Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This fourth volume, and second to appear in the series, covers the years 1790-1880 and explores romantic and Victorian receptions of the classics. Noting the changing fortunes of particular classical authors and the influence of developments in archaeology, aesthetics and education, it traces the interplay between classical and nineteenth-century perceptions of gender, class, religion, and the politics of republic and empire in chapters engaging with many of the major writers of this period.
Download or read book The Fire Next Time written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's A Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called ldquo;Negro problemrdquo;. As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its uncompromising account of black experience in the United States, it is considered to this day one of the most articulate and influential expressions of 1960s race relations. The book consists of two essays, ldquo;My Dungeon Shook mdash; Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,rdquo; and ldquo;Down At The Cross mdash; Letter from a Region of My Mind.rdquo; It weaves thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the so-say ldquo;land of the freerdquo;, insisting on the inequality implicit to American society. ldquo;You were born where you were born and faced the future that you facedrdquo;, Baldwin writes to his nephew, ldquo;because you were black and for no other reason.rdquo; His profound sense of injustice is matched by a robust belief in ldquo;monumental dignityrdquo;, in patience, empathy, and the possibility of transforming America into ldquo;what America must become.rdquo;
Download or read book The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham written by Billy Graham and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret of Happiness is what we all long for, what we seek in our jobs, our relationships, our activities. We try so hard to be happy, and all too often we end up empty and unsatisfied. Why? Because, writes Billy Graham, we are looking for happiness in all the wrong places." "Hope for the Troubled Heart is filled with unforgettable stories of real-life people and irrefutable lessons of biblical wisdom. This book shows you how to cope when your heart is breaking, how to pray through your pain, how to avoid the dark pit of resentment and bitterness, and how to be a comforter to others who hurt. Here you'll learn how hope helps troubled hearts find peace." In Death and the Life After he answers questions about the process of dying; teaches loving ways to comfort those who face death; gives practical advice on planning a funeral and preparing a will; and presents real-life testimonies of courageous men and women facing death.
Download or read book Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain 1815 1914 written by William C. Lubenow and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public life in Great Britain underwent a major transformation after the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 and the passage of the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, which eliminated the requirement that men in public positions swear to uphold the doctrines of the Anglican Church. According to Lubenow (Stockton College), these legislative changes initiated a fundamental reallocation of power, opening many careers to men of talent and educational qualifications, including those whose perspectives and intellectual dispositions led them to question the validity of uniform religious dogma. Lubenow identifies members of the Benson, Strachey, Balfour, Lyttelton, and Sitwell families among the "Men of Letters" who epitomized the 19th century's new secular meritocracy, noting that when religious uniformity was removed as a requirement for positions in the public sphere, religion became more important, if more fluid, in the lives of such Britons. Thus, men of intellectual merit, rather than only those from the more conservative landowning or military traditions, were able to rise in politics, civil service, the clergy, the professions, and the universities, taking their liberal values regarding liberty, moral cultivation, and philosophy into the wider public sphere. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by E. J. Jenkins.
