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Thomas Mann - T. J. Reed - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Mann - T. J. Reed - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

T.J. Reed''s study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Thomas mann, and offers as comprehensive a view of Mann''s fiction and thought as is available in any language. It is based on a coherent close reading of Mann''s oeuvre, literary and political, and also on manuscripts and sources, and was part of the first phase of literary scholarship that opened up the resources of the Zurich Thomas Mann Archive. Further documents that have appeared since then - Mann''s diaries, notebooks, and other correspondences - have not fundamentally altered the individual interpretations or the overall picture the study offers, and in some respects have emphatically confirmed them. A further chapter added to this edition covers the new documentation, gives a vigorous account of the main curents in Mann scholarship and criticism over the last two decades suggesting how we should now see the writer, the man, and the political figure, and above all the complex relationship between the three.

DKK 699.00
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Death in Venice and Other Stories - Thomas Mann - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Death in Venice and Other Stories - Thomas Mann - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

''impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a range of mythological allusions, through the forbidden love of a middle-aged man for a teenage boy, a theme with roots in Mann''s own emotional experience. In many of his shorter works, Mann uses irony and humour to treat the conflict between sensitive, often artistic souls and the vital, often brutal forces of life. The stories, usually about isolated figures, convey a mixture of humour, sadness, and irony which invites ambivalent responses from readers. This new set of translations by Ritchie Robertson and Nicola Luckhurst is accompanied by explanatory notes and introduction.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.

DKK 112.00
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Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

''Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?''Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative and brilliant, he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Thomas Mann wrote Doctor Faustus (1947) in American exile during and just after the Second World War. A prominent and long-standing defender of democracy, he sought to understand, in cultural and intellectual terms, how Germany had succumbed to Nazism. Mann structures his story through references to the German legend of Faust and his pact with the Devil. The life of the solitary composer, an ultimately tragic figure, is recounted by his friend and biographer, who represents a sadly ineffectual humanism, and whose social activities provide a panorama of middle-class German society in the early twentieth century. Ritchie Robertson''s new English translation is accompanied by detailed annotations and an introduction illuminating the themes of the novel.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.

DKK 132.00
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Edward Thomas: Selected Letters - Edward Thomas - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Edward Thomas: Selected Letters - Edward Thomas - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Edward Thomas, professional author and critic, was thirty-nine when he was killed in the Arras offensive on Easter Day, 1917. Six months later his first collection of poems was published and his literary reputation secured.These Selected Letters present a uniquely vivid portrait of Thomas''s life, from his time as an undergraduate at Oxford through to his final days at the Front. Chosen from more than 2,000 extant letters from Thomas to his family and literary friends - including Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Eleanor Farjeon - the selection traces his struggle to establish himself as a writer, his long and successful fight against depression, and, amid the strain of a marriage which sometimes brought much agony, the strength of his love for his wife Helen. The letters, which formed a key source for R George Thomas''s highly praised biography of a poet, help substantiate the editor''s belief that despite Thomas''s immense prose output and the late flowering of his verse in 1914-1916, it was nevertheless the name and nature of poetry that was Edward Thomas''s dominant lifelong concern.

DKK 712.00
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The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas - Gilles Emery Op - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas - Gilles Emery Op - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A historical and systematic introduction to what the medieval philospher and theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) said about faith in the Trinity. Gilles Emery OP provides an explanation of the main questions in Thomas''s treatise on the Trinity in his major work, the Summa Theologiae. His presentation clarifies the key ideas through which Thomas accounts for the nature of Trinitarian monotheism. Emery focuses on the personal relations of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, both in their eternal communion and in their creative and saving action. By highlighting the thought of one of the greatest defenders of the doctrine of the Trinity, he enables people to grasp the classical Christian understanding of God.

DKK 398.00
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Mann's Magic Mountain - Karolina Watroba - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mann's Magic Mountain - Karolina Watroba - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first study of Thomas Mann''s landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann''s book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the interrelated fields of transnational German studies, global modernism studies, comparative literature, and reception theory: it addresses the global circulation of German modernism, popular afterlives of a canonical work, access to cultural participation, relationship between so-called ''high-brow'' and ''low-brow'' culture, and the limitations of traditional academic reading practices. The study intervenes in these discussions by developing a critical practice termed ''closer reading'' and positioning it within the framework of world literature studies.Mann''s Magic Mountain centres around nine comparative readings of five novels, three films, and one short story conceived as responses to The Magic Mountain. These works provide access to distinct readings of Mann''s text on three levels: they function as records of their authors'' reading of Mann, provide insights into broader culturally and historically specific interpretations of the novel, and feature portrayals of fictional readers of The Magic Mountain. These nine case studies are contextualized, complemented, enhanced, and expanded through references to hundreds of other diverse sources that testify to a lively engagement with The Magic Mountain outside of academic scholarship, including journalistic reviews, discussions on internet fora and blogs, personal essays and memoirs, Mann''s fan mail and his replies to it, publishing advertisements, and marketing brochures from Davos, where the novel is set.

DKK 807.00
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Thomas Szasz - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Szasz - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry, in both scientific and popular periodicals. His works made him arguably one of the world''s most recognized psychiatrists, albeit one of the most controversial. These writings have been translated into several languages and have earned him a worldwide following. Szasz was a man of towering intellect, sweeping historical knowledge, and deep-rooted, mostly libertarian, philosophical beliefs. He wrote with a lucid and acerbic wit, but usually in a way that is accessible to general readers. His books cautioned against the indiscriminate power of psychiatry in courts and in society, and against the apparent rush to medicalize all human folly. They have spawned an eponymous ideology that has influenced, to various degrees, laws relating to mental health in several countries and states.This book critically examines the legacy of Thomas Szasz - a man who challenged the very concept of mental illness and questioned several practices of psychiatrists. The book surveys his many contributions including those in psychoanalysis, which are very often overlooked by his critics. While admiring his seminal contribution to the debate, the book will also point to some of his assertions that merit closer scrutiny. Contributors to the book are drawn from various disciplines, including Psychiatry, Philosophy and Law; and are from various countries including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Some contributors knew Thomas Szasz personally and spent many hours with him discussing issues he raised in his books and articles. The book will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in matters of mental health, human rights, and ethics.

DKK 419.00
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Moon Girl - Thomas Docherty - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Moon Girl - Thomas Docherty - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Leila loves bright colours but finds the shadows a little scary. That''s until she meets Moon Girl.Together they go on a night-time adventure, painting moonlight in the darkness and discoveringthe world after the sun sets. Thomas Docherty''s stunning illustrations light up the night and turn it into a thing of beauty, curiosity,and wonder. From the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Into the Wild.

DKK 106.00
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Thomas Hardy - Michael Millgate - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Hardy - Michael Millgate - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Michael Millgate''s classic biography of the great novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established assumptions have been challenged and revolutionized by scholarly research. In this extensively revised, fully reconsidered, and considerably expanded new edition the world''s leading Hardy scholar draws not only upon these new materials but upon an exceptional understanding of Hardy gained from long immersion in the study of his life and work. Many large and small aspects of Hardy''s life are here freshly illuminated, including his family background, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his difficult relations with his first wife and hers with his family, his sexual infatuations, his secret collaborations with aspiring women writers, his clandestine composition of his own official biography, and the memory-invoking techniques by which he sustained his remarkable creativity into extreme old age. Thorough, authoritative, and eminently readable, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited is now the standard life of Hardy for a new generation.

DKK 419.00
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The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes - Thomas Hobbes - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes - Thomas Hobbes - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

[NB in publicity materials use short description + first few review quotes if short of space]Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although best known for his political theory, he also wrote about theology, metaphysics, physics, optics, mathematics, psychology, and literary criticism. All of these interests are reflected in his correspondence. Some small groups of his letters have been printed in the past (often in inaccurate transcriptions), but this edition is the first complete collection of his correspondence, nearly half of which has never been printed before. All the letters have been transcribed from the original sources, and all materials in Latin, French, and Italian are printed together with translations in clear modern English. The letters are fully annotated, and there are long biographical entries on all of his correspondents, based on extensive original research. These two volumes form one of the most significant and valuable publications of Hobbes scholarship this century, casting a new light on the whole pattern of his intellectual life and personal friendships.

