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Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmakingby William Blake TyrrellISBN 0801838584 (0-8018-3858-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Originsby Stephanie Moser, Clive GambleISBN 0801435498 (0-8014-3549-8)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins'Book summary:Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed even before a scientific understanding of human origins developed. How did mythological, religious, and historically inspired visions of the past, in existence for centuries, shape this understanding? Moser treats images as primary documents, and her book is lavishly illustrated with engravings, paintings, photographs, and reconstructions.In surveying the iconography of prehistory, Moser explores visions of human creation from their origins in classical, early Christian, and medieval periods through traditions of representation initiated in the Renaissance. She looks closely at the first scientific reconstructions of the nineteenth century, which dramatized and made comprehensible the Darwinian theory of human descent from apes. She considers, as well, the impact of reconstructions on popular literature in Europe and North America, showing that early visualizations of prehistory retained a firm hold on the imaginationa hold that archaeologists and anthropologists have found difficult to shake. [via]
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The Anthropology of Ancient Greeceby Louis GernetISBN 0801821126 (0-8018-2112-6)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Approaches to Greek Mythby Lowell EdmundsISBN 0801838649 (0-8018-3864-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Archaic Roman Religion: With an Appendix on the Religion of the Etruscansby Georges Dumezil, Philip KrappISBN 0801854806 (0-8018-5480-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaic Roman Religion: With an Appendix on the Religion of the Etruscans'Book summary:When St. Paul and St. Peter reached Rome they encountered a state-sponsored religion that had been established for centuries. Amid the shrines and temples of Rome, the Romans sought to preserve and strengthen a religion especially suited to the ambitious city. But Roman religion had also proved permeable to many influences, from Greece, Egypt, Persia, and other parts of Italy. What then was truly Roman, and what had Romans done with their borrowings to stamp them with Roman character?
By exhaustive study of texts, inscriptions, and archaeology of Roman sacred places, Dumezil traces the formation of archaic Roman religion from Indo-European sources through the development of the rites and beliefs of the Roman republic. He describes a religion that was not only influenced by the other religions with which it came into contact, but influenced them as well, in mutual efforts to distinguish one nation from another. Even so, certain continuities were sustained in order to achieve a religion that crossed generations and ways of life. The worship of certain gods became the special concerns of certain parts of society, all of which needed attention to assure Rome's success in war, civil administration, and the production of food and goods.
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Biblical And Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework Of Western Cultureby Northrop Frye, Jay MacPhersonISBN 0802086950 (0-8020-8695-0)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek Worldby Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Andrew Szegedy MaszakISBN 0801859514 (0-8018-5951-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themes -- space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of reality -- Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement."
"A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis and its usefulness in illuminating well-known texts and providing fresh insights... What strikes the reader of this book is its daring, innovative interpretations. This is not a book that merely collects new information or synthesizes old views. It bursts into the heart of important themes and floods them with bright light." -- Modern Greek Studies Yearbook
"One of the liveliest intellects in the field... There is a wealth of learning in this book; specialists... will wish to consult individual articles while the general reader will not only learn but enjoy its contents and tenor." -- Classical World
"Excellent... Vidal-Naquet's book is a gem. It will stimulate further thoughts, discussions and writings on the Greek politeia and politikon. It should be read by all those who are involved in classical and comparative studies. It puts into circulation a structuralist reading which is provocative and simultaneously rings true." -- V. Y. Mudimbe, Journal of Ritual Studies
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Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Lifeby Thomas MooreISBN 0802726747 (0-8027-2674-7)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life'Book summary:Care of the Soul is considered to be one of the best primers for soul work ever written. Thomas Moore, an internationally renowned theologian and former Catholic monk, offers a philosophy for living that involves accepting our humanity rather than struggling to transcend it. By nurturing the soul in everyday life, Moore shows how to cultivate dignity, peace, and depth of character. For example, in addressing the importance of daily rituals he writes, "Ritual maintains the world's holiness. As in a dream a small object may assume significance, so in a life that is animated by ritual there are no insignificant things." This is the eloquence that helped reintroduce the sacred into everyday language and contemporary values. [via]
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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesusby Lee StrobelISBN 0802727875 (0-8027-2787-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus'Book summary:The Case for Christ records Lee Strobel's attempt to "determine if there's credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God." The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own. [via]
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Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novelby David AdamsISBN 0801488869 (0-8014-8886-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Comparative Mythologyby Jaan PuhvelISBN 0801839386 (0-8018-3938-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comparative Mythology'Book summary:In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent thees - god and warrior, king and virgin, fire and water - give life to "Comparative Mythology" as both a general introduction and a detaled reference. [via]
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Dictionary of Pagan Religions,by Wade Baskin, Harry Ezekiel WedeckISBN 0802223370 (0-8022-2337-0)
Hardcover, Philosophical Library
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A Dictionary of Symbolsby Juan Eduardo CirlotISBN 0802202500 (0-8022-0250-0)
Hardcover, Philosophical Library
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Disney's Hercules: Piano, Vocal, Guitarby Alan Menken, David ZippelISBN 0793575990 (0-7935-7599-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Druidsby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0802841589 (0-8028-4158-9)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Druids'Book summary:An account of who and what the Druids were, covering their Druidic training, philosophies and beliefs, portraying them as doctors, lawyers and advisers to kings and arguing that they were the intellectuals of ancient Celtic society. First published in 1994. [via]
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sourcesby Timothy GantzISBN 0801853605 (0-8018-5360-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israelby Mark S. SmithISBN 080283972X (0-8028-3972-X)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel'Book summary:In this remarkable history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains for the first time how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined religion with Yahweh as sole god.
