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Words of Power

Words of Power

Di Bloomfield, Jem

Pubblicato da The Lutterworth Press

English 170 pagine 2016 ISBN 9780718844387
Tempo di lettura stimato: 3 h 7 min
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Shakespeare and the Bible are titans of English-speaking culture: their images are endlessly cited and recycled, and their language permeates everything from our public ceremonies to our private jokes. In Words of Power, Jem Bloomfield explores the cultural reverberations of these two collections of books, and how each era finds new meanings as they encounter works such as Hamlet or the Gospel of Mark.Beginning with a shrewd examination of how we have codified and standardised their canons, deciding which books and which words are included in the official collections and which are excluded, Bloomfield charts the ways in which every generation grapples with these enigmatic and complex texts. He explores the way they are read and performedin public, the institutions that use their names to legitimise their own activities, and how the texts are quoted by politicians, lords and rappers. Words of Power throws modern ideas about Shakespeare and the Bible into sharp relief by contrasting them with those of our ancestors, showing how our engagements with these texts reveal as much about ourselves as their actual meanings.

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Words of Power è disponibile come PDF in 13 librerie online. Tra le librerie che lo vendono ci sono Alpha Books, Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam.

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Words of Power è disponibile come PDF in 13 librerie online.
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A un ritmo di lettura medio, Words of Power si legge in circa 3 h 7 min (170 pagine).

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