Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in the Parallel Lives / by Jacobs, Susan G.

Table of Contents: “…Training the Politikos under Rome -- Plutarch and His Audience -- Plutarch's Concept of the Politikos -- Plutarch's Audience as Politikoi -- Political Careers Open to the Educated Elite -- Conclusion: Implications for Interpreting the Parallel Lives -- Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals -- Advice Literature -- Pragmatic History -- Individual Lives of Statesmen and Generals: Nepos and Plutarch -- Conclusion: Implications for the Purpose of the Parallel Lives -- Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis -- Statesmanship and Generalship in the Prologues -- Statesmanship in the Synkriseis -- Techniques for Reinforcing Pragmatic Lessons Across the Parallel Lives -- Conclusion: Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives as Pragmatic Biography -- Political and Military Leadership -- Pericles-Fabius Maximus -- Introduction -- Life of Pericles -- Life of Fabius Maximus -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Coriolanus-Aleibiades -- Introduction -- Life of Coriolanus -- Life of Alcibiades -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Agesilaus-Pompey -- Introduction -- Life of Agesilaus -- Life of Pompey -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Ruling and Being Ruled -- Aemilius-Timoleon -- Introduction -- Life of Aemilius Paullus -- Life of Timoleon -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Demetrius-Antony -- Introduction -- Life of Demetrius -- Life of Antony -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Phocion-Cato Minor -- Introduction -- Life of Phocion -- Life of Cato Minor -- Insights from Analyzing Differences -- Conclusion -- Plutarch's Project in the Parallel Lives -- Applying the Exempla -- Reception of the Lives as Pragmatic Biography in the Western Classical Tradition -- "Pragmatic Biography" versus "Explorations of Issues of Virtue and Vice."…”

Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives /

Table of Contents: “…2.4 Conclusion: Implications for the Purpose of the Parallel LivesChapter 3 Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis; 3.1 Statesmanship and Generalship in the Prologues; 3.2 Statesmanship in the Synkriseis; 3.3 Techniques for Reinforcing Pragmatic Lessons Across the Parallel Lives; 3.4 Conclusion: Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives as Pragmatic Biography; Part 2 Political and Military Leadership; Chapter 4 Pericles-Fabius Maximus; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Life of Pericles; 4.3 Life of Fabius Maximus; 4.4 Insights from the Synkrisis…”
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Plutarch / by Roskam, Geert

Table of Contents: “…Plutarch's life -- Looking for the truth : Plutarch as an open-minded Platonist -- Learning in abundance : the ramifications of Plutarch's erudition -- The complicated path to virtue : Plutarch's ethical thinking -- History as a matter for philosophy : the Parallel lives -- A close encounter with the Parallel lives : two case studies -- Reason as a mystagogue : Plutarch's view of God.…”

Early modern German literature, 1350-1700 /

Table of Contents: “…Flood -- Parallel lives : Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Bucer / Laurel Carrington -- Parallel lives : Martin Opitz and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref / Theodor Verweyen -- Parallel lives : Sigmund von Birken and Duke Anton Ulrich / John Roger Paas -- Women's writing in the context of their lives, 1520-1720 / Anna Carrdus.…”
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Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / by Walkden, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…The Life in Miniature: John Aubrey and the Art of Abbreviation -- 4. Parallel Lives: Crusoe, Clarendon, and Defoe's Cavalier.…”
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The sensuous cinema of Wong Kar-wai : film poetics and the aesthetic of disturbance / by Bettinson, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Wong Kar-wai and the poetics of Hong Kong cinema -- Romantic overtures : music in Chungking express -- Partial views : visual style and the aesthetic of disturbance -- Parallel lives : poetics of the postproduction plot -- Frustrating formulas : popular genre and In the mood for love -- Appropriations, reflections, and future directions.…”
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The sensuous cinema of Wong Kar-wai : film poetics and the aesthetic of disturbance / by Bettinson, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Wong Kar-wai and the poetics of Hong Kong cinema -- Romantic overtures : music in Chungking express -- Partial views : visual style and the aesthetic of disturbance -- Parallel lives : poetics of the postproduction plot -- Frustrating formulas : popular genre and In the mood for love -- Appropriations, reflections, and future directions.…”
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Why literary periods mattered : historical contrast and the prestige of English studies / by Underwood, Ted

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : historical contrast and the prestige of literary culture -- Historical unconsciousness in the novel, 1790-1819 -- The invention of historical perspective -- The invention of the period survey course -- The disciplinary rationale for periodization, and a forgotten challenge to it (1886-1949) -- Stories of parallel lives and the status anxieties of historicism in the 1990s -- Digital humanities and the future of literary history.…”
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The art of biography in Antiquity / by Hägg, Tomas

Table of Contents: “…Plutarch and his Parallel Lives: ethical biography -- 7. Ways of life: philosophers and holy men -- Epilogue on ancient and Christian biography.…”
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Reading Dickens differently /

Table of Contents: “…Dickens's burial in Westminster Abbey : the untold story / Leon Litvack -- A tale of two brothers : reading differently Dickens's French Revolution / Lillian Nayder -- Parallel lives, converging destinies : Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay / David Paroissien -- Decent restraint spurned : Dickens, penal policy and conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846-1850 / Neil Davie -- A somatic experience of Dickens's fiction / Georges Letissier -- Dickens and Lawrence : mimicry, totemism, animism / Michael Hollington -- Wreckage and ruin : Turner, Dickens, Ruskin / Jeremy Tambling -- Boz without Phiz : reading Dickens with different illustrations / Chris Louttit -- Speculation and silence : reading Dickens by instalment in time, at the time and for our time / Pete Orford -- Dickens touches the sky : urban exploration and London's greatest author / Gillian Piggott -- Dickens as icon and antonomasia in Assassin's creed : syndicate / Francesca Orestano -- From movable book to iPad app : playing A Christmas Carol / Claire Wood.…”

Marina Warner and the ethics of telling silenced stories / by Propst, Lisa Gena, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Stories of Silencing and the Dangers of Appropriation -- 1 Writing across Cultures: Multiple Viewpoints and Openness to Uncertainty in Warners's Early Life and Vietnam Journalism -- 2 Role Models and Parallel Lives: Identification and Imagination in In a Dark Wood, The Skating Party, and The Lost Father -- 3 Unsettling Stories: Disruptions of Empathy in Indigo and The Leto Bundle -- 4 Hearing the Unsaid: An Ethics of Bearing Witness in Warner's Short Fiction -- 5 Nervous Histories: Resistance to Scholarly Mastery in Warner's Studies of Myths and Fairy Tales -- Coda: The Power and Limits of Narrative -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index…”
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The emergence of early Yiddish literature : cultural translation in Ashkenaz / by Frakes, Jerold C.

Table of Contents: “…(Non- )intersecting parallel lives : Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto -- 4. …”
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Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky : fellowship of poets / by Grudzińska-Gross, Irena

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Judaism and Hellenism reconsidered / by Feldman, Louis H.

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Studies in the Ancient Jewish Mediterranean Diaspora -- Part Two: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, Conversion to Judaism -- Chapter 7: Hatred for and Attraction to the Jews in Classical Antiquity -- Chapter 8: Reflections on Rutgers' Attitudes to Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period -- Chapter 9: Conversion to Judaism in Classical Antiquity -- Part Three: Studies in Philo -- Chapter 10: Philo's Version of the 'Aqedah -- Chapter 11: Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus, and Theodotus on the Rape of Dinah -- Part Four: Josephus -- Chapter 12: Josephus -- Chapter 13: Josephus' Liberties in Interpreting the Bible in the Jewish War and in the Antiquities -- Chapter 14: Rearrangement of Pentateuchal Material in Josephus' Antiquities, Books 1-4 -- Chapter 15: The Influence of the Greek Tragedians on Josephus -- Chapter 16: Josephus' Biblical Paraphrase as a Commentary on Contemporary Issues -- Chapter 17: Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers : Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus -- Chapter 18: Josephus on the Spies (Numbers 13-14) -- Chapter 19: The Rehabilitation of Non-Jewish Leaders in Josephus' Antiquities -- Chapter 20: On Professor Mark Roncace's Portraits of Deborah and Gideon in Josephus -- Chapter 21: Josephus' Portrayal (Ant. 5.136-74) of the Benjaminite Affair of the Concubine and its Repercussions (Judges 19-21) -- Chapter 22: The Importance of Jerusalem as Viewed by Josephus -- Chapter 23: The Concept of Exile in Josephus -- Chapter 24: Restoration in Josephus -- Part Five: Rabbinic Insights -- Chapter 25: Rabbinic Sources for Historical Study -- Chapter 26: Rabbinic Insights on the Decline and Forthcoming Fall of the Roman Empire -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages from Ancient Texts -- Jewish Scriptures -- Apocrypha -- Pseudepigrapha -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- New Testament -- Christian Church Fathers -- Hellenistic Jewish Literature: Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus -- Other (Alleged) Graeco-Jewish Writers -- Rabbinic and Allied Literature -- Classical Greek Authors -- Classical Latin Authors -- Near Eastern Languages -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Greek, Linear B, Phoenician, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Punic and Royal Aramaic, Hittite, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic Words -- Index of Modern Scholars.…”
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Grasmere 2013 : Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference at Rydal Hall /

Table of Contents: “…s use of Plutarchâ€?s Parallel Lives in The Excursion ""; ""Simon Swift : Wordsworth and Charles Le Brun ""; ""Rowan Boyson : Wordsworthâ€?…”
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Reading Dickens differently /

Table of Contents: “…Dickens's burial in Westminster Abbey : the untold story / Leon Litvack -- A tale of two brothers : reading differently Dickens's French Revolution / Lillian Nayder -- Parallel lives, converging destinies : Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay / David Paroissien -- Decent restraint spurned : Dickens, penal policy and conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846-1850 / Neil Davie -- A somatic experience of Dickens's fiction / Georges Letissier -- Dickens and Lawrence : mimicry, totemism, animism / Michael Hollington -- Wreckage and ruin : Turner, Dickens, Ruskin / Jeremy Tambling -- Boz without Phiz : reading Dickens with different illustrations / Chris Louttit -- Speculation and silence : reading Dickens by instalment in time, at the time and for our time / Pete Orford -- Dickens touches the sky : urban exploration and London's greatest author / Gillian Piggott -- Dickens as icon and antonomasia in Assassin's creed : syndicate / Francesca Orestano -- From movable book to iPad app : playing A Christmas Carol / Claire Wood.…”
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Stravinsky and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Fay, Alexandra Grabarchuk, and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky's Russian library / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti -- The futility of exhortation: pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus / Gretchen Horlacher -- Symphonies and Funeral games: Lourié's critique of Stravinsky's neoclassicism / Klára Móricz -- Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and neo-Thomist responses to the crisis of art / introduction and notes by Klára Móricz ; translation by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Yasha Klots, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, and Boris Wolfson -- Igor the Angeleno: the Mexican connection / Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky speaks to the Spanish-speaking world / introduction by Leonora Saavedra ; interviews translated by Mariel Fiori in collaboration with Tamara Levitz ; document notes by Tamara Levitz -- The Poétique musicale: a counterpoint in three voices / Valérie Dufour ; translated by Bridget Behrmann and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky : the view from Russia / Svetlana Savenko ; translated by Philipp Penka -- Stravinsky's cold war: letters about the composer's return to Russia, 1960-1963 / letters translated by Philipp Penka with Alexandra Grabarchuk ; introduction, commentary, and notes by Tamara Levitz -- "The precision of poetry and the exactness of pure science": The parallel lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky / Leon Botstein.…”
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Stravinsky and his world /

Table of Contents: “…Fay, Alexandra Grabarchuk, and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky's Russian library / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti -- The futility of exhortation: pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus / Gretchen Horlacher -- Symphonies and Funeral games: Lourié's critique of Stravinsky's neoclassicism / Klára Móricz -- Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and neo-Thomist responses to the crisis of art / introduction and notes by Klára Móricz ; translation by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Yasha Klots, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, and Boris Wolfson -- Igor the Angeleno: the Mexican connection / Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky speaks to the Spanish-speaking world / introduction by Leonora Saavedra ; interviews translated by Mariel Fiori in collaboration with Tamara Levitz ; document notes by Tamara Levitz -- The Poétique musicale: a counterpoint in three voices / Valérie Dufour ; translated by Bridget Behrmann and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky : the view from Russia / Svetlana Savenko ; translated by Philipp Penka -- Stravinsky's cold war: letters about the composer's return to Russia, 1960-1963 / letters translated by Philipp Penka with Alexandra Grabarchuk ; introduction, commentary, and notes by Tamara Levitz -- "The precision of poetry and the exactness of pure science": The parallel lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky / Leon Botstein.…”
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Tolkien studies.

Table of Contents: “…West: A Checklist""; ""Books""; ""Tolkien-Related Critical Articles and Reviews""; ""Selected Other Criticism""; ""Editor""; ""Parallel Lives""; ""1. The Nature of the Problem""; ""2. …”
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Revolution for the screen : Abel Gance's Napoleon / by Cuff, Paul

Table of Contents: “…A view from the margins of history -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Oblivion and remembrance -- 6.3 Parallel lives -- 6.4 Documentation and survival -- 6.5 Forlorn recognition -- 6.6 Summary -- 7. …”
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