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This text provides higher education teachers with an overview of
the many approaches to setting, marking and reviewing coursework,
assignments, tests and examinations used in programmes for
certificates, diplomas, first degrees or higher degrees. It
discusses the influence of each on students.
It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between
those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist,
or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the
same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist
values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the
true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same
title held at Texas Tech University, Carnivalizing Difference seeks
to explore the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian
theory and cultural practice. The introduction explores the
changing configurations of our understanding of Bakhtin's work in
the context of recent theory and outlines how that understanding
can inform, and be informed by, culture both ancient and modern.
Eleven articles, spanning a wide range of periods and cultural
forms, then address these issues in detail, revealing the ways in
which Bakhtinian thought illuminates, sometimes obfuscates, but
always challenges.
This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form, and the Roman context, with particular focus on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid. An accessible commentary explores the historical background, issues of language and style, and the relation of each piece to its author's larger body of work. The volume closes with an anthology of critical essays representative of the main trends in scholarship; these both illuminate the genre's most salient features and help the student understand its modern reception.
It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same title held at Texas Tech University, Carnivalizing Difference seeks to explore the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian theory and cultural practice. The introduction explores the changing configurations of our understanding of Bakhtin's work in the context of recent theory and outlines how that understanding can inform, and be informed by, culture both ancient and modern. Eleven articles, spanning a wide range of periods and cultural forms, then address these issues in detail, revealing the ways in which Bakhtinian thought illuminates, sometimes obfuscates, but always challenges.
This book will provide higher education teachers with an overview
of the many approaches to setting, marking and reviewing
coursework, assignments, tests and examinations used in programmes
for certificates, diplomas, first degrees or higher degrees. It
discusses the strong influence that assessment has on the way
students approach their learning tasks. The book looks at how the
subject has been written about - rather than how to do it - and
includes references to Dearing. The book is truly international in
focus, and the authors hve experience of HE institutions in
Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, England, Canada, Hong Kong, USA
and Thailand
"Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness" presents a model for studying
the history of lyric as a genre. Paul Allen Miller draws a
distinction between the work of the Greek lyricists and the more
condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then
confronts the theoretical issues and presents a sophisticated,
Bakhtinian reading of the development of the lyric form from its
origins in archaic Greece to the more individualist style of
Augustan Rome.
The book examines different forms of poetic subjectivity projected
by ancient authors--Archilochus, Sappho, Catullus and
Horace--through a close reading of both their texts and contexts.
Miller argues that what is considered lyric--a short personal poem
which reveals a reflexive subjective consciousness--is only
possible in a culture of writing. It is the lyric collection which
creates literary consciousness as we know it. This consciousness
also requires a social structure where individuals can speak in
their own names, not merely in that of their state or class.
Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness presents a model for studying
the history of lyric as a genre. Prof Miller draws a distinction
between the work of the Greek lyrists and the more condensed,
personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then confronts the
theoretical issues and presents a sophisticated, Bakhtinian reading
of the development of the lyric form from its origins in archaic
Greece to the more individualist style of Augustan Rome. This book
will appeal to classicists and, since English translations of
passages from the ancient authors are provided, to those who
specialise in comparative literature.
Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date
there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of
antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means
claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on
various aspects of the influence which the Classics have had on
Russian literature at particularly significant junctures - the
beginning of the nineteenth century; the age of the great Russian
realist novel; the "Silver Age"; Stalin's terror; the "Thaw" after
1956; and the period just before the collapse of Soviet society. In
their introductory essay the editors offer an overview of the
Classical Tradition. In it, they provide an insight into the
contrasting ways in which that tradition manifested itself in the
literatures of Western Europe and of Russia.
This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form, and the Roman context, with particular focus on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid. An accessible commentary explores the historical background, issues of language and style, and the relation of each piece to its author's larger body of work. The volume closes with an anthology of critical essays representative of the main trends in scholarship; these both illuminate the genre's most salient features and help the student understand its modern reception.
A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented
here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of
satire's relation to Roman ideology.
Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in
translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student
understand the history of Latin's modern scholarly reception.
Focusing on the linguistic difficulties and problems of usage, and
examining aspects of meter and style necessary for poetry
appreciation, the commentary places each selection in its own
historical context then using essays and critical excerpt, the
genre's most salient features are elucidated to provide a further
understanding of its place in history.
Extremely student friendly, this stands well both as a companion to
Latin Erotic Elegy and in its own right as an invaluable fund of
knowledge for any Latin literature scholar.
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Horace (Paperback)
Paul Allen Miller
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Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as
Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the
Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus
Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) has never really been out of fashion.
Petrarch, for example, modelled his letters on Horace's innovative
Epistles, while also borrowing from his Roman forebear in composing
his own Italian sonnets. The echo of Horace's voice can be found in
almost every genre of medieval literature. And in later periods,
this influence and popularity if anything increased. Yet, as Paul
Allen Miller shows, while Horace may justifiably be called the poet
for all seasons he is also in the end an enigma. His elusive,
ironic contrariness is perhaps the true secret of his success. A
cultured man of letters, he fought on the losing side of the Battle
of Philippi (42 BC). A staunch Republican, he ended up eagerly
(some said too eagerly) promoting the cause of Julio-Claudian
imperialism. Viewed as the acme of Roman literary civilization, he
was shaped by his Athens education at Plato's famous Academy. This
new introduction reveals Horace in all his paradoxical genius and
complexity.
In 1980, Michel Foucault's work makes two decisive turns. On the
one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the College de
France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants, his topic will
be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in
relation to truth. On the other, the texts on which he will
concentrate will no longer be those of the early modern period.
Rather, he begins with one by Dio Cassius on the emperor Septimius
Severus and then proceeds to spend the next two sessions offering a
reading of Oedipus Tyrannus. He will concentrate on works from
antiquity for the rest of his life. This book will offer the first
detailed account of these lectures, examining both the development
of their philosophical argument and the ancient texts on which that
argument is based. This is the period during which Foucault also
began work on Volumes 2 and 3 of the History of Sexuality. Yet,
while there are clear overlaps between the work he was presenting
in his course and the last books he published before his death,
nonetheless the seminars are anything but rough drafts for the
published work. Instead they offer a sustained encounter with the
texts of the classical and early Christian era while seeking to
trace a genealogy of the western subject as a speaker of truth.
The forty papers collected here honor one of the great scientists
of our time--John Archibald Wheeler. In this volume are gathered
the six issues of the journal Foundations of Physics (February
through July 1986) that celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday.
Enlivened by Professor Wheeler's celebrated drawings, the book
captures and illuminates his many contributions to physics,
including his discovery of the scattering matrix and his
elucidation, with Niels Bohr, of the mechanism of nuclear fission,
his many contributions to Einstein's theory of gravity (for
instance, the black hole), his deep insights into quantum theory
and measurement (the elementary quantum phenomenon), and his
efforts to explain the origins of the quantum postulate and quantum
gravity (the meaning circuit and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation). The
majority of the papers reflect and build on Professor Wheeler's
revolutionary ideas. Many scientists are convinced that his
insights into the foundation of modern-day physics will induce a
profound change in our perception of the universe. This book will
appeal to scientists and philosophers who wish to look at one man's
rendering of the "big picture" through the eyes of his colleagues.
The work is prefaced by a compilation of quotes from Professor
Wheeler, edited by Kip S. Thorne and Wojciech Zurek. The
contributors to Between Quantum and Cosmos are M. Alexander, A.
Anderson, H. H. Barschall, J. D. Bekenstein, C. H. Bennett, P. G.
Bergmann, V. B. Braginsky, D. R. Brill, L. Brown, I. Ciufolini, L.
Cohen, M. Demianski, D. Deutsch, B. DeWitt, C. DeWitt-Morette, R.
H. Dicke, B. d'Espagnat, R. P. Feynman, J. Geheniau, U. H. Gerlach,
R. Geroch, J. Glimm, J. B. Hartle, F. W. Hehl, M. Henneaux, P. A.
Hogan, S. Hojman, J. Isenberg, F. Ya. Khalili, A. Kheyfets, K. V.
Kuchar, R. Landauer, S. G. Low, V. N. Lukash, B. Mashhoon, R. A.
Matzner, J. D. McCrea, A. Mezzacappa, W. A. Miller, Y. Ne'eman, I.
D. Novikov, A. Peres, I. Prigogine, I. Robinson, L. S. Schulman, M.
O. Scully, D. H. Sharp, L. C. Shepley, A. Y. Shiekh, C. Teitelboim,
E. Teller, K. S. Thorne, W. G. Unruh, R. M. Wald, L. Wilets, W. K.
Wootters, J. W. York, Jr., and W. H. Zurek. Originally published in
1988. 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.
In this collection of provocative essays, historians and
literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault,
particularly his "History of Sexuality," on the study of classics.
Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both
ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained
under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together
the historical knowledge, philological skills, and theoretical
perspectives of a wide range of scholars, this collection enables
the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how
well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence
from Greece and Rome. Not only do the essays bring to light the
assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate
lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world, but they
also demonstrate the importance of the" History of Sexuality" for
fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history,
cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.
The essays include "Situating "The History of Sexuality"" (the
editors), "Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality: Foucault's Failed
History" (Joel Black), ""Incipit Philosophia"" (Alain Vizier), "The
Subject in Antiquity after Foucault" (Page duBois), "This Myth
Which Is Not One: Construction of Discourse in Plato's "Symposium""
(Jeffrey S. Carnes), "Foucault's "History of Sexuality" A Useful
Theory for Women?" (Amy Richlin), "Catullan Consciousness, the
'Care of the Self, ' and the Force of the Negative in History"
(Paul Allen Miller), "Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius'
"Satyricon"" (Daniel B. McGlathery), and an essay from "Dislocating
Masculinity" (Lin Foxhall).
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage
for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the
swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was
incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet
from Catullus to Ovid, "Subjecting Verses" presents the first
comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's.
Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry
with insights from theoreticians as diverse as Jameson, Foucault,
Lacan, and Zizek. In welcome contrast to previous, thematic studies
of elegy--efforts that have become bogged down in determining
whether particular themes and poets were pro- or
anti-Augustan--Miller offers a new, "symptomatic" history. He asks
two obvious but rarely posed questions: what historical conditions
were necessary to produce elegy, and what provoked its decline?
Ultimately, he argues that elegiac poetry arose from a fundamental
split in the nature of subjectivity that occurred in the late first
century--a split symptomatic of the historical changes taking place
at the time.
"Subjecting Verses" is a major interpretive feat whose influence
will reach across classics and literary studies. Linking the rise
of elegy with changes in how Romans imagined themselves within a
rapidly changing society, it offers a new model of literary theory
that neither reduces the poems to a reflection of their context nor
examines them in a vacuum.
The forty papers collected here honor one of the great scientists
of our time--John Archibald Wheeler. In this volume are gathered
the six issues of the journal Foundations of Physics (February
through July 1986) that celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday.
Enlivened by Professor Wheeler's celebrated drawings, the book
captures and illuminates his many contributions to physics,
including his discovery of the scattering matrix and his
elucidation, with Niels Bohr, of the mechanism of nuclear fission,
his many contributions to Einstein's theory of gravity (for
instance, the black hole), his deep insights into quantum theory
and measurement (the elementary quantum phenomenon), and his
efforts to explain the origins of the quantum postulate and quantum
gravity (the meaning circuit and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation). The
majority of the papers reflect and build on Professor Wheeler's
revolutionary ideas. Many scientists are convinced that his
insights into the foundation of modern-day physics will induce a
profound change in our perception of the universe. This book will
appeal to scientists and philosophers who wish to look at one man's
rendering of the "big picture" through the eyes of his colleagues.
The work is prefaced by a compilation of quotes from Professor
Wheeler, edited by Kip S. Thorne and Wojciech Zurek. The
contributors to Between Quantum and Cosmos are M. Alexander, A.
Anderson, H. H. Barschall, J. D. Bekenstein, C. H. Bennett, P. G.
Bergmann, V. B. Braginsky, D. R. Brill, L. Brown, I. Ciufolini, L.
Cohen, M. Demianski, D. Deutsch, B. DeWitt, C. DeWitt-Morette, R.
H. Dicke, B. d'Espagnat, R. P. Feynman, J. Geheniau, U. H. Gerlach,
R. Geroch, J. Glimm, J. B. Hartle, F. W. Hehl, M. Henneaux, P. A.
Hogan, S. Hojman, J. Isenberg, F. Ya. Khalili, A. Kheyfets, K. V.
Kuchar, R. Landauer, S. G. Low, V. N. Lukash, B. Mashhoon, R. A.
Matzner, J. D. McCrea, A. Mezzacappa, W. A. Miller, Y. Ne'eman, I.
D. Novikov, A. Peres, I. Prigogine, I. Robinson, L. S. Schulman, M.
O. Scully, D. H. Sharp, L. C. Shepley, A. Y. Shiekh, C. Teitelboim,
E. Teller, K. S. Thorne, W. G. Unruh, R. M. Wald, L. Wilets, W. K.
Wootters, J. W. York, Jr., and W. H. Zurek. Originally published in
1988. 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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