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• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 20 October 2005

Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 October 2005

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets,

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 34,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 May 2024

Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 1 kapitel eller op til 5% af teksten.

• Publisher : Crown
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 February 2017

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and

• Publisher : Central European University Press
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 February 2018

As conventional understanding would have it, the sometimes brutal business of governing can only be carried out at the price of distance from art, while poetic beauty best fl ourishes

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 May 1991

On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue, Hiero or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny.

• Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 March 2010

Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 25 January 2018

This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations.

• Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2021

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 January 2018

This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations.