First published in 1971, this work examines the tradition of the epic and the many forms in which it has presented itself over time. After unpicking the defining aspects of an epic, the book tracks the literary tradition from the classical period through to modern day.  Exploring major texts such as Beowulf, Odyssey, Divina Comedia, The Faerie Queene and Ulysses, this work will be a valuable resource for those studying the epic and English literature.

The Epic

Literature & Fiction

Merchant, Paul

History & Criticism

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Product Description Houses, in the Argentine and Chilean films of the early twenty-first century, provide much more than a backdrop to on-screen drama. Nor are they simply refuges from political turmoil or spaces of oppression. Remaking Home argues that domestic spaces are instead the medium through which new, fragile common identities are constructed. The varied documentary and fiction films analyzed here, which include an early work by Oscar winner Sebastián Lelio, use the domestic sphere as a laboratory in which to experiment with narrative, audiovisual techniques, and social configurations. Where previous scholarship has focused on the social fragmentation and political disillusionment visible in contemporary film, Remaking Home argues that in order to understand the political agency of contemporary cinema, it is necessary to move beyond deconstructive critical approaches to Latin American culture. In doing so, it expands the theoretical scope of studies in Latin American cinema by finding new points of contact between the cultural critique of Nelly Richard, the work of Bruno Latour, and theories of new materialism. Review “Merchant’s insightful study of domestic spaces in contemporary Chilean and Argentine cinema provides an innovative rethinking of the ways in which today’s filmmakers are using domestic spaces to blur the boundaries between the public and private and explore new ways of being-in-common.” —Michael Lazzara, University of California, Davis“Remaking Home renews both film studies and studies of Latin American culture. Through the conceptual lens of ‘domestic spaces,’ Merchant reflects on the relations between house and home, politics and image, and postdictatorship, neoliberalism and decentered subjects. With insightful analyses of recent films and references to urbanism, literary narratives, and political constellations, Merchant explores the possibility of constructing, through the life of images, new forms of life in common.” —Gonzalo Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina About the Author Paul Merchant is lecturer in Latin American film and visual culture at the University of Bristol. He is the coeditor, with Lucy Bollington, of Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human.

Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 (Illuminations)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Pittsburgh Press

Thomas Jefferson's 1806 Message provided the U.S. Congress, the American people, and interested parties throughout the world with a summary not only of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but of other expeditions of the time. The value of this Message from the President, in addition to its rarity, is in the wealth of information it provided to individuals in the early nineteenth century about the wilderness in the unknown West, and the insights provided to today's reader. It is one of the rarest of printed items in the bibliography of early works on Lewis and Clark. Jefferson's Search for Information. The 1806 Message is an example of the Jeffersonian value of and search for information about the western lands recently acquired from France. The Message brings together the most authoritative accounts of the Louisiana Purchase, combining information from the explorations of Lewis and Clark on the Missouri, William Dunbar and George Hunter on the Ouachita, and Dr. John Sibley's researches on the Red River territory into one report, introduced by Jefferson himself. Editorial Background. The editors place the document in the context of Jefferson's interest in exploration of the West. They offer comparisons between the expeditions included in the Message and discuss the sources that assisted the leaders of these endeavors. A thorough history of the printer and his press is provided, along with an informative assessment of the location and provenance of known copies of the Natchez edition. Additional material included. The Natchez reprint of the Message, appearing after versions published in Washington and New York, also includes extracts from Dunbar's journal, as well as significant botanical observations not printed in those earlier editions. As such, the Natchez reprint is distinctly valuable in providing this unique information--a printed facsimile of this item is long overdue. Two appendices follow the text, including pages from the Washington edition not included in the Natchez edition, and a survey of correspondence of John Sibley available at the Library of Congress. The volume also includes four maps intended to accompany the original 1806 publications. Four folding maps are included in a special envelope at the rear of the book. The facsimile is augmented by an extensive introduction, two appendices, works cited, index, and seven illustrations. Printed on acid-free paper and bound in rich moss-green cloth with gold foil-stamped spine and front cover. Issued in an edition of only 750 copies.

Jefferson's Western Explorations: Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita....The Natchez Edition, 1806. A Facsimile.

History

Skinner, Jeremy

Erickson, Doug

Jefferson, Thomas

Americas

The Arthur H. Clark Company

Poetry. SOME BUSINESS OF AFFINITY is a series of translations, responses, reworkings, and interpretations of an array of different cultures, languages and writers. Included are reactions to Catallus and Hokusai, reworkings of excerpts from Coleridge's notebooks, and translations of Aeschylus and medieval Welsh author Dafydd ap Gwilym. These are interspersed with illustrations that augment Merchant's selections and comment on the nature of translation itself.

Some Business of Affinity

Poetry

Five Seasons Press

The Epic (The Critical Idiom Reissued)

Routledge

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