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Book Early American Latin verse  1625 1825

Download or read book Early American Latin verse 1625 1825 written by Leo M. Kaiser and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their first two centuries of colonial life, Americans produced a large and fascinating body of original Latin poetry. The poets included in this anthology represent the continuity and vitality of the classical tradition as a major educational and cultural force in the New World. The book includes Latin text and notes.

Book Early American Latin Verse

Download or read book Early American Latin Verse written by Leo M. Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Census of American Latin Verse  1625 1825

Download or read book A Census of American Latin Verse 1625 1825 written by Leo Max Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early American Latin verse  1625 1825

Download or read book Early American Latin verse 1625 1825 written by Leo M. Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their first two centuries of colonial life, Americans produced a large and fascinating body of original Latin poetry. The poets included in this anthology represent the continuity and vitality of the classical tradition as a major educational and cultural force in the New World. The book includes Latin text and notes.

Book A Census of American Latin Verse  1625 1825

Download or read book A Census of American Latin Verse 1625 1825 written by Leo M. Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Aeneas

    Book Details:
  • Author : John C. Shields
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2004-11
  • ISBN : 9781572333697
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book The American Aeneas written by John C. Shields and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book?? "John Shields's book is a provocative challenge to the venerable Adamic myth so exhaustively deployed in examinations of early American literature and in American studies. Moreover, The American Aeneas builds wonderfully on Shields's considerable work on Phillis Wheatley. "?--American Literature?? "The American Aeneas should be of interest to classicists and American studies scholars alike." ?--The New England Quarterly?? John Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting the biblical character Adam as an archetype who has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nation's cultural identity--a secular one deriving from the classical tradition--has been seriously neglected.??Shields shows how Adam and Aeneas--Vergil's hero of the Aeneid-- in crossing over to American from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of "pastlessness" that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. John C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honorable mention in the Harry Levin Prize competition, sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association.

Book A History of the Book in America  Volume 1  The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

Download or read book A History of the Book in America Volume 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World written by Hugh Amory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.

Book A History of Virginia Literature

Download or read book A History of Virginia Literature written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History explores the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown to the twenty-first century.

Book A Bloodless Victory

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  • Author : Joseph F. Stoltz III
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2017-12-15
  • ISBN : 1421423022
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book A Bloodless Victory written by Joseph F. Stoltz III and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: "a correct remembrance of great events"--"By the eternal, they shall not sleep on our soil:" the New Orleans Campaign -- "Half a horse and half an alligator:" the Battle of New Orleans in the Era of Good Feelings -- "Under the command of a plain Republican--an American Cincinnatus:" the Battle of New Orleans in the Age of Jefferson -- "The union must and shall be preserved:" the Battle of New Orleans and the American Civil War -- "True daughters of the war:" the Battle of New Orleans at 100 -- "Not pirate ... privateer:" the Battle of New Orleans and mid-20th century popular culture -- "Tourism whetted by the celebration:" the Battle of New Orleans in the 20th century -- A "rustic and factual" appearance: the Battle of New Orleans at 200 -- Closing: "what is past is prologue

Book The American Puritan Elegy

Download or read book The American Puritan Elegy written by Jeffrey A. Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues not as 'poems' to be read and appreciated in a post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.

Book Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam

Download or read book Relatio Itineris in Marilandiam written by Andrew White and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively chronicle in a bilingual edition details the characters, settings and events of the 17th-century expedition resulting in the founding of the Maryland colony. It is a significant document in the classical tradition of the English colonies in North America.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Horace

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Horace written by Stephen Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, his work, its themes and its reception. This provides the orientation and coverage needed by non-specialists and students, but also suggests provoking perspectives from which specialists may benefit. Since the last general book on Horace was published half a century ago, there has been a sea-change in perceptions of his work and in the literary analysis of classical literature in general, and this territory is fully charted in this Companion.

Book Women Latin Poets

Download or read book Women Latin Poets written by Jane Stevenson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book A History of the Book in America

Download or read book A History of the Book in America written by Hugh Amory and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a "culture of the Word," organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism. The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and "freedom of the press," and literacy and orality. Contributors: Hugh Amory Ross W. Beales, The College of the Holy Cross John Bidwell, Princeton University Library Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut Charles E. Clark, University of New Hampshire James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School Russell L. Martin, Southern Methodist University E. Jennifer Monaghan, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York James Raven, University of Essex Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, Hardwick, Massachusetts A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Calhoun Winton, University of Maryland

Book Latin

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  • Author : Jürgen Leonhardt
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-25
  • ISBN : 067472738X
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Latin written by Jürgen Leonhardt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Rome’s fall, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this “dead language” is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jürgen Leonhardt has written a full history of Latin from antiquity to the present, uncovering how this once parochial dialect developed into a vehicle of global communication that remained vital long after its spoken form was supplanted by modern languages. Latin originated in the Italian region of Latium, around Rome, and became widespread as that city’s imperial might grew. By the first century BCE, Latin was already transitioning from a living vernacular, as writers and grammarians like Cicero and Varro fixed Latin’s status as a “classical” language with a codified rhetoric and rules. As Romance languages spun off from their Latin origins following the empire’s collapse—shedding cases and genders along the way—the ancient language retained its currency as a world language in ways that anticipated English and Spanish, but it ceased to evolve. Leonhardt charts the vicissitudes of Latin in the post-Roman world: its ninth-century revival under Charlemagne and its flourishing among Renaissance writers who, more than their medieval predecessors, were interested in questions of literary style and expression. Ultimately, the rise of historicism in the eighteenth century turned Latin from a practical tongue to an academic subject. Nevertheless, of all the traces left by the Romans, their language remains the most ubiquitous artifact of a once peerless empire.

Book The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature written by Roy Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).

Book Finding Colonial Americas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph A. Leo Lemay
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780874137224
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Finding Colonial Americas written by Joseph A. Leo Lemay and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories now being told about the colonial American past represent an "America" newly found, as scholars continue to evaluate and revise the longer-standing stories that have, across the centuries, held particular cultural and critical sway. This collection is a celebration of the widening of scholarly inquire in early American studies, and a tribute to a leading early Americanist whose scholarly career continues to contribute to the opening up of crucial questions of canon.