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"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
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"Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely-known writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering influences from life, religion, literature, and mythology. The worlds of Neil Gaiman have their roots in thousands of years of human storytelling. The Middle Ages in particular have been...
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In The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe." This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as "the...
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Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped the mind of this great thinker? Jason Baxter argues that Lewis was deeply formed not only by the words of Scripture...
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"In literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings. Reading Old Books argues that the best way to understand tradition is by examining the moments when a writer...
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Julia nosi w sobie ogromny bol - stracila ukochanego mezczyzne i sama wychowujepiecioletnia coreczke. Zycie jednak daje jej niezwykla szanse. Kobieta zostaje asystentka Suzanne Benoit, slynnej francuskiej pisarki, ktorej tworczosc przez lata podziwiala. Wkrotce wyrusza razem w podroz do magicznej Akwitanii. Tam okaze sie, ze Suzanne rowniez skrywa w sercu bolesna tajemnice. Julia stanieprzed trudnym wyborem, bedzie musiala zdecydowac, czy powinna...
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Professor Timothy B. Shutt examimes the contributions of the peoples of northern Europe through their vibrant literary legacy, revealing Celtic and Germanic values that shine through, exhibiting such characteristics as a courage, self-control, and respect for women.