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Howards End
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Oscar Wilde on Trial
The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency” Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of “gross indecency” occurred at the height of his fame. After being found guilty, Wilde spent two years in prison, emerged bankrupt, and died in a cheap hotel room in Paris a few years after his release. The trials prompted a new intolerance toward homosexuality: habits of male bonding that were previously seen as innocent were now viewed as a threat, and an association grew in the public mind between gay men and the arts. Oscar Wilde on Trial assembles accounts from a variety of sources, including official and private letters, newspaper accounts, and previously published (but very incomplete) transcripts, to provide the most accurate and authoritative account to date of events that were pivotal in both legal and cultural history.
Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context
This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the new text, discussing in turn issues around Galen’s literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution to the theme of avoiding distress (ἀλυπία), controversial topics in Roman history such as the Antonine plague and the reign of Commodus, and finally the reception of the text in the Islamic world. Gathering eleven contributions by recognised specialists of Galen, Greek literature and Roman history, it revisits the new text extensively.
Walter Pater's European Imagination
Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European self over a period of some two thousand years. They include elements of travelogue and art criticism, together with discourses on myth, history, and philosophy. Examining Pater's methods of composition, use of narrative voice, and construction of character, the book draws on all of Pater's oeuvre and includes discussions of a range of his unpublished manuscripts, essays, and reviews. It engages with Pater's dialogue with the vis...
Who's who in Lebanon
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Cogito versus Ubuntu : Les rapports entre individu et sociŽtŽ analysŽs dans un cadre anthropologique et linguistique
Le titre de ce livre, Cogito versus ubuntu, oppose la conception occidentale de l'humanité, centrée sur l'individu, à une conception plus traditionnelle et plus répandue sur la planète, résumée par le mot bantou ubuntu. Ce terme de la philosophie africaine veut littéralement dire humanité, mais sa signification est plus complexe et plus riche. Il a donné lieu à de nombreuses traductions, parmi lesquelles je suis parce que nous sommes, qui rappelle évidemment le je pense donc je suis, le cogito ergo sum de Descartes. C'est sous l'angle de cette opposition que sont abordés quelques problèmes actuels comme la laïcité et l'universalisme; l'islamisme, le terrorisme et la question du voile; l'éducation, les langues et la séparation des générations; l'éthique et la question des mutilations sexuelles féminines.
Le noyau culturel
This issue of Imaginaires is a selection of papers from our 2008 yearly conference on the interpretation of literary texts. As was the case with the previous volumes, the problems that were raised deal once again with questions of semantics and hermeneutics. This year, a new dimension has been added: a hypothesis about a cultural component as part of the meaning of texts.
