The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：A towering figure in American culture and a globaltwentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre ofAmerican life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to BobDylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan'screative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's outputthematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and hisengagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame,and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part IIanalyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry ofDylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan hascourageously chronicled and interpreted many of the culturalupheavals in America since World War II. This book will beinvaluable both as a guide for students of Dylan andtwentieth-century culture, and for his fans, providing a set of newperspectives on a much-loved writer and composer.

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of themost important writers of the twentieth century. This book providesbiographical and contextual information, but more fundamentally, italso considers how we might think about an enduringly difficult andexperimental novelist and playwright who often challenges the veryconcepts of meaning and interpretation. It deals with his life,intellectual and cultural background, plays, prose, and criticalresponse and relates Beckett's work and vision to the culture andcontext from which he wrote. McDonald provides a sustained analysisof the major plays, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and HappyDays and his major prose works including Murphy, Watt and hisfamous 'trilogy' of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable).This introduction concludes by mapping the huge terrain ofcriticism Beckett's work has prompted, and it explains the turn inrecent years to understanding Beckett within his historicalcontext.

The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people,the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as otherscriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition ofinterpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts tointroduce the Qur'an and its intellectual heritage toEnglish-speaking audiences have been hampered by the lack ofavailable resources. The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an seeks toremedy that situation. In a discerning summation of the field, JaneMcAuliffe brings together an international team of scholars toexplain its complexities. Comprising fourteen chapters, eachdevoted to a topic of central importance, the book is rich inhistorical, linguistic and literary detail, while also reflectingthe influence of other disciplines. For both the university studentand the general reader, The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'anprovides a fascinating entrée to a text that has shaped the livesof millions for centuries.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversyfor the best part of a century. Her novels – challenging, moving,and always deeply intelligent – remain as popular with readers asthey are with students and academics. The highly successfulCambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of newdepartures in scholarship since it first appeared. The secondedition includes new chapters on race, nation and empire,sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. Theremaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, haveall been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolfremains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work,with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritativeinformation about secondary sources.

The Cambridge Companion to Piaget

作者：  Leslie Smith 著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was listed among the 100 most importantpersons in the twentieth century by Time magazine, and his work -with its distinctive account of human development - has had atremendous influence on a range of disciplines from philosophy toeducation, and notably in developmental psychology. The CambridgeCompanion to Piaget provides a comprehensive introduction todifferent aspects of Piaget"s work in a manner that does not eschewengagement with the complexities of subjects or debates yet isaccessible to upper-level undergraduate students. Each chapter is aspecially commissioned essay written by an expert on the subjectmatter. Thus, the book will also be of interest to academicpsychologists, educational psychologists, and philosophers.

The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) obtained papal approval in 1540for a new international religious order called the Society ofJesus. Until the mid-1700s the 'Jesuits' were active in many partsof Europe and far beyond. Gaining both friends and enemies inresponse to their work as teachers, scholars, writers, preachers,missionaries and spiritual directors, the Jesuits were formallysuppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and restored by Pope PiusVII in 1814. The Society of Jesus then grew until the 1960s; it hasmore recently experienced declining membership in Europe and NorthAmerica, but expansion in other parts of the world. This Companionexamines the religious and cultural significance of the Jesuits.The first four sections treat the period prior to the Suppression,while section five examines the Suppression and some of thechallenges and opportunities of the restored Society of Jesus up tothe present.

The Cambridge Companion to Byron

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the worldfor two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction betweenhis art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attractedso many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted tothe historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life andtimes, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminentByron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity ofByron's writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron's interestin the East, his relationship to the publishing world, hisattitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-centuryliterature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. ThisCompanion provides an invaluable resource for students andscholars, including a chronology and a guide to furtherreading.

The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass

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出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-11-1

简介：Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become abest-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionistmovement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a uniquevoice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenthcentury, and remains an important figure in the fight againstracial injustice. This Companion, designed for students of Americanhistory and literature, includes essays from prominent scholarsworking in a range of disciplines. Key topics in Douglass studies -his abolitionist work, oratory, and autobiographical writings – arecovered in depth, and new perspectives on religion, jurisprudence,the Civil War, romanticism, sentimentality, the Black press, andtransatlanticism are offered. Accessible in style, and representingnew approaches in literary and African-American studies, this bookis both a lucid introduction and a contribution to existingscholarship.