Repudiating the traditional view that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, this provocative book argues that Israelite religion developed, at least in part, from the religion of Canaan. Looking at a wide range of sources, Smith cogently demonstrates that Israelite religion was not an outright rejection of foreign, pagan gods but, rather, was the result of the establishment of a distinctly separate Israelite identity that included the recognition of a singular, universal deity. [via]
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Enchantress from the Starsby Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, Lois LowryISBN 0802787649 (0-8027-8764-9)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Barker FairleyISBN 0802016685 (0-8020-1668-5)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blakeby Northrop Frye, Nicholas HalmiISBN 0802089836 (0-8020-8983-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake'Book summary:Though it was written in the 1940s, Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry is arguably still the most comprehensive--and comprehensible--book on William Blake. Despite the bewildering complexity of much of the work of this 18th century "visionary" poet and painter, Blake remains perennially popular. And though Frye warns against assuming that any poet writes "with one eye on his own time and another confidently winking at ours," he insists nonetheless that Blake's poetic methods and ideas remain relevant, indeed revelatory. "What Blake demonstrates is the sanity of genius and the madness of the commonplace mind, and it is here that he has something to say to the 20th century, with its interest in the arts of neurosis and the politics of paranoia."
Frye illuminates in the course of the book's 12 chapters the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions of Blake's thought and work (excluding his visual art). This is complemented by a roughly chronological commentary on the poet's 50-year literary oeuvre--from early works like "All Religions Are One," and the deceptively simple "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," to late encyclopedic epics like "Jerusalem." Though the coherence of Frye's account might seem a little forced to the (post)modern reader, his explanations and speculations provide invaluable critical insight while still leaving readers plenty of opportunity for independent discovery. Blending judiciously deployed erudition and an infectious passion for his subject, Frye insists that reading Blake on his own terms--which is precisely what Fearful Symmetry tries to do--"is only the beginning of a complete revolution in one's reading of all poetry." --Russell Prather [via]
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Festivals of the Atheniansby H.W. ParkeISBN 0801494400 (0-8014-9440-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Ficcionesby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0802130305 (0-8021-3030-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Mythsby Erich FrommISBN 080213050X (0-8021-3050-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Greek Mythology: An Introductionby Fritz Graf, Thomas MarierISBN 0801853958 (0-8018-5395-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Greek Mythology and Poeticsby Gregory NagyISBN 0801480485 (0-8014-8048-5)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Greek Myths Jigsaw Bookby Gillian Doherty, Linda Edwards, Heather AmeryISBN 079451183X (0-7945-1183-X)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dickby Harold BloomISBN 0791040674 (0-7910-4067-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herman Melville's Moby-Dick'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom suggests that the tragic protagonist of Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab, has only a few peers among American literary characters--though none wholly of his eminence. This text includes a brief biography of Melville, thematic and structural analysis of the work, and numerous essays by the best critics of the novel.
This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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History Playsby Charles L. MeeISBN 0801857929 (0-8018-5792-9)
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Homeric Hymnsby Apostolos N. AthanassakisISBN 0801879833 (0-8018-7983-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeric Hymns'Book summary:A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes, were actually composed over centuries and used by poets to prepare for the singing or recitation of longer portions of the Homeric epics. In his acclaimed translations of the hymns, Apostolos Athanassakis preserves the essential simplicity of the original Greek, offering a straightforward, line-by-line translation that makes no attempts to masquerade or modernize. For this long-awaited new edition, Athanassakis enhances his classic work with a comprehensive index, careful and selective changes in the translations themselves, and numerous additions to the notes which will enrich the reader's experience of these ancient and influential poems.
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Homeric Hymnsby HomerusISBN 0801817927 (0-8018-1792-7)
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The Homeric Hymnsby N. Athanssakis ApostolasISBN 0801817919 (0-8018-1791-9)
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The Idea of the Labyrinth: From Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Agesby Penelope Reed DoobISBN 0801480000 (0-8014-8000-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Illustrated Book of Mythsby Neil Philip, Nilesh MistryISBN 0789402025 (0-7894-0202-5)
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The Illustrated Book of Signs & Symbolsby Miranda Bruce-MitfordISBN 0789410001 (0-7894-1000-1)
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In the Shape of a Boarby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0802139671 (0-8021-3967-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shape of a Boar'Book summary:Lawrence Norfolk's third novel takes the boar hunt as its central metaphor to discuss love, betrayal, fear and the annihilation of war. The first section begins in Ancient Greece with the hunt for the boar of Kalydon, then moves to Paris in the 1970s, where the poet, Sol Memel's life echoes the mythological prototypes.
When King Oeneus neglects to sacrifice animals to Artemis at the festival of First Fruits, she sends a boar of gigantic proportions and ferocious strength to destroy the land. The king's son, Meleager, gathers prize hunters to kill it. They form "a new, earth-bound constellation" as they converge around Mount Aracynthus, already "one another's quarry in a bloodless preparatory hunt". Their roll call creates "a palace of sound".
Norfolk's beautifully compelling prose establishes a phenomenal pace, mirroring the characters' charged drive towards their foretold destiny. He creates a dense geography of paths of sumac and oak, wild pear trees, brushwood, sedge, spurge, lentisc, wild olives and myrtle, until Greece itself emerges as a recurrent and potent character. The three strongest hunters, Meleager, Atalanta and her cousin Meilanion form a powerful triangle of desire, for victory and each other. As they move into the terrain of the boar, the narrative is as tense as any urban thriller chase. When victims of the boar are discovered gored by branches of a tree, Norfolk luxuriates in the violence, as though exorcising a part of himself. As Sol Memel suggests about the horrors of the Second World War: "Memories were violent from the inside out. People made them up because they had to."
In the second section, the three mythic hunters are re-created in Sol and his two best friends, Ruth and Jakob, who've each escaped the Jewish ghetto in different ways. Here, the purpose of Norfolk's excessive classical footnotes becomes clear when Sol's masterpiece, Die Keilerjagd--The Hunt of the Boar is published with obsessive annotations by his old rival, Jakob, undermining Sol's integrity. Although the second half of the book is less clotted, the intensity of the hunt is diffused and much less gripping. In the Shape of a Boar is an ambitiously layered novel, in which the reader becomes complicit in the hunt for truth and the creation of evil. --Cherry Smyth [via]
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Jason and the Golden Fleeceby Gill Harvey, Claudia Zeff, Stephen CartwrightISBN 0794504515 (0-7945-0451-5)
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0802724698 (0-8027-2469-8)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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King Arthur & the Grail: The Arthurian Legends and Their Meaningby Richard CavendishISBN 0800844661 (0-8008-4466-1)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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The Language and Imagery of the Bibleby G. B. CairdISBN 0802842216 (0-8028-4221-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language and Imagery of the Bible'Book summary:This recent classic by G.B. Caird explores a host of linguistic principles related to language usage and meaning and points to the way these principles ought to be applied to a reading of the English Bible. [via]
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The Language of Vision: Meditations on Myth and Metaphorby Jamake HighwaterISBN 0802133460 (0-8021-3346-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkersby Nicholas FearnISBN 0802143474 (0-8021-4347-4)
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Lempriere's Dictionaryby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0802139876 (0-8021-3987-6)
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A Little Book of Coincidenceby John MartineauISBN 0802713882 (0-8027-1388-2)
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Marie and Bruce: A Playby Wallace ShawnISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
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Masks of Dionysusby Thomas H. Carpenter, Christopher A. FaraoneISBN 0801480620 (0-8014-8062-0)
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Alex NinoISBN 0791091066 (0-7910-9106-6)
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Monkey/Folk Novel of Chinaby Cheng'En Wu, Arthur WaleyISBN 0802130860 (0-8021-3086-0)
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Myth and the Polisby Dora C. Pozzi, John M. WickershamISBN 0801497345 (0-8014-9734-5)
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Myth Conceptions: Joseph Campbell and the New Ageby Thomas Lee SnyderISBN 0801083753 (0-8010-8375-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writingsby Rudolf Karl BultmannISBN 0800624424 (0-8006-2442-4)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?by Frederick F. BruceISBN 0802822193 (0-8028-2219-3)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Oedipus Rexby SophoclesISBN 0791093093 (0-7910-9309-3)
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Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analoguesby Lowell EdmundsISBN 0801854903 (0-8018-5490-3)
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Orpheus: The Metamorphoses of a Mythby John WardenISBN 0802065937 (0-8020-6593-7)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonaldISBN 0802860605 (0-8028-6060-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Pictorial Pilgrims Progressby John BunyanISBN 0802400191 (0-8024-0019-1)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0800786092 (0-8007-8609-2)
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Plato Phaedrusby Plato, James H. NicholsISBN 0801485320 (0-8014-8532-0)
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 0802725325 (0-8027-2532-5)
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Q. E. D: Beauty in Mathematical Proofby Burkhard Polster, Burkard PolsterISBN 0802714315 (0-8027-1431-5)
Hardcover, Walker & Co
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Reservation Bluesby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141900 (0-8021-4190-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reservation Blues'Book summary:"Many may remember the tale of Robert Johnson, the musician who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in exchange for being the best blues guitarist around.[via]
What many may not know is that after this tragic deal in Mississippi, Johnson ended up in a small town on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state-at least that's how author Sherman Alexie tells it.
In his new book Reservation Blues, Alxie spins the fictional tale of Johnson's adventure at a new crossroads, this one in a small town called Wellpinit, Wash. It is here that he comes to seek out Big Mom, a local medicine woman, and, in so doing, leaves his famous guitar in the hands of misfit storyteller Thomas Builds-the-Fire.
Builds-the-Fire, brought back from Alexie's last book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, takes up Johnson's magical guitar and, along with Victor Joseph, Junior Polatkin and two Flathead Indian sisters named Chess and Checkers, goes on to build a reservation blues band that takes the Northwest by storm...
As the band plays club after club, Alexie uses music as a crosscultural bridge, without compromising the cultural integrity of his characters. The band members seem to take on the gamut of problems faced by Indians on the reservation today, battling everything from alcoholism to violence, political corruption to sexual abuse.
Ghosts from the past, both personal and historical haunt the musicians, serving both to hold them back and urge them on. It would seem that the scars of abuse run deep." (The Commercial Appeal, June 11, 1995)More editions of Reservation Blues:
Revelations : Art of the Apocalypseby Nancy GrubbISBN 0789202085 (0-7892-0208-5)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Robin Hood: A Mythic Biographyby Stephen Thomas KnightISBN 0801438853 (0-8014-3885-3)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks: Astrological Symbolism in Art, Architecture, and Landscapeby Jean Richer, Christine RhoneISBN 0791420248 (0-7914-2024-8)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks: Astrological Symbolism in Art, Architecture, and Landscape'Book summary:ORIGINAL HARDBACK EDITION 1994, TEXT IN ENGLISH, 362pp., 157 illustrations, 8 Maps, Translated From the French by Christine Rhone, not issued with a dust jacket. A study of the temples of Greece in-line with the Zodiac signs and other astronomical phenomena. Important book. Also a deep study of the astral significance of Greek myths and heroes. The book deals with Astrology, Geomancy, Mystery Religions, Cosmic Center, Constellations, and much more. Also deals with Eleusis mysteries. CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK: 1. THEORY OF ALIGNMENTS 2. INTERPRETATION OF THE ALIGNMENTS: THE ZODIACAL WHEEL CENTERED ON DELPHI. A TEXT OF PLATO'S 3. THE SYSTEM CENTERED ON DELOS 4. AN ANATOLIAN SYSTEM CENTERED ON SARDIS 5. THE CONSTELLATIONS, RETURN TO DELPHI, DEMETER, ARTEMIS, AND ATHENA 6. THE WORLD AXIS AND THE PLANETARY LINES, SYMBOLS OF THE POLE 7. THE ZODIACAL DIVISION OF ATTICA AND THE MYSTERIES 8. ZODIACAL WHEEL AS KEYS TO DECODING THE GODS AND THE ZODIAC 9. THE CULT OF ZEUS, SARDIS, DELPHI, AND THE OASIS OF SIWA> A SYSTEM CENTERED ON AMMONEION 10. THE CALENDARS OF HERACLES, GUARDIANS OF THE SAGES 11. THE ASTRAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GREEK MYTHS AND HEROES 12. THE REVELATION OF THE LIONS OF JULIS 13. FIXED SYMBOLS OF THE SIGNS, DIRECTIONS, AND SASONS. THE LOVES OF ZEUS 14. DOUBLE SYMBOLS, SYNERGETIC FORMS. FIGHTING ANIMALS, DYNAMIC SYMBOLS OF SEASONAL VARIATIONS. THE CALENDAR OF XANTHUS 15. SHIELD DEVICES. THE COMMON ORIGINS OF BLAZONS AND MONETARY SYMBOLS. THE COMPLEMENTARITY OF OPPOSITES. PLAQUES FROM DELPHI. STUDY OF VASES 16. THE HOROSCOPIC MEANING OF THE ARMLETS OF SHIELDS 17. GREEK TEMPLES: SCULPTED PEDIMENTS AND ZODIACAL GEOGRAPHY. THE STRUCTURE OF SANCTUARIES 18. GREEK TEMPLES OF ASIA MINOR. THE DECOR OF THE TEMPLE OF ASSOS IN THE TROAD 19. THE DELPHIC ORACLE AND COLONIZATION. ANIMAL GUIDES. THE TROJAN HORSE 20. ZODIACAL IMAGERY AT MYCENAE. THE GREAT URANIAN GODDESS. [via]
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Sexing the Cherryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135781 (0-8021-3578-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greeceby Peter W. RoseISBN 0801499836 (0-8014-9983-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Stories from the Starsby Juliet Sharman Burke, Jackie Morris, Juliet Sharman-BurkeISBN 0789202832 (0-7892-0283-2)
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Sun, Moon, & Earthby Robin HeathISBN 0802713815 (0-8027-1381-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Symbols: Public and Privateby Raymond William FirthISBN 0801491509 (0-8014-9150-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Symbols:Public and Private: Public and Privateby Raymond William FirthISBN 0801407605 (0-8014-0760-5)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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The Thief's Journalby Jean Genet, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0802130143 (0-8021-3014-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thief's Journal'Book summary:The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's "Black Prince of Letters" here reconstructs his early adult years -- time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities. "Only a handful of twentieth-century writers, such as Kafka and Proust, have as important, as authoritative, as irrevocable a voice and style." -- Susan Sontag; "One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper. . . . Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a power and vision which take the breath away. The Thief's Journal will undoubtedly establish Genet as one of the most daring literary figures of all time." -- The New York Post[via]More editions of The Thief's Journal:
The Usborne Book of Greek & Norse Legendsby Cheryl EvansISBN 0794505600 (0-7945-0560-0)
Softcover, Usborne Pub Ltd
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Violence and the Sacredby Rene GirardISBN 0801822181 (0-8018-2218-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Wandering Unicornby Manuel Mujica LainezISBN 0800880412 (0-8008-8041-2)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Women in Greek Mythby Mary LefkowitzISBN 0801841089 (0-8018-4108-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Greek Myth'Book summary:Modern critics often interpret ancient literature according to their own standards ad preoccupations, as if they were reading the works of a contemporary author. Most recently, feminists have applied their own criteria to the rich variety of female characters in Greek mythology. The Amazons are seen as representatives of an original matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, Antigone an oppressed revolutionary. The Greek myths reflect a world in which men dominate women, largely out of fear of women's sexuality.
Mary R. Lefkowitz argues in this controversial book that this view is justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the relevant documentary evidence. Concentrating on those aspects of women's experience most often misunderstood -- women's life apart from men, marriage, influence in politics, self-sacrifice and martyrdom, misogyny -- she presents a far less negative account of the role of Greek women, both ordinary and extraordinary, as manifested in the central works of Greek literature.
Lefkowitz shows that the darkness of Greek mythology suggests not the wretched lot of women in particular, but of mortals generally. Women in Greek myth, she contends, play a rather more enlightened role than their biblical or Christian counterparts. And what Greek men feared in women, if they feared anything, was not women's sexuality but their intelligence.
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