This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

"Unreservedly recommended, sums up in simple language Adler's experience of children." --eacher's World

"Unreservedly recommended, sums up in simple language Adler's experience of children." --eacher's World

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society -- and of the French Revolution, in particular -- to define the relationship between beauty and art.

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society -- and of the French Revolution, in particular -- to define the relationship between beauty and art.

作者简介：阿尔伯特・贝茨・洛德（Albert Baters Lord，1912-1991），美国哈佛大学教授，文学教育家，南斯拉夫史诗和“口头文学”领域的著名学者。“帕里-洛德口头理论”（the Parry-Lord Oral Theory）的创立者之一。1959年起任哈佛大学“帕里口头文学资料馆”名誉馆长。主要著述有：《塞尔维亚-克罗地亚民歌》（1951年，与贝拉・巴尔托克合编），《塞尔维亚-克罗地亚英雄歌》（第1、2卷1952-54年出版，与拜纳姆合编；第3、4卷1975年出版），《塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语初步》（1958年）、《故事的歌手》（1960年第1版，2000年第2版），《保加利亚语初步》（1962年，与拜纳姆合编），《保加利亚文学读本》（1968年），《史诗歌手与口头传统》（1991年）。其中《故事的歌手》充分代表了洛德的学术思想和独特贡...(展开全部)

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes in impressive detail the techniques of oral composition in performance. He explores t...(展开全部)

Bruno Cadogan, a doctoral student in Spanish Literature at New York University, is making little progress on his dissertation, a study of Jorge Luis Borges's essays on the tango. As he wanders through the Village, a chance encounter with a specialist in Latin American culture launches him in a new direction: she suggests that he go to Buenos Aires in pursuit of the elusive tang...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." —The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim for cons...(展开全部)