The ghost of Achilles / by Strongman, Luke

Table of Contents: “…." : the Arabian nights -- "Every life was a spark" : Derek Walcott's Omeros -- "Our faithful guide through all the vicissitudes of climates" : Polynesian navigation -- "A brutal innocence" : Gauguin and primitivism -- "Meet heaven and earth, and here let all things end!" : Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine -- "A dream within a dream" : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and the Satanic verses -- The "history house" : Arundhati Roy's the God of small things -- A "tear on the cheek of time" : the Taj Mahal at Agra -- Epilogue : the citadel.…”
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Machiavellian encounters in Tudor and Stuart England : literary and political influences from the reformation to the restoration /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Introducing Machiavelli in Tudor and Stuart England; 1 Reginald Pole and the Reception ofthe Principe in Henrician England; 2 Stolen Words to Train a Boy King:William Thomas Translates Machiavelli; 3 Machiavelli in The Quintesence of Witand his English Military Readers; 4 Sir Walter Raleigh's Machiavelli; 5 Machiavellianism in ChristopherMarlowe's The Jew of Malta; 6 When Pretence Rules over Essence: Shakespeare's Bastard in King John; 7 Henry V and the Just War: Shakespeare, Gentili and Machiavelli.…”
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