"Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, conversations, and visual art, Imagine Africa: Volume Three brings together some of the most essential writers, artists, and thinkers of contemporary Africa. Including powerful photographs in color by Zanele Muholi, stills from the films of Jean-Pierre Bekolo, and works of fiction and poetry from nine languages, Imagine Africa: Volume Three offers a glimpse into a kaleidoscopic and vibrant continent. Spanning across numerous languages, traditions, and media, Imagine Africa: Volume Three brings together some of the most essential voices and visions of Africa today."--from penguinrandomhouse.com

• Volume A. I. Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern literature. The great hymn to the Aten
• The Babylonian creation epic (Enuma Elish)
• Hesiod from theogony and works and days
• Early Greek philosophy
• Lucretius, from On the Nature of Things
• Ancient Egyptian literature. The tale of Sinuhe
• Egyptian love poems
• Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah (Setne 1)
• Stela of Taimhotep
• The epic of Gilgamesh
• The Hebrew Bible
• Homer
• Aesop
• Sappho
• Ancient Athenian drama. Agamemnon / Aeschylus
• Oedipus the king ; Antigone / Sophocles
• Medea / Euripides
• Lysistrata / Aristophanes
• Symposium / Plato
• Poems / Catullus
• The Aeneid / Virgil
• Metamorphoses / Ovid
• II. India's ancient epics and tales. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
• The Mahabharata
• The Bhagavad-Gītā
• The Jātaka
• Early Chinese literature and thought. Classic of poetry
• from Analects / Confucius
• Daodejing / Laozi
• Songs of the South
• Zhuangzi

• Volume B. I. Circling the Mediterranean : Europe and the Islamic world. The Christian Bible : the New Testament Gospels
• The golden ass / Apuleius
• Confessions / Augustine
• The Qur'an
• Beowulf
• Shahnameh (Book of Kings) / Abolqasem Ferdowsi
• from Song of Roland
• The scholar's guide / Petrus Alfonsi
• Marie de France
• from The conference of the birds / Farid Ud-Din Attar
• Jalal Ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
• Dante Alighieri
• The glory of kings / Kebra Nagast
• The thousand and one nights
• from Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio
• from Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
• Sir Gawain and the green knight
• The book of the city of ladies / Christine de Pizan
• II. India's classic age. Pañcatantra / Viṣṇuśarman
• Śakuntalā and the ring of recollection / Kālidāsa
• Classical Sanskrit lyric
• from Kathāsaristsāgara / Somadeva
• III. Medieval China. Tao Qian
• Hanshan
• Tang poetry
• The story of Yingying / Yuan Zhen
• from Records on metal and stone ; Song lyrics / Li Qingzhao
• IV. Japan's classical age. The Man'yōshū (Collection of myriad leaves)
• Poetry of the Heian court
• from Tosa diary / Ki No Tsurayuki
• from The pillow book / Sei Shōnagon
• from The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
• An account of a ten-foot-square hut / Kamo No Chōmei
• The tales of the Heike

• Volume C. I. Encounters with Islam. Sunjata : a West African epic of the Mande peoples
• The book of Dede Korkut
• from The book of travels / Evliya C̦elebi
• Indian poetry after Islam
• II. Europe and the new world. Humanism and the rediscovery of the classical past
• Petrarch and the love lyric
• The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli
• Orlando Furioso / Ludovico Ariosto
• Utopia / Thomas More
• The heptameron / Marguerite de Navarre
• The Abencerraje / Anonymous
• Essays / Michel de Montaigne
• Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes
• Popol Vuh
• The encounter of Europe and the new world
• Fuenteovejuna / Lope de Vega
• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / William Shakespeare
• God, Church, and self
• Paradise lost / John Milton

• Volume D. I. East Asian drama. Atsumori / Zeami Motokiyo
• from The peach blossom fan / Kong Shangren
• from The love suicides at Amijima / Chikamatsu Monzaemon
• from The song of Ch'un-Hyang
• II. The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas. What is enlightenment?
• Tartuffe / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
• Oroonoko; or, The royal slave / Aphra Behn
• from Response of the poet to the very eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz ; Sonnets ; Redondilla / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• from Gulliver's travels ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
• The rape of the lock ; An essay on man / Alexander Pope
• Candide, or Optimism / Voltaire
• III. Literatures of early modern East Asia. from The journey to the West / Wu Cheng'en
• from The story of the stone / Cao Xueqin
• The tale of Hon Kiltong / Hŏ Kyun
• Lady Hyegyŏng
• from Life of a sensuous woman / Ihara Saikaku
• The world of haiku

• Volume E. I. An age of revolutions in Europe and the Americas. Revolutionary contexts
• Confessions / Jean-Jacques Rosseau
• from The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself / Olaudah Equiano
• Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
• Romantic poets and their successors
• II. At the crossroads of empire. from The tale of Kiêu / Nguyên Du
• Ghalib
• from The travels of Lao Can / Liu E
• Married life ; Legal rights / Pandita Ramabai
• Letter to Major von Wissmann / Machemba
• from King Leopold's soliloquy / Mark Twain
• Poetry and politics
• III. Realism across the world. Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
• The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy
• Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
• The cane / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• Unclaimed watch / José López Portillo y Rojas
• The cherry orchard ; The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov
• Punishment ; Kabuliwala / Rabindranath Tagore
• Separate ways / Higuchi Ichiyō
• Orature

• Volume F. I. Modernity and modernism, 1900-1945. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
• Death in Venice / Thomas Mann
• Swann's way / Marcel Proust
• The dead / James Joyce
• The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
• Diary of a madman ; Ah Q -- the real story / Lu Xun
• Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello
• In a bamboo grove / Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
• The dancing girl of Izu / Kawabata Yasunari
• from A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
• Barn burning ; Spotted horses / William Faulkner
• Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman ; In defense of "Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman" / Kushi Fusako
• An old and established name / Lao She
• My innocent uncle / Ch'ae Man-Sik
• The garden of forking paths ; The library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges
• The good woman of Setzuan / Bertolt Brecht
• Sealed off / Zhang Ailing
• Modern poetry
• Manifestos
• II. Postwar and postcolonial literature, 1945-1968. House taken over / Julio Cortázar
• This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski
• Deathfugue ; Zurich, at the stork / Paul Celan
• The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing
• Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
• The guest / Albert Camus
• Endgame / Samuel Beckett
• The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov
• The daydreams of a drunk woman / Clarice Lispector
• Chike's school days / Chinua Achebe
• Aura / Carlos Fuentes
• Matryona's home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Zaabalawi / Naguib Mahfouz
• III. Contemporary world literature. Yehuda Amichai
• Derek Walcott
• Seamus Heaney
• Death constant beyond love / Gabriel García Márquez
• Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo
• Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
• Wedding at the cross / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
• Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka
• The deep river / Bessie Head
• In camera / Nawal el Saadawi
• The clever rain tree / Ōe Kenzaburō
• The perforated sheet / Salman Rushdie
• Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
• from Mother's hitching post / Park Wansuh
• The women's swimming pool / Hanan Al-Shaykh
• Recitatif / Toni Morrison
• The old gun / Mo Yan
• On the road at eighteen / Yu Hua
• The general retires / Nguyen Huy Thiep
• And of clay are we created / Isabelle Allende
• Man of La Mancha / Chu T'ien-Hsin
• Drown / Junot Díaz
• Sensini / Roberto Bolaño
• To look out the window / Orhan Pamuk
• The headstrong historian / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

本书对播州土司文化及海龙囤遗址的研究与开 发有着重要的意义, 对申请世界文化遗产也有着不可低估的作用. 本书所载的民间故事即传说主要以播州杨氏土司 为主, 其中又以播州杨氏最后一任土司杨应龙为主. 具体包括: 播州杨氏的传说; 海龙囤的传说; 播州地名的传说; 播州土司其他传说故事; 播州土司传说研究.

• Introduction
• Corey McCall and Nathan Ross
• Part I. Benjamin and Adorno: Literary Themes and Philosophical Debates
• 1. Against the Reification of History: Benjamin and Adorno on Baudelaire
• Corey McCall
• 2. Theatrum Philosophicum: Thinking Literature and Politics with Walter Benjamin
• Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
• 3. Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimesis and The Language of `The New'
• Marcia Morgan
• 4. Abysmal Humanity: Anthropological Materialism in Georg Buchner and Walter Benjamin
• Cat Moir
• Part II. Kafka: `Fairy Tales for Dialecticians'
• 5. Breaking the Mythic Organization of Life: On Literary Form and Political Tendency in Benjamin's Reading of Kafka
• Nathan Ross
• 6. The Virtue or Power of the Useless: Benjamin and Adorno on Kafka
• Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
• 7. Discovering the Truth of Sancho Panza: The Meaning of Comedy in Adorno's and Benjamin's Differing Readings of Don Quixote
• Meanchem Feuer
• Part III. Proust: Recovering Experience
• 8. The Proustian Roots of Adorno's Idea of Social Criticism
• Roger Foster
• 9. Seeing-In, Seeing-Through: Adorno and the Platonism of Proust
• Owen Hulatt
• Part IV: From Hoelderlin to Walser: Poetic Afterlives
• 10. Hoelderlin's Aesthetic Critique of Modernity
• Michael J. Thompson
• 11. Benjamin on Hoelderlin's Poetic Cosmos
• Hyun Hoechsmann
• 12. Wo bist Du Nachdenkliches! Poetic Determinability in Hoelderlin and Walser
• Stephane Symons
• 13. Robert Walser as an Undigested Literary Phenomenon
• Jeffrey A. Bernstein.
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This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but that they developed their philosophies in and through their encounters with literature. Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature is divided into three thematic sections. The first section contains essays that directly demonstrate the ways in which literature enriched the thinking of Benjamin and Adorno. It explores themes that are recognized to be central to their thinking-mimesis, the critique of historical progress, and the loss and recovery of experience-through their readings of literary authors such as Baudelaire, Beckett, and Proust. The second section continues the trajectory of the first by bringing together four essays on Benjamin's and Adorno's reading of Kafka, whose work helped them develop a distinctive critique of and response to capitalism. The third and final section focuses more intently on the question of what it means to gain authentically critical insight into a literary work. The essays examine Benjamin's response to specific figures, including Georg Buchner, Robert Walser, and Julien Green, whose work he sees as neglected, undigested, or misunderstood. This book offers a unique examination of two pivotal 20th-century philosophers through the lens of their shared experiences with literature. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars across philosophy, literature, and German studies.
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"Las Vigilias de Tasso was the first book printed in the state of Michoacan (1827) and is a very rare book; Compagnoni presented the work as a hitherto unknown work of Tasso, but it was his own create. The translator, "Lelardo," was in fact Manuel de la Torre Lloreda. in this fine press edition of Las Vigilias, Juan Pascoe's press (Taller Martin Pescador) had invited scholars Catarina Camastra and Moises Guzman Perez to contribute what are significant essays on Las Vigilias, its true author, its Mexican translator, and the work's printer. The essays on the translator and printer are important additionally for the history of the portable press of the Independence era, the Imprenta del Ejercito Imperial de las Tres Garanitas." --description from the Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company, bookseller.