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  • Africa

    Edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara ...
    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New School of the Imagination

    Rudolf Steinerýs Mystery Plays in Literary Tradition

    by John O'Meara ...
    This essay offers a radical view of the post-Renaissance, Western literary scene inasmuch as Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy bears a relation to it, principally through his Mystery Plays. A number of major authors are highlighted as having an intrinsic connection with the Anthroposophical revelation-notably T.S. Eliot, and especially S.T. Coleridge. The prospect of a new cultural poetic for the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Prospero's Powers

    A Short View of Shakespeare's Last Phase

    by John O’Meara ...
    As the third part of his trilogy on Shakespeare, Prospero's Powers extends the study of the late plays O'Meara offered in Othello's Sacrifice, to consider more closely how Shakespeare fulfills his personal artistic development in The Tempest.The play is seen as expressing in its structure the whole of Shakespeare's tragic development up to that time. Great powers of self-knowledge and of inner ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Modern Debacle

    And Our Hope in the Goddess: A Literary Testament

    by John O’Meara ...
    The period covered in this book ranges from the early part of the 20th century right through to its end-roughly from the death of Chekhov to that of Ted Hughes. The question is raised whether the vision of the modern world that opened up to the authors of this period does not still apply in our own time.The book's main theme is the finality of modern nothingness. What remains that is superhumanly ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Shakespeare’S Richard Ii, God, and Language

    by John O'Meara ...
    This book presents an in-depth view of the extraordinary revisionist language Shakespeare gives to his most royal of all kings, from the time Richard falls dramatically out of favor with God.Readers will find this book most useful in seeking to disentangle the plays notoriously elaborate verbal presentation, but what the author brings out in connection with Richards approach to language should ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature

    by John O?Meara ...
    A Trilogy bringing together titles by John OMeara that are also individually available from iUniverse.The Modern DebacleContaining close readings of work by Beckett, Hemingway, and T.S.Eliot; Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and Brecht; Plath, Hughes, and Robert Graves, and W.B. Yeats.beautifully and fluently written and ingenious in its combination of catastrophes--Anthony Gash, Drama ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, the Goddess, and Modernity

    by John O'Meara ...
    OMearas work is the perfect supplement to [Ted] Hughess Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, shedding further illumination into those areas where Hughess penetrating lens finally appears to dim. [This work] shines utterly clear light on the path of understanding we may re-win with regard to myth, forcing the reader to face the incredible starkness of the prospect we faceand the lack of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Singing Masters

    by John O'Meara ...
    This essay in autobiography opens in Eyrecourt, east Galway, and describes an early schooling at Rockwell and the experiences of a Jesuit novice at Emo Court, Co. Laois, and Rathfarnham. John O'Meara read classical studies at University College, Dublin, and after a spell of teaching at Clongowes Wood left in 1942 on a travelling studentship to Oxford, where he gained a doctorate three years later. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Life, This Death: Wordsworth’S Poetic Destiny

    by John O'Meara ...
    Looking ahead to the 250th anniversary of Wordsworths birth, this small book challenges fresh questions about where Wordsworth stood in his poetic production in the great years of creative ferment between 1798 and 1806. Numerous poems are covered from this period, but especially does this book re-think our traditional conception of the relationship between The Prelude and Intimations. Wordsworth ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Shakespeare the Man

    New Decipherings

    by John O’Meara, Lisa Hopkins, Mythili Kaul, Stuart Sillars, Shormishtha Panja, Charles R. Forker, Grace Tiffany, Joseph Candido, John Mahon, Subhajit Sen Gupta, R. S. White ...
    While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and pieces of evidence from his works that seem to match what he may have experienced, these essays focus ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Myth, Depravity, Impasse

    Graves, Shakespeare, Keats

    by John O'Meara ...
    How can we know the great Goddess again? How worthy are we of that mythical experience? How are we related to that experience in our deepest depravity? And why has the mythical experience grown so opaque to us in our post-Romantic, modern world?These are the main issues arising out of Western literary tradition that John OMeara explores in this book.In the work of Robert Graves, Shakespeare, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Muse

    An Introductory Overview

    by John O'Meara ...
    Recent interest in who Shakespeare's Muse may have been prompts one to come forth to dispel the drastically simplistic notions that have been brought forward. In this essay John O'Meara suggests where our concern with Shakespeare should actually lie or what form of Muse we can suppose it was that commanded his development the way it did.Shakespeare was fated for a certain experience from which he ... Read more

    $6.99 USD