This book is the first comprehensive study of an important monument of twelfth-century Chinese art, the imperially sponsored set of handscrolls transcribing and illustrating the poems in the ancient anthology known as the Book of Odes (Shijing), long canonized as a "Confucian classic." The project is reconstructed and analyzed as the centerpiece of Southern Song emperor Gaozong...(展开全部)

This book is the first comprehensive study of an important monument of twelfth-century Chinese art, the imperially sponsored set of handscrolls transcribing and illustrating the poems in the ancient anthology known as the Book of Odes (Shijing), long canonized as a "Confucian classic." The project is reconstructed and analyzed as the centerpiece of Southern Song emperor Gaozong...(展开全部)

Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions ...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 美国文学评论界的领军人物——海伦·文德勒(Helen Vendler，1933—2024)。文德勒被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。她于1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟·金斯利·波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”,被誉为“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了代表美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。2024年4月23日，在加利福尼亚州拉古纳尼格尔的家中去世，享年90岁。 ◎译者简介 许淑芳，浙江传媒学院文学院教授，博士毕业于浙江大学人文学院，主要从事外国文学翻译和研究工作，译有加里·斯奈德《...(展开全部)

Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions ...(展开全部)

A bible of contemporary illustration, this is a comprehensive survey of new and exciting work from across the globe that will appeal to experts and newcomers alike. Compiled by award-winning designer Angus Hyland, The Picture Book presents a broad spectrum of styles, techniques and subject matter representative of current trends and innovations to create a stunning compendium o...(展开全部)

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting