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Looking at Lysistrata
Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood....
by John Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Designed for students and teachers of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation at school and in early university years, this series provides a valuable collection of guides to the history, art, literature, values and social institutions of the ancient world. "Early Greek Lawgivers" examines...
The Age of Scientific Sexism
How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious...
by Paul du Plessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Studying Roman Law is an introductory guide aimed at sixth-formers, students and those with a general interest wishing to obtain a basic overview of Roman private law during the first three centuries of the Common Era. It is not meant to be a replacement for more comprehensive and technical manuals...
Euripides: Cyclops
A Satyr Play
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
With its ribald chorus of ithyphallic, half-man / half-horse creatures, satyr drama was a peculiar part of the Athenian theatrical experience. Performed three times each year after a trilogy of tragedies, it was an integral part of the 5th- and 4th-century City Dionysia, a large festival in honour...
Poetry
A Writers' Guide and Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthologyis a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing...
Becoming Atheist
Humanism and the Secular West
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened?
Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have...
by Professor Neil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted...
by Jonathan Dollimore
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Fifty years after the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts, Jonathan Dollimore explores, in, through and beyond the gay sub-cultures of cities like New York, Brighton and Sydney, what the new freedoms meant for him and others in the following decades. He writes honestly and movingly...
The Global Auteur
The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Once heralded and defined by the likes of François Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing established as well as emergent figures of world art cinema to the fore, The Global Auteur shows how...
Toy Story
How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), Pixar's first feature-length production and Hollywood's first completely computer-generated animated film, is an international cultural phenomenon. This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners who together explore the themes, compositional...
The Curatorial
A Philosophy of Curating
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguishes between 'curating' and 'the curatorial'. If 'curating' is a gamut of professional practices for setting up exhibitions, then 'the curatorial'...
Technolingualism
The Mind and the Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel. This book examines the processes and products of this age-old relationship: a phenomenon we're calling technolingualism -- the mutually influential relationship between language and technology.
One the...
Imagining Xerxes
Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary...