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Book Commonplace Learning

Download or read book Commonplace Learning written by Howard Hotson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. This book, the first contextualized study of this rich tradition, has wide-ranging implications for the intellectual, cultural, and social histories not only of the Holy Roman Empire but also of the entire Protestant world in the crucial decades immediately preceding the advent of the "new philosophy" in the mid-seventeenth century.

Book Printed Commonplace books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Download or read book Printed Commonplace books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought written by Ann Moss and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.

Book The Complete Enneagram

Download or read book The Complete Enneagram written by Beatrice Chestnut and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enneagram—a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility—is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.

Book Garner s Quotations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dwight Garner
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2020-11-10
  • ISBN : 0374722145
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Garner s Quotations written by Dwight Garner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!

Book Christina McPhee  A Commonplace Book

Download or read book Christina McPhee A Commonplace Book written by Eileen A. Joy and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina McPhee's 'commonplace book' draws from a palimpsest of handwritten notes, lists, quotations, bibliographic fragments, and sketches, from an artist whose voracious reading practice is a direct feed into her life and art - all set to a visual and textual design-as-score, as prominent writers on painting, media arts, performance, video installation and poetics engage with her 'open-work' practice. Christina McPhee's images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the dazzle ships of camouflage in war. This 'commonplace book' develops a view of recent work in collaged paintings, drawings, photomontage and video installation, around themes of environmental transformation and 'post-natural' community. The book includes conversations, essays, interviews and notes by Ina Blom, Phil King, James MacDevitt, Donata Marletta, Melissa Potter, Judith Rodenbeck, Esztar Timár, and Frazer Ward. "McPhee's drawing, extended to and infiltrated with digital video, seems to outline a different and stranger project: that of creating as yet unknown material composites by aligning the rapid time-processing of our nervous systems with the emergent natures at actual sites of energy production or extraction." Ina Blom Christina McPhee's work is in museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the International Center for Photography, New York, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Thresholds New Media Collection, Scotland, and elsewhere. Her work has shown in solo exhibitions at American Unversity Museum, Washington, DC; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, and in group exhibitions including documenta 12 and Bucharest Biennial 3. She lives and works in California, and you can see more of her work at: http: //www.christinamcphee.net/.

Book A Certain World

Download or read book A Certain World written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poesi og prosa - og meget andet - i udvalg

Book The Weird

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff VanderMeer
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2012-01-24
  • ISBN : 1466803193
  • Pages : 2482 pages

Download or read book The Weird written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Zibaldone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giacomo Leopardi
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2013-07-16
  • ISBN : 1466837055
  • Pages : 2592 pages

Download or read book Zibaldone written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 2592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth century Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. (Jonathan Galassi's translation of Leopardi's Canti was published by FSG in 2010.) He was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature and philosophy, and a voracious reader in numerous ancient and modern languages. For most of his writing career, he kept an immense notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or "hodge-podge," as Harold Bloom has called it, in which Leopardi put down his original, wide-ranging, radically modern responses to his reading. His comments about religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, astronomy, literature, poetry, and love are unprecedented in their brilliance and suggestiveness, and the Zibaldone, which was only published at the turn of the twentieth century, has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture. Its 4,500-plus pages have never been fully translated into English until now, when a team under the auspices of Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino of the Leopardi Centre in Birmingham, England, have spent years producing a lively, accurate version. This essential book will change our understanding of nineteenth-century culture. This is an extraordinary, epochal publication.

Book Commonplace Book

Download or read book Commonplace Book written by E. M. Forster and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Book Too Much to Know

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann M. Blair
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-02
  • ISBN : 0300168497
  • Pages : 581 pages

Download or read book Too Much to Know written by Ann M. Blair and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.

Book The Rhetoric Companion

Download or read book The Rhetoric Companion written by Douglas Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five teeny tiny children who live in a dollhouse--Poppy, who wears a crown, Fern, the twins Spike and Reed, and Baby Rose--and their wheeled guard dog, Burr, encounter a cat, a bat, and other creatures, and search for Baby Rose.

Book The Raconteur s Commonplace Book

Download or read book The Raconteur s Commonplace Book written by Kate Milford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this standalone mystery set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Greenglass House by an Edgar Award–winning author, a group of strangers trapped in an otherworldly inn slowly reveal their secrets, proving that nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories—each a different type of folklore—that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down—an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain—the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough? "Will dazzle seasoned Milford fans and kindle new ones." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

Book A Commonplace Book on Teaching and Learning

Download or read book A Commonplace Book on Teaching and Learning written by Pascal de Caprariis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The format of the book is a little unusual because I decided to use the structure of a commonplace book, in which commonplace items that one comes across in one's life are jotted down for future reference in a journal. The idea is to let the quotations set up discussions about various aspects of learning. My intent was to end up with a loosely coupled but reasonably coherent set of ideas within each chapter. This goal was pursued by seeing to it that a substantial number of quotations within a chapter are at least somewhat related. One advantage of this format is that the reader can open the book nearly anywhere and find an idea that can be considered independently of other parts of the book. The intent is to provide on every page stepping stones that allow the reader to go a bit further by mulling over an idea

Book The Education of Hyman Kaplan

Download or read book The Education of Hyman Kaplan written by Leo Rosten and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1937 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The hilarious, timeless tale about a unique American experience"--Cover

Book The Reformation of Common Learning

Download or read book The Reformation of Common Learning written by Howard Hotson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.

Book A Writer s Commonplace Book

Download or read book A Writer s Commonplace Book written by Rosemary Friedman and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In effect the personal notebook of a distinguished and highly individualistic novelist and writer, this is an eclectic collection of more than 1,000 short quotations that have struck a chord with the author in the course of her life and work. Drawing on the works of writers and commentators from many eras, this beautifully designed book displays not only its author's wide reading, but also great sensibility, profound good sense, and fine, if understated, wit. A writer's book for anyone who wishes to live a fulfilling life.

Book A New Method of Making Common place books

Download or read book A New Method of Making Common place books written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: