Download or read book Avid Ears written by Christine M Neufeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that women’s "silencing" is in part the result of women’s voices being treated as the white noise of history, Medieval Gossips and the Art of Listening: Avid Ears explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English antifeminist satire during the linguistically dynamic late Middle Ages to argue that the resonant gossips’ circle offers a cultural poetics of listening for those attentive to medieval auditory regimes. This book challenges the specular logic informing a long satirical tradition that casts the unruly speaking woman as the nemesis who confirms the social authority of the erudite man. Discerning the acoustic preoccupations of the gossips’ circle inevitably hovering behind the shrew, Avid Ears explains why the threat posed by a woman talking back to a man is only exceeded by that of a woman speaking to other women. As the first monograph to use sound studies to explore how gender registers in the medieval soundscape, Avid Ears attunes critics to how and what we hear when women speak in literature.
Download or read book Medieval Gossips and the Art of Listening written by Christine Neufeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that women's "silencing" is in part the result of women's voices being treated as the white noise of history, Medieval Gossips and the Art of Listening: Avid Ears explores the historical representation of female voices as actual acoustic phenomena. The volume focuses on English antifeminist satire during the linguistically dynamic late Middle Ages to argue that the resonant gossips' circle offers a cultural poetics of listening for those attentive to medieval auditory regimes. This book challenges the specular logic informing a long satirical tradition that casts the unruly speaking woman as the nemesis who confirms the social authority of the erudite man. Discerning the acoustic preoccupations of the gossips' circle inevitably hovering behind the shrew, Avid Ears explains why the threat posed by a woman talking back to a man is only exceeded by that of a woman speaking to other women. As the first monograph to use sound studies to explore how gender registers in the medieval soundscape, Avid Ears attunes critics to how and what we hear when women speak in literature.
Download or read book Language and Authority in emDe Lingua Latinaem written by Diana Spencer and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived in, brings her expertise to an examination of the Roman scholar Varro and his treatise De Lingua Latina. This commentary on the origin and relationships of Latin words is an intriguing, but often puzzling, fragmentary work for classicists. Since Varro was engaged in defining how Romans saw themselves and how they talked about their world, Spencer reads along with Varro, following his themes and arcs, his poetic sparks, his political and cultural seams. Few scholars have accepted the challenge of tackling Varro and his work, and in this pioneering volume, Spencer provides a roadmap for considering these topics more thoroughly.
Download or read book Out of the Air written by Inez Haynes Gillmore and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of the Air written by Inez Haynes Gillmore and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Out of the Air" by Inez Haynes Gillmore is a delightful collection of charming short stories that capture the essence of human emotions and relationships. Gillmore's keen observation of everyday life and her engaging writing style make these tales relatable and heartwarming. With each story offering a glimpse into the human experience, this book is a delightful read for anyone who appreciates beautifully crafted storytelling.
Download or read book Disinherited written by Stella M. Düring and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gaucho written by Eustace Hale Ball and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IN THE MIDDLE written by Vandana Kumar Jena and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middles are life in miniature. The middles in the book; ‘In the Middle’ by Vandana Kumari Jena are a diverse collection; depicting a kaleidoscope of rainbow hued images. At times they are pen portraits of ordinary people who led extraordinary lives; like the man who wanted to make it to the Guinness Book of Records because of the size of his moustache. At other times they are a globetrotter’s delight and sketch picture post cards of exotic locales; the starkly beautiful Kosovo; the mesmerising Marrakech; the amazing Queens town or the exotic Istanbul. Many a time they provide a glimpse of the lighter side of life. Each one of them; in its own way; celebrates the very essence of life.
Download or read book The Last of the Heretics written by Algernon Sidney Crapsey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Egyptian Enigma 1890 1928 written by J. E. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Elizabeth Jewell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This convenient all-around dictionary and thesaurus for writers, students andbusinesses has more than 150,000 entries.
Download or read book Heart of Perdition written by Selah March and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century draws to a close, James Weston, Earl of Falmouth, is dying along with it. Despite living in an age of airships and automatons, even London's finest physicians cannot cure the young man's ailing heart. His last hope lies in retrieving a powerful artifact from the remote island home of an eccentric scientist's daughter. Elspeth Shaw prefers her solitary life to the tragic results that come from mixing in society. Elspeth is cursed: every mortal being who forms an attachment to her dies a horrible death. Yet when the doomed Lord Falmouth arrives in search of the very artifact that blights her, she hasn't the will to refuse. But the price for cheating death may be more than any human can pay... 22,000 words
Download or read book The Ghost of Artemus Strange written by Peter Maughan and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does... Sir Humphrey has offered to play Father Christmas at the local hospital, but disaster strikes when he realises he won’t be able to buy the sack of toys he’d promised the children. Rupert, a gentleman of the road, is found asleep in an old car in the Hall’s coach house. He is scrubbed up and given a room at the Hall, where two guests are already staying: a businessman and his rather young female companion. When money goes missing from their bedroom, Rupert is accused, and Miss Wyndham, the village’s amateur sleuth, decides to investigate the matter. Meanwhile, local author Phineas Cook has come up with the idea of a resident ghost at the Hall to attract paying guests. All goes smoothly until the ghostly actors spend too long in the pub one evening and their performance descends into sword-wielding chaos. As always in Batch Magna, events somehow manage to turn out all right in the end – but in the most unexpected manner... What readers are saying about The Batch Magna Chronicles series: “An enchanting mixture of The Wind in The Willows and The Darling Buds of May. An England that doesn’t exist but surely should.” “Reading this book was like sitting down for a nice long chat with an old friend. I loved reading the Welsh village descriptions; it felt like coming home. ... I eagerly await the next instalment of the Batch Magna crew!” “I first got this book out of the local library, and then brought a copy – I wanted to read it again and again. It’s a treasure, a smashing read, funny and beautifully written.” “These books are such fun, darkly comic and full of great characters. ... Batch Magna is a place I would love to find, and the river sounds idyllic.” “Hurrah for Batch Magna, Humphrey and friends.” “I loved this book. It’s lyrical and very amusing, with all the charm of an old Ealing comedy. ... More please Mr Maughan!” “What an amazing writer! I have never found any descriptive writing that has gripped me so much before.” “A thoroughly enjoyable read. ... Is there another Batch Magna book on the way, please? Such a wonderfully descriptive bucolic and warmly ‘human’ story with echoes of the Darling Buds of May.” “A wonderful, funny, well-crafted escape from everyday life. If you love writing that absorbs you into the landscape you will love this book. Every sense was satisfied with the author’s beautiful descriptions of the Marches. Escape from the tarmac, concrete and relentlessness of life with this stunning book. Thank you Mr Maughan.” “I absolutely loved this book and all the characters became so real to me, I just couldn’t put it down.” “Escape from the madness of life for a short while into the glorious eccentricity of Batch Magna once again, revel in its surroundings, its people, its comings and goings - which, often as bizarre as they are, usually work out for the best.” “If I had to guess at Peter Maughan's occupation, my bet would be on a weaver and I'll double down on that bet. Only a weaver a.k.a. master story teller can weave together, so magnificently, everything the stories in this chronicle encompasses.” “The jolly cast of characters, who truly are, in the best English sense, characters, provide humour and a bit of pathos. ... This would be a great book to read sitting in an English garden on a summer’s day.”
Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of the Danes Books I IX written by Saxo (Grammaticus) and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a History of the Danes, an account of their glorious past from the legendary kings and heroes of Denmark to the historical present. It isone of the major sources for the heroic and mythological traditions of northern Europe, though the complex Latin style and the wide range of material brought together from different sources have limited its use. Here Hilda Ellis Davidson, a specialist in Scandinavian mythology, together with the translator Peter Fisher, provides a full English edition; each of the first nine books is preceded by an introductory summary, and a detailed commentary follows on the folklore and life and customs of twelfth-century Denmark - including the sources of Hamlet, of which Saxo gives the earliest known account. HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON's other books include The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England; PETER FISHER is also the translator of Olaus Magnus: A Description of the Northern Peoples. Both are available from Boydell & Brewer. `In the early years of the 13th century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a dignified and ambitious Latin account of their glorious past from the mythical past to the historical present -(He) collected the legends of Scandinavian gods and heroes, and arranged their exploits in a series of `biographies' which ostensibly formed an unbroken sequence. He took his tales from a variety of sources, and readers will find his collection of myths, folklore and fabulous history fascinating - An accurate and readable translation of the nine mythological books based on the best scholarly edition'. RUTH MORSE, BRITISH BOOK NEWS.
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112114734418 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
