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Book A Concise Bibliography for Students of English

Download or read book A Concise Bibliography for Students of English written by Arthur Garfield Kennedy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vergil s Aeneid

Download or read book Vergil s Aeneid written by S. Farron and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, critics of the Aeneid have assumed that all or most of its episodes must propound something about Aeneas and his mission to found the Roman people, and through them about Rome and Augustus; whether that is their positive aspects, or their brutality and destructiveness, or the contrast between the public "voice" of their achievements and the private "voice" of the suffering they cause. This book argues that this assumption is wrong; the Aeneid's main purpose was to present a series of emotionally moving episodes, especially pathetic ones. This book shows that the Aeneid makes more sense when regarded primarily as a series of emotion-arousing episodes than as expressing a pro-Aeneas, anti-Aeneas or two voices message. That is how it was regarded into the nineteenth century and that is what the ancient Greeks and Romans assumed was the main purpose of literature.

Book An Anglo Saxon and Celtic Bibliography  450 1087

Download or read book An Anglo Saxon and Celtic Bibliography 450 1087 written by Wilfrid Bonser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heritage of the English Library

Download or read book The Heritage of the English Library written by Raymond Irwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1964 this volume continues the studies of the history of libraries and incorporates material included in The Origins of the English Library with some additional material. It was published at a time when there was a marked revival of interest in the historical background of libraries and reading. The book examines the social and intellectual background against which libraries have prospered and the roots in both classical and medieval periods from which they came. This book will be of interest to historians, librarians and educationalists.

Book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967  Authors   titles

Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967 Authors titles written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music in Western Civilization

Download or read book Music in Western Civilization written by Paul Henry Lang and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of occidental music focuses on the function of music as an expression of the spirit and artistic life of each age.

Book Perfect in Weakness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colin Heber-Percy
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2019-04-16
  • ISBN : 1532663242
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Perfect in Weakness written by Colin Heber-Percy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three men go on a risky journey through a forbidden Zone in search of fulfillment. They fail. They come home. The end. The plot of Tarkovsky’s Stalker is a joke. Taking its title from 2 Corinthians, Perfect in Weakness explores Stalker as a ludic parable. And the subject of this parable is faith. Faith as folly, faith as a dangerous, last-ditch attempt to attain the unattainable. To fail, to fail again, and to carry on regardless. Stalker is about crossing borders, boundaries, conventions. To transgress, to disrupt, to deconstruct is the dark impulse behind Tarkovsky’s personal vision. It is also the illicit, revolutionary message at the heart of the gospel: tear down this temple, and have faith. Like one of Deleuze’s rhizomes, or David Tracy’s fragments, Perfect in Weakness aims to throw out thoughts, ideas, and connections in unexpected (even unintended) directions, drawing new and unlikely texts into the field of film theology—Patristic thought, Christian Neoplatonism, and Renaissance literature. Perfect in Weakness suggests we see cinema itself as the ultimate apocalyptic art form—letting light into the darkness, and then throwing it on a screen.

Book Christine de Pizan 2000

Download or read book Christine de Pizan 2000 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1430)—whether read as lyric poet, prose polemicist or historian, feminist or universal moralist—has over the past thirty years become more widely read than any other medieval French author. The attraction of her works continues to grow amongst the general public, as well as among critics and historians of literature, ideas, science and the visual arts, political scientists and philologists, and specialists in feminist theory. Christine intrigues readers by her intellectual paradoxes as much as by her prefiguration of modern attitudes by and toward women. This collection of essays honours Angus J. Kennedy, an illustrious scholar who has greatly contributed to fostering this modern growth in interest. The editors here present a significant sampling of varieties of inquiry on Christine: a broad range of contributors, from around the world, represent different approaches and levels of experience. The volume contains two indexes, and a bibliography structured to serve as an integrated and integral reference source to pertinent primary and secondary materials. This volume thus charts the progress of Christine de Pizan studies at the start of the new millennium. True to the spirit of its honoree, it also aims to serve as a gateway to future research.

Book De Officiis  Commentary

Download or read book De Officiis Commentary written by Ambrosius (Mediolanensis, Heiliger) and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'De officiis' of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (c.339-397) is a key text of early Christian literature. Based on a work by the Roman writer Cicero, it presents the first systematic account of Christian ethics.

Book The Bogomils

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  • Author : Dimitri Obolensky
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-08-19
  • ISBN : 9780521607636
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Bogomils written by Dimitri Obolensky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism traces the development of this little-understood heresy from its Middle Eastern roots. The Bogomils derived elements of their doctrine and practice from the Manichaeans and the Paulicians. By the reign of Alexius Comnenus, Bogomilism was rife within the Bulgarian and Byzantine empire and had taken hold even amongst influential families in Constantinople itself. Though they suffered persecution, decline and ultimate disappearance in their Balkan heartlands, the Bogomils were subsequently an influence upon more celebrated heresies in France and Italy. Dmitri Obolensky's magisterial study of Balkan dualism remains the definitive work on Bogomilism.

Book Against the Friars

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  • Author : Tim Rayborn
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-10-23
  • ISBN : 0786468319
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Against the Friars written by Tim Rayborn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The friars represented a remarkable innovation in medieval religious life. Founded in the early 13th century, the Franciscans and Dominicans seemed a perfect solution to the Church's troubles in confronting rapid changes in society. They attracted enthusiastic support, especially from the papacy, to which they answered directly. In their first 200 years, membership grew at an astonishing rate, and they became counsellors to princes and kings, receiving an endless stream of donations and gifts. Yet there were those who believed the adulation was misguided or even dangerous, and who saw in the friars' actions only hypocrisy, deceit, greed and even signs of the end of the world. From the mid-13th century, writings appeared denouncing and mocking the friars and calling for their abolition. Their French and English opponents were among the most vocal. From harsh theological criticism and outrage at the Inquisition to vulgar tales and bathroom humor, this thoroughly documented work is suitable for the newcomer, as well as for readers who are familiar with the subject but might like to investigate specific topics in more detail.

Book The Great Political Theories

Download or read book The Great Political Theories written by Michael Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History Teacher s Magazine

Download or read book History Teacher s Magazine written by Albert Edward McKinley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "War supplements," Jan-Nov. 1918; "Supplements," Dec. 1918-Nov. 1919. These were also issued as reprints.

Book Popular Culture in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Popular Culture in the Middle Ages written by Josie P. Campbell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."

Book D S  Mirsky

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  • Author : Gerald Stanton Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780198160069
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book D S Mirsky written by Gerald Stanton Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography in any language of 'Comrade Prince' D. S. Mirsky (1890-1939), who uniquely participated in three distinctive episodes of modern European culture. In late imperial St Petersburg he was a poet, a student of Oriental languages and ancient history, and also a Guardsofficer. After fighting in World War I and the Russian Civil War, Mirsky emigrated, taught at London University, and became a literary critic and historian, writing prolifically in English, and also in Russian for the Paris-centred emigration, especially as a leading member of the Eurasian movement.His closest literary relationships were with Marina Tsvetaeva and Aleksei Remizov, and later with Maksim Gorky. In 1926-7 he published A History of Russian Literature, written in English, which remains the standard introduction to the subject. While in London he lived in Bloomsbury and knew theWoolfs; he also knew T. S. Eliot, and was the first Russian critic to write about him. Mirsky became a Communist in 1931 and returned to Stalin's Moscow the following year, becoming a prominent Soviet critic, and in particular championing Boris Pasternak. In 1937 he was arrested, and died in theGulag. This biography draws on much unpublished material, including Mirsky's NKVD files.

Book Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland

Download or read book Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland written by C. Thomas Cairney and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: