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Xenophon and the graces of power : a Greek guide to political manipulation
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ISBN: 1910589691 9781910589694 Year: 2018 Publisher: Swansea The Classical Press of Wales

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Supplementum Aristotelicum : Editum consilio et auctoritate academiae litterarum regiae Borussicae.
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ISBN: 3111673774 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, Georg Andreas Reimer Verlag,

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Écfrasis, exemplum, enárgeia : Luis Cernuda y la poesía de la evidencia
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ISBN: 9788483594421 8483594420 Year: 2018 Volume: 8 Publisher: Madrid : Calambur,

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John Okada
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ISBN: 0295743530 9780295743530 9780295743523 0295743522 9780295743516 0295743514 Year: 2018 Publisher: Seattle

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No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure. This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs illuminate Okada's early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian and a technical writer in the aerospace industry. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy.


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The Films of Clint Eastwood : Critical Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780826359537 0826359531 9780826359520 Year: 2018 Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,

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As a collection, these essays show that none of these themes account for Eastwood's entire vision, which is multifaceted and often contradictory, dramatizing complex issues in powerful, character-driven narratives.


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Humanismo cristiano y reforma protestante (1517-2017).
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ISBN: 9788416305773 8416305773 Year: 2018 Publisher: Salamanca Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca

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Late Sophocles : the hero's evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
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ISBN: 9780472119561 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

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The Oedipus plays of Sophocles : Philosophical perspectives
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ISBN: 9780190669454 9780190669447 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. Faced with a damning prophecy, he tries to take destiny into his own hands and fails. Realizing this, he struggles at the end of his life for a serenity that seems to elude him. In his last misery, he is said to illustrate the tragic lament that it is better not to be born, or, once born, better to die young than to live into old age. Such are the themes a set of powerful thinkers take on in this volume-self-knowledge, self-deception, destiny, the value of a human life. There are depths to the Oedipus tragedies that only philosophers can plumb; readers who know the plays will be startled by what they find in this volume. There is nothing in literature to compare with the Oedipus plays of Sophocles that let us see the same basic myth through different lenses. The first play was the product of a poet in vibrant late middle age, the second of a man who was probably in his eighties, with the vision of a very old poet still at the height of his powers. In the volume's introduciton, Paul Woodruff provides historical backdrop to Sophocles and the plays, and connections to the contributions by philosophers and classicists that follow


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Miguel Torga : le dialogue inassouvi : essai d'analyse de son écriture dramatique
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ISBN: 9782807605282 2807605281 Year: 2018 Volume: 38 Publisher: Berne : Peter Lang,

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In the air : essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi
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ISBN: 0819577480 9780819577481 0819577464 9780819577467 9780819577474 0819577472 9780819577467 Year: 2018 Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press,

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