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Forms of Astonishment
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Richard Buxton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took
The Wine of Astonishment
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Earl Lovelace
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Heinemann

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Charts the history of a Spiritual Baptist community from the passing of the Prohibition Ordinance in 1917 until the lifting of the ban in 1951.
Human and Animal in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Tua Korhonen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book discusses th
Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit
Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: Maria Balaska
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-11 - Publisher: Springer

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This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of ‘astonishment,’ an experience of being struck by some
Sensational Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Joseph B. Entin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experiment