Info
- Utilizzare la checkbox di selezione a fianco di ciascun documento per attivare le funzionalità di stampa, invio email, download nei formati disponibili del (i) record.
Reading Thucydides / James V. Morrison
| Reading Thucydides / James V. Morrison |
| Autore | Morrison James V. <1956-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 938/.05072 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | In dialogue with Thucydides -- The reader's task -- The Corcyrean conflict (1.24-55) -- Punctuated history : the case of Plataea -- Historical lessons in the Melian episode -- The comparison of cities and individuals -- Maxims and assimilation in the Mytilenian debate -- Athens the tyrant-city and the function of political metaphor -- Thucydides' life and work -- Ancient and modern audiences. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524659603321 |
Morrison James V. <1956->
|
||
| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / / James V. Morrison
| Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / / James V. Morrison |
| Autore | Morrison James V. <1956-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Shipwrecks in literature
Disasters in literature Shipwreck survival in literature |
| ISBN |
9780472120062
0-472-12006-9 9780472119202 |
| Classificazione | LIT004190LIT015000LIT004120PER010030 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Shipwreck narratives -- 2. Shipwreck and identity in Homer's Odyssey -- 3. Shipwreck and opportunity from Ancient Egypt to the modern Caribbean -- 4. The struggle for power in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 5. Salvation, power, and freedom: Saint Paul, caliban, and voyages in outter space -- 6. Culture and spiritual rebirth in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- 7. The struggle for survival in Philoctetes, Cast Away, and First on Mars -- 8. Competing narratives in Walcott's Pantomime and Coetzee's Foe -- 9. Conflict, the common good, and redemption in The Mysterious Island, Lord of the Flies, Lost, and Gilligan's Island -- 10. Shipwreck and the selling of paradise. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524655703321 |
|
Morrison James V. <1956->
|
||
| Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||