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By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 9780691615110
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John Boardman
ISBN: 9780691252834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691018966
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates.
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691018959
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates.
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691019109
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page).
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By: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
ISBN: 9780691017471
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Ananda K Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. This is a collection of his writings on myth drawn from his "Metaphysics" and "Traditional Art and Symbolism".
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By: Sigfried Giedion
ISBN: 9780691251905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Sigfried Giedion
ISBN: 9780691251882
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Emma Jung
ISBN: 9780691002378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization. The Grail is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty, and a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the blood of the crucified Christ. This book presents this legend as a living myth that is profoundly relevant to modern life.
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By: Roger Sherman Loomis
ISBN: 9780691020754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms. This title shows how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian Grail with miraculous powers.
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By: Horapollo Niliacus
ISBN: 9780691000923
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. This work tells how various types of natural phenomena, emotions, virtues, philosophical concepts, and human character-types were symbolized.
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By: Erich Kahler
ISBN: 9780691619279
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Heinrich Zimmer
ISBN: 9780691017761
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1971
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Drawing on both Eastern and Western literature, this is an anthology of stories linked by the theme of conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the "Arabian Nights", this theme unfolds in stories from early Hinduism, Irish paganism, the Arthurian cycle and other legends.
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By: Oleg Grabar
ISBN: 9780691252766
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Joseph Campbell
ISBN: 9780691018393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1982
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations. This book explores the relation of dreams to myth, and demonstrates the important differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life.
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By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 9780691601052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Louis Massignon
ISBN: 9780691657202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Louis Massignon
ISBN: 9780691610832
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy
ISBN: 9780691252124
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Joseph Alsop
ISBN: 9780691252254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Paul Radin
ISBN: 9780691019161
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience.
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By: Andr Chastel
ISBN: 9780691252230
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Jacques Barzun
ISBN: 9780691018041
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 1975
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
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By: James S. Ackerman
ISBN: 9780691252315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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