La literatura griega y su tradición

La literatura griega y su tradición
Author: Pilar Hualde Pascual
Publisher: Ediciones AKAL
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 844602618X

La presente obra ofrece una visión de conjunto de la literatura griega antigua desde una perspectiva poco habitual. Cada capítulo comienza con una introducción al autor elegido y prosigue con un completo análisis de la obra seleccionada. Cierra el capítulo un estudio de la recepción de ambos en la literatura moderna, especialmente la española. Las obras escogidas (La Odisea homérica, la Antígona de Sófocles y El banquete de Platón, entre otras) se cuentan entre las más importantes de la literatura clásica, de manera que en el volumen están representados sus principales géneros. En todos los casos se trata de obras maestras, y junto a su importancia intrínseca se une el haber ejercido una fructífera influencia en la posteridad, lo cual se analiza en el libro de manera específica. El resultado es un libro que, más allá del ámbito de la filología clásica, se abre a otros campos como la teoría literaria, la literatura comparada, las humanidades o las letras en general, con el objeto de que el lector no especializado encuentre una ventana abierta a los estudios de tradición clásica.

I the Supreme

I the Supreme
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984898140

I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

A History of Western Astrology

A History of Western Astrology
Author: S. J. Tester
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1987
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780851152554

Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks added numerology, geometryand rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval times where it flourished until the shift of ideas during the Renaissance.

The Information

The Information
Author: James Gleick
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307379574

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish
Author: Mark Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134874464

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.

Ozu

Ozu
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1977-03-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780520032774

"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.

Algic Researches

Algic Researches
Author: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1839
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: