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Book The Passenger  Medieval Texts and Transits

Download or read book The Passenger Medieval Texts and Transits written by James L. Smith and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. The resulting volume asks a core question: what can we learn by tarrying at the nexus points and hubs through which things move in and out of texts, attempting to trace not the things themselves or their supposedly stable significations, but rather their forms of emergence and retreat, of disorder and disequilibrium? The answer is complex and intermediate, for we ourselves are emerging and retreating within our own systems of transit and experiencing our own disequilibrium. Scholarship, like transit, is never complete and yet never congeals into inertia. Through the manifold explorations of the dynamic transit, transports, scapes, and flows found within literary-and Chaucerian-thought-worlds, new vistas of motion and motivation emerge. Following John Urry's mobile sociology, the volume advances the notion that we can no longer view either social worlds or textual worlds as uniform surfaces upon which one can trace or write a history of the horizontal movements of humans and human mentalities; rather, everything is in constant motion: objects, images, information/ideas, and mobility is thus also vertical, involving human and non-human actants. The essays in this volume consider, then, how medieval literary texts in Chaucer's period rewarp time and space by the means of sophisticated transit and transport structures, which might be traced within specific works but also across works, such as in text networks. Motive entities within literature twist and turn, interact and collide, and destabilise predictable trajectories with unpredictable vigor. TABLE OF CONTENTS // James L. Smith, "Introduction: Transport, Scape, Flow: Medieval Transit Systems" - Christopher Roman, "Bios in The Prik of Conscience: The Apophatic Body and the Sensuous Soul" - Jennie Friedrich, "Concordia discors: The Traveling Heart as Foreign Object in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" - Robert Stanton, "Whan I schal passyn hens: Moving With/In The Book of Margery Kempe" - Carolynn Van Dyke, "Animal Vehicles: Mobility beyond Metaphor" - Sarah Breckenridge Wright, "Building Bridges to Canterbury" - Thomas R. Schneider, "Chaucer's Physics: Motion in The House of Fame"

Book Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean

Download or read book Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean written by Y. Tzvi Langermann and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays using historical and philological approaches to study the transit of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period. Examines the nature of texts themselves and how they travel, and reveals the details behind the transit of texts across cultures, languages, and epochs.

Book The Official Guide for GMAT Review  Korean Edition

Download or read book The Official Guide for GMAT Review Korean Edition written by GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents test-taking strategies and practice questions on the Graduate Management Admission Test, focusing on grammar, reading comprehension, critical reasoning, and sentence correction.

Book The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2015 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video

Download or read book The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2015 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video written by Graduate Management Admission Council and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews topics covered on the verbal, quantitative, and integrated reasoning portions of the test; provides test-taking strategies; and includes a diagnostic test with answers and detailed explanations.

Book The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2015 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video

Download or read book The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2015 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video written by GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only official study guide from the creators of the test and delivers more than 900 retired GMAT® questions and answer explanations and a 100- question diagnostic exam to help focus your test preparation efforts. NEW to The Official Guide for GMAT® Review 2015: Access to the online Question Bank including more than 900 practice questions of all types with answers and explanations, math review, essay topics, and a diagnostic test, as well as access to 50 online integrated reasoning questions. Exclusive access to videos from real test takers and GMAC staff who share insight and tips on GMAT® preparation.

Book The Official Guide for GMAT Review

Download or read book The Official Guide for GMAT Review written by GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted source for studying the GMAT test, written by GMAC - the creators of the exam. The Official Guide to the GMAT, 13th Edition is the most up-to-date study guide for the GMAT test, containing 50 official questions from the new Integrated Reasoning component which was fully integrated into the test in June 2012. Because this component is more interactive than other core components in the GMAT exam (Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing), the Integrated Reasoning practice questions will be housed on a companion website that readers will be able to access after purchasing the book*. Includes: More than 900 questions from past GMAT exams Diagnostic section helps you assess where to focus your test-prep efforts Full answers and detailed explanations for practice questions Grammar review covering concepts tested in the GMAT Verbal section Comprehensive math review of the topics tested in the GMAT Quantitative section Actual essay topics, sample responses and scoring information Questions organized in order of difficulty to save study time Don't settle for anything less when studying for the GMAT test, purchase the Official Guide today. *To use the Integrated Reasoning companion website, you must have one of the following browsers: Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer version 7 or higher.

Book The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2016 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video

Download or read book The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2016 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video written by GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ace the GMAT with the only official study guide from the creators of the exam With 25% brand new content, The Official Guide for the GMAT Review 2016 delivers more than 900 retired questions from the official GMAT exam, complete with answer explanations and a 100-question diagnostic exam to help focus your test preparation efforts. Also includes exclusive online resources: Build your own practice tests with the exclusive online question bank of 900 questions, with answers and explanations, math review, essay topics and a diagnostic test, as well 50 integrated reasoning questions Exclusive access to videos with insight and tips on GMAT preparation from previous test-takers and from the officials who create the test

Book Book Review Digest

Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 2144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art  Space and the City

Download or read book Art Space and the City written by Malcolm Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and places it within broader contexts of public space and gender by exploring both the aesthetic and political aspects of the medium.

Book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature  Science and Arts

Download or read book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature  Science and Arts

Download or read book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Troll Inside You

Download or read book The Troll Inside You written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say "troll"? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under study are from 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century Iceland. The focus of the book is on the ways in which paranormal experiences are related and defined in these texts and how those definitions have framed and continue to frame scholarly interpretations of the paranormal. The book is partitioned into numerous brief chapters, each with its own theme. In each case the author is not least concerned with how the paranormal functions within medieval society and in the minds of the individuals who encounter and experience it and go on to narrate these experiences through intermediaries. The author connects the paranormal encounter closely with fears and these fears are intertwined with various aspects of the human experience including gender, family ties, and death. The Troll Inside You hovers over the boundaries of scholarship and literature. Its aim is to prick and provoke but above all to challenge its audience to reconsider some of their preconceived ideas about the medieval past.

Book A Theory of Enclaves

Download or read book A Theory of Enclaves written by Evgeny Vinokurov and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempting to provide a fully-fledged theory of enclaves and exclaves, A Theory of Enclaves covers a wide scope of regions and territories throughout the world and satisfies the need for a systematic view on enclaves. This book covers 282 enclaves, with a combined population total of approximately three million, but the importance of enclaves is much higher because of their specific status and issues raised for both the mainland states and the surrounding states: Gibraltar was disproportionately large for British-Spanish relations throughout the last three centuries, Kaliningrad managed to cause a major crisis in the EU-Russian relations in 2002-03, Tiny Ceuta and Melilla have caused tensions in Spanish-Moroccan relations for more than three centuries and have recently become visible as conflict points at the EU level, German Buesingen was subject to several complex international treaties between Germany and Switzerland. Rather than viewing each enclave as a unique case, or even as an anomaly, A Theory of Enclaves provides a systematic investigation of enclave-related political and economic issues. Rich on maps and illustrations, A Theory of Enclaves strives to comprise three facets of enclaves' existence: political, economic, and social life.

Book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature  Science and Arts

Download or read book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arkansas Biography

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeannie M. Whayne
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781557285874
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Arkansas Biography written by Jeannie M. Whayne and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years in the making, Arkansas Biography brings to light the lives of those who have helped shape Arkansas history for over four hundred years. Featured are not only the trailblazers, such as steamboat captain Henry Shreve, Olympic gold medalist Bill Carr, discount mogul Sam Walton, and aviator Louise Thaden, but also those whose lives reflect their culture and times--musicians, scientists, teachers, preachers, and journalists. One hundred and eighty contributors--professional and avocational historians--offer clear vignettes of nearly three hundred individuals, beginning with Hernando de Soto, who crossed the Mississippi River in the summer of 1540. The entries include birth and death dates and places, life and career highlights, lineage, anecdotes, and source material. This is a browser's book with an Arkansas voice. The wealth of information condensed into this single reference volume will be valuable to general readers of all ages, libraries, museums, and scholars. A fitting summary at the turn of a millennium, Arkansas Biography pays lasting tribute to the men and women who have enriched the life and character of the state and, by extension, the region and the nation.

Book American Medieval Goes North

Download or read book American Medieval Goes North written by Gillian R. Overing and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the great virtues of American/Medieval Goes North is ist wide range of contributors with fascinatingly diverse relationships to the main terms of analysis. There are academic scholars, poets, filmmakers, tribal elders, teachers at various levels; there are Indigenous people, people from settler colonial cultures, expats, immigrants. Their analytic and imaginative encounters with the North catch at the intensely symbolic and political charge of that locus. At a time when Medieval Studies cannot afford to ignore the period's popular uptake – cannot continue with business as usual in the face of white supremacists' brazen appropriations of the Middle Ages – this volume points to new possibilities for grappling with the uneasy relationships between the 'American' and the 'medieval'." – Prof Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University

Book Temporal Experiments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Barnhart
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-12-27
  • ISBN : 1000832139
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Temporal Experiments written by Bruce Barnhart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature conducts an expansive exploration of different modes of timing. Its seven chapters pursue the question of time as it is embodied in key figures that shape both aesthetic and pragmatic life. Working closely with literary, visual, and musical artworks, the book aims to provoke new ways of engaging with the question of time. It treats artworks as experiments that launch temporal figures, and that test out the possibilities and connections these different figures enable. Thus, the book seizes upon works by artists like Anne Carson, King Tubby, and Raymond Queneau as opportunities for thinking through the valence of both existing and untested temporal configurations. What other modes of shaping time, it asks, might be conjured out of the viewing of an Omer Fast film, the reading of a poem by Baudelaire, or of a novel by Tom McCarthy? In treating artworks as temporal experiments, this book stresses the fact that artworks always experiment with the raw materials of time, fashioning it or refashioning it into novel combinations. This book follows the imperatives of these experiments in order to advance a nuanced understanding of the way time insinuates itself into all aspects of social and intellectual life.