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From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
by N. G. WilsonWhich famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes – in Latin translation – when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but underestimate the importance of Plato himself? Having all but disappeared during the Middle Ages, classical Greek would recover a position of importance – eventually equal to that of classical Latin - only after a series of surprising failures, chance encounters, and false starts.This important study of the rediscovery and growing influence of classical Greek scholarship in Italy from the 14th to the early 16th centuries is brought up to date in a new edition that reflects on the recent developments in the field of classical reception studies, and contains fully up-to-date references to aid students and scholars. From a leading authority on Greek palaeography in the English-speaking world, here is a complete account of the historic rediscovery of Greek philosophy, language and literature during the Renaissance, brought up-to-date for a modern audience of classicists, historians, and students and scholars of reception studies and the Classical Tradition.
From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad
by Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha, Albeena Shakil, and Arjun GhoshThis multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of multilingualism, culture, performance, theory, and the literary Global South. Tracing this transition, the volume discusses themes like Indian literary history, postcolonial theory, post-pandemic challenges to literary studies, the state of Indian English drama, vernacular literature in English Studies and pedagogy, translations of feminist writers from South Asia, caste, and othering in literature, among other key themes. The volume, with contributions from eminent English Studies scholars, not only reflects the altered terrain of English Language and Literature in India but also invites readers to think about the transformative potential of the present juncture for both literary imagination and literary studies. This timely book, in honour of Professor GJV Prasad, will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English Studies, cultural studies, literature, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial studies, and critical theory.
From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad
by Angelie Multani Swati Pal Nandini Saha Albeena Shakil Arjun GhoshThis multi-genre collection of chapters presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of multilingualism, culture, performance, theory, and the literary Global South. Tracing this transition, the volume discusses themes like Indian literary history, postcolonial theory, post-pandemic challenges to literary studies, the state of Indian English drama, vernacular literature in English Studies and pedagogy, translations of feminist writers from South Asia, caste, and othering in literature, among other key themes. The volume, with contributions from eminent English Studies scholars, not only reflects the altered terrain of English Language and Literature in India but also invites readers to think about the transformative potential of the present juncture for both literary imagination and literary studies. This timely book, in honour of Professor GJV Prasad, will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English Studies, cultural studies, literature, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial studies, and critical theory.
From Caucasia, with Love
by Danzy SennaGrowing up amidst the power politics of 1970s America, Birdie and her older sister Cole are so close they speak their own language. Daughters of a white activist mother and a black academic father, Birdie appears white, Cole black, their relationship a refuge from the rest of their lives. Yet when their parents separate, Birdie and Cole are thrown worlds apart. But Birdie's desperate need to reclaim her family forces her back on to the road, where her search for her sister becomes, inevitably, a search for her self. 'Twists serious issues - race, politics, identity, social and familial responsibility - around the structure of a compelling storyline ...an intelligent, questioning book that sparks with ideas' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
From Christmas to Eternity (Mills And Boon Medical Ser. #Vol. 1109)
by Caroline AndersonWhen consultant Andy Gallagher temporarily loses his ability to speak, it puts even more strain on his marriage to GP Lucy. But as the first snowflakes fall Andy realises what’s important: winning back his wife. Only he’s lost without words – and he will need a Christmas miracle to convince Lucy of how he really feels…
From Christmas To Forever?: Playboy Doc's Mistletoe Kiss From Christmas To Forever? Miracle Under The Mistletoe (Mills And Boon Medical Ser. #3)
by Marion LennoxMelting his frozen heart
From Cinderella To Countess (Mills And Boon Historical Ser.)
by Annie BurrowsFrom Cinderella in the shadows To Countess in the spotlight?
From City Girl to Rancher's Wife: Mendoza's Secret Fortune A Second Chance At Crimson Ranch From City Girl To Rancher's Wife (Mills And Boon Cherish Ser.)
by Ami WeaverCOOKING UP A HAPPY ENDING?
From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation
by Maggie KilgourFocusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the literal and metaphorical, source and model. Kilgour demonstrates the usefulness of incorporation as a subsuming metaphor that describes the construction and then the dissolution of opposites or separate identities in a text: the distinction between outside and inside, essentially that of eater and eaten, is both absolute and unreciprocal and yet fades in the process of ingestion--as suggested in the saying "you are what you eat.".Kilgour explores here a fable of identity central to Western thought that represents duality as the result of a fall from a primal symbiotic unity to which men have longed to return. However, while incorporation can be desired as the end of alienation, it can also be feared as a form of regression through which individual identity is lost. Beginning with the works of Homer, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante, Kilgour traces the ambivalent attitude toward incorporation throughout Western literature. She examines the Eucharist as a model for internalization in Renaissance texts, addresses the incorporation of past material in the nineteenth century, and concludes with a discussion of the role of incorporation in cultural theory today.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
by Dan MironDan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.
From Cornwall with Love (The Cornish Cream Tea series #8)
by Cressida McLaughlinWarm and escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series Praise for Cressida McLaughlin: ‘Gorgeous!’ Phillipa Ashley ‘Perfect’ Cathy Bramley ‘A wonderful ray of reading sunshine’ Heidi Swain
From Courtesan To Convenient Wife: The Earl's Practical Marriage From Courtesan To Convenient Wife A Wedding For The Scandalous Heiress (Matches Made in Scandal #2)
by Marguerite KayeEvery woman wants to marry him… But what if he's already taken?
From Dare To Due Date: Tempted By Her Tycoon Boss / From Dare To Due Date (Sugar Falls, Idaho #3)
by Christy JeffriesTHE NIGHT THEY MADE A BABY
From Daredevil to Devoted Daddy: From Daredevil To Devoted Daddy / One Week With The French Tycoon / It Happened In Paris... (a Valentine To Remember, Book 2) (Mills And Boon Cherish Ser.)
by Barbara McMahonJust a summer romance… Since the cliffs surrounding her Mediterranean home claimed her husband’s life, Jeanne-Marie has been a single mum to her young son Alexandre. She keeps her heart well guarded – until the handsome Matthieu arrives at her cosy B&B… Or the start of something more?
From Darkest Skies: Book 1 (From Darkest Skies #3)
by Sam PetersAfter a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife's personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind. She has been constructed with one purpose - to discover the truth behind her own death - but Keon's relationship with her has grown into something more, something frighteningly dependent, something that verges on love.Cashing in old favours, Keon uses his return to the Service to take on a series of cases that allow him and the artificial Alysha to piece together his wife's last days. His investigations lead him inexorably along the same paths Alysha followed five years earlier, to a sinister and deadly group with an unhealthy fascination for the unknowable alien Masters; but as the wider world of Magenta is threatened with an imminent crisis, Keon finds himself in a dilemma: do his duty and stand with his team to expose a villainous crime, or sacrifice them all for the truth about his wife?
From The Dead (Tom Thorne Novels #9)
by Mark BillinghamWhen Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him.DI Tom Thorne worked on the Alan Langford case, so when Carpenter brings the photo to him, he refuses to believe that the man whose body was found in a burned-out car ten years before can still be alive. But when a prison inmate that he and Anna interview is viciously murdered, Thorne starts to understand that Langford is not only alive, but ready to get rid of anyone who could threaten his comfortable new life in Spain...
From Dead to Worse: A True Blood Novel (Sookie Stackhouse #8)
by Charlaine HarrisThe supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit in the up-north city of Rhodes. Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, and she's yearning for things to get back to normal. But that's just not happening. Too many vampires - some friends, some not - were killed or injured, and her were-tiger boyfriend Quinn is among the missing.It's clear that things are changing, whether the weres and vamps like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack, blood-bonded to the leader of the local vampire community, is caught up in those changes. She's about to find herself facing danger and death and, not for the first time, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood has stopped flowing, Sookie's world will be forever altered ...
