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      Nietzsche and Literary Studies

      This book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, which draw on two and a half millennia of literary and philosophical history and have inspired a further century of responses…

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      Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future

      James I. Porter

      Traces Nietzsche’s efforts to determine how philosophy and philology are symptomatic of modern cultural habits, ideologies, and imaginings. Argues that philology gives Nietzsche a deeper sense of the historically contingent…

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      The Invention of Dionysus

      James I. Porter

      Argues that The Birth of Tragedy resembles Nietzsche’s earlier writings on philology in its argumentative and writerly strategies and his ‘staging’ of meaning. Also studies its relation to later writings…

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      Constructions of the Classical Body

      Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

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      Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future

      James I. Porter

      Challenges the picture of a philosopher who abandoned classical philology, and traces Nietzsche’s efforts to determine how philosophy and philology are symptomatic of modern cultural habits, ideologies, and imaginings. Argues…

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      The Invention of Dionysus

      James I. Porter

      Argues that The Birth of Tragedy resembles Nietzsche’s earlier writings on philology in its argumentative strategies and his ‘staging’ of meaning. Also studies its relation to later writings, and as…

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      Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome

      The term classical is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection…

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      Constructions of the Classical Body

      Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

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      Homer: The Very Idea

      James I Porter

      The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.

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      Homer: The Very Idea

      James I Porter

      The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.

      Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of…

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      The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience

      James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)

      This book traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry across a range of art forms as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into…

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      The Sublime in Antiquity

      James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)

      The first book to break away from existing scholarship’s dominant focus on Longinus and to outline an alternative account of the sublime in Greek and Roman poetry, philosophy, and the…

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      The Sublime in Antiquity

      James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)

      The first book to break away from existing scholarship’s dominant focus on Longinus and to outline an alternative account of the sublime in Greek and Roman poetry, philosophy, and the…

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      The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience

      James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)

      This book traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry across a range of art forms as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into…

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      Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

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      Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global…

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      I Feel Afraid When I See a Spider

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      It is hard to cope with fear. You don't want to get hurt or overreact. Yet you also want to be safe. Cal and Ada are both afraid of spiders…

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      I Feel Embarrassed When I Can Not Jump

      Karen White Porter

      Ada is a friend who feels of embarrassed. She can not do what her friends can do. Her friends with feelings help her reach her goals. Read this story to…

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      I Feel Confused When Rules Change

      Karen White Porter

      Confusion can be eased when you are clear about rules and feel secure about boundaries. Learning that rules change in different situations is key. See how Deb copes when she…

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      I Feel Sad When You Go Away

      Karen White Porter

      Have you or someone love ever felt sad? Did you feel sad when your friends left and did not play with you? If so, this book is for you. It…

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      I Feel Disgusted When You Don’t Blow Your Nose

      Karen White Porter

      I FEEL...WHEN... book series is the first of three Pre-Primers in the Reading with Feeling Program. It provides an easy transition from reading pictures to reading printed language.

      It is…

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      I Feel Angry When You Eat My Cookie

      Karen White Porter

      I Feel Angry When You Eat My Cookie, explores how a child can act out, talk about their feelings, and learn how to work out their anger and frustration on…

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      Universalism vs. Relativism: Making Moral Judgments in a Changing, Pluralistic, and Threatening World

      The threat of 9/11, terrorism, reproductive technology, and globalization has forced us to ask anew whether there are universal moral truths upon which to base ethical and political judgments. Suitable…

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