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Despite recent developments in the history of emotions and in comparative studies, sustained cross-cultural comparative studies of the emotions remain few and far between. Jingyi Jenny Zhao has produced the first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the emotions-in particular, of shame. It features comparative analysis of Greek and Chinese texts while bringing the ancient materials to bear on modern controversies such as the role of shame in moral education and social cohesion.Although unalike in their social-historical and intellectual backgrounds, Aristotle and Xunzi bear striking similarities in several respects: they both conceptualize humans as essentially members of communities, as having a unique set of characteristics that set them apart from other living things, and as beings in need of moral training to fulfil their potential and become integrated into a well-ordered society. The two philosophers' discourses on shame reveal important insights into their ideals of human nature, moral education and the good life.This book tackles directly the methodological problems that are relevant to anyone interested in cross-cultural comparisons and organizes discussions of the ancient sources to facilitate a thorough integration of perspectives from the cultural traditions concerned. This approach provides sufficient focus to allow for detailed textual analysis while giving scope for making constant connections to the broader comparative questions at issue.

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The work shows the fascination of topology- and geometry-governed properties of self-rolled micro- and nanoarchitectures. The author provides an in-depth representation of the advanced theoretical and numerical models for analyzing key effects, which underlie engineering of transport, superconducting and optical properties of micro- and nanoarchitectures.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022<BR>A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR>A BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR>A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR><BR>Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes.<BR><BR>It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the wars between Britons, Saxons and Vikings, and closes with the arrival of the Normans.<BR><BR>These are retellings of medieval tales of legend, landscape and the yearning to belong, inhabited with characters now half-remembered: Brutus, Albina, Scota, Arthur and Bladud among them. Told with narrative flair, embellished in stunning artworks and glossed with a rich and erudite commentary. We visit beautiful, sacred places that include prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge and Wayland's Smithy, spanning the length of Britain from the archipelago of Orkney to as far south as Cornwall in a vivid, beautiful tale of our land steeped in myth. <BR><BR>In Storyland, Jeffs reimagines these myths of homeland, exile and migration, kinship, loyalty, betrayal, love and loss in a landscape brimming with wonder.<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR STORYLAND<BR>'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady<BR>'[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior, The Times<BR>'ravishingly lovely' The Times Ireland<BR>'[a] lively retelling of British myths' Apollo Magazine

Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch's vernacular poetry in dialogue with that of other poets, including Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Shakespeare. In the Epilogue, the poet Antonella Anedda Angioy engages with Ossip Mandelstam and Paul Celan's dialogue with Petrarch and extends it into the present.

Until recently, only six of thirteen books comprising Diophantus’ Arithmetica were known to us. Four other books in an Arabic translation have been discovered recently. We can now understand the organization of this work and its long-lasting impact on mathematics. The present book offers the first historical and mathematical study of the work as it has survived in ten books.

Il volume rilegge il rapporto fra identità italiana e letteratura del Risorgimento, analizzando scrittori di fasi cronologiche e tipologie testuali differenziate. Per abbattere l¿idea che il Risorgimento italiano sia una costruzione chiusa e autoreferenziale, tutti gli autori sono stati sottoposti a una griglia di domande che costituiscono i parametri della ricerca. Come si definisce l¿identità italiana? Come contribuisce la letteratura alla realizzazione nazionale concreta? Che rapporto c¿è fra unità e culture locali? Come si colloca l¿identità italiana all¿interno di una rete europea? Il procedimento ha consentito di tracciare una serie di mappe letterarie interculturali del Risorgimento, che mostrano come gli stereotipi eroici dell¿italianità siano in realtà posticci e artificiali.

The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots.During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century.This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in the 1840s by the Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot, who took `dictation' from the performance of a folk singer, in much the same way as our great collections from the past, from Homeric poems to medieval songs and epics, have probably been set down.Published in 1849, it played a central role in the march towards Finnish independence and inspired some of Sibelius's greatest works. This new and exciting translation by poet Keith Bosley, prize-winning translator of the anthology Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic, is the first truly to combine liveliness with accuracy in a way which reflects the richness of the original. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Die Klassiker-Sammlung des Verlages Aschendorff bietet verlässliche einsprachige Textausgaben (keine Übersetzungen!) mit fundierten Kommentaren, die für Schule und Universität geeignet sind. Die Texte basieren auf den bekannten kritischen Ausgaben; im Interesse der Lesbarkeit vorgenommene Änderungen sind kenntlich gemacht. Die Sammlung enthält:Vollständige Ausgaben und Auswahlausgaben der lateinischen bzw. griechischen OriginaltexteTextsammlungen aus verschiedenen Werken eines AutorsTextsammlungen aus Werken verschiedener AutorenKommentare für Schüler bzw. StudentenLehrerkommentare

"DAS heuristische Spitzenwerk der Mittelaltergermanistik, das für alle mediävistischen Disziplinen bis hin zur Medizingeschichte unentbehrlich ist. Das Werk dokumentiert nicht nur weitgehend umfassend den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand innerhalb des definierten Rahmens, es zeigt in den Veränderungen der Artikel zwischen Bd. 1 und Bd. 11 die Präzisierungen in der Forschungs- und Darstellungsmethodik. Daher ist dieses Lexikon auch von hohem fachgeschichtlichem Wert, das heute schon einer Untersuchung würdig wäre - sie wird sicherlich eines Tages erfolgen." Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota "Das grundlegende und umfassende Nachschlagewerk zum Schrifttum des mittelalterlichen deutschen Sprachraums hat die mediävistische Forschung seit Erscheinen des ersten Bandes 1978 nachhaltig beeinflusst, unter anderem durch die obligatorische Einbeziehung und Darstellung der Überlieferungsfakten." Prof. Dr. Kurt Gärtner Das Verfasserlexikon stellt in rund 5000 alphabetisch geordneten Artikeln die gesamte deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters dar. In der Anlage knüpft das Werk an die erste Auflage (1933-1955) an, ist aber breiter angelegt und wird auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand (und diesen nicht selten überholend) von zahlreichen Wissenschaftlern des In- und Auslandes völlig neu erarbeitet. Der Literaturbegriff schließt das gesamte Schrifttum mit Ausnahme von Archivalien ein, also neben der 'schönen' Literatur auch geistliche, juristische, historische, naturwissenschaftliche, medizinische, technische und kaufmännische Gebrauchs- und Gelegenheitstexte. Erfasst werden alle bekannten deutschsprachigen Autoren mit ihren Werken, eine breite Auswahl der lateinisch schreibenden Autoren des deutschen Sprachraums und alle profilierten anonymen Werke. Weniger profilierte deutsche Anonyma werden durch Artikel zu repräsentativen Sammelhandschriften, zur übersetzenden, zitierenden und glossierenden Rezeption bedeutender lateinischer Autoren der Antike und des Mittelalters und in einigen Fällen durch thematische Sammelartikel in großem Umfang einbezogen. Besonderes Gewicht wird in allen Artikeln auf die Darstellung der Überlieferung gelegt.

The "Father of History."<BR><BR>Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he died about 430. He was "the prose correlative of the bard, a narrator of the deeds of real men, and a describer of foreign places" (Murray).<BR><BR> Herodotus' famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians has an epic dignity which enhances his delightful style. It includes the rise of the Persian power and an account of the Persian empire; a description and history of Egypt; and a long digression on the geography and customs of Scythia. Even in the later books on the attacks of the Persians against Greece there are digressions. All is most entertaining and produces a grand unity. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus gives us a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find.<BR><BR> The Loeb Classical Library edition of Herodotus is in four volumes.