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Ype de Boer Murakami en het gespleten leven
Haruki Murakami heeft de wereld betoverd met zijn indringende literatuur. Hoe komt het dat zijn verhalen zoveel mensen raken? Alleen omdat ze spannend en goed geschreven zijn, of spreekt de Japanner ook op een dieper niveau aan? Ype de Boer laat zien dat Murakami's verhalen ons iets kunnen leren over een fundamentele gespletenheid in het menselijk bestaan. Deze originele bespreking van Murakami's alledaagse helden, magische figuren en droomachtige sferen nodigt uit om Murakami's fictie op het eigen...
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Nederlands | 204 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
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Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
Non-fictie
Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
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Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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