Browse through these to your heart's content. Tell me which is your favorite. (Guess which is mine.)
because you were all wondering what I'm writing my dissertation on, here's a brief synopsis of my 'research context': When James Macpherson published his Fragments of Ancient Poetry in 1760, he went to great lengths to make the Fragments appear to be authentic remains of an ancient, heroic oral tradition. His reasons for this were largely political, and as such, influenced the content of the epics themselves. As an attempt to establish a particularly Scottish identity, the poems were quite effective. However, to do so required both a simplification and a manipulation of traditional mythology. Stripped of anagogical significance, the Ossian epics more or less represented an Enlightenment version of history, tradition, and mythic heritage. The stories themselves were changed by their very purpose and in turn changed the manner of representing myth in future narratives. Moreover, the emphasis on the Ossian epics as authentic tales from the past, as ‘fragments,’ served...
dude, I can't guess.
ReplyDeletemwahaha! i am mysterious and cryptic!!
ReplyDeleteI like Keep Your Head Down--like the way it's a shadow and all that means...Love the one with the plastic animals--something about dreams and dead people. I'd pick that one up off the book table. Brief interviews...with the bag over a guy's head is really catchy. It'll sell. I like Jayne Eyre with the silouette--different than the usual women in long dresses looking all peaceful embroidering stuff and a glum mysterious man in the foreground, scowling(who we all know is a big marshmallow on the inside) like you'll find on all the other Jayne covers. I only checked out 3 pages of these.
ReplyDeleteThe one about Einstein and his cook looks good and I would maybe even buy it, try to read it, and probably not understand it! Okay, so I like books with Einstein's name on the cover.
i think my favorite changed between the last time i looked through these and now. right now, it's Lewis Carroll, which is on the third page of selections. Though it's almost tied with Leviathan, bottom of the same page. There are plenty more that i like, but these are simple, unique, and compelling. i want to read them.
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