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Proceedings Of The British Academy Volume 121 2002 Lectures
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121, 2002 Lectures by : British Academy
Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121, 2002 Lectures written by British Academy and published by Proceedings of the British Aca. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 121 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2002.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 131, 2004 Lectures by : Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA
Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 131, 2004 Lectures written by Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis, Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam.There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfilment.
Book Synopsis Along Heroic Lines by : Christopher Ricks
Download or read book Along Heroic Lines written by Christopher Ricks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. Comparison and analysis (the tools of the critic, as T.S. Eliot insisted) are enlivened by imaginative pairings: of Samuel Johnson with Samuel Beckett, of Norman Mailer with Dickens, of Shakespeare with George Herbert, or of secret-police surveillance in Ben Jonson's Rome with that of Carmen Bugan's Romania. Along Heroic Lines devotes itself to the heroic and to 'heroics' (Othello cross-examined by T.S. Eliot; Byron and role-playing; Ion Bugan, political protest and arrest). This knot is in tension with the English heroic line (Dryden's heroic triplets, Henry James's cadences, Geoffrey Hill's concluding book of prose-poems and how they choose to conclude). All alert to the balance and sustenance of alternate tones that prose and poetry can achieve in harmony.
Book Synopsis Fall of Civilizations by : Paul Cooper
Download or read book Fall of Civilizations written by Paul Cooper and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."?The Times Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.
Author :Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature Gerard Carruthers Publisher :Oxford University Press ISBN 13 :019884624X Total Pages :657 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (988 download)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns by : Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature Gerard Carruthers
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns written by Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature Gerard Carruthers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns.
Download or read book 2003 Lectures written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117 by :
Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117 written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.
Book Synopsis Benefits and Wages 2004 OECD Indicators by : OECD
Download or read book Benefits and Wages 2004 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2004 edition of OECD Benefits and Wages provides results for 2001 and 2002. Unemployment and related welfare benefits help prevent those without work from falling into poverty but can at the same time reduce the incentive to work; this is one of the main dilemmas of social policy.
Book Synopsis Literature and the Taste of Knowledge by : Michael Wood
Download or read book Literature and the Taste of Knowledge written by Michael Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction, with examples ranging from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats. Literature is a form of pretence. But every pretence could tilt us into the real, and many of them do. There is no safe place for the reader: no literalist's haven where fact is always fact; and no paradise of metaphor, where our poems, plays and novels have no truck at all with the harsh and shifting world.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 162, 2008 Lectures by : Professor Ron Johnston, FBA
Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 162, 2008 Lectures written by Professor Ron Johnston, FBA and published by OUP/British Academy. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 10 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008. From an exploration of the relationship between reason and identity, to an examination of social integration as the world becomes a more diverse place, to a consideration of the works of four great literary figures: King Alfred, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and W H Auden.
Book Synopsis The Promotion of Knowledge by : John Stephen Morrill
Download or read book The Promotion of Knowledge written by John Stephen Morrill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an intriguing collection of reflections on the stability and instability of the ways in which we organize knowledge, and on how far the academic community can and should be involved in the shaping of public policy. To mark its centenary in 2002 the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences, organized a programme of lectures on the current state of various disciplines and their future prospects. The authors of the eight essays and four commentaries are drawn from Britain, Europe and the United States.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory by : John S Dryzek
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory written by John S Dryzek and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recent past, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.
Book Synopsis Knowledge as a Mental State? by : Jens Kohne
Download or read book Knowledge as a Mental State? written by Jens Kohne and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is an epistemological consideration concerning the nature of knowledge. But other than the most essays on the subject of knowledge, here I am going to deal with a largely overlooked account to try to find an answer to the question of knowledge. This is the mental state account of knowledge. Or to put it into the main question: is knowledge a mental state? Now, the question is: Why is the epistemic thinking of Cook Wilson, Prichard and Austin afflicted with such ignorance in contemporary epistemic discussions? The answer is: an unreflected Platonian heritage during 2000 years of epistemic thinking - a notion which is similar to a point Hetherington has called "epistemic absolutism". So my main conclusion here is: the JTB thesis (knowledge is some aspect of justified true belief) is insufficient in order to give an account of the nature of knowledge. A consequence from this is: all the epistemic theories which are dealing with the JTB thesis are based on deficient assumptions. Hence their results - notably the well-known externalism/internalism debate - are insufficient, too. So, there is a need for a new theory of knowledge based on the MS thesis.
Book Synopsis Folklore Unbound by : Sabra J. Webber
Download or read book Folklore Unbound written by Sabra J. Webber and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore is a powerful resource that not only manages the past, giving it continuity, but also usefully comments on present cultural and social issues. This thoughtful, incisive work first charts important dimensions in the development of folklore studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Next, it marshals the major theoretical issues of the modern discipline, including performance theory, genre theory, the relationship with culture studies and the study of linguistic and musical art forms, the insights of comparative studies, public folklore, and even the place of folklore in the media. Webber draws heavily on the influential work and maverick charisma of Alan Dundes, world famous folklorist who expanded the definitions of both “folk” and “lore” for thousands of folklore students and underscored why lore should be studied ethnographically and aesthetically. Webber’s aim is to evaluate the study of folklore as a tool for understanding the lived experience of various “folk” and for questioning, rather than reinforcing, the status quo. Her work, which draws from the rich methods and materials of many disciplines, shows originality, breadth, and a firm grasp of the history of folkloristics.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the British Academy by : British Academy
Download or read book Proceedings of the British Academy written by British Academy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War on Drugs and Anglo-American Relations by : Philip A. Berry
Download or read book War on Drugs and Anglo-American Relations written by Philip A. Berry and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through interviews with key policy practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic, this study reveals the complex picture of counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan. It highlights the key points of cooperation and contention, and details the often contradictory and competitive objectives of the overall war effort in Afghanistan. Western counter-narcotics policies in Afghanistan failed dismally after opium poppy cultivation surged to unprecedented levels. The Anglo-American partnership at the centre of this battleground was divided by competing and opposing views of how to address the opium problem, which troubled the well-established Anglo-American relationship.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Intellectual History by : Richard Whatmore
Download or read book A Companion to Intellectual History written by Richard Whatmore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced. Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association
