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Cicero
by David MankinCicero's De Oratore is one of the masterpieces of Latin prose. A literary dialogue in the Greek tradition, it was written in 55 BCE in the midst of political turmoil at Rome, but reports a discussion 'concerning the (ideal) orator' that supposedly took place in 90 BCE, just before an earlier crisis. Cicero features eminent orators and statesmen of the past as participants in this discussion, presenting competing views on many topics. This edition of Book III is the first since 1893 to provide a Latin text and full introduction and commentary in English. It is intended to help advanced students and others interested in Roman literature to comprehend the grammar and appreciate the stylistic nuances of Cicero's Latin, to trace the historical, literary, and theoretical background of the topics addressed, and to interpret Book III in relation to the rest of De Oratore and to Cicero's other works.
Cicero (Routledge Revivals)
by T. A. DoreyFirst published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field. Cicero is a man on whom most judgments have been harsh. His political ideals, though sincerely held, were bypassed by the march of events; his public life was a series of frustrations; his personality was egotistical. However, as a speaker and a thinker, as a master of the use of language, and as a man of cultured interests and human disposition he deserves sympathetic study. The chapters in this volume deal with his political career, his character, his oratory, philosophy and poems, and his influence on subsequent literature and scholarship. This book will be of interest to students of literature, history and philosophy.
Cicero's Orations: In Catilinam I-iv, Pro Caelio, Pro Milone, Pro Archia (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Marcus Tullius Cicero Charles Duke YongeThe greatest orator of the late Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.), influenced the course of European letters for centuries after his death. Through his writings, Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars encountered the riches of Classical rhetoric and philosophy. The elegance of his style, his skill and erudition, his worldly wisdom, and his profound humanity made Cicero a model for latter-day thinkers and keep his works ever relevant. This collection presents examples of rhetoric from throughout the ancient Roman's illustrious career. Selections include a series of famous speeches delivered during Cicero's term as consul which thwarted the Catiline conspiracy to overthrow the Republic — but led to his own prosecution and exile. The compilation concludes with the bold orations delivered in defiance of Marc Anthony, which sealed Cicero's doom.
Cicero's Political Personae
by Joanna KentyCicero's speeches provide a fascinating window into the political battles and crises of his time. In this book, Joanna Kenty examines Cicero's persuasive strategies and the subtleties of his Latin prose, and shows how he used eight political personae – the attacker, the grateful friend, the martyr, the senator, the partisan ideologue, and others – to maximize his political leverage in the latter half of his career. These personae were what made his arguments convincing, and drew audiences into Cicero's perspective. Non-specialist and expert readers alike will gain new insight into Cicero's corpus and career as a whole, as well as a better appreciation of the context, details, and nuances of individual passages.
Cicero's Use Of Judicial Theater
by Jonathan HallIn Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater, Jon Hall examines Cicero's use of showmanship in the Roman courts, looking in particular at the nonverbal devices that he employs during his speeches as he attempts to manipulate opinion. Cicero's speeches in the law-courts often incorporate theatrical devices including the use of family relatives as props during emotional appeals, exploitation of tears and supplication, and the wearing of specially dirtied attire by defendants during a trial, all of which contrast strikingly with the practices of the modem advocate. Hall investigates how Cicero successfully deployed these techniques and why they played such a prominent part in the Roman courts. These "judicial theatrics" are rarely discussed by the ancient rhetorical handbooks, and Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater argues that their successful use by Roman orators derives largely from the inherent theatricality of aristocratic life in ancient Rome--most of the devices deployed in the courts appear elsewhere in the social and political activities of the elite. While Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater will be of interest primarily to professional scholars and students studying the speeches of Cicero, its wider analyses, both of Roman cultural customs and the idiosyncratic practices of the courts, will prove relevant also to social historians, as well as historians of legal procedure.
Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86: Latin Text With Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary And English Translations
by Ingo GildenhardLooting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. <p><p> This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids, and a translation. As a literary artefact, the speech gives us insight into how the supreme master of Latin eloquence developed what we would now call rhetorical "spin". As an historical document, it provides a window into the dark underbelly of Rome’s imperial expansion and exploitation of the Near East. <p> Ingo Gildenhard’s illuminating commentary on this A-Level set text will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both high school and undergraduate level. It will also be a valuable resource to Latin teachers and to anyone interested in Cicero, language and rhetoric, and the legal culture of Ancient Rome.
Cicero: Catilinarians
by Andrew R. DyckAs consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesmanship. The four speeches he delivered during the crisis show him at the height of his oratorical powers and political influence. Divided between deliberative speeches given in the senate (1 and 4) and informational speeches delivered before the general public (2 and 3), the Catilinarians illustrate Cicero's adroit handling of several distinct types of rhetoric. Beginning in antiquity, this corpus served as a basic text for generations of students but fell into neglect during the past half-century. This edition, which is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, takes account of recently discovered papyrus evidence, recent studies of Cicero's language, style and rhetorical techniques, and the relevant historical background.
Cicero: On the Ideal Orator
by James M. May Jakob WisseCicero, the Roman orator and prose writer, gives his mature views on rhetoric, oratory and philosophy. Cast in the lively literary form of a dialogue, the work presents a daring view of the orator as the master of all language communication.
Cien formas de romper un glaciar: De Barcelona a Buenos Aires, cien crónicas implacables y nostálgicas
by Carlos ZanónCien crónicas escogidas en las que Carlos Zanón nos desvela una realidad íntima e inaudita a través de su mirada cáustica y lírica Taxistas, bares, barrios y ciudades, mitos de la infancia, libros, películas, mucha música y familia: así de extenso es el «universo Zanón», y así de variadas son su flora y su insólita fauna, fruto de una reflexión implacable, pero también un tanto melancólica, sobre la realidad y las cosas del día a día que ve, piensa y recrea a su manera.Novelista y poeta, Carlos Zanón es también un narrador que escribe en un periódico. Tras varios años de colaboraciones ininterrumpidas en prensa, nos ofrece en Cien formas de romper un glaciar la contraparte real del universo imaginario que palpita en todas sus novelas. Elogios sobre el autor:«Carlos Zanón ha desarrollado una forma de contar historias y crear personajes que lo distinguen entre muchos otros autores. El ritmo de su prosa cuidada late en cada oración, golpea, sacude.»Claudia Piñeiro «Que Carlos Zanón es una de las mejores cosas que le ha pasado a la literatura de estos lares en los últimos años, es algo que ya dejó de ser un secreto.»Carlos Prieto«Carlos Zanón es poeta. Me gusta decirlo […] para responder a quienes defienden una novela sin poesía, una narración documentada y ceñida a los hechos, periodística supongo... No sé bien qué defienden.»Lilian Neuman «El cronista despiadado de nuestros tiempos.»Rosa Mora
Ciencia y Filosofía: Aspectos ontológicos y epistemológicos de la ciencia contemporánea
by Pedro Fernández LiriaLa ciencia contemporánea revoluciona el pensamiento humano. Ciencia y Filosofía nos propone un viaje fascinante por las sorprendentes implicaciones filosóficas de la ciencia contemporánea. <P><P>La última gran revolución en las ciencias físicas ha situado al pensamiento humano ante el reto más grande que jamás se le ha presentado, y el autor del presente libro se esmera en proporcionar al lector las claves necesarias para comprender su alcance y para poder afrontarlo. <P><P>Ciencia y Filosofía es un concienzudo y documentado estudio capaz de cautivar tanto a filósofos y científicos, como a cualquiera que, sin una especial formación técnica y matemática, se halle interesado por los últimos progresos teóricos de la ciencia y por las conclusiones filosóficas de la revolución científica que provocaron las dos grandes teorías físicas del siglo XX: la teoría de la relatividad y la mecánica cuántica. <P><P>Además de exponer el carácter esencial de ambas teorías, el libro discute algunas de las interpretaciones que se han hecho de las mismas y repasa algunos de los debates y controversias que su aparición ha suscitado en los últimos cien años (tanto entre los propios científicos, como entre los filósofos). <P>Por lo demás, Ciencia y Filosofía es un libro que podría y nos atreveríamos a decir que debería interesar a cualquiera que sienta una pasión por la ciencia como la que el propio autor trata de contagiar desde la primera página.
Cigarettes Are Sublime
by Richard KleinCigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative pleasures, and exacting benefits attached to tobacco use and to cigarettes in particular. His appreciation of paradox and playful use of hyperbole lead the way on this aptly ambivalent romp through the cigarette in war, movies (the "Humphrey Bogart cigarette"), literature, poetry, and the reflections of Sartre to show that cigarettes are a mixed blessing, precisely sublime.
Cinco escritos morales
by Umberto EcoUmberto Eco reflexiona sobre la moral y la ética a través de una mirada crítica sobre nuestra historia reciente. Umberto Eco analiza con mirada lúcida y gran brillantez cinco temas de actualidad e importancia extremas: por qué la guerra ha pasado a ser hoy día inviable, las características y vigencia del fascismo, los cambios de la prensa ante la presencia de la televisión, los fundamentos y la posibilidad de una ética laica, así como la tolerancia e intolerancia ante la migración que hará de Europa en los próximos años un continente multirracial. La crítica opina...«Muy convincente y con la clase de destellos de inteligencia y conocimiento que los lectores esperan de una de las mentes más brillantes de Italia.»Library Journal
Cinco novelas en clave simbólica
by Víctor García de la ConchaTodas las claves para disfrutar de la mejor literatura La creación de un espacio subjetivo, que trasciende el plano geográfico para instalarse en el del símbolo, es una de las conquistas de la novela moderna. Víctor García de la Concha explora en este estudio el espacio simbólico en cinco novelas magistrales del siglo XX: La casa verde, de Mario Vargas Llosa; Cien años de soledad, de Gabriel García Márquez; Madera de boj, de Camilo José Cela; Volverás a Región, de Juan Benet, y Sefarad, de Antonio Muñoz Molina. Cinco novelas en las que la palabra de sus creadores conforma lugares construidos a base de metáforas que adquieren su dimensión definitiva en la imaginación del lector, cuando se mueve por ellos y los interpreta. En palabras del autor, «lejos de ser un mero recipiente, el espacio se convierte en un molde activo y fecundo de significado. Sustenta y expresa ideas, sensaciones y sentimientos; dialoga intertextualmente con otros espacios de categoría análoga, y, maridado con el tiempo, se eleva por encima de la cronología particular del relato del que forma parte y proyecta al lector al espacio de los universales: de la anécdota a la categoría».
Cinco versiones de Adriano
by Mauricio BonnettUn día de verano Sebastián, un escritor colombiano, ve a través de laventana de su apartamento londinense a un hombre que le recuerda demanera inquietante a Adriano, un amigo suyo desaparecido en misteriosascircunstancias veinte años atrás. Cuando a los pocos días lo ve denuevo, el interés inicial se convierte en obsesión, y emprende entoncesuna suerte de persecución detectivesca para sacudirse la duda yrecuperar la tranquilidad. Pero la cacería de Sebastián se vuelve, a lapar, retrospectiva, pues busca a Adriano no solo en las calles deLondres sino en su remoto pasado, decidido a entender de una vez portodas, y con la ayuda de dos de sus viejos amigos, quién fue eseenigmático fragmento de su juventud y por qué nunca se supo nada más deél, como si se hubiera evaporado. De esta manera surge el retrato de unser complejo, contradictorio, casi indescifrable, así como un mosaico delos miedos, las dudas, los prejuicios, los remordimientos y losentusiasmos de toda una generación. Escrita con una prosa hipnótica,aguda y llena de hallazgos, e inclasificable por lo que tiene de novelade aprendizaje, de novela de misterio, de novela de aventuras, dereflexión poderosa sobre la soledad, la memoria y el paso del tiempo,Cinco versiones de Adriano confirma a Mauricio Bonnett como uno de losnarradores colombianos más notables de la actualidad.
Cinderella Stories (Great Minds Wit & Wisdom #Grade 1, Module 4)
by Great MindsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Cinderella across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère Gillian Lathey Monika WozniakThe Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor its alleged universal meaning. In Cinderella across Cultures, editors Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Wozniak analyze the Cinderella tale as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions. The collection highlights the tale’s reception and adaptation in cultural and national contexts across the globe, including those of Italy, France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia. Contributors shed new light on classic versions of Cinderella by examining the material contexts that shaped them (such as the development of glass artifacts and print techniques), or by analyzing their reception in popular culture (through cheap print and mass media). The first section, “Contextualizing Cinderella,” investigates the historical and cultural contexts of literary versions of the tale and their diachronic transformations. The second section, “Regendering Cinderella,” tackles innovative and daring literary rewritings of the tale in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in particular modern feminist and queer takes on the classic plot. Finally, the third section, “Visualising Cinderella,” concerns symbolic transformations of the tale, especially the interaction between text and image and the renewal of the tale’s iconographic tradition. The volume offers an invaluable contribution to the study of this particular tale and also to fairy-tale studies overall. Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.
Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales
by Laura Lane Ellen Haunp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Times} This wickedly wise (and wisecracking) parody of classic fairy tales redefines happily ever after for the modern feminist era.You know what? It's super creepy to kiss a woman who is unconscious. And you know what else? The way out of poverty isn't by marrying a rich dude -- or by wearing fragile footwear, for that matter. And while we're at it, why is the only woman who lives with seven men expected to do the cooking, cleaning, and laundry?Fairytales need a reboot, and comedy queens Laura Lane and Ellen Haun are the women to do it. In Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling, they offer a rollicking parody of classic (read: patriarchal) tales that turns sweet, submissive princesses into women who are perfectly capable of being the heroes of their own stories. Mulan climbs the ranks in the army but wages a different war when she finds out she's getting paid less than her fellow male captains, Wendy learns never to trust a man-boy stalking her window, Sleeping Beauty's prince gets a lesson in consent, and more.Busting with laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp twists to these outdated tales, Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling is fun, magical, necessary, and totally woke.
Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales
by William Bernard MccarthyFor years, many folklorists have denied the possibility of a truly American folk or fairy tale. They have argued that the tales found in the United States are watered-down derivatives of European fare. With this gathering, William Bernard McCarthy compiles evidence strongly to the contrary. Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales represents these tales as they have been told in the United States from Revolutionary days until the present. To capture this richness, tales are grouped in chapters that represent regional and ethnic groups, including Iberian, French, German, British, Irish, other European, African American, and Native American. These tales are drawn from published collections, journals, and archives, and from fieldwork by McCarthy and his colleagues. Created along the nationalist model of the Brothers Grimm yet as diverse in its voices and themes as the nation it represents, Cinderella in America shows these tales truly merit the designation American.
Cindy's Cellar
by Colin Thompson Sydnie Meltser KleinhenzCindy finds a special door that leads her to the robot palace.
Cineclub
by David GilmourFue un trato muy poco convencional: Jesse podía dejar de ir al instituto, dormir todo el día, no trabajar, no pagar alquiler pero a cambio tenía que mantenerse alejado de las drogas y ver tres películas a la semana con su padre, el crítico de cine canadiense David Gilmour. Jesse aceptó de inmediato y al día siguiente padre e hijo comenzaron con la primera película de la lista: Los cuatrocientos golpes de François Truffaut. A lo largo de tres años padre e hijo vieron todo tipo de películas, desde las consideradas joyas del cine hasta los grandes bodrios de todos los tiempos. Con el trasfondo de El padrino, Instinto básico, Showgirls, Ciudadano Kane o La ley del silencio, David y Jesse hablan de los principales directores de cine, de las escenas célebres y de los actores que las protagonizaron, y poco a poco sobre todo tipo de temas: chicas, música, mal de amores, trabajo, drogas, talento, dinero, amor, amistad... Cineclub es un repaso personal de la historia del cine, un desafío a nuestras nociones de la educación y, sobre todo, la historia real y conmovedora acerca de cómo un padre y un hijo sortearon una época muy especial en su relación; en la que los hijos se encierran en sí mismos y los padres pierden la oportunidad de llegar a ellos. Esta es la historia de una decisión que lo cambió todo.
Cinema Speculation
by Quentin TarantinoA unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans - and all movie lovers - could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.
Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis
by Laura McMahonDrawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Cinema and Contact investigates the aesthe-tics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France during the last fifty years: Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis. Countering the domi-nant critical account of touch elaborated by recent models of embodied spectatorship, this book argues that cinema offers a privileged space for understanding touch in terms of spacing and withdrawal rather than immediacy and continuity. Such a deconstructive configuration of touch is shown here to have far-reaching implications, inviting an innovative rethinking of politics, aesthetics and theology via the textures of cinema. The first study to bring the thought of Nancy into sustained dialogue with a series of detailed analyses of films, Cinema and Contact also forges new interpretative perspectives on Bresson, Duras and Denis, tracing a compelling two-way exchange between cinema and philosophy.
Cinema and Ireland: Film, Culture And Politics (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
by John Hill Luke Gibbons Kevin RockettThis was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic. The book focuses on Irish history and politics to examine the context and significance of such films as Irish Destiny, The Quiet Man, Ryan’s Daughter, Man of Aran, Cal, The Courier, and The Dead.
Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield’s Writing
by Teresa A. FisherUsing silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted.