were performed, the contribution of the poets, actors, funders, and audiences, the poetic composition of the texts, their performance conventions, main themes, and focus on religion, politics, and the family. The second half consists of individual essays on each of the surviving thirty-three plays by the Greek tragedians, and an account of the recent performance of Greek tragic theatre and tragic fragments. An up-to-date 'Suggestions for further reading' is included.
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Introduction: What is Greek Tragedy?
1 Play Makers
2 Community Identities
3 Confrontations
4 Minds
5 Aeschylean Drama
6 Euripidean Drama
7 Sophoclean Drama
8 Greek Tragedy and Tragic Fragments Today
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9780199232512 Hb.
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| I00992 | 882.0109162/HAL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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026171
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New York, Harper Collins Children's Books, 2013.
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168pWhite spine
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Selected by a master storyteller and beloved New York Times best-selling author, the 16 stories in this menagerie will introduce teen readers to a host of strange, wondrous beings that have never existed anyplace but in the richness of the imagination.
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9780062200853 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 023922 | 808/FOS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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025306
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London, Vintage Books, 2002.
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viii, 335pCream and brown spine
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A collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties.
Translated from Italian.
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On some functions of literature
A reading of the Paradiso
On the style of The communist manifesto
The mists of the Valoi
Wilde : parados and aphorism
A portrait of the artist as bachelor
Between La Mancha and Babel
Borges and my anxiety of influence
On Camporesi : blood, body, life
On symbolism
On style
Les Sémaphores sous la Pluie
The flaws in the form
Intertextual irony and levels of reading
The Poetics and us
The American myth in three anti-American generations
The power of falsehood
How I write
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9780099453949 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I02443 | 809/ECO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
015612
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New York, Random House, 2002.
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xi, 404pBlack spine
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With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.
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Out of Kansas
The Best of Young British Novelists
Angela Carter
Beirut Blues
Arthur Miller at Eighty
In Defense of the Novel, Yet Again
Notes on Writing and the Nation
Influence
Adapting Midhight's Children
Reservoir Frogs
Heavy Threads
In the Voodoo Lounge
Rock Music-A Sleeve Note
U2
An Alternative Career
On Leavened Bread
On Being Photographed
Crash
The People's Game
Farming Ostriches
A Commencement Address
"Imagine There's No Heaven"
"Damme, This Is the Oriental Scene for You!"
India's Fiftieth Anniversary
Gandhi, Now
The Taj Mahal
The Babumama
A Dream of Glorious Return
II. MESSAGES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS
III. COLUMNS
December 1998: Three Leaders
January 1999: The Millennium
February 1999: Ten Years of the Fatwa
March 1999: Globalization
April 1999: Rock Music
May 1999: Moron of the Year
June 1999: Kashmir
July 1999: Northern Ireland
August 1999: Kosovo
September 1999: Darwin in Kansas
October 1999: Edward Said
November 1999: Pakistan
December 1999: Islam and the West
January 2000: Terror Versus Security
February 2000: J6rg Haider
March 2000: Amadou Diallo
April 2000: Elian Gonzlez
May 2000: J. M. Coetzee
June 2000: Fiji
July 2000: Sport
August 2000: Two Crashes
September 2000: Senator Lieberman
October 2000: The Human Rights Act
November 2000: Going to Electoral College
December 2000: A Grand Coalition?
January 2001: How the Grinch Stole America
February 2001: Sleaze Is Back
March 2001: Crouching Striker, Hidden Danger
April 2001: It Wasn't Me
May 2001: Abortion in India
June 2001: Reality TV
July 2001: The Release of the Budger Killers
August 2001: Arundhati Roy
September 2001: Telluride
October 2001: The Attacks on America
November 2001: Not About Islam?
February 2002: Anti-Americanism
March 2002; God in Gujarat
IV STEP ACROSS THIS LINE. LEE, AND M.
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0679463348 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00646 | 824.914/RUS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
012936
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New York, Riverhead Books, 2004.
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284pWhite Spine
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Bloom takes us from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Johnson and Goethe, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, and finally discussions of the Gospel of Thomas and Saint Augustine, he distills for us the various - and even contrary - forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.
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1. The Hebrews : Job and Ecclesiastes
2. The Greeks : Plato's contest with Homer
3. Cervantes and Shakespeare
4. Montaigne and Francis Bacon
5. Samuel Johnson and Goethe
6. Emerson and Nietzsche
7. Freud and Proust
8. The gospel of Thomas
9. Saint Augustine and reading
Coda : nemesis and wisdom
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1573222844 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00280 | 809.93384/BLO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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