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UNINA9910983364903321 |
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Stokes John |
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The Cultural Lives of Greyhounds / / by John Stokes |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 |
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[1st ed. 2025.] |
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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, , 2634-6346 |
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Interpretation, Literary |
Education in literature |
Ecocriticism |
Art - History |
Literary Interpretation |
Literature and Pedagogy |
Art History |
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1. Introduction: Ghost Dogs -- 2. Wind Hound: greyhound as metaphor -- 3. Daphne’s Dog (Metamorphosis 1) -- 4. Diana’s Hounds (Metamorphosis 2) -- 5. Edge of the Wood: Uccello’s ‘The Hunt in the Forest’ -- 6. Fleeting Thoughts: the language of coursing -- 7. ‘Hector’s a Greyhound’: Shakespeare’s favourite dog -- 8. ‘All that leaps and runs’: Romantic pursuits -- 9. Chiens d’utilité/ Chiens de luxe: the changing status of le lévrier -- 10. ‘Le lévrier, c’est moi’: identity and the modern dog -- 11. The Long Dogs go to War: conflict as sport -- 12. ‘Un facio di frecce’: D’Annunzio’s decadent pack -- 13. Coursing Costumes and Deco Dianas -- 14. Cuchulain’s Breed: legends of the Celtic hound -- 15. ‘Ascot it wasn’t’: victors and victims of the Irish track -- 16. Born to Lose: comic results -- 17. The Last Cockney: London says farewell -- 18. ‘Gelert’s dying yell’: saviour and survivor. |
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This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, with a focus on a specific breed of dog: the greyhound. It combines literary |
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criticism, cultural history and the rapidly expanding field of human/animal studies by tracing the creative representation of the greyhound, from the earliest references in classical myth to multiple appearances in contemporary literature, performance and the fine arts. Each representation—whether of hunter or racer, of pet or predator—is treated not simply as a stage in some inevitable humanitarian progression but as part of a series of co-evolutionary exchanges between humans and their canine collaborators that together constitute a shared experience. Writers who have been fascinated by greyhounds range from Shakespeare to Dryden, from William Wordsworth to George Meredith, from Marcel Proust to Colette, from William Butler Yeats to Ted Hughes and beyond. The haunting image of the breed has inspired artists such as Dürer, Hogarth and Giacometti. John Stokes is Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature in the Department of English at King's College London, UK. His publications include In the Nineties (1990), Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (1996) and The French Actress and her English Audience (2005), as well as numerous academic articles and reviews. He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the Actress (2007) and two volumes of journalism for The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (2013). He is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. |
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UNINA9910346011603321 |
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Autore |
Jorge Deserto |
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Estrabão, Geografia Livro III: Introdução, Tradução do Grego e Notas |
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Coimbra University Press, 2016 |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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The third book in Strabo's Geography describes Iberia from the viewpoint of a Greek citizen living in Rome during the rules of Augustus and Tiberius, both Roman emperors in Strabo's lifetime. Having himself witnessed the expansion of the Roman Empire to the western edge of Europe, the geographer from Amaseia highlights the importance attributed to the civilizing and appeasing role exercised by Rome in the westernmost region of the known world. This present edition contains the translation of the Greek text complemented by explanatory footnotes as well as an introduction that includes elements of general interest about the author and his work, a brief outline of the most influential sources in the geographer's writings and the structure of book three of his Geography. In addition the current publication also features an index of geographical terms and another with ancient sources, a map illustrating the contours of the regions referenced by Strabo and a detailed bibliography at the end. |
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