Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace. In Man and the Sacred, Caillois demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behavior and culture. Drawing on a diverse array of ethnographic contexts, including the sexual rituals of the Ba-Thong of South Africa and evidence drawn from aboriginal Australian, Eskimo, and traditional Chinese social systems, Caillois analyzes the role of the forbidden in the social cohesion of the group. He examines the character of the sacred in the light of specific instances of taboos and transgressions, exploring wide differences in attitudes toward diet and sex and extreme behaviors associated with the sacred, such as rapture and paroxysm. He also discusses the festival--an exuberant explosion following a period of strict repression--and compares its functions with those of modern war. A classic study of one of the most fundamental aspects of human social and spiritual life, Man and the Sacred--presented here in Meyer Barash's superb English translation--is a companion volume to Caillois's Man, Play and Games.

Eight Dramas of Calderón

Pedro Calderón De La Barca

Edward, FitzGerald

Humor & Entertainment

University of Illinois Press

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse, Edward Fitzgerald: The Text of the Fourth Edition, Followed by That of the First; With Notes Showing the ... Persian Original; and a Biographical Preface

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse, Edward Fitzgerald: The Text of the Fourth Edition, Followed by That of the First; With Notes Showing the ... Persian Original; And a Biographical Preface

Omar Khayyám

Michael Kearney

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Omar Khayyám (1048–1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his works. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry. After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others, the verse became extremely popular. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic, Omar Khayyám, through FitzGerald, spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response. As a result, the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. The fifth edition, published posthumously in 1889, was based on FitzGerald's handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition.

The Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám : First and Fifth Editions (Dover Thrift Editions)

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History & Criticism

Dover Publications

- Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Janyce Marson's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations (Hardcover))

Teen & Young Adult

Chelsea House Publications

The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward Fritzgerald, Vol. 6: Including a Complete Bibliography and Interesting Personal and Literary Notes (Classic Reprint)

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from Works of Edward Fitzgerald, Vol. 1 of 2Dward fitzgerald, Whom the world has already learned, in spite of his own efforts to remain Within the shadow of anonymity, to look upon as one of the rarest poets of the century, was born at Bredfield in Suffolk, on the 31st March, 1809. He was the third son of J ohn Purcell, of Kilkenny in Ireland, Who, marryin g Miss Mary Frances Fitzgerald, daughter of J ohn Fitzgerald, of Williamstown, County Water ford, added that distinguished name to his own patro nymic; and the future Omar was thus doubly of Irish extraction. (both the families of Purcell and Fitz gerald claim descent from Norman warriors of the eleventh century.) This circumstance is thought toviii biographical preface.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Works of Edward Fitzgerald, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Graphic Novels

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Jan 04, 2002] Fitzgerald, Edward

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Rupa&Co

Omar Khayyam's Quatrains, in Persian and English. This is a facsimile illuminated manuscript that features the original Persian text in beautiful calligraphy, complete with Fitzgerald's English translation. This edition contains Persian miniature illustrations throughout.

Omar Khayyam's Quatrains, in English and Persian

Pezhoohesh Publishing House

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