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Figural Choice in Poetry and Art
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ISBN: 0874513332 Year: 1985 Publisher: Hanover University Press of New England

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History/writing
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ISBN: 0521360498 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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History writing is a form of literature that claims a unique correspondence to the processes of the real world. In this ambitious study, Albert Cook examines the literary d imensions of historiacal writing. He examines two seemingly contradictory constraints on historiography: the truth-claims of texts and the rhetoric of historical discourse. He shows how these constraints combine to enable, rather than prevent, the presentation of meaning in temporal sequences of events. Cook's scope encompasses the historigraphical aspects of the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, Homer, Thucydides, Tacitus, Gregory of Tours, Einhards, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Machiavelli Guicciardini, Gibbon, Ezra Pound, Foucault, Heidegger and Bradel. In the first half of his work he focuses on the practice of individual historians; in the second on particular philosophical or organizational techniques, in scriptural historians philosophical historians, or the self-critical historians of our own time. Though his concerns are systematic his analysis bears upon development questions in the practice of historiography over the past twenty-five hundred years. Thus, the book is not a history of historiography but a historicized perspective of its manifestations in different cultures. Its ambitious scope extends to questions of literary theory and criticism, literary history, rhetoric, semiology and narratology.


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Myth and Language
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ISBN: 0253051223 Year: 1980 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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All aspects of human life are perceived and organized through myths and systems of myth. Language is a similarly vital function of our existence. Myth and Language explores the less universally accepted supposition that, particularly for the realm of literature, these two domains are necessarily interrelated. Moreover, this relationship is shown to be crucial to an understanding of the broader roles of literature in society. Unlike previous studies of this symbiosis, which have tended to neglect the importance of language, Myth and Language fully considers the influence of social context on the nature of literary language. Albert Cook begins his investigation into the relationship of myth and language with a critique of the work of Levi-Strauss, showing the usefulness of his binary procedures and sketching a typology of cultural phases, with particular attention to literary forms. Another section traces the redefinition of the relationship of myth and language from the oral Greek culture of Homer to the development of the discrete forms of lyric poetry, philosophy, and historiography. A final section examines the necessary reliance of elementary literary forms—proverb, riddle, parable, metaphor—on the translation of mythic concerns into language. Myth and Language is a cogent argument for the dependence of literary expression on mythic formulations.


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The classic line : a study in epic poetry
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Year: 1967 Publisher: Bloomington, London : Indiana University Press,

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The dark voyage and the golden mean: a philosophy of comedy
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Year: 1966 Publisher: New York Norton

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The meaning of fiction
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Year: 1960 Publisher: Detroit Wayne University Press

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Dimensions of the sign in art
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ISBN: 0874514487 Year: 1989 Publisher: Hanover, N.H. University Press of New England

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Shakespeare's enactment : the dynamics of Renaissance theatre
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ISBN: 0804006954 Year: 1976 Publisher: Chicago : Swallow Press,

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Year: 1966 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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