Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 7 July 2008
34
This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key
connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the
twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been
engaged across a number of disciplines.
Beginning with four
foundational figures - Freud, Marx, Nietzshe and Saussure - Hitchcock
goes on to provide guided introductions of the major theoretical
thinkers of the past century, from Adorno to Williams. Each entry
offers biographical, theoretical and bibliographical information along
with a discussion of each figure's relevance to Classical Studies and
suggestions for future research.
Brisk, thoughtful,
provocative, and engaging, this will be an essential first volume for
anyone interested in the intersection between theory and classical
studies today.
The book that tells you all the things you felt you were expected to know about linguistics, but were afraid to ask about.
* What do you know about Burushaski and Miwok?
* What's the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic?
* What is E-language?
* What is a language?
* Do parentheical and non-restrictive mean the same thing?
* How do you write a bibliographic entry for a work you have not seen?
Every student who has asked these questions needs this book. A
compendium of useful things for linguistics students to know, from the
IPA chart to Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant
companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference
work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary
information on some 280 languages, the book provides a new learning
tool as a supplement to the usual textbooks and glossaries.
It's the only work to embrace the entire crusade movement from the 11th century through modern times - and all throughout Europe into the Middle East, and represents the latest scholarship, organized by a UK lecturer in medieval studies. A highly recommended, basic reference for any school where Crusades history is studied.
Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of feudal control, but Abigail Wheatley takes a different approach, looking at a range of sources usually neglected in castle studies. Evidence from contemporary literature and art reveals the castle's place at the heart of medieval culture, as an architecture of ideas every bit as sophisticated as the church architecture of the period.This study offers a genuinely fresh perspective. Most castle scholars confine themselves to historical documents, but Wheatley examines literary and artistic evidence for its influence on and response to contemporary castle architecture. Sermons, seals and ivory caskets, local legends and Roman ruins all have their part to play. What emerges is a fascinating web of cultural resonances: the castle is implicated in every aspect of medieval consciousness, from private religious contemplation to the creation of national mythologies. This book makes a compelling case for a new, interdisciplinary approach to castle studies. ABIGAIL WHEATLEY studied for her PhD, on which this book is based, at York University's Centre for Medieval Studies.