In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature

In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient LiteratureThe idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world. The volume at hand, entitled In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature, explores pastness as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questions in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. The

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Roger Sale examines three very different writers: an impassioned novelist

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The study then situates Sachs’ work within the framework of the debate surrounding the representation of the Holocaust by means of a thorough exposition of the aporia at the heart of Theodor Adorno’s writings on post-Holocaust art

zunehmend auch die Spannungen zwischen Religion und nachaufklärerischer Säkularität

ranges beyond his city

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which in conjunction with Dummett’s own highly original ideas on truth and meaning have shaped decisive contemporary debates concerning notably the distinction between realism and anti-realism

in denen Leitunterscheidungen der sozialen und kulturellen Ordnung verunklart wurden

it tells the story of an unnamed man who arrives in a small town only to find himself involved in a mystery with existential implications (The Washington Post)

Hughes connects extensive scholarship on the “Indian” in American culture to the theatrical history of racial impersonation and critiques of settler colonialism