From Devon With Death: The compelling rural mystery (The Devon Mysteries #3)
by Stephanie AustinWhen Juno Browne finds a life-sized effigy floating in the River Ashburn, a note attached claims it as the work of Cutty Dyer, Ashburton’s mythical blood-drinking demon. But despite Juno’s instinct that this is a sign of trouble ahead, the police dismiss her find as a practical joke. Then the body of a woman is discovered by the river and it becomes clear that a killer has taken on Cutty’s identity.But as suspicion falls on someone close to her, Juno finds herself drawn into solving the mystery, desperate to prove her friend’s innocence. As the rain falls steadily and the level of the River Ashburn continues to rise, Juno must unmask the real identity of Cutty Dyer, or risk being swept away on a murderous tide.
From The Diary Of A Snail
by Günter GrassProbably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform.From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum.
From Dirt to Diamonds: The Carlotta Diamond / The Texan's Diamond Bride / From Dirt To Diamonds (Mills And Boon Modern Ser.)
by Julia JamesHe’ll stop at nothing to settle old scores!
From Distant Stars: Book 2 (From Darkest Skies)
by Sam PetersInspector Keon has finally got over the death of his wife Alysha in a terrorist attack five years ago. The illegal AI copy of her - Liss - that he created to help him mourn has vanished, presumed destroyed. His life is back on track. But a deadly shooting in a police-guarded room in a high-security hospital threatens to ruin everything. Who got past the defences? Why did they kill the seemingly unimportant military officer who had been in a coma for weeks? And why did the scanners pick up the deceased man the next day on the other side of the planet, seemingly alive and well?As Keon digs into the mysteries he begins to realise that the death was connected to a mysterious object, potentially alien, discovered buried in ice under the north pole. Someone has worked out what is hidden there, and what its discovery will mean for mankind. Someone who is willing to kill.And another player has entered the game. Someone who seems to know more about Keon than is possible.Someone who might be using Liss's information against him.Or who might be Alysha, back from the dead.
From Divergent Suns: Book 3 (From Darkest Skies Ser. #3)
by Sam PetersThe thrilling conclusion to the brilliant trilogy set on a distant world among the stars.A MISSING NUCLEAR WARHEAD. AN INTERSTELLAR CONSPIRACY. A DOOMSDAY CULT. In a remote city, a renowned performance artist commits suicide on video; from a long-abandoned space station comes impossible footage of a dead body; and in an isolated outpost, a secretive cult believes they are communing with the ancient alien Masters. How are they connected? Inspector Keon is trying to investigate, but once again his life has been flipped upside down. His wife, Alysha, is alive. His long search is over. Or, so he thinks. But his investigation is leading to a grand conspiracy by a powerful cabal and the forces of distant Earth reaching into every level of Magentan society. Is she involved? As he tries to learn the truth, the AI construct of his wife he created searches for her own place in this world and Magenta faces an existential threat. On the run, and with nowhere to turn Keon must decide who to trust: The wife he loves or the AI who loves him.
From Doctor To Daddy: A Surgeon For The Single Mum / From Doctor To Daddy (Mills And Boon Medical Ser. #Vol. 1026)
by Becky WicksCan he fix the past… …by giving her daughter a future?
From Doctor...to Daddy / When the Cowboy Said ''I Do'': From Doctor...to Daddy (Mills And Boon Cherish Ser. #3)
by Karen Rose Smith Crystal GreenFrom Doctor…to Daddy Ever since Dr Dillon Traub arrived at Thunder Canyon, tongues have been wagging about the chemistry between him and his receptionist. Those broad shoulders of his may be awfully tempting, but single mum Erika knows better than to succumb to her attraction to her boss. Doesn’t she? When the Cowboy Said “I Do”
From Doctor To Princess?: From Doctor To Princess? / The Doctor's Cinderella (Mills And Boon Medical Ser.)
by Annie ClaydonHe’s her reluctant patient… But might she soon be his royal fiancée?