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Author : Thomas Gray
Publisher : Fyfield Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Thomas Gray and published by Fyfield Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192678876
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Poetry in English written by Catherine Bates and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199262168
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 written by Julie Stone Peters and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Author : James J. Paxson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521445396
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Personification written by James J. Paxson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of poststructuralist thought and theory. The poetics of personification provides a historical reassessment of early theories, together with a sustained account of how literary personification works through an examination of narratological and semiotic codes and structures in the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser. The device turns out to be anything but an aberration, oddity or barbarism, from ancient, medieval or early modern literature. Rather, it works as a complex artistic tool for revealing and advertising the problems and limits inherent in narration in particular and poetic or verbal creation in general.
Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300269951
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Dissolution of the Monasteries written by James G. Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years--exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands, it is an exceptional piece of historical writing."--Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England's monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII's subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people.
Author : Martin Coyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977107
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism written by Martin Coyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays by approximately ninety scholars and critics in which they investigate various aspects of English literary eras, genres, and works; and includes bibliographies and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Leah Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134855923
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Unediting the Renaissance written by Leah Marcus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus argues that `bad' versions of Renaissance texts such as Shakespeare's First Folio should not be viewed as mutilated copies of originals, but rather reputable alternatives encoding differences in ideology, cultural meaning and other elements of performance. Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works- Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'. Examining the cultural attitudes, fears and influences which influence textual editors, from the seveteenth century to the present day, Marcus sheds new light on a previously unexamined aspect of Renaissance studies. A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Jahner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611463335
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature written by Jennifer Jahner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of her career, Elizabeth Robertson has pursued innovative scholarship that investigates the overlapping domains of medieval philosophy, literature, and gender studies. This collection of essays, dedicated to her work, examines gender as a construct of language, a mode of embodiment, and a critical framework for thinking about the past. Its eleven contributors approach the figure of the gendered body in medieval English writing along several axes: poetic, philosophical, material-textual, and historical. The volume focuses on the ways that the medieval body becomes a site of inquiry and agency, whether in the form of the idealized feminine body of secular and religious lyric, the sexually permissive and permeable body of fabliau, or the intercessory body of religious devotional writing. The essays span a broad range of medieval literary works, from the lais of Marie de France to Pearl to Piers Plowman and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, and a broad range of methodological approaches, from philosophy to affect and manuscript studies. Taken together, they celebrate the scholarly career of Elizabeth Robertson while also presenting a coherent and multifaceted investigation of the intersections of gender and medieval literary practice.
Author : Matthew Woodcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081922
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Thomas Churchyard written by Matthew Woodcock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over fifty different works in a variety of forms and genres. Churchyard's struggles to subsist as an author and soldier provides an unrivalled opportunity to examine the self-promotional strategies employed by an individual who attempts to make a living from both writing and fighting, and who experiments throughout his life with ways in which the arts of the pen and sword may be reconciled and aligned. Drawing on extensive archival and literary sources, Matthew Woodcock reconstructs the extraordinary life of a figure well-known yet long neglected in early modern literary studies. In the first ever book-length biography of Churchyard, Woodcock reveals the author to be a resourceful and innovative writer whose long literary career plays an important part in the history of professional authorship in sixteenth-century England. This book also situates Churchyard alongside contemporary soldier-authors such as Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, George Gascoigne, and Sir Philip Sidney, and it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between literature and the military in the early modern period. Churchyard's writings drew heavily upon his own experiences at court and in the wars and the author never tired of drawing attention to the struggles he endured throughout his life. Consequently, this study addresses the wider methodological question of how we should construct the biography of an individual who was consistently preoccupied with telling his own story.
Author : Esther Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231159684
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book In Translation written by Esther Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated practitioners speak on the creative, critical, political, and historical aspects of their work.
Author : Johann Gottfried Flügel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Complete Dictionary of the English and German Languages Containing All the Words in General Use written by Johann Gottfried Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The New International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Moore Colby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The International Year Book written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514673
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet written by A. D. Cousins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of distinguished poets and scholars provides an authoritative guide to the history and development of the sonnet.
Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110444887
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Handbook of English Renaissance Literature written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.
Author : Begoña Crespo García
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023414
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Bells Chiming from the Past written by Begoña Crespo García and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the characteristics of present-day English language and culture we must have some understanding of the earlier stages of language use. Bells Chiming from the Past investigates the early development of English and covers different aspects of English medieval studies, from traditional philological concerns, to the most recent perspectives of modern linguistics applied to early English texts. Most of the papers are based on empirical research in English Historical Linguistics, and will contribute substantially to our theoretical and descriptive understanding of English varieties, both written and spoken. The book focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and culture during the Middle English period. Some of the articles are clearly linguistically-oriented, but most could be included under a wider philological perspective since they study both language and the cultural milieu in which linguistic events took place. Bