Authors:Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Brian Levack, Roy Porter,
Publisher: Athlone Press
Keywords: witchcraft, europe, magic, history, volume
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0485890054
ISBN-13: 9780485890051

The end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing witchcraft. It also surveys the social role of witchcraft in European communities to the end of the 19th century.

Author: Donald J. Childs
Publisher: Athlone Press
Keywords: eliot
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-01
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0485114933
ISBN-13: 9780485114935

Based upon manuscript sources and the uncollected prose writings, as well as the published works, this is an exploration of Eliot’s life-long preoccupation with mysticism. The author advances new readings of the familiar poems and essays through attention to Eliot’s concern in poetry and prose with his roles as mystic, son and lover.

Author: Helena Forsas-Scott
Publisher: Athlone Press
Keywords: women, series, context, writing, swedish
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1997-05-31
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0485920034
ISBN-13: 9780485920031

This work provides a survey of women’s writing in Sweden, from the beginnings of the struggle for emancipation in the 1850s to the present day. These writers are seen within the political, cultural and economic context of women’s lives. Modern critical currents are also assessed and Swedish feminist criticism is considered alongside the French and American traditions.

Author: Donald J. Childs
Publisher: Athlone Press
Keywords: poetry, philosophy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0485115506
ISBN-13: 9780485115505

In this text, Professor Child examines T.S. Eliot’s relationship between his writing of poetry and his philosophical pursuits, in particular his lifelong occupation with the work of F.H. Bradley, Henri Bergson and William James. This account also considers the reception of Eliot’s writing in philosophy and argues that the study of this work has significantly entered recent Eliot criticism. Overall, this volume provides a new reading of Eliot’s famous poems, his literary criticism and social commentary.

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: The Athlone Press
Keywords: amp, ancient, eastern, egyptology, publications, sumerian, poetry, athlone, reading
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $168.00
ISBN-10: 048593003X
ISBN-13: 9780485930030

Sumer was the first literary culture in the history of the world, as early as 2500 BC. Dr Black explroes how we can "read" this oldest poetry today. His account is structured around the the narrative poem that treats the hero Lugalbanda and his enounter with a monstrous bird.

Author: Francoise Dastur
Publisher: The Athlone Press
Keywords: death
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $144.00
ISBN-10: 0485114879
ISBN-13: 9780485114874

Plato’s "Phaedo", Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit" and Heidegger’s "Being and Time" are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the ideas that to practice philosophy is to practice how to die. This study traces how these variations are connected with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including Neitzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and levinas. The book also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in

Author: Natalie Watson
Publisher: Athlone Press
Keywords: ecclesiology, feminist, introducing
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-10
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0826462545
ISBN-13: 9780826462541

The church has always been a place of profound ambivalence for women. While the majority of those who attend church are women, women experience hierarchical exclusion and invisibility within its institutional structures. Throughout most of its history, women have not participated in the church’s reflections on its own nature. And yet, feminist theologians claim that women are church and always have been church. This book explores women’s experiences of being church and reclaiming the church in order to rebuild it as meaningful, open, sacramental space where everybody’s presen