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Shakespeare
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ISBN: 069106766X 1322018367 9781400859962 1400859964 9780691601328 0691601321 9780691067667 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the standard history of English medieval and Renaissance drama. Robert Knapp argues that changes in the authority of English monarchs, in the differentiation and integration of English society, in the realization of human figures on stage, and in the understanding of signs helped produce scripts that still compel us to the act of interpretation.Originally published in 1989.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.

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English drama --- Semiotics and literature --- Literature and history --- Theater --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- English literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Shakespeare, William --- English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. --- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century. --- Semiotics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century. --- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century. --- Abjection. --- Aestheticism. --- Allegory. --- Ambiguity. --- Antitheatricality. --- Antithesis. --- Bel-imperia. --- Burlesque. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Chaucer's Retraction. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Criticism. --- Cymbeline. --- Deconstruction. --- Deprecation. --- Disenchantment. --- Dogberry. --- Dramaturgy. --- Epic theatre. --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Fiction. --- Flattery. --- Fortinbras. --- G. (novel). --- G. Wilson Knight. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Gorboduc. --- Henriad. --- Hermia. --- Hieronimo. --- Historicism. --- Hubris. --- Hypocrisy. --- Iago. --- Iconoclasm. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- King Lear. --- Legal fiction. --- Leontes. --- Literariness. --- Literature. --- Malvolio. --- Melodrama. --- Metonymy. --- Mock-heroic. --- Modernity. --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- Negative capability. --- Pandarus. --- Parody. --- Paul de Man. --- Performative utterance. --- Petruchio. --- Plautus. --- Playwright. --- Poetry. --- Political satire. --- Polonius. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prudentius. --- Puritans. --- Pyramus and Thisbe. --- Renaissance tragedy. --- Revenge tragedy. --- Rhetoric. --- Ricardian (Richard III). --- Richard Hooker. --- Robert Greene (dramatist). --- Roderigo. --- Romantic epistemology. --- Romanticism. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Satire. --- Secularization. --- Sentimentality. --- Shakespeare's Kings. --- Shakespearean comedy. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Shylock. --- Skepticism. --- Spirituality. --- Tamburlaine. --- The Gaze of Orpheus. --- The Spanish Tragedy. --- Theatrum Mundi. --- Theodicy. --- Thomas Kyd. --- Titus Andronicus. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Tragicomedy. --- V. --- William Ames. --- William Shakespeare.


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Thoreau's axe : distraction and discipline in American culture
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ISBN: 0691215286 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"When did the age of distraction begin? It might seem like a new problem, a symptom of our digital addictions, but distraction was already a source of deep concern in American culture two hundred years ago. As the industrial market economy emerged, nineteenth-century observers saw the signs: Workers were wasting time, daydreaming on the job, and the public's attention was overstimulated by new media and consumer trends. In response, social reformers designed innovative systems of moral training for the masses. Religious leaders organized far-reaching Christian revivals. And spiritual seekers like Henry David Thoreau experimented on themselves, practicing regimens of simplified living and transcendental mysticism. From the solitary confinement cells of the earliest penitentiaries to the shores of Walden Pond, disciplines of attention became the spiritual exercises of a distracted age. Through twenty-eight short passages on reform, religion, and literature from the strange and beautiful archives of this nineteenth-century attention revival, Caleb Smith reads with an eye for both language and power. Disciplines of attention, he argues, often reinforce a morally conservative social order. At the same time, exercising more careful control over our own attention promises to give us some distance from the consumer marketplace-and, today, from the algorithmic manipulations of the online attention economy. Smith writes with vigilance about the history of coercion, but also with guarded hope about practices of attention, including reading itself. From the benefits of attentive reading to the darker side of enforced attention in prisons and reformatories, this book examines distraction as a moral, political, and economic problem with a long and illuminating history"--

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American literature --- History and criticism. --- Achievement (heraldry). --- Acquiescence. --- Activism. --- Aesthetics. --- Animal magnetism. --- Asceticism. --- Attention economy. --- Author. --- Backsliding. --- Bernard Bailyn. --- Bernard Stiegler. --- Big business. --- Biography. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Camp meeting. --- Capital punishment. --- Capitalism. --- Career. --- Catechism. --- Christian revival. --- Christianity. --- Church architecture. --- Classroom. --- Colored. --- Conversion narrative. --- Counterculture. --- Criticism. --- Definition of religion. --- Dissociation (psychology). --- Distraction. --- Divine judgment. --- Ethics. --- Evangelicalism. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hannah More. --- Harvard University Press. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Hypocrisy. --- Identity politics. --- Imperialism. --- Indulgence. --- Irritability. --- Laborer. --- Learning. --- Leaves of Grass. --- Legal fiction. --- Lethargy. --- Life Without Principle. --- Listening. --- Literary genre. --- Literature. --- Lydia Maria Child. --- Market Revolution. --- Meditations. --- Methodism. --- Modernity. --- Nat Turner. --- Nonconformist. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Of Education. --- Oppression. --- Oxford University Press. --- Pamphlet. --- Philosopher. --- Piety. --- Poetry. --- Political culture. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prose. --- Protestantism. --- Racialism. --- Reformatory. --- Religion. --- Sanctification. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-control. --- Self-interest. --- Simone Weil. --- Slave rebellion. --- Slavery. --- Solitude. --- Song of Myself. --- Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. --- Spiritual autobiography. --- Spiritual but not religious. --- Spirituality. --- Stanford University Press. --- Sunday school. --- Sympathy. --- Take Shelter. --- Temple School (Massachusetts). --- Thought. --- Thrill Me. --- Transcendentalism. --- University of Chicago Press. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Wickedness. --- Writing. --- Yale University Press.


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What's the matter with Delaware? : how the first state has favored the rich, powerful, and criminal-and how it costs us all
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ISBN: 0691185778 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"How the "First State" has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of usThe legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? Why do so many small companies choose to set up in Delaware rather than their home states? Why do wealthy individuals form multiple layers of private companies in the state? This book reveals how a systematic enterprise lies behind the business-friendly corporate veneer, one that has kept the state afloat financially by diverting public funds away from some of the poorest people in the United States and supporting dictators and criminals across the world. Hal Weitzman shows how the de facto capital of corporate America has provided safe haven to money launderers, kleptocratic foreign rulers, and human traffickers, and facilitated tax dodging and money laundering by multinational companies and international gangsters. Revenues from Delaware's business-formation industry, known as the Franchise, account for two-fifths of the state's budget and have helped to keep the tax burden on its residents among the lowest in the United States. Delaware derives enormous political clout from the Franchise, effectively writing the corporate code for the entire country-and because of its outsized influence on corporate America, the second smallest state in the United States also writes the rules for much of the world.What's the Matter with Delaware? shows how, in Joe Biden's home state, the corporate laws get written behind closed doors, enabling the rich and powerful to do business in the shadows"-- "Delaware is so boring that it's funny, as immortalized by one of the most memorable jokes in the movie Wayne's World. Indeed, Delaware is the de facto capital of corporate America, the embodiment of blandness. But what if behind this banality lay a systematic enterprise that blatantly diverted public funds away from the poorest people in America and supported the worst criminals and dictators in the world? Legal scholars, financial journalists, and elite businesspeople will all tell you that by now it's common knowledge that Delaware is not just business friendly-it is an obvious financial haven for terrorists, criminals, dictators, arms-dealers, money-launderers, and tax evaders. But no one has put all the pieces together and written a book about it. Accomplished investigative journalist Hal Weitzman does just that. This book explains in clear terms to the broadest possible audience how Delaware diverts money from the poorest states in the US through various means, most obviously the "Delaware loophole," which in effect enables huge businesses such as Home Depot and WalMart to avoid paying state taxes to the states in which they actually conduct business. In Shut Down Delaware, Weitzman will also show how Delaware is an integral part of an international system that fosters extraordinary tax evasion and money laundering, through its indefensible system of incorporation, which allows anyone to set up a business without specifying who owns the business. Over time what this has led to is that some of the biggest and most well-known businesses in the world sharing the same Delaware addresses as the world's most notorious arms dealers and dictators. Using public data, interviews, investigative journalism, and academic scholarship, Weitzman will be the first to put the story together in book form and call the industry out. For years, US lawmakers and law enforcement have been criticizing foreign tax havens such as Switzerland and Luxembourg for unjust practices, but when the trail inevitably leads back to Delaware, there is nothing more they can say or do. Shut Down Delaware will bring this glaring discrepancy to light, and the implications could be tremendous. First, there is no defense for Delaware allowing business incorporation without any identification. Second, many states have gotten wise and passed legislation preventing businesses from taking advantage of the "Delaware loophole" but most, including the nation's poorest states, have not. A high-profile book could be just what it takes raise public awareness on both fronts, and if these laws were changed, a huge amount of business would be affected. Shut Down Delaware has the potential to create an enormous shift in the way the world's largest companies and shadiest illegal entities do business in the United States"--

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Corporation law --- Tax havens --- Corporations --- Money laundering --- Taxation --- Delaware --- Economic policy. --- A Modest Proposal. --- American International Center. --- Americans. --- Andrew Fastow. --- Anonymity. --- Anti-competitive practices. --- Attempt. --- Backpage. --- Bank account. --- Bank fraud. --- Barry Pepper. --- Bureau of Corporations. --- Campaign finance. --- Candidate. --- Casino Jack. --- Chairman. --- Citizenship of the United States. --- Civil penalty. --- Corporation. --- Creditor. --- Crime. --- Currency transaction report. --- Customer. --- Delaware General Corporation Law. --- Enron. --- Facilitator. --- Federal government of the United States. --- Figure 1. --- Finance. --- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. --- Financial crimes. --- Financial intelligence. --- Financial services. --- Foreign official. --- Fortune 500. --- Franchise tax. --- Fraud. --- Frederick Chiluba. --- Funding. --- George Washington. --- Gift card. --- Government agency. --- Government revenue. --- Governor of New Jersey. --- Hippie. --- Inauguration. --- Intellectual property. --- Internal affairs (law enforcement). --- International sanctions. --- Jack Abramoff. --- Jeffrey Skilling. --- Joe Biden. --- Jurisdiction. --- Kenneth Lay. --- Kleptocracy. --- Ku Klux Klan. --- Law enforcement. --- Lawsuit. --- Lawyer. --- Laxative. --- Legal fiction. --- Legislation. --- Lobbying. --- Lotion. --- Market capitalization. --- Mercenary. --- Mergers and acquisitions. --- Michael Scanlon. --- Misconduct. --- Money laundering. --- Op-ed. --- Operating agreement. --- Parent company. --- Paul Manafort. --- Perpetuity. --- Political scandal. --- Public finance. --- Regulation. --- Remittance. --- Resignation. --- Retirement. --- Revenue. --- Salary. --- Shell corporation. --- Slavery. --- Special agent. --- State law (United States). --- State legislature (United States). --- Statute. --- Subsidiary. --- Supply chain. --- Tax avoidance. --- Tax evasion. --- Tax. --- Terrorism financing. --- The New York Times. --- Trade union. --- Viktor Bout. --- Wide Variety. --- Zambia.


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Capitalism and the Jews
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ISBN: 9780691144788 0691144788 9786612458040 069115306X 9786612936135 1400834368 1282936131 1282458043 9781400834365 9781282458048 9781282936133 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex--and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the Jews examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked. The book explains why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The book shows how the ancient idea that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of finance and, ultimately, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the book traces how the traditional status of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both encouraged their economic success and made them particularly vulnerable to the ethnic nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misunderstood subject, Capitalism and the Jews will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the modern fate of the Jews, or the ways in which the story of capitalism and the Jews has affected the history of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to our own.

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Economic order --- Jewish religion --- Capitalism --- Jews --- Jewish businesspeople --- Nationalism --- Communism --- History --- -Jews --- -Jewish businesspeople --- -Communism --- 330.940089924 --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Jewish businessmen --- Businesspeople --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Electronic information resources --- -Electronic information resources --- E-books --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.313 --- 18 --- 323.1 --- Kapitalisme. --- Godsdienst --- Taalgebruik. Vragen rond nationaliteit, ras en taal. --- Taalgebruik. Vragen rond nationaliteit, ras en taal --- Kapitalisme --- Capitalism. --- Jewish businesspeople. --- Communism. --- Nationalism. --- History. --- Geschichte. --- Jews - History --- Adolf Hitler. --- Agudat Yisrael. --- Andrei Markovits. --- Anti-capitalism. --- Austria-Hungary. --- Backwardness. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. --- Center for Jewish History. --- Central Europe. --- Chaim Grade. --- Class conflict. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Cultural capital. --- Democratic Leadership Council. --- Derek Penslar. --- Division of labour. --- Doctors' plot. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economic development. --- Economic history. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Ernest Gellner. --- Ethnic group. --- Ethnic nationalism. --- False consciousness. --- For Marx. --- Friedrich Hayek. --- Germans. --- Harvard University. --- Haskalah. --- Hostility. --- Ideology. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Industrial society. --- Industrialisation. --- Intellectual. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Jewish Bolshevism. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish question. --- Jews. --- Joseph Schumpeter. --- Judaism. --- Labor Zionism. --- Labor theory of value. --- Legal fiction. --- Lev Kamenev. --- Liberalism. --- Lithuania. --- Marxism. --- Menasseh Ben Israel. --- Mensheviks. --- Middle class. --- Miklós Horthy. --- Milton Friedman. --- Modernity. --- Moneylender. --- Montesquieu. --- Nation state. --- Nations and Nationalism (book). --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- New antisemitism. --- Nobility. --- Pale of Settlement. --- Peasant. --- Pogrom. --- Politics. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Romanticism. --- Rothschild family. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-interest. --- Simon Dubnow. --- Social science. --- Social theory. --- Sociology. --- Soviet Union. --- Sovietization. --- Stalinism. --- Tax. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- Tradesman. --- Usury. --- Welfare. --- Western Europe. --- Working class. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Zionism.


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Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition
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ISBN: 0691066973 1322006245 0691610339 1400858321 0691638462 9781400858323 9780691066974 9780691610337 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its development in the psychological and rhetorical theory of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to its culmination in the literary theory of the Renaissance.Originally published in 1986.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.

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Law and literature. --- Literature --- Philosophy. --- Aristotle. --- 875 ARISTOTELES --- 1 <38> ARISTOTELES --- Law and literature --- Literature and law --- 1 <38> ARISTOTELES Griekse filosofie--ARISTOTELES --- Griekse filosofie--ARISTOTELES --- 875 ARISTOTELES Griekse literatuur--ARISTOTELES --- Griekse literatuur--ARISTOTELES --- Aristoteles. --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Aristotle --- Aristotile --- Contributions in philosophy of literature. --- Ἀριστοτέλης. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory --- Philosophy --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Αριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- Aeschylus. --- Against the Sophists. --- Allegory. --- An Apology for Poetry. --- Anagnorisis. --- Apology (Plato). --- Arbitration. --- Aristotelian ethics. --- Aristotelianism. --- Averroes. --- Averroism. --- Carneades. --- Catharsis. --- Common law. --- Conflation. --- Critical Essays (Orwell). --- David Daube. --- De Motu (Berkeley's essay). --- Determinatio. --- Dialectic. --- Dianoia. --- Endoxa. --- English poetry. --- Epideictic. --- Erudition. --- Ethics. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Euripides. --- Exemplum. --- Fiction. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Hamartia. --- Hippias Minor. --- Inference. --- Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe). --- Iphigenia in Tauris. --- Kakia (mythology). --- Lactantius. --- Legal fiction. --- Legal science. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Magna Moralia. --- Memoria. --- Metaphor. --- Metaxy. --- Mimesis. --- Neoplatonism. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Parmenides. --- Peripeteia. --- Perjury. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of law. --- Phronesis. --- Pity. --- Plotinus. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Praetor. --- Precedent. --- Presumption (canon law). --- Probability. --- Prohairesis. --- Psychology. --- Quintilian. --- Rex Warner. --- Rhetoric (Aristotle). --- Rhetoric. --- Rhetorica ad Herennium. --- Rule of law. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sextus Empiricus. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Sine qua non. --- Soliloquy. --- Sophocles. --- Stoicism. --- Superiority (short story). --- Syllogism. --- Term logic. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thomism. --- Timaeus (dialogue). --- Traditional story. --- Verisimilitude. --- Wickedness. --- Writing.

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