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Upton Sinclair Illustrated written by Upton Sinclair and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 16871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1943, Upton Sinclair was a prolific American novelist and polemicist for socialism, health, temperance, free speech and worker rights. His classic muckraking novel ‘The Jungle’ is regarded as a landmark naturalistic proletarian work, praised by Jack London as “the ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of wage slavery.” Sinclair also reached a wide audience with his Lanny Budd series of contemporary historical novels, concerning the adventures of an antifascist hero, who witnesses key events surrounding the two World Wars. This comprehensive eBook presents Sinclair’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sinclair’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * 43 novels, with individual contents tables * The Complete Lanny Budd Series; all eleven novels * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes a selection of Sinclair’s plays and non-fiction * Features two autobiographies – discover Sinclair’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Lanny Budd Series World’s End (1940) Between Two Worlds (1941) Dragon’s Teeth (1942) Wide Is the Gate (1943) Presidential Agent (1944) Dragon Harvest (1945) A World to Win (1946) A Presidential Mission (1947) One Clear Call (1948) O Shepherd, Speak! (1949) The Return of Lanny Budd (1953) Other Novels A Prisoner of Morro (1898) Springtime and Harvest (1901) The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) On Guard (1903) The West Point Rivals (1903) A West Point Treasure (1903) A Cadet’s Honor (1903) The Cruise of the Training Ship (1903) Manassas (1904) A Captain of Industry (1906) The Jungle (1906) The Overman (1907) The Metropolis (1908) The Moneychangers (1908) Samuel the Seeker (1910) Love’s Pilgrimage (1911) Damaged Goods (1913) Sylvia (1913) Sylvia’s Marriage (1914) King Coal (1917) Jimmie Higgins (1919) 100%: The Story of a Patriot (1920) They Call Me Carpenter (1922) The Millennium (1924) The Spokesman’s Secretary (1926) Oil! (1927) Boston (1928) The Gnomobile (1936) The Flivver King (1937) What Didymus Did (1954) Affectionately Eve (1961) The Plays Plays of Protest (1912) The Pot Boiler (1913) The Non-Fiction The Industrial Republic (1907) Good Health and How We Won It (1909) The Fasting Cure (1911) The Profits of Religion (1917) The Brass Check (1919) The Goose-Step (1923) The Goslings (1924) Mammonart (1925) Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (1925) Mental Radio (1930) The Book of Love (1934) The Autobiographies American Outpost (1932) The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (1962)
Download or read book The Downfall and Rise of Steven Leroy Zienner written by Jerry Dampier and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the mid-1950s, this story of redemption focuses on Steven Leroy Zienner, a powerful, overbearing, arrogant owner of three large meat processing plants who believes money is the most important thing in life.
Download or read book Optical Allusions written by Joseph T. Sorensen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how painted screens and other visual art objects contributed to the development of some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry.
Download or read book Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Ann R. Hawkins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection traces the unique experiences of nineteenth-century women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books and even gossip columns, in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth-century women writers achieved popular, critical and commercial success.
Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Education and School World written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Download or read book The United States Catalog Books in Print January 1 1912 written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson. This book was released on 1921 with total page 2174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton written by Valerie Hotchkiss and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books. Lavishly illustrated with more than 130 full-color images of stunning rare books, this volume investigates a full range of issues regarding the dissemination of English language and culture through printed works, including the standardization of typography, grammar, and spelling; the appearance of popular literature; and the development of school grammars and dictionaries. Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson provide engaging descriptions of more than a hundred early English books drawn from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Elizabethan Club of Yale University. The study nearly mirrors the chronological coverage of Pollard and Redgrave's famous Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), beginning with William Caxton, England's first printer, and ending with John Milton, the English language's most eloquent defender of the freedom of the press in his Areopagitica of 1644. William Shakespeare, neither a printer nor a writer much concerned with publishing his own plays, nonetheless deserves his central place in this study because Shakespeare imprints, and Renaissance drama in general, provide a fascinating window on the world of English printing in the period between Caxton and Milton.
Download or read book Mama Lion Wins the Race written by Jon J Muth and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New friendships, surprising turns, heroic deeds -- and amazing racing cars! Start your engines: The race is on! And Mama Lion and Tigey are off -- with their cool goggles and snazzy sports car! Racing teams gather from far and wide for this madcap race. But who will take home the big trophy? Will it be the playful Flying Pandinis? The mischievous Knitted Monkey crew? Or will Mama Lion and Tigey speed past the finish line in first place? While everyone hopes to win, it's the journey itself -- filled with joy, beauty, fun, and friendships -- that is the best prize of all.With cars inspired by the early days of Italian motor racing, and characters based on his children's beloved toy animals, Jon J Muth has created a uniquely spellbinding book that readers will return to again and again.
Download or read book The Neighborhood Mother Goose written by and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nursery rhymes, both familiar and less known, illustrated with photographs in a city setting.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature written by Ralph Hexter and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. While advanced specialists will find much here to engage and at times to provoke them, this handbook successfully orients non-specialists and students to this thriving field of study. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium that forms the bridge between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.
Download or read book Economics of the Law written by Thomas J. Miceli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the field of law and economics has matured to the point where scholars have employed the latest economic methods in an effort to understand the nature of legal rules and to guide legal reform. This book is the first to provide a broad survey of this scholarship as it has been applied to problems in torts, contracts, property, and litigation. It will therefore serve as a convenient reference guide to this exciting field.
