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Author : Joan Von Mehren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Minerva and the Muse written by Joan Von Mehren and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the American feminist and author.
Author : Lisa McGarner
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Spells and Rituals of the Goddess Minerva written by Lisa McGarner and published by Pan. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to improve your skills in some kind of art, or want to retain knowledge to pass an exam, or even need help in court cases, you can ask Minerva for help, and get supernatural support to solve your problems. Minerva is the Goddess of wisdom, knowledge, arts and justice. Goddess Minerva is especially powerful at improving skills or gifting people with artistic gifts, whether it's music, writing or dancing, or any other type of artistic expression you can imagine. CONTENTS Absorb knowledge. Increase Intelligence. Pass tests and exams. Finding Balance. Legal Matters. For Artistic Gifts. For Music. For Painting. For Drawing. For Dance. For Writing.
Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536196
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Building the Intentional University written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.
Author : Patricia Johnson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299224031
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Ovid before Exile written by Patricia Johnson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic Metamorphoses, Ovid’s most renowned work, has regained its stature among the masterpieces of great poets such as Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus. Yet its irreverent tone and bold defiance of generic boundaries set the Metamorphoses apart from its contemporaries. Ovid before Exile provides a compelling new reading of the epic, examining the text in light of circumstances surrounding the final years of Augustus’ reign, a time when a culture of poets and patrons was in sharp decline, discouraging and even endangering artistic freedom of expression. Patricia J. Johnson demonstrates how the production of art—specifically poetry—changed dramatically during the reign of Augustus. By Ovid’s final decade in Rome, the atmosphere for artistic work had transformed, leading to a drop in poetic production of quality. Johnson shows how Ovid, in the episodes of artistic creation that anchor his Metamorphoses, responded to his audience and commented on artistic circumstances in Rome.
Author : Thomas N. Habinek
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801881053
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The World of Roman Song written by Thomas N. Habinek and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Classics and Ancient History award in the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American Publishers In this bold work, Thomas Habinek offers an entirely new theoretical perspective on Roman cultural history. Although English words such as "literature" and "religion" have their origins in Latin, the Romans had no such specific concepts. Rather, much of the sense of these words was captured in the Latin word carmen, usually translated into English as "song." Habinek argues that for the Romans, "song" encompassed a wide range of ritualized speech, including elements of poetry, storytelling, and even the casting of spells. Habinek begins with the fraternal societies, or sodalitates, which predated the Republic and endured into the Imperial era, and whose rites, although adapted over time to different deities and cults, were from the beginning centered on song (perhaps most notably in the ancient Carmen Saliare). He goes on to show how this early use of song became a paradigm for cultural reproduction throughout Roman history. Ritual mastery of the chaos of everyday life, embodied and enacted in song, produced and transmitted the beliefs on which Roman culture was founded and by which Roman communities were sustained. By the emergence of the Empire, "song," in all of its senses, served in particular to reproduce the power of the state, organizing relations of power at every level of society. The World of Roman Song presents a systematic and comprehensive approach to Roman cultural history. Informed and imaginative, this book challenges classicists, social theorists, and literary scholars to engage in a provocative discussion of the power of song.
Author : Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199240043
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cultivating the Muse written by Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vitalforms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fatesand explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.
Author : Gabriel Harvey
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1681145758
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Smith: Or, The Tears of the Muses written by Gabriel Harvey and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic satire of ghostwriters being hired to write puffery of and by patrons and sponsors, who pay to gain immortal fame for being “great”, while failing to perform any work to deserve any praise. This volume shows the similarities across Gabriel Harvey’s poetic canon stretching from his critically-ignored self-attributed Smith (1578), his famous “Edmund Spenser”-bylined Fairy Queen (1590), and his semi-recognized “Samuel Brandon”-bylined Virtuous Octavia (1598). This close analysis of Smith is essential for explaining all of Harvey’s multi-bylined output because Smith is an extensive confession about Harvey’s ghostwriting process. Harvey’s Fairy Queen is his mature attempt at an extensive puffery of a monarch, which has been (as Harvey predicted in Smith and Ciceronianus) in return over-puffed as a “great” literary achievement by monarchy-conserving literary scholars across the past four hundred years. The relatively superior in its condensed social message and literary achievement Smith has been ignored in part because the subject of its puffery appears trivial from the perspective of national propaganda. Smith: Or, The Tears of the Muses is a metered poetic composition that can also be performed as a multi-monologue play. The central formulaic structure is grounded in nine Cantos that are delivered by each of the nine Muses; this formula appeared in many British poems and interludes after its appearance in “Nicholas Grimald’s” translation of a “Virgil”-assigned poem called “The Muses” in Songs and Sonnets (1557). The repetitive nature of this puffing formula is subverted not only by the satirical and ironic contradictions that are mixed with the standard exaggerated flatteries of “Sir Thomas Smith” (Elizabeth’s Secretary), but also with several seemingly digressive sections that puff and satirize other bylines, including “Walter Mildmay” (King’s Councilor) and “John Wood” (“Smith’s” copyist and nephew). The central subject of the satire in Smith is Richard Verstegan’s career as a goldsmith, who forged antiques, and committed identity fraud that included ghostwriting books under multiple bylines, including passing himself (as Harvey points out) as at least two different “Sir Thomas Smiths”. The introduction to this volume includes matching handwritten letters that were written by Smith #1 (who died in 1577) and Smith #2 (who died in 1625) and by Verstegan under his own byline. In Smith’s conclusion, Verstegan responds with ridicule of his own directed at Harvey. This is the first full translation of Smith from Latin into English. The accompanying introductory matter, extensive annotations, and class exercises hint at the many scholarly discoveries attainable by researchers who continue the exploration of this elegant work. Acronyms and Figures Exordium Biographies of Sir Smith and Connected Persons The Many “Smiths” and Their Matching Handwriting Synopsis English Translation of Smith/ Latin Original Smithus Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises
Author : Henneoke, C., & co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue... written by Henneoke, C., & co and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Sharratt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547346883
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Real Minerva written by Mary Sharratt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Willa Literary Award Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award In a Midwestern farming community in 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence—until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather’s farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora, setting into motion events that will change multiple lives. Drawing on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century, acclaimed author Mary Sharratt has created a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected friendships that form between them. “A paean to the bond between mothers and daughters . . . engrossing.” —Booklist “Wonderful.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You
Author : Linda Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493866
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry written by Linda Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.
Author : Michael Trevor Coughlin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398961
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book From Mythos to Logos written by Michael Trevor Coughlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mythos to Logos: Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry and the Triumph of Minerva explores how myth was used to encode architecture and frescoed interiors with insights that promote peace, freedom and kindness as ways of being in the world. The author, Michael Trevor Coughlin argues that Freemasonry took root in the Italian city of Vicenza as early as 1546, and that its precepts, conveyed through the intersection of myth and philosophy, were disseminated widely in buildings and images, as well as texts, prescribing tolerance and an understanding of the divine that exists in each and everyone.
Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ovid written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Steele
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826262759
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Transfiguring America written by Jeffrey Steele and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfiguring America is the product of more than ten years of research and numerous published articles on Margaret Fuller, arguably America's first feminist theorist and one of the most important woman writers in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Fuller's development of a powerful language that paired cultural critique with mythmaking, Steele shows why her writing had such a vital impact on the woman's rights movement and modern conceptions of gender. This groundbreaking study pays special attention to the ways in which Fuller's feminist consciousness and social theory emerged out of her mourning for herself and others, her dialogue with Emersonian Transcendentalism, and her eclectic reading in occult and mythical sources. Transfiguring America is the first book to provide detailed analyses of all of Fuller's major texts, including her mystical Dial essays, correspondence with Emerson, Summer on the Lakes, 1844 poetry, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and New York Tribune essays written both in New York and Europe. Starting from her own profound sense of loss as a marginalized woman, Fuller eventually recognized the ways in which the foundational myths of American society, buttressed by conservative religious ideologies, replicated dysfunctional images of manhood and womanhood. With Woman in the Nineteenth Century, after exploring the roots of oppression in her essays and poetry, Fuller advanced the cause of woman's rights by conceptualizing a more fluid and equitable model of gender founded upon the mythical reconfiguration of human potential. But as her horizons expanded, Fuller demanded not only political equality for women, but also emotional, intellectual, and spiritual freedom for all victims of social oppression. By the end of her career, Steele shows, Fuller had blended personal experience and cultural critique into the imaginative reconstruction of American society. Beginning with a fervent belief in personal reform, she ended her career with the apocalyptic conviction that the dominant myths both of selfhood and national identity must be transfigured. Out of the ashes of personal turmoil and political revolution, she looked for the phoenix of a revitalized society founded upon the ideal of political justice.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language in Miniature written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521849012
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Reading Ovid written by Peter Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.
Author : Brooks Otis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521076159
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Ovid As An Epic Poet written by Brooks Otis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a detailed study of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Author : Paul Ilie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512803324
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Age of Minerva, Volume 1 written by Paul Ilie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
