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Bits And Pieces III (Connected Mathematics 2)

Children's Books

FitzGerald, William

Philips, Elizabeth

Lappan, Glenda

Fey, James

Friel, Susan

Education & Reference

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Kaleidoscope Hubcaps And Mirrors: Symmetry And Transformations (Connected Mathematics)

Teen & Young Adult

Phillips, Elizabeth Difanis

The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different media and periods, focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the aftermath of Winckelmann's writing, John Flaxman's engraved scenes from the Iliad and the sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen reinterpreted ancient prototypes or invented new ones. Earlier and later versions of this aesthetic in the ancient Greek Anacreontea, the French Parnassian poets and Erik Satie's Socrate, manifest its character in different media and periods. Looking with a sympathetic eye on the original aspirations of the neoclassical aesthetic and its forward-looking potential, Fitzgerald describes how it can tip over into the vacancy or kitsch through which a 'remaindered' antiquity lingers in our minds and environments. This book asks how the neoclassical value of simplicity serves to conjure up an epiphanic antiquity, and how whiteness, in both its literal and its metaphorical forms, acts as the 'logo' of neoclassical antiquity, and functions aesthetically in a variety of media. In the context of the waning of a neoclassically idealized antiquity, Fitzgerald describes the new contents produced by its asymptotic approach to meaninglessness, and how the antiquity that it imagined both is and is not with us.

The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical Aesthetics (Classical Presences)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression and thought. Moving between close analysis of particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets, literature, and society, Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an insider's view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth reading, even today. His book explores what can be said and done in a poetry and a language that are both very different from English and yet have profoundly influenced it. He takes the reader through the whole range of Latin poetry from the trivial, obscene, and vicious, to the sublime, the passionate, and the uplifting. Individual chapters focus on particular authors (such as Vergil and Horace) or on themes (love, hate, civil war), and together they explain why we should care about what the poets of ancient Rome had to say. If you have ever wondered what all the fuss was about, see for yourselves!

How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression and thought. Moving between close analysis of particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets, literature, and society, Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an insider's view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth reading, even today. His book explores what can be said and done in a poetry and a language that are both very different from English and yet have profoundly influenced it. He takes the reader through the whole range of Latin poetry from the trivial, obscene, and vicious, to the sublime, the passionate, and the uplifting. Individual chapters focus on particular authors (such as Vergil and Horace) or on themes (love, hate, civil war), and together they explain why we should care about what the poets of ancient Rome had to say. If you have ever wondered what all the fuss was about, see for yourselves!

Martial: The World of the Epigram

In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman poet’s world—and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late first century CE—when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social life of the Roman elite—Martial published his poems in a series of books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in both Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s study will delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates an ingenious witticism.

University of Chicago Press

Review\n"Despite the wealth of intriguingly enigmatic material to ponder in Martial's corpus, until quite recently it has been the subject of only a modest amount of critical work. This volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Fitzgerald and the University of Chicago Press are to be congratulated for this title, which is now the standard English-language general introduction to Rome's imperial epigrammatist par excellence. Beautifully produced and edited, and including a valuable guide (in the works cited) to scholarship in the field . . . the book is a joy to read. . . . Essential." ― Choice\n"Far from being a poet of mere 'inscriptions' or epigrams, Fitzgerald persuasively points to the ways in which present-day readers can discover a world in [Martial's] verse." 
-- Sean Nalty ― Virginia Quarterly Review\n"[Fitzgerald] gives us what Martial may have meant, or intended in the Rome in which he lived. This book is well worth the time to read to a wide range of readers." -- Bruce Swann ― Bryn Mawr Classical Review\n"[Fitzgerald's] monograph is unique for the way in which it balances close readings of individual poems with larger analyses of Martial's semiotics of structure and for its ability to see the interweaving of the poems and their 'world' as a dynamic two-way process that brings together historical, socio-political, and cultural questions. . . . The social and historical reality of the city is convincingly presented as an analogue to the poetry." -- Ilaria Marchesi ― Bryn Mawr Classical Review\n“A polished piece of confident literary criticism in the best and broadest sense of the term, this book will significantly impact the way people read Martial. Fitzgerald regularly takes the best ideas of his predecessors and pushes them still further, at the same time providing a much-needed synthesis of Martial scholarship. The writing is lucid and smart, and hardly a page goes by without a notable observation or insight.” -- Erik Gunderson, author of Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority\n“Fitzgerald’s immensely pleasurable book makes sense of Martial’s body of work in a way that no previous scholarship has done. Fitzgerald has found and explored aspects of the epigram that enable a rich and complex reading of these apparently off-the-cuff little poems. Not only are his readings highly suggestive, but he often manages to tie these insightful literary interpretations to the social, economic, and political phenomena of the day. In analyzing the poems he has selected, Fitzgerald ultimately provides us with a model of how to read other epigrams on our own.” 
-- Shadi Bartsch, author of The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and\nIn this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman poet’s world—and how it might speak to our own.\nWriting in the late first century CE—when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social life of the Roman elite—Martial published his poems in a series of books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in both Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s study will delight classicists, literary scholars, a

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature and its reception and reveals the enduring importance of the concept up to the present day. William Fitzgerald looks at the definition and use of the Latin term varietas and how it has played out in different works and with different authors. He shows that, starting with the Romans, variety has played a key role in our thinking about nature, rhetoric, creativity, pleasure, aesthetics, and empire. From the lyric to elegy and satire, the concept of variety has helped to characterize and distinguish different genres. Arguing that the ancient Roman ideas and controversies about the value of variety have had a significant afterlife up to our own time, Fitzgerald reveals how modern understandings of diversity and choice derive from what is ultimately an ancient concept.

Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept

Humor & Satire

Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance

A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and attitudes, to advance an understanding of prayer as a basic expression of our rhetorical capacities for communication and communion. This groundbreaking analysis demonstrates how prayer draws on fundamental capacities to engage other beings rhetorically to argue that we are never more human than when we address the nonhuman. Spiritual Modalities is notable in its aim to articulate a critical rhetoric of prayer in a secular idiom. It draws on contributions to rhetorical theory from Kenneth Burke along with a broad range of classical and contemporary perspectives on audience, address, speech acts, and modes of performance. The book also takes a multicultural and multimodal approach to prayer as rhetorical performance. The texts and practices of prayer represented range across religious traditions and historical eras and include both verbal and physical modes of divine address. The book will be of interest to scholars researching religious language, Burkean approaches to discourse, practices of memory, and media studies.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penn State University Press

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Bits And Pieces III (Connected Mathematics 2)

Kaleidoscope Hubcaps And Mirrors: Symmetry And Transformations (Connected Mathematics)

The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical Aesthetics (Classical Presences)

How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet

How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet

Martial: The World of the Epigram

Martial: The World of the Epigram

Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept

Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance

Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance