Bøger af Benjamin Bennett

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm24837223Filmed from a photocopy of the original.Saratoga Springs [N.Y.]: O.M. Davison, 1820. 24 leaves; 21 cm.

Conducts a radical criticism of the concept of 'reading,' especially of the concept of 'the' reader, as these concepts are commonly used in literary criticism. This book sketches the historical provenance of 'the' reader, in an argument that includes discussions of Dante, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marlowe, and German idealist philosophy.

Secular Millenialism: The Train of Aesthetics from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler by Benjamin Bennett combines the perspectives of intellectual history, literary history, and political history in order to illuminate the operation of the idea of aesthetics, and of the historical actualization of that idea, in the background of twentieth-century totalitarianism.

Professor Bennett examines Hofmannsthal's work in the context of literary theory and the history of philosophy.

All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from...