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This critical study explores the relationship between Hopkins'
poetic art and his philosophy and shows why Hopkins' poetry has
endured. Sean Sheehan is the author of a study of anarchism and of
a guide to Wittgenstein.
Jack Sheehan was one of eleven children born into an impoverished
farming family on the Sheep's Head peninsula in southwest Ireland.
Growing up in hungry times, he stayed on the farm all his
eighty-three years, taking it over when his father died and
steadfastly caring for its fields through the dormant 1950s and the
better times that came in the decades that followed. He lived to
see the eclipse of his farming world and to view with dismay the
way encroaching property speculators and consumerism were changing
the nature of his landscape. Jack Sheehan was born just as the
Irish state was coming into existence and his life is as revealing
of that country's history as the more familiar accounts of national
figures. "Jack's World's" is illustrated in colour with specially
commissioned photographs taken by three people, Danny Gralton,
Ciaran Watson and Danny Levy Sheehan, who all knew Jack and know
his farm. The book is also illustrated with maps, including one
showing the farm's fields and their Irish names that were preserved
by Jack, and photographs of early documents relating to his farm's
history. The book's unique sources, in addition to the memories of
friends and family who knew Jack and shared aspects of his world,
include diaries kept by Jack from the early 1930s onwards.
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Socrates (Paperback)
Sean Sheehan
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R403
R308
Discovery Miles 3 080
Save R95 (24%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The ancient world of fifth century Greece, an astonishing period of
cultural development that helps situate the originality of
Socrates, and to the city-state of Athens in particular. The
social, political and cultural currents flowing through Athens are
inseparable from an understanding of the events and attitudes that
Socrates examined and intellectually dissected.
The poetry of Tony Harrison is discussed from his early work in the
1970s through to poems on the legacy of the two Gulf Wars, and his
status as Britain's greatest living poet is affirmed.
Described as the Mona Lisa of literature and the world's first
detective story, Sophocles' Oedipus the King is a major text from
the ancient Greek world and an iconic work of world literature.
Aristotle's favourite play, lauded by him as the exemplary Athenian
tragedy, Oedipus the King has retained its power both on and off
the stage. Before Freud's famous interpretation of the play - an
appropriation, some might say - Hlderlin and Nietzsche recognised
its unique qualities. Its literary worth is undiminished,
philosophers revel in its probing into issues of freedom and
necessity and Lacan has ensured its vital significance for
post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This Reader's Guide begins with
Oedipus as a figure from Greek mythology before focusing on
fifth-century Athenian tragedy and the meaning of the drama as it
develops scene by scene on the stage. The book covers the afterlife
of the play in depth and provides a comprehensive guide to further
reading for students.
This is an essential overview of this influential Greek drama,
enabling students to confidently read the play in depth and
understand its unique cultural status. Described as the Mona Lisa
literature and the world's first detective story, Sophocles'
"Oedipus the King" is a major text from the ancient Greek world and
an iconic work of world literature. Aristotle's favourite play,
lauded by him as the exemplary Athenian tragedy, "Oedipus the King"
has retained its power both on and off the stage. Before Freud's
famous interpretation of the play - an appropriation, some might
say - Holderlin and Nietzsche recognised its unique qualities. Its
literary worth is undiminished, philosophers revel in its probing
into issues of freedom and necessity and Lacan has ensured its
vital significance for post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This "Reader's
Guide" begins with "Oedipus" as a figure from Greek mythology
before focusing on fifth-century Athenian tragedy and the meaning
of the drama as it develops scene by scene on the stage. The book
covers the afterlife of the play in depth and provides a
comprehensive guide to further reading for students. "Continuum
Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to
key texts in literature and philosophy. Each book explores the
themes, context, criticism and influence of key works, providing a
practical introduction to close reading, guiding students towards a
thorough understanding of the text. They provide an essential,
up-to-date resource, ideal for undergraduate students.
One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Zizeks
work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Zizek:
A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available
for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely
influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that
fill Zizeks writings, the book explores his influences, including
Lacan, Kant, Hegel and Marx. From there, a chapter on Reading Zizek
guides the reader through the ways that he applies these core
theoretical concepts in key texts like Tarrying With the Negative,
The Ticklish Subject and The Parrallax View and in his books about
popular culture like Looking Awry and Enjoy Your Symptom! Major
secondary writings and films featuring Zizek are also covered.
This is a student-friendly guide enabling the new reader of
"Ulysses" to understand, analyse and appreciate the most famous,
and famously 'difficult', novel of the twentieth century. "Ulysses"
remains less widely read than most texts boasting such a canonical
status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to read it, and
this guide provides an easy-to-follow remedy. By showing how Joyce
reacted to the historical and cultural context in which he was
situated, the radical nature of his use of language is laid bare in
a chapter-by-chapter analysis of "Ulysses". This approach enables
the student reader to read and enjoy the novel's plurality of
styles and to understand the terms of critical debate surrounding
the nature and significance of Joyce's novel. Continuum "Reader's
Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to key
texts in literature and philosophy. Each book explores the themes,
context, criticism and influence of key works, providing a
practical introduction to close reading, guiding students towards a
thorough understanding of the text. They provide an essential,
up-to-date resource, ideal for undergraduate students.
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer
than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in
ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This
volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has
been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our
Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings
can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with
the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative
journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling
storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history'
but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both
geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom
social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students
chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often
surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond
conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the
various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on
the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices
of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether
reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this
crucial text for later research.
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer
than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in
ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This
volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has
been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our
Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings
can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with
the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative
journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling
storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history'
but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both
geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom
social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students
chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often
surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond
conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the
various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on
the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices
of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether
reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this
crucial text for later research.
One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Zizek's
work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Zizek:
A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available
for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely
influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that
fill Zizek's writings, the book explores his influences, including
Lacan, Kant, Hegel and Marx. From there, a chapter on 'Reading
Zizek' guides the reader through the ways that he applies these
core theoretical concepts in key texts like Tarrying With the
Negative, The Ticklish Subject and The Parrallax View and in his
books about popular culture like Looking Awry and Enjoy Your
Symptom! Major secondary writings and films featuring Zizek are
also covered.
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Lenin (Paperback)
Sean Sheehan
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R494
R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
Save R106 (21%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"Views of Lenin" are currently set in a tone of highly judgemental
opinion: he was inflexible, doctrinaire and a cold-blooded
revolutionary. A man whose indifference to culture led to political
extremes, paving the way for his successor Stalin's totalitarianism
and some of the most heinous and gruesome ideological crimes
committed during the 20th century. Enshrined as an icon of Soviet
ideology and power, the statues of Lenin that were once a common
sight across Eastern Europe and Russia have been toppled and his
reputation crumbled into the dust of historical memory. This short
"Life & Times" biography of Lenin sets out to examine his
legacy in the light of the complete and total collapse of the
ideology he espoused. Sheehan seeks to separate the myth from the
fact, and let the real Lenin emerge from behind the opposing
shrouds of deification and condemnation, revealing the creator of
the 20th century's most influential yet bloodthirsty beliefs.
"U""lysses "remains less widely read than most texts boasting such
a canonical status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to
read it, and this guide provides an easy to follow remedy. By
showing how Joyce reacted to the historical and cultural context in
which he was situated, the radical nature of his use of language is
laid bare in a chapter-by-chapter analysis of "Ulysses. "This
approach enables the student reader to read and enjoy the novel's
plurality of styles and to understand the terms of critical debate
surrounding the nature and significance of Joyce's novel.
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