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Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than novelist Philip Roth This book examines Roth's 'mature immaturity' in its depth and richness. It lets readers to reconsider the narrow categories into which Roth has often been slotted - laureate of Newark, New Jersey; junior partner in the firm Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, and Malamud.

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Contents Preface, v Introduction, 1 I. Date of Composition, 1 II. Editions, 2 III. Stage History, 8 IV. Sources, 11 V. Classical Ideas, 43 VII. Textual Note, 69 Text, 76 Notes, 161 Appendix I: Influences, 257 Appendix II: Publishers and Printers, 260 Bibliography, 262 Originally published in 1932. The Princeton Legacy Library uses th

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Contents Preface, v Introduction, 1 I. Date of Composition, 1 II. Editions, 2 III. Stage History, 8 IV. Sources, 11 V. Classical Ideas, 43 VII. Textual Note, 69 Text, 76 Notes, 161 Appendix I: Influences, 257 Appendix II: Publishers and Printers, 260 Bibliography, 262 Originally published in 1932. The Princeton Legacy Library uses th

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Analyses the heuristic value of fiction by highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology

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Analyses the heuristic value of fiction by highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology

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This bibliography includes over 2000 monographs in 20 languages covering the period 1839-1999. It ranges from those that explore the relationship between photography and literature to works where the literary text is complemented by photographs.

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After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest i

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Beginning with a definition and discussion of the basic picaresque narrative structure and theme, Part I considers the origins and development of a specific type of picaresque narrative in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain--the picaresque novel.

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This book presents an annotated translation alongside a multifaceted analysis exploring beard symbolism, interpretations of moralistic discourses, investigations of cultural assimilation and derogatory imagery, and offers insightful close readings, shedding new light on this intriguing text and its broader cultural context.

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Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the lat

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This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. -- .

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This book examines Plato's most puzzling dialogue, Hippias Minor, in detail, treating Socrates' engagement with both Homer and the sophist Hippias over human excellence as at once playful and deadly serious.

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Plato's Republic as a Philosophical Drama on Doing Well reimagines the central theme of Plato's foundational work through an interpretation of its characters as paradigms of the apparent good. Focusing attention on the dialogue itself, Ivor Ludlam provides an innovative, holistic, and dramatic new perspective on the classic text.

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Consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. This book offers solutions to crucial difficulties in this fundamental Platonic work. It contains extensively reviewed papers which comprise almost all of Gregory Vlastos' published work on Plato.

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A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.

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A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.

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