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Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes
successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley's
Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G.
Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author
of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally
published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus
and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major
tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare's most successful tragic
effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character
and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis
personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands
universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have
their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking.
The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of
tragedy creates the play's powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the
existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the
tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of
consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How
does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is
alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form
and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb
and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by
this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley's highly
original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the
Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general
reader.
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Novels, Tales, Journeys - The Complete Prose
Alexander Pushkin; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky; Introduction by John Bayley
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Introduction by John Bayley
The world-famous Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla,
California, is a healing place where people come from all over the
world to learn how to prevent and heal stress and disease through
nutrition, meditation, and spirituality. Chopra's co-authors for
this cookbook are David Simon, MD, Medical Director of the Chopra
Center for Well Being; and Leanne Backer, Executive Chef of the
Chopra Center. The Chopra Center Cookbook should transform the way
we view food and eating, showing us how to prepare delicious,
nutritious meals that lead to integration of body, mind, and spirit
while reversing the aging process.
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British
novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read
philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a
literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year, intense
and unconventional but happy marriage, detailed in the classic
bestselling memoir Iris. Despite Iris’ extramarital affairs with
men and women throughout their long marriage - which John always
suspected - their bond was unbreakable, and his memoir beautifully
captures their child-like moments of bliss: walking in forests,
swimming together in streams, and sharing hot cups of coffee on
crisp mornings. These are touching but poignant stories with the
knowledge that Iris and her grand intellect would eventually
succumb to Alzheimer’s disease. John would care for her
singlehandedly for five years, the last of which he writes about in
Iris and the Friends that also describes her peaceful passing.
Finally, he reflects on his bereavement and the void that is left
when a soulmate departs in A Widower’s House. All three books are
told by the person who knew Iris best, with gentle humour - at
times unbearably moving - in his portrayal of a remarkable woman.
Introduction by John Bayley
Tolstoy's art as represented in his greatest novels: War and Peace
and Anna Karenina continues to absorb, fascinate and delight modern
readers despite the lack of appeal of much of his later
convictions. His great works continue to exercise a profound
influence on the best imaginative writing. In our own time Vikram
Seth's A Suitable Boy, clearly inspired by War and Peace, has
deservedly become a world best seller. John Bayley concentrates in
this short introductory study on Tolstoy's two great works and the
ancillary texts and tales that relate to them. In elucidating the
power and originality which are alive in those masterpieces
Professor Bayley makes a compelling case for a return to the
originals which will continue to captivate readers and draw them
irresistibly into a uniquely spacious and complex world.
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp
system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is
all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than
those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradition of the
great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, especially Dostoevsky
and Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn is fully worthy of them in narrative
power and moral authority. His greatest work.
Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty
existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair
with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely
acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '
Introduction by D. D. Raphael
The world-famous Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla,
California, is a healing place where people come from all over the
world to learn how to prevent and heal stress and disease through
nutrition, meditation, and spirituality. Chopra's co-authors for
this cookbook are David Simon, MD, Medical Director of the Chopra
Center for Well Being; and Leanne Backer, Executive Chef of the
Chopra Center. The Chopra Center Cookbook should transform the way
we view food and eating, showing us how to prepare delicious,
nutritious meals that lead to integration of body, mind, and spirit
while reversing the aging process.
Introduction by John Bayley
Full Title: "A Report of the Case of The King against Dawson and
Others, for A Conspiracy"Description: "The Making of the Modern
Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the
major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents,
unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments
and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as
those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional
and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery
case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials"
provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial
participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled
source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and
divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification
fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is
provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
identification: ++++MonographHarvard Law School LibraryNewcastle:
Published and Sold by W. A. Mitchell, at the Tyne Mercury-Office,
and by All the Booksellers In Newcastle, Shields, Sunderland,
Durham, Morpeth, Hexham, and Alnwick. 1825
Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris
Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would
never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes
from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant
memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of
calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom rang Bayley's
doorbell in Oxford, bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and delivering
pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams. Here,
in Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella
Forced Me to Flee My Home, Bayley tells the painful, inspirational,
and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple with his
fate as a man by beginning life anew in his mid-seventies. Like
millions of other widows and widowers, Bayley, as he relates it,
found himself emotionally unprepared for the responsibilities and
burdens that confront people who suddenly find themselves alone. He
hadn't realized how differently you are treated when you are not
part of a couple, and how you must learn to respond to friends,
family members, and total strangers in completely different ways.
With the reassuring, compassionate voice of Iris still a mournful
obbligato in the background, Bayley describes the pitfalls a
widower must face as he ventures out into the newly virgin world
beyond his front door. Finding comfort in recording the day-to-day
calamities that marked his reentry into the real world, Bayley uses
surprising humor reflected here in the vivid depictions of his new
suitors, Margot and Mella to get him through his darkest days.
Melodic, irrepressible, and comically comforting, Widower's House,
with its heartwarming and surprisingly romantic ending, will reveal
yet a new side of the man who has become England's most unlikely
symbol of masculine virility."
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