In this ground-breaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis." For Girard, people desire objects not for their intrinsic value, but because they...(展开全部)

In this ground-breaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis." For Girard, people desire objects not for their intrinsic value, but because they...(展开全部)

A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In "Verdi's Shakespeare, " Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: "Macbeth, Othello, " and "Falstaff." An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but ad...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 勒内·基拉尔（René Girard，1923—2015），法兰西学院院士，法国当代著名哲学家、人类学家，美国斯坦福大学与杜克大学终身教授，因创立摹仿欲望理论而享有国际盛誉。主要著作有《浪漫的谎言与小说的真实》《莎士比亚：欲望之火》《替罪羊》《暴力与神圣》《欲望几何 学》等。 【译者简介】 唐建清，南京大学文学院退休教师，译有奥威尔《一九八四》、毛姆《在中国屏风上》、纳博科夫《独抒己见》、菲茨杰拉德《夜色温柔》、格罗斯曼《我心深处的文法》、冯内古特《2081：冯内古特短篇小说全集》（合译）、格林布拉特《大转向》、沙甘《现代信仰的诞生》等。

Envy was first published in German in 1966, then in an English translation in 1970. This classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy -- "a drive which lies at the core of man's life as a social being." Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck -- a distinguished sociologist and ant...(展开全部)

Envy was first published in German in 1966, then in an English translation in 1970. This classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy -- "a drive which lies at the core of man's life as a social being." Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck -- a distinguished sociologist and ant...(展开全部)

Envy is almost universally condemned and feared. But is its bad reputation always warranted? In this book, Sara Protasi argues that envy is more multifaceted than it seems, and that some varieties of it can be productive and even virtuous. Protasi brings together empirical evidence and philosophical research to generate a novel view according to which there are four kinds of en...(展开全部)

丹尼尔•J.辛格，《内部战争：从维多利亚到现代主义思维的转变》的作者，是霍巴特和威廉姆史密斯学院的历史学教授。与约翰.谢尔顿合编著了《地方主义和南部:鲁伯特.万斯选文》。

As a scholar, William Hung was instrumental in opening China’s rich documentary past to modern scrutiny. As an educator, he helped shape one of twentieth-century China’s most remarkable institutions, Yenching University. A member of the buoyant, Western-educated generation that expected to transform China into a modern, liberal nation, he saw his hopes darken as political turmo...(展开全部)

丹尼尔•J.辛格，《内部战争：从维多利亚到现代主义思维的转变》的作者，是霍巴特和威廉姆史密斯学院的历史学教授。与约翰.谢尔顿合编著了《地方主义和南部:鲁伯特.万斯选文》。