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  1. Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The "Oresteia"
    Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The "Oresteia"
  2. The "Annals" of Tacitus: "Annals" 1.55-81 and "Annals" 2 v. 2 (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentarie
    The "Annals" of Tacitus: "Annals" 1.55-81 and "Annals" 2 v. 2 (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentarie
  3. Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-century English Literature & Thought)
    Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-century English Literature & Thought)
  4. Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
    Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
  5. The Shade of Homer: A Study in Modern Greek Poetry
    The Shade of Homer: A Study in Modern Greek Poetry
  6. The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
    The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
  7. Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words - Approaches to Her Fiction, Poetry and Essays (German Monitor S.)
    Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words - Approaches to Her Fiction, Poetry and Essays (German Monitor S.)
  8. Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
    Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
  9. The Brontes and Religion
    The Brontes and Religion
  10. Eighteenth-century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-century English Literature & Thought)
    Eighteenth-century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-century English Literature & Thought)
  11. Arthur Miller: A Critical Study
    Arthur Miller: A Critical Study
  12. The Fragments (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries)
    The Fragments (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries)
  13. De Raptu Proserpinae (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries)
    De Raptu Proserpinae (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries)
  14. Henry James and the "Woman Business" (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
    Henry James and the "Woman Business" (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
  15. A Tamil Prose Reader
    A Tamil Prose Reader
  16. Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
    Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
  17. The Roman Cultural Revolution
    The Roman Cultural Revolution
  18. Shakespeare's Styles: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Muir
    Shakespeare's Styles: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Muir
  19. Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance
    Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance
  20. Literature on the Move (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft S.)
    Literature on the Move (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft S.)
  21. Cannibalism and the Colonial World (Cultural Margins S.)
    Cannibalism and the Colonial World (Cultural Margins S.)
  22. On the Crown (Cambridge Greek & Latin Classics)
    On the Crown (Cambridge Greek & Latin Classics)
  23. Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy and Theory (Literature, Culture, Theory S.)
    Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy and Theory (Literature, Culture, Theory S.)
  24. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
    The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
  25. Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
    Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
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    		Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
    Peter Brooks
    Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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    1. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
    2. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    ASIN: 0674077245

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    The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks argues that modern narrative is intent on uncovering the body in order to expose a truth that must be written in the flesh. In a book that ranges widely through literature and painting, Brooks shows how the imagination strives to bring the body into language and to write stories on the body.

    From Rousseau, Balzac, Mary Shelley, and Flaubert, to George Eliot, Zola, Henry James, and Marguerite Duras, from Manet and Gauguin to Mapplethorpe, writers and artists have returned in fascination to the body, the inescapable other of the spirit. Brooks's deep understanding of psychoanalysis informs his demonstration of how the "epistemophilic urge"--the desire to know-guides fictional plots and our reading of them.

    It is the sexual body that furnishes the building blocks of symbolization, eventually of language itself-which then takes us away from the body. Yet mind and language need to recover the body, as an other realm that is primary to their very definition. Brooks shows how and why the female body has become the field upon which the aspirations, anxieties, and contradictions of a whole society are played out. And he suggests how writers and artists have found in the woman's body the dynamic principle of their storytelling, its motor force.

    This major book entertains and teaches: Brooks presumes no special knowledge on the part of his readers. His account proceeds chronologically from Rousseau in the eighteenth century forward to contemporary artists and writers. Body Work gives us a set of analytical tools and ideas-primarily from psychoanalysis, narrative and film studies, and feminist theory-that enable us to read modern narrative afresh.

    Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia
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    • A landmark study of one of the greatest works of Western literature
    • This book is out of print for a reason. It is appalling.
    		 Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia
    Simon Goldhill
    Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0521604303

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    This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of interpretation and language, nor is it simply what is generally understood by a literary study, although it often discusses the wider themes of the narrative. It is a close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. In particular, Simon Goldhill focuses on the text’s interests in language and its control, in sexuality and sexual difference, and in the progression and description of events. Dr Goldhill links a sound philological knowledge with material drawn widely from modern literary theory and anthropological studies. The result is a challenging and provocative book, which offers for the serious student of Greek drama an exciting range of insights into one of the most important texts of the ancient world.

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    5 out of 5 stars A landmark study of one of the greatest works of Western literature.......2006-02-19

    Goldhill's study of Aeschylus' Oresteia, arguably one of the world's great masterpieces of dramatic art, was a landmark in its time (1984), and the proof of its durability is the fact that it has been reissued (2004) and remains in print these many years later. It is not an easy read; it aims to get to the heart of the difficult and complex language of Aeschylus and the problems of reading and interpretation through a series of different lenses, including deconstruction and psychoanalysis. But throughout it remains a work of impeccable scholarship and brilliant vision. The previous reviewer was obviously not up to the challenge. Disregard his invidious remarks.

    1 out of 5 stars This book is out of print for a reason. It is appalling........2001-01-06

    Nobody bought this book because it was panned by the acdemic press. It is dire. If you should stumble caross a second-hand copy, do the world a favour. Burn it.

    I will never forgive Goldhill for the hours of my life that I wasted reading this tripe.

    The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France.(Brief Article)(Book Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
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      		The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France.(Brief Article)(Book Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
      John Phillips
      Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association
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      Binding: Digital

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      ASIN: B0008EEONM
      Release Date: 2005-07-31

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      This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 566 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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      Title: The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
      Author: John Phillips
      Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
      Date: October 1, 2003
      Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
      Volume: 98 Issue: 4 Page: 989(990)

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      Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Modern Language Review
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        		Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Modern Language Review
        Richard A. Francis
        Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association
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        Binding: Digital

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        ASIN: B0009FZ1C8
        Release Date: 2005-07-31

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        This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 482 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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        Title: Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
        Author: Richard A. Francis
        Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
        Date: October 1, 2002
        Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
        Volume: 97 Issue: 4 Page: 972(1)

        Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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