Download or read book A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Vox Clamantis in Deserto written by Edward Abbey and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in softcover, Edward Abbey's last book, a collection of unforgettable barbs of wisdom from the best-selling author of The Monkey Wrench Gang. Notes from a Secret Journal Edward Abbey on: Government-"Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by a government against its own people." Sex-"How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out of Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah." New York City-"New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?" Literature-"Henry James. Our finest lady novelist."
Download or read book Vox Clamantis written by Ralph Sadler and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vox Clamatis in Deserto written by George Liebmann and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historically-informed collection of 110 short op-ed articles on American and Maryland politics 1995-2020, including longer pieces on welfare reform, reapportionment, and Palestine, together with 20 book reviews of historical works and three longer esseays on the original design of the United Nations, the Nazi impact on the western world, and the record of the Kennedy administration
Download or read book Mirour de L Omme written by John Gower and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mirour de l'Omme (The Mirror of Mankind) is an encyclopedia of moral topics, including a vivid allegory of the Seven Deadly Sins. Author John Gower (1330-1408) was a poet, personal friend of Chaucer, and the most prominent member of his literary circle.
Download or read book The academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing and Rebellion written by Steven Justice and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the "peasant revolt" of 1381 demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment, but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. It focuses on six brief texts by the rebels themselves.
Download or read book Chaucerian Conflict written by Marion Turner and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucerian Conflict explores the textual environment of London in the 1380s and 1390s, revealing a language of betrayal, surveillance, slander, treason, rebellion, flawed idealism, and corrupted compaignyes. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, it examines how discourses about social antagonism work across different kinds of texts written at this time, including Chaucer's House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde, and Canterbury Tales, and other literary texts such as St Erkenwald, Gower's Vox clamantis, Usk's Testament of Love, and Maidstone's Concordia. Many non-literary texts are also discussed, including the Mercers' Petition, Usk's Appeal, the guild returns, judicial letters, de Mezieres's Letter to Richard II, and chronicle accounts. These were tumultuous decades in London: some of the conflicts and problems discussed include the Peasants' Revolt, the mayoral rivalries of the 1380s, the Merciless Parliament, slander legislation, and contemporary suspicion of urban associations. While contemporary texts try to hold out hope for the future, or imagine an earlier Golden Age, Chaucer's texts foreground social conflict and antagonism. Though most critics have promoted an idea of Chaucer's texts as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer presents a vision of a society that is inevitably divided and destructive.
Download or read book Fragments written by Malte Urban and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower appropriated their sources, paying particular attention to the theories of history and political agendas informing these appropriations. The study offers comparative readings of Chaucer's and Gower's works, framed by a concern with twentieth-century theories that explore the limits of historicist and deconstructive readings of late medieval texts. Starting with Gower's Vox Clamantis, the chapters offer largely chronological readings of texts such as Chaucer's dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde, the Tale of Melibee and the Physician's Tale, and a selection of tales from Gower's Confessio Amantis. The querying historicism pursued in these readings offers a new way of considering late medieval literature, focusing on close-reading and a dialogue between medieval and post-medieval cultural discourses.
Download or read book Through A Classical Eye written by Andrew Galloway and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As students and scholars of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Dante know, late medieval writers were influenced greatly by the work of peers that crossed historical, national, cultural, linguistic boundaries. Through a Classical Eye contains first-rate essays that demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking transcultural and transhistorical studies of the late medieval period, and examines medieval literature and culture where English, Italian, and Latin materials overlap. Written in honour of the groundbreaking contributions that Winthrop Wetherbee made to this growing area of study, the volume's contributors advance his legacy and add to the burgeoning interest in setting medieval literary studies into wide intellectual and historical horizons. Divided into three illuminating sections on Medieval Latin authorship, Italy and the world, and England and beyond, and including a personal reminiscence of Wetherbee by the noted novelist Robert Morgan, Through a Classical Eye is an outstanding collection that provides key insights into medieval literature and culture.
Download or read book Academy and Literature written by Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The St Gall Passion Play written by Peter Macardle and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early-fourteenth-century St Gall Passion Play comes from the Central Rhineland. Unfortunately its music (over one hundred Latin and German chants) is given in the manuscript only as brief incipits, without any musical notation. This interdisciplinary study reconstructs the musical stratum of the play. It is the first full-scale musical reconstruction of a large German Passion play in recent times, using the latest available scholarly data in drama, liturgy and music. It draws conclusions about performance practice and forces, and offers a sound basis for an authentic performance of the play. The study applies musical and liturgical data to the problem of localizing the play (the first time this has been systematically attempted), and assesses how applicable this might be to other plays. It presents a detailed study of the distinctive medieval liturgical uses of three German dioceses, Mainz, Speyer and Worms. The comparative approach suggests how the music of other plays might be reconstructed and understood, and shows that a better understanding of the music of medieval drama has much to teach us about other aspects of the genre. The book should be of interest to literary scholars, theatre historians, musicologists, liturgical scholars, and those involved in the performance of early drama.
Download or read book Quarterly Magazine of the International Musical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Specimens with Memoirs of the Less Known British Poets written by George Gilfillan and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets" is a collection of poetry compiled by George Gilfillan. George Gilfillan (1813–1878) was a Scottish author, poet, and literary critic known for his anthologies and works on poetry. Key Features of "Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets": Scope: The collection aims to showcase the works of lesser-known or underappreciated British poets, providing a platform for poets who may not have gained widespread recognition. Memoirs: In addition to the poems, Gilfillan includes memoirs or biographical sketches of the featured poets. These sections provide context and information about the lives of the poets. Multivolume Work: As indicated by "Volume I," this collection was likely part of a multivolume series. Each volume would feature different poets and their works. Literary Criticism: Gilfillan, being a literary critic, may have provided commentary or analysis in addition to the poems and memoirs. His insights could offer readers a deeper understanding of the featured poets and their contributions. Period Covered: Depending on the poets included, the collection may cover a range of periods in British literary history.
Download or read book English Writers V 1 Pts 1 2 2 Pt 1 written by Henry Morley and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historians on John Gower written by Stephen Rigby and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender (masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett, Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson, Stephen Rigby, Jens Röhrkasten.
Download or read book The Foundations of English Literature written by Fred Lewis Pattee and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
