Download or read book Infernal Topographies written by Graeme Miles and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infernal topographies of the title are more psychological than geographical, though physical travel and the infusing of the past into the present are also at issue. Driven in part by the anxieties of time and mortality that have always been at the root of lyric, these poems are also shaped by the pressure of the likely collapse of the current social order, and by impending and current extinctions. Weaving the domestic, the oneiric and the outside worlds, these are poems that try to find a place from which to speak and think when so much seems to be ending.
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Virgilian and Dantesque Topography of the Inferno and Purgatorio written by Bessie Ellen Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishing for Lightning written by Sarah Holland-Batt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's celebrated columns on contemporary Australian poetry. In fifty illuminating and lively short essays on fifty poets, Holland-Batt offers a masterclass in how to read and love poetry, opening up the music of language, form, and poetic technique in her casual and conversational yet deeply intelligent style. From the villanelle to the verse novel, the readymade and the remix to the sonnet, Holland-Batt's essays range across the breadth of contemporary poetry, but also delve into the richness of poetic and literary history, connecting the contemporary to the ancient. Dazzling in its erudition, but always accessible and entertaining, Fishing for Lightning convinces us of the power of poetry to change our lives.
Download or read book Strindberg and Autobiography written by Michael Robinson and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about Strindberg and about autobiographical writing, about how a particular writer projects himself in language, the problems this entails, the subterfuges it engenders, about how he finds and loses himself there. It therefore attempts to place this central aspect of Strindberg’s project upon a more nuanced and substantial footing than the familiar tradition of biographical criticism in Strindberg studies normally permits, and does not restrict itself only to those works singled out by Strindberg as explicitly autobiographical. Nor, I should perhaps add, does it concern itself in any detailed way with the laborious examination of the relative accuracy of the life Strindberg attributed to himself – whether, for example, the description of his early years in The Son of a Servant as a time of fear and hunger is in fact belied by the evident plenitude in the way of food and drink as chronicled in his father’s household accounts. In any case, the myth a writer generates about his own experience is as significant a fact as any other, and a writer like Strindberg merely accentuates the way in which all of us live our lives as fictions in terms of the available narrative and plot structures, structures that incorporate those personal symbolic landscapes which (as Strindberg well knew) are in large part unconsciously fostered by the prevailing doxa or mythologies. I am aware, however, that the approach employed here remains partial. Notwithstanding his achievement in other fields, all of which, including his scientific preoccupations deserve to be taken seriously, Strindberg’s major achievement remains his drama. A consummate creator as well as player of roles, the mosaic work of character which he elaborated in his theatrical projections is an essential complement to the life traced in his prose works, and deserves to be studied as such. Moreover, like Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, in her analysis of Strindberg in Pour une psychanalyse de l’art et de la créativité (Paris, 1971), “Je n’ai pas manqué toutefois d’être frappée par la pauvreté relative des thèmes des oeuvres biographiques si on les compare à la richesse des élaborations dont ces mêmes thèmes sont l’objet dans l’oeuvre dramatique.” Maybe the occasion to explore this elaborated wealth of drama will one day present itself.
Download or read book Secular Chains written by Philip Connell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study reveals the importance of English literary culture for our understanding of this process and sheds new light on the dynamics of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century. Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688 and the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope and provides a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period in English literary history.
Download or read book British Topography written by Richard Gough and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pompeiana the topography edifices and ornaments of Pompeii By sir W Gell and J P Gandy written by sir William Gell and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance written by Todd Andrew Borlik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species, and topics: from astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marvell mingle with a diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters, foresters, philosophers, sailors, sky-watchers, and duchesses - as well as ventriloquized beasts, trees, and rivers. Lavishly illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a bibliography of further reading, and a timeline of environmental history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research.
Download or read book Topographia Hibernica Or The Topography of Ireland Ancient and Modern written by William Wenman Seward and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Inferno With introduction and notes by H B Cotterill written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antiquarian Repertory a Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography History Biography Customs and Manners Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times Adorned with Numerous Views Portraits and Monuments A New Edition with a Great Many Valuable Additions In Four Volumes written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History Antiquities Topography and Statistics of Eastern India written by Robert Montgomery Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-volume work of 1838, collating earlier survey material on the East India Company's territories in Eastern India.
Download or read book Foreign Topography written by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces written by Fabio Vighi and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences uses the term “threshold” as a means to understand the relationship between Self and Other, as well as relationships between different cultures. The concept of “threshold” defines the relationship between inside and outside not in oppositional terms, but as complementaries. This book discusses the cultural and social “border areas” of modernity, which are to be understood not as “zones” in a territorial sense, but as “spaces in between” in which different languages and cultures operate. The essays in Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces identify the dimension in urban topographies and political spaces where we are able to locate paradigmatic experiences of thresholds. Because these spaces are characterized by contradictions, conflicts, and aporias, we propose to rethink those hermeneutic categories that imply a sharp opposition between inside and outside. This means that the theoretical definition of threshold put forward in these essays—whether applied to history, philosophy, law, art, or cultural studies—embodies new juridical and political stances.
Download or read book Pompeiana the Topography Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii written by Sir William Gell and published by London : H.G. Bohn. This book was released on 1852 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History Antiquities Topography and Statistics of Eastern India written by Robert Montgomery Martin and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pompeiana the Topography Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii written by John P. Gandy and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
