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| Author | : George M. Logan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2011-01-27 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 052188862X |
A comprehensive overview of the life and times of Thomas More, including in-depth studies of his major written works.
| Author | : Gregory Claeys |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-08-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828428 |
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
| Author | : Richard Marius |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780674885257 |
Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season.
| Author | : George M. Logan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2011-01-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1139828487 |
This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and execution. These chapters are followed by in-depth studies of five of More's major works - Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation and De Tristitia Christi - and a final essay on the varied responses to the man and his writings in his own and subsequent centuries. The volume provides an accessible overview of this fascinating figure to students and other interested readers, whilst also presenting, and in many areas extending, the most important modern scholarship on him.
| Author | : Inger H. Dalsgaard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521769744 |
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
| Author | : Dale Kramer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 1999-06-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139825550 |
Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.
| Author | : Edward James |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2003-11-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521016575 |
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| Author | : Thomas Worcester |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 2008-03-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 113982774X |
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) obtained papal approval in 1540 for a new international religious order called the Society of Jesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many parts of Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies in response to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers, missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it has more recently experienced declining membership in Europe and North America, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companion examines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits. The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression, while section five examines the Suppression and some of the challenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up to the present.
| Author | : Frank Shuffelton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2009-01-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828002 |
This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native Americans, his attitude to race and slavery, as well as his interests in science, architecture, religion and education. Contributors include leading literary scholars and historians; the essays offer up to date overviews of his many interests, his friendships and his legacy. Together, they reveal his importance in the cultural and political life of early America. At the same time these original essays speak to abiding modern concerns about American culture and Jefferson's place in it. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of Jefferson, and is designed for use by students of American literature and American history.
| Author | : Norman Kretzmann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1993-05-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139825097 |
Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.