DKK 579.00
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Thomas Wylton - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Wylton - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas Wylton''s Quaestio de anima intellectiva is one of the most significant medieval treatments of the intellectual soul. This edition of the Latin text is accompanied by an en face English translation by Gail Trimble. The detailed introduction guides the reader through the intricacies of the transmission of the text as well as its philosophical contents. Wylton''s Quaestio presents a strong and controversial defence of Averroes'' interpretation of Aristotelian psychology. In his comparison of Averroes'' view with the Catholic doctrine of the human soul, as defined by the Council of Vienne, Wylton highlights the rationality of the Arabic philosopher''s stance and raises strong arguments against the commonly accepted opinion of Catholic thinkers, such as Thomas Aquinas and his followers. Wylton''s Quaestio had a strong influence on his contemporaries and in particular on the most eminent exponent of Latin Averroism, John of Jandun, who included long passages from Wylton''s treatise in his commentary on Aristotle''s On the Soul. Wylton also addresses fundamental philosophical issues: the ontological status of a subsisting form, the existence of universal things as components of individuals, and the possibility of intellectual knowledge of universals as well as singulars. This combination of polemics and engaging philosophical reflection is one of the distinguishing features of Wylton''s text and makes his work of significance to historians, philosophers, and theologians.

DKK 506.00
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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes - Jeffrey R. Collins - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes - Jeffrey R. Collins - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes''s evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes''s accommodation with England''s revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features of Hobbes''s writings, and maintains a contextual focus on the broader religious dynamics of the English Revolution itself. Hobbes and the Revolution are both placed within the tumultuous historical process that saw the emerging English state coercively secure jurisdictional control over national religion and the corporate church. Seen in the light of this history, Thomas Hobbes emerges as a theorist who moved with, rather than against, the revolutionary currents of his age. The strongest claim of the book is that Hobbes was motivated by his deep detestation of clerical power to break with the Stuart cause and to justify the religious policies of England''s post-regicidal masters, including Oliver Cromwell. Methodologically, Professor Collins supplements intellectual or linguistic contextual analysis with original research into Hobbes''s biography, the prosopography of his associates, the reception of Hobbes''s published works, and the nature of the English Revolution as a religious conflict. This multi-dimensional contextual approach produces, among other fruits: a new understanding of the political implications of Leviathan; an original interpretation of Hobbes''s civil war history, Behemoth; a clearer picture of Hobbes''s career during the neglected period of the 1650s; and a revisionist interpretation of Hobbes''s reaction to the emergence of English republicanism. By presenting Thomas Hobbes as a political actor within a precisely defined political context, Professor Collins has recovered the significance of Hobbes''s writings as artefacts of the English Revolution.

DKK 410.00
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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes - Jeffrey R. Collins - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes - Jeffrey R. Collins - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes''s evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes''s accommodation with England''s revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features of Hobbes''s writings, and maintains a contextual focus on the broader religious dynamics of the English Revolution itself. Hobbes and the Revolution are both placed within the tumultuous historical process that saw the emerging English state coercively secure jurisdictional control over national religion and the corporate church. Seen in the light of this history, Thomas Hobbes emerges as a theorist who moved with, rather than against, the revolutionary currents of his age. The strongest claim of the book is that Hobbes was motivated by his deep detestation of clerical power to break with the Stuart cause and to justify the religious policies of England''s post-regicidal masters, including Oliver Cromwell. Methodologically, Professor Collins supplements intellectual or linguistic contextual analysis with original research into Hobbes''s biography, the prosopography of his associates, the reception of Hobbes''s published works, and the nature of the English Revolution as a religious conflict. This multi-dimensional contextual approach produces, among other fruits: a new understanding of the political implications of Leviathan; an original interpretation of Hobbes''s civil war history, Behemoth; a clearer picture of Hobbes''s career during the neglected period of the 1650s; and a revisionist interpretation of Hobbes''s reaction to the emergence of English republicanism. By presenting Thomas Hobbes as a political actor within a precisely defined political context, Professor Collins has recovered the significance of Hobbes''s writings as artefacts of the English Revolution.

DKK 762.00
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