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The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover

Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839116
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover written by Kevin Joel Berland and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.

American Commonplace

Author : Bruce Lohof
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879722210
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book American Commonplace written by Bruce Lohof and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Met lit. opg. Essays on the commonplace artifacts of life in modern America: advertising and celebreties, architecture, short fiction and magazines.

Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187894
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson’s notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson’s searching mind. Jefferson’s abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaking. Unlike the only previous edition of Jefferson’s notebook, published in 1926, this edition features a verified text of Jefferson’s entries and full annotation, including essential information on the authors and books he documents. In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction that places Jefferson’s text in legal, historical, and biographical context.

Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Author : Ann Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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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.

Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book

Author : Eileen A. Joy
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447084
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book by : Eileen A. Joy

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/.

Milcah Martha Moore's Book

Author : Catherine La Courreye Blecki
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041438
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Milcah Martha Moore's Book written by Catherine La Courreye Blecki and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the multi-faceted culture of Philadelphia culture in the late 18th century, Moore collected the writings of her elite Quaker family, mostly women friends, and poetry and letters by prominent intellectuals on both sides of the political debate over the Revolutionary War. The editors place such personal-use commonplace books in the context of the development of American print literature. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Commonplace Books

Author : Earle Havens
Publisher : Beinecke Rare Book &
ISBN 13 : 9780845731376
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Commonplace Books written by Earle Havens and published by Beinecke Rare Book &. This book was released on 2001 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Commonplace books" are collections of quotations, anecdotes, proverbs, and various other types of text extracts. They and the theories informing their compilation were the progenitors of reference works that are now quite taken for granted: encyclopedias, concordances, and books of quotations. Commonplace Books is a stand-alone historical survey of manuscript and printed books relating to the complex and extremely influential genre of the commonplace book from classical antiquity to the present day. Comprised of a series of long historical essays followed by short hand-lists of exhibited items, this volume is the first comprehensive, introductory survey to cover the entire commonplace book tradition, from its origin in ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and philosophy, to the end of the 20th century.

Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691047201
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, a notebook of his literary and philosophical reading. Unlike the only previous edition, published in 1928, it contains full annotation, pertinent information on the authors and works commonplaced, and a rationale for dating the entries. Thus it is now possible to show that most of the four hundred seven passages were entered when Jefferson was a young man, between the ages of fifteen and thirty. As such, they reflect the range of his literary interests from his school days to about the time of his marriage and involvement in politics. As one of the few surviving documents from Jefferson's early years, this notebook assumes special importance as a source of insight into the least known period of his life. In the introduction the editor presents reasons for thinking that the commonplace book was more to Jefferson than a literary sampler and was in some respects a deeply personal notebook with direct connections to the emotional events and preoccupations of his formative years. In addition to the text and annotation, the book contains a register of authors and an illustrated essay on Jefferson's handwriting that provides the rationale for assigning approximate dates to the entries of the commonplace book. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Commonplace Book of Pie

Author : Kate Lebo
Publisher : Chin Music Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0985041684
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book A Commonplace Book of Pie written by Kate Lebo and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut collection, award-winning poet and baker Kate Lebo redefines everything we thought we knew about pie. An eclectic mix of prose poems, fantasy zodiac, and humor, A Commonplace Book of Pie explores the tension between the container and the contained while considering the real and imagined relationships between pie and those who love it. Expanding on Lebo's successful chapbook of the same name, this volume includes new poems as well as more than two dozen Americana-themed illustrations by artist Jessica Lynn Bonin. Bonin's art adds a sense of nostalgia alongside Lebo's modern style, and together with the text, puts pie and the art of baking in a fresh, contemporary context. Kate Lebo makes poems and pies in Seattle. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Gastronomica, and Poetry Northwest. When Kate is not creating poems, she is hosting her semi-secret pie social, Pie Stand, around the US, teaching creative writing at the University of Washington and Richard Hugo House, and pie-making at Pie School, her cliche-busting pastry academy. Jessica Lynn Bonin is an illustrator and mixed-media artist whose work adds a modern twist to familiar images of American culture. Bonin's murals are displayed in New York,Oregon and Washington state. She lives and works in a former hardware store and lumberyard in Edison, Washington.

American Commonplace

Author : Bruce Lohof
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879722227
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book American Commonplace written by Bruce Lohof and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Met lit. opg. Essays on the commonplace artifacts of life in modern America: advertising and celebreties, architecture, short fiction and magazines.

A Certain World

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571119400
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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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

Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects

Author : Wallace Stevens
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804715492
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects written by Wallace Stevens and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms.

The Evil Necessity

Author : Denver Brunsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933528
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England

Author : David Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487760
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England written by David Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware public.

Commonplace, and Other Short Stories

Author : Christina Georgina Rossetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Commonplace, and Other Short Stories written by Christina Georgina Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674903463
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.

Commonplace Book, 1934-2012

Author : Daniel Aaron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940396125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Commonplace Book, 1934-2012 written by Daniel Aaron and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. This book consists of quotations (books, articles, reviews, letters), recollections (persons, places, events), words (archai, obsolescent, technical), including story plots, fancies, sententiae, verse and nonsense.