Search Results - "Prose"

The best American magazine writing 2016 /

Subjects: “…American prose literature 21st century.…”
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The spread of novels translation and prose fiction in the eighteenth century / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

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Lessons from the past the moral use of history in fourth-century prose / by Pownall, Frances, 1963-

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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Confronting patriarchy psychoanalytic theory in the prose of Cristina Peri Rossi / by Filou, Mary Boufis, 1932-

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Jerusalem delivered an English prose version / by Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

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Bashō's journey the literary prose of Matsuo Bashō / by Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694

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Harvard classics : Bacon Milton's prose, Thomas Browne /

The reader over your shoulder : a handbook for writers of English prose / by Graves, Robert, 1895-

The reader over your shoulder : a handbook for writers of English prose / by Graves, Robert, 1895-

Framing Elizabethan fictions : contemporary approaches to early modern narrative prose /

Subjects: “…English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Theory, etc.…”
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The reader over your shoulder : a handbook for writers of English prose / by Graves, Robert, 1895-

British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820 by Looser, Devoney, 1967-

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People or Monsters? : And Other Stories and Reportage from China after Mao / by Liu, Binyan, 1925-2005

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Norte y sur : la narrativa rioplatense desde México /

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Ordering chaos the self and the cosmos in twelfth-century Latin prosimetrum / by Balint, Bridget K.

Table of Contents: “…The writing of prosimetrum in the Middle Ages -- The authority of the consolation -- The interlocutors -- Situating the self -- Truth and instability in the prosimetra -- Fabulous philosophizing after 1170 -- Prose and poetry in the prosimetra -- Hildebert of Lavardin, The complaint and quarrel of the body and the soul -- Lawrence of Durham, Consolation on the death of a friend.…”
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Art and politics, politics and art by Melhem, D. H.

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Latin Americanism by De la Campa, Román

Subjects: “…Latin American prose literature 20th century History and criticism.…”
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Classic African American women's narratives

Subjects: “…American prose literature African American authors.…”
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No lonesome road selected prose and poems / by West, Don

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