Download or read book Interpretation and Cultural History written by Joan H. Pittock and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book are internationally recognized experts in cultural history. They illustrate the subject's central importance for the humanities today.
Download or read book Aberdeen and the Enlightenment written by Jennifer J. Carter and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity written by Ludwig Edelstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass through a regular sequence of stages of development in past, present, and future, the latter stages being—with perhaps occasional retardations or minor regressions—superior to the earlier." Edelstein's contemporaries asserted that the Greeks and Romans were entirely ignorant of a belief in progress in this sense of the term. In arguing against this dominant thesis, Edelstein draws from the conclusions of scholars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and discusses ideas of Auguste Comte and Wilhelm Dilthey.
Download or read book Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition written by Lawrence Lipking and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.
Download or read book Apologia Pro Tychone Contra Ursum written by Nicholas Jardine and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-02-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus. He accompanies this with essays on the provenance of the treatise - the circumstances which provoked Kepler to write it, an analysis of its strategy, style and historical sources and of the contents of Ursus' Treatise on Astronomical Hypotheses to which Kepler was replying. Dr Jardine also provides three extended interpretive essays on the intrinsic interest and historical significance of the work.
Download or read book Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De onderkant van Verlichting en tolerantie: (homo)sexualiteit, pornografie e.d. (o.a. over Fanny Hill) in de sociaal-politieke context van de Britse 18e eeuw. - De relevante artikelen zijn afzonderlijk ontsloten.
Download or read book Man on His Past written by Herbert Butterfield and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1960 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potion Commotion written by Peter Bently and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious new picture book by Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner Peter Bently. Little witch Betty makes a big mess when she tries her hand at cooking. Into the cauldron goes everything from strawberry jam to slices of ham! Betty's potion keeps on growing and growing and soon it's spreading all over town. But when a hungry dragon arrives on the scene, can Betty's brew save the day? A spellbinding tale of magical mishaps!
Download or read book The Arte of English Poesie June 1589 written by George Puttenham and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Rise of English Literary History written by Rene Wellek and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of this readable account lies in the perspective it gives on the long process that established modern historical sense and the understanding of literary change and development. Though not primarily a history of English scholarship, careful attention has been given the rediscovery of early literature, history of critical thought, and the linguistic science in the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1941. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy written by Peter Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern Italy. The book addresses particular themes - specifically those of perception and communication - as well as serving to exemplify modes of analysis in the currently developing field of historical anthropology.
Download or read book Clinical Cases in ENT written by Geetha Chary and published by JP Medical Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Cases in ENT is a concise guide to clinical cases concerning 24 different areas of ENT practice, in a simple question and answer format. The 24 chapters describe each case in detail, followed by relevant questions and answers. The first two chapters concern ontological problems, followed by nasal disorders such as sinonasal polyps and inverted papilloma, and disorders of the throat including vocal nodules, glottic cancer and laryngopharyngeal carcinoma. The concluding chapters feature discussion on thyroid and salivary gland conditions. With contributions from leading experts in the field across a variety of cases, and presented in a simple format, Clinical Cases in ENT serves as a useful reference guide for ENT specialists and trainees in the field. Key Points Clinical cases covering 24 ENT conditions Simple question and answer format Illustrated throughout
Download or read book The History of English Poetry written by Thomas Warton and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Languages of Nature written by L. J. Jordanova and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge and Wonder second edition written by Victor F. Weisskopf and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1979-11-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100,000 copies of the first edition of Knowledge and Wonder have been sold, both in the U.S. and abroad. Written expressly for the general reader and beginning science student, the book describes our present scientific understanding of natural phenomena and the universality of that understanding and its human significance.
Download or read book The Ferment of Knowledge written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth - certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood era in the development of science, all too often viewed as something of a trough between the towering achievements of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the nineteenth century. Yet it was a period of notable developments; it saw the establishment of such fields as electricity and heat, the 'chemical revolution', the new science of gases, the isolation of oxygen, the nebular hypothesis in cosmology, the foundation of rational mechanics, and the birth pangs of biology, geology and psychology. It was, indeed, an age when knowledge was in ferment.
