Download or read book Johnson the Philologist written by Daisuke Nagashima and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Anniversary Essays on Johnson s Dictionary written by John T. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
Download or read book Milton Among the Philosophers written by Stephen M. Fallon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philosophical systems that filled the vacuum left by the repudiation of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. In what has become the classic account of Milton's animist materialism, Fallon revises our understanding of Milton's philosophical sophistication. The book offers a new interpretation of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost as a clash of metaphysical systems, with free will hanging in the balance.
Download or read book The Philosophy of History written by Friedrich von Schlegel and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wordwatching written by Julian Burnside and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bonzer discussion of the strange pedigree of the naughty, nice, and, sometimes, obscene English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the bestselling Wordwatching, words are a source of both pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill. Comprising many essays, dealing with a vast array of subjects as diverse as deadlines, fancy words, the problems with ‘issue’, odd sounds, oxymorons, and the fallacy of ‘wading in’, Wordwatching is a fascinating demonstration of the power and the pleasure of the English language. Told with Julian Burnside’s sparkling wit, it is lively, illuminating, and perfect for every book-lover.
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] marvelous account” of Johnson’s towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by “a buoyant, zestful writer” (The Boston Globe). By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear—magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain’s colonies—including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson’s heroic endeavor. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson’s adventure—his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Download or read book Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts written by William Harris Stahl and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the components of a medieval education.
Download or read book Johnson s Universal Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrations of English Philology Consisting of I A Critical Examination of Dr Johnson s Dictionary II Remarks on Mr Dugald Stewart s Essay On the Tendency of Some Late Philological Speculations To which is Now Added an Advertisement Containing Extracts from the English Lexicon Publishing in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana and from the English Dictionary of Dr Johnson written by Charles RICHARDSON (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philology written by James Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.
Download or read book Johnson s Universal Cyclopedia written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Journal of Philology written by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."
Download or read book Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science written by Stillman Drake and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.
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