The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche : The first complete and authorized English translation /

Ms. notes in margins throughout volume and on 3 blank pages at end.

A supplement to the plays of William Shakspeare : comprising the seven dramas, which have been ascribed to his pen, but which are not included with his writings in modern editions /

All the engravings are signed by Anderson.

The comedies, histories, and tragedies of Mr. William Shakespeare as presented at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres, circa 1591-1623 : being the text furnished the players, in parallel pages with the first revised folio text, with critical introductions : the Bankside Shakespeare /

"Five hundred copies only"--V. 1, p. [43].

The poetical works of Robert Browning ...

Reprinted from the 1868 edition. Pref., V.1, dated Dec. 25. 1867

Euripides: Herakles.

Includes bibliographical references.

Pentalogia, sive, Tragoediarum Graecarum delectus /

"Pentalogia" in Greek character.

Famous books : sketches in the highways and byeways of English literature.

"References to the leading authorities consulted in this work will be found in the index on p. 373-384."

Melloney Holtspur /

A play.

The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.

Editors: v. 1, Arnold Glover; v. 2, Arnold Glover and A. R. Waller; v. 3-10, A. R. Waller.

The works of John Marston /

Includes index.

Storia e tragedia. P. Oxy. XXIII 2382: edizione critica e commento

Il lavoro consta di un’introduzione dedicata in primis alla presentazione formale di P. Oxy. XXIII 2382, di cui sono posti in evidenza i legami strutturali e concettuali con il racconto di Hdt. I 8-12. Segue dunque la trattazione dei problemi posti da P. Oxy. 2382, quello del genere letterario di appartenenza (tragedia o novella in versi?) e quello della datazione (età classica o età ellenistica?), finalizzata ad una puntuale definizione dello status quaestionis. Le conclusioni mettono in luce gli elementi a favore dell’ipotesi tragica: la presenza di paragraphoi e il passo di Ach. Tat. I 8 4-7 (corredato da un’appendice relativa alla storia del termine δρᾶμα: se e quando tale termine assume l’accezione di ‘narrazione romanzesca’?), nonché il soggetto storico (con un excursus relativo ai drammi di argomento storico). Si evidenziano infine gli elementi di debolezza contenuti nelle ipotesi avanzate da Cantarella (1952) e Lloyd-Jones (1953), propensi a ritenere P. Oxy. 2382 rispettivamente una novella in versi (il che offre lo spunto per una breve trattazione relativa alle caratteristiche contenutistiche e formali delle novelle milesie) e un giambo archilocheo, di cui il fr. 19 W.2 conserverebbe l’incipit. Quanto alla cronologia, sono enumerati i limiti della datazione alta, nonché gli elementi di affinità di P. Oxy. 2382 con la tragedia ellenistica; infine, pensando ad una possibile attribuzione, si propone, in termini puramente ipotetici, il confronto con l’esperienza della Pleiade alessandrina. Segue dunque un’analisi (laddove le condizioni dei testi, spesso frammentarie, lo consentano) dell’opera di Licofrone di Calcide, Sositeo e Sosifane di Siracusa, esponenti della Pleiade, nonché di Moschione ed Ezechiele, volta ad individuare elementi di continuità con P. Oxy. 2382. Il lavoro si conclude con l’edizione critica e il commento verso per verso di P. Oxy. XXIII 2382, corredati da un’appendice dedicata a P. Oxy. XLIV 3161, testo con notazioni musicali apparentemente affine a P. Oxy. XXIII 2382, costituito da 4 frr. notevolmente accidentati, di cui si fornisce l’edizione critica.

O Judaísmo Encalacrado: mística e religião em A Hora da Estrela, de Clarice Lispector

O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de demonstrar a importância e pertinência do diálogo entre literatura e religião, concentrando o âmbito de sua pesquisa a partir das relações entre a escritura de Clarice Lispector e as ressonâncias de uma tradição (judaísmo), que embora não tenha sido assumida pela autora, persiste, encalacrada em toda a sua obra. Tendo, como objeto de pesquisa o romance A Hora da Estrela, esta dissertação procurou entender como o drama da narrativa, em seu jogo de tensões e identidades, em sua pluralidade de títulos e referências, sinaliza também um profundo problema com a religião. Focando, de forma especial a personagem Macabéa, este estudo procurou compreender como as referencias da personagem, sua dificuldade com as palavras, seus desencontros do outro (tu) e sua rejeição social, revelam um grave problema de ordem teológica, demonstrando os equívocos de uma sociedade, que fundada sobre o prisma da religião, massacra os mais fracos. O desfecho do livro sinaliza uma possível epifania, mas, desvela-se num fracasso da religião e de seu poder salvífico. O trabalho procurou a partir dos principais temas do romance, perceber suas correspondências com o tema da religião. Pode com isso, a partir das contribuições de Scholem, ver como dilema existencial e subjetivo da personagem possui proximidade com o drama místico cabalístico, além disso, perceber as correlações entre a obra clariceana e textos da tradição judaíca, quer na sua referência explícita (nome da personagem), como também, em seu aspecto de busca, em sua forma de midrash e nas inúmeras exegeses e comentários que propicia. Finaliza seu esforço, levantando uma discussão ética sobre os valores teológicos da sociedade e seus profundos equívocos, ante a vida e morte da pobre Macabéa, uma mulher que viveu a religião nos limites da própria existência.

Introduction

Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-95) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting new translations and opening up his work to a larger audience. Collected here are three of his plays - "Philoctetes", "The Horatian", and "Mauser" - that together constitute what Muller called an "experimental series," which both develops and critiques Brecht's theory of the Lehrstuck, or "learning play." Based on a tragedy by Sophocles, Philoctetes dramatizes the confrontation between politics, morality, and the desire for revenge. The Horatian uses an incident from ancient Rome as an example of ways of approaching the moral ambiguity of the past. Finally, Mauser, set during the Russian civil war, examines the nature and ethics of revolutionary violence. The plays are accompanied by supporting materials written by Muller himself, as well as an introduction by Uwe Schutte that contextualizes the plays and speaks of their continued relevance today.

Elementary units of cortical activity? The rise and fall of the cortical column

The roots of the concept of cortical columns stretch far back into the history of neuroscience. The impulse to compartmentalise the cortex into functional units can be seen at work in the phrenology of the beginning of the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the next century Korbinian Brodmann and several others published treatises on cortical architectonics. Later, in the middle of that century, Lorente de No writes of chains of ‘reverberatory’ neurons orthogonal to the pial surface of the cortex and called them ‘elementary units of cortical activity’. This is the first hint that a columnar organisation might exist. With the advent of microelectrode recording first Vernon Mountcastle (1957) and then David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel provided evidence consistent with the idea that columns might constitute units of physiological activity. This idea was backed up in the 1970s by clever histochemical techniques and culminated in Hubel and Wiesel’s well-known ‘ice-cube’ model of the cortex and Szentogathai’s brilliant iconography. The cortical column can thus be seen as the terminus ad quem of several great lines of neuroscientific research: currents originating in phrenology and passing through cytoarchitectonics; currents originating in neurocytology and passing through Lorente de No. Famously, Huxley noted the tragedy of a beautiful hypothesis destroyed by an ugly fact. Famously, too, human visual perception is orientated toward seeing edges and demarcations when, perhaps, they are not there. Recently the concept of cortical columns has come in for the same radical criticism that undermined the architectonics of the early part of the twentieth century. Does history repeat itself? This paper reviews this history and asks the question.

Rethinking change:downsizing businesses, changing behaviours and still managing to come out on top

As an indicator of global change and shifting balances of power, every September in Dalian, China, the World Economic Forum meets. The subject in 2011 – Mastering Quality Growth. On the agenda is pursuing new frontiers of growth linked to embracing disruptive innovation. With growth coming from emerging markets, and European and North American economies treading water, many firms in the West are facing the reality of having to not just downsize but actually close manufacturing operations and re-open them elsewhere, where costs are lower, to remain competitive. There are thousands of books on “change management”. Yet very few of these devote much time to downsizing preferring to talk about re-engineering or restructuring. What lessons are available from the past to achieve a positive outcome from what will inevitably be something of a human, as well as an economic, tragedy. The authors reached three fundamental conclusions from their experience and research in facility closure management within Vauxhall, UK: put your people first, make sure you keep running the business and manage your legacy. They devlop the ideas into a new business model linked to the emotions of change.