Kniha Apples and Oranges Maarten Asscher

Apples and Oranges

In Praise of Comparisons

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: Four Winds Press
Dostupnost: 50 % šance
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What does it mean when people say "You can't compare apples and oranges"? Are comparisons across ge...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2015
Stránek
240
EAN
9781940423067
ISBN
1940423066
Enbook ID
05035441
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
305
Rozměry
139 x 215 x 20

Kompletní popis

What does it mean when people say "You can't compare apples and oranges"? Are comparisons across genres inherently invalid, or can they be insightful and illuminating? In this brilliant and provocative collection of essays, Dutch author Maarten Asscher maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument. Asscher makes his case with examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the "suicide" of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots, and so on. With graceful erudition and idiosyncratic wit, Asscher demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common.

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