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Book The Annotated Casey at the Bat

Download or read book The Annotated Casey at the Bat written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amusing sequels and parodies of one of America's best-loved poems: Casey's Revenge, Why Casey Whiffed, Casey's Sister at the Bat, others.

Book    Something that I read in a book     W  B  Yeats   s Annotations at the National Library of Ireland

Download or read book Something that I read in a book W B Yeats s Annotations at the National Library of Ireland written by Wayne K. Chapman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a resource to enable scholars and students in Yeats studies to explore the materials in his library, which, together with his unpublished papers and manuscripts, forms part of the writer’s archive in the National Library. Generally, this first volume describes the evidence that he and his wife, George, left in books by other authors, including extensive indications of close reading and thinking on a surprising range of subjects. This book could not have been written without the generous participation of the Yeats family over many years. Their legacy, now entrusted to the National Library, is robust and endless in potential. This book is about individual cases but also the building of an oeuvre. In short, this book enriches our understanding of Yeats’s accomplishment as a writer in over fifty years of creative effort and nearly seventy-four years of abundant life.

Book Salom    A Tragedy  Annotated

Download or read book Salom A Tragedy Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Salomé, A Tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.it is an Oscar Wilde tragedy. The original 1891 version of the work was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The work tells in one act the biblical story of Salomé, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to the dismay of his stepfather but to the delight of his mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils.Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage, for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season, began in 1892, but stopped when Lord Chamberlain's theater licensor banned Salomé on the grounds that It was illegal to represent biblical characters on stage

Book The Publishing History of Aubrey Beardsley s Compositions for Oscar Wilde s Salome

Download or read book The Publishing History of Aubrey Beardsley s Compositions for Oscar Wilde s Salome written by Joan Navarre and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study claims that scholars need to examine all twenty-seven English illustrated editions of Wilde's and Beardsley's Salomë to understand whether Beardsley's compositions do, or do not, illustrate Wilde's words. For the last one hundred years scholars have addressed the aesthetic function of Beardsley's compositions (whether or not Beardsley's compositions illustrate Wilde's words), and each scholar sees something different: Beardsley's compositions are "irrelevant" to Wilde's words; Beardsley's compositions are "relevant" to Wilde's words; Beardsley's compositions are both "irrelevant" and "relevant." What is at issue here is that this traditional dance of signification (scholars' interpretations of the aesthetic function of Beardsley's compositions) relies upon an interpretive strategy that disavows the history of textual transmissions. To put this another way, what scholars "see" depends upon the particular English illustrated edition(s) they read. Beardsley's compositions are physical objects conditioned by a physical setting--i.e., the components of total book design. Yet, for many, the visible appears invisible. The motivation for this study arises from previously unexamined phenomena--the genesis and textual transmission of Beardsley's compositions for Salomë (1894-1994). As historical textual scholarship, this study uses the methodologies central to descriptive bibliography: the English illustrated editions of Wilde's and Beardsley's Salomë are treated as socially constructed physical objects. Binding, format, and paper are a few of the signifying systems described. Specifically, this investigation draws upon the model presented by Philip Gaskell in A New Introduction to Bibliography. The necessary tasks include: transcribing the title-page; analyzing the format; examining the appearance of the binding; detailing the kind of paper used; and noting other information, such as titles. As the centenary of Wilde's and Beardsley's Salomë commences, this is the opportune time to trace the publishing history of Beardsley's compositions, to update existing descriptive bibliographies, and to turn to an empirical method for a socialized model of literary production.

Book William Faulkner  an Annotated Checklist of Criticism

Download or read book William Faulkner an Annotated Checklist of Criticism written by John Earl Bassett and published by New York : D. Lewis. This book was released on 1972 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oscar Wilde

Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Nicholas Frankel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde’s final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde—unapologetic and even defiant—attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters.

Book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany  1880 1920

Download or read book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany 1880 1920 written by Katharina Herold-Zanker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that representations of the East played a critical role in the literary landscape of Decadence over this period.

Book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany  1880 1920

Download or read book Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany 1880 1920 written by Katharina Herold-Zanker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literary Decadence uniquely exposes its paradoxical engagement with other cultures. In bringing together two fin-de-siècle European literatures, this comparative study makes a case for the transnational, if not imperial, nature of Decadence. The East emerges as an 'indispensable' mediator between various versions of European Decadence. The book examines the role of the East with specific reference to selected English and German authors: starting from Oscar Wilde's Victorian vision of Egypt and Arthur Symons's and Violet Fane's image of Constantinople, it moves to Paul Scheerbart's and Else Lasker-Schüler's Decadent Babylon and Assyria and concludes by turning to Stefan George's exclusion of the East from his poetic practice. The geographical reach of the East focuses on regions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa. The cultural translation of specifically the Middle East into different European national contexts gains new—sometimes oppositional—meanings, avoiding a one-sided representation of both the East and the two national literatures that absorbed it. In arguing for a Decadent cosmopolitanism as a model of heterogeneous inclusivity that reaches beyond the binaries established by Edward Said's Orientalism, the present book brings twenty-first century theories of cosmopolitanism into dialogue with art history and literature to uncover striking synergies and interdependences between the different manifestations of Decadence in England and Germany.

Book Oscar Wilde in Context

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry Powell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-12-12
  • ISBN : 1107729106
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Oscar Wilde in Context written by Kerry Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of concise and illuminating articles reveals the complex relationship between Wilde's work and ideas, and contemporary contexts including Victorian feminism, aestheticism and socialism. Chapters investigate how Wilde's writing was both a resistance to and quotation of Victorian master narratives and genre codes. From performance history to film and operatic adaptations, the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde's story and work is explored, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. To approach the meaning of Wilde as an artist and historical figure, the book emphasises not only his ability to imagine new worlds, but also his bond to the turbulent cultural and historical landscape around him - the context within which his life and art took shape.

Book Wilde Style

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil Sammells
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-07-22
  • ISBN : 131787949X
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Wilde Style written by Neil Sammells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Best Remembered Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Gardner
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486271651
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Best Remembered Poems written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat."nbsp; Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets.

Book The Howard L  and Muriel Weingrow Collection of Avant Garde Art and Literature at Hofstra University

Download or read book The Howard L and Muriel Weingrow Collection of Avant Garde Art and Literature at Hofstra University written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Howard L. and Muriel Weingrow Collection consists of approximately 4,000 items including original illustrated books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, pamphlets, posters, manuscripts, letters, and original prints representing most of the major avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. It provides important information on primary and secondary works of related movements as well as themes of interest and concern to modern artists and writers. This catalogue is divided into two sections. Part One deals with all material excluding periodicals, which are covered in Part Two. Authors and/or artists are listed alphabetically. Each item is identified in terms of its movement. A description of its size and contents; information on special features of the publication, such as paper, binding, and edition; and other pertinent data concerning materials inherent in the book, periodical, catalogue, or object are provided. The reproductions included are representative of original materials found in the various publications included in this collection.

Book The Caxton Head Catalogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Tregaskis (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1352 pages

Download or read book The Caxton Head Catalogue written by James Tregaskis (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-11
  • ISBN : 0674057929
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, Wilde’s uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.

Book Famous Poems from Bygone Days

Download or read book Famous Poems from Bygone Days written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, from Hugh Antoine d'Arcy's "The Face on the Barroom Floor" to Phila Henrietta Chase's "Nobody’s Child," rich in rhythm and rhyme, filled with feelings and stories about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell. Introduction. Brief biographies of each poet. Alphabetical indexes of titles and first lines.

Book The Caxton Head Catalogue

Download or read book The Caxton Head Catalogue written by James Tregaskis & Son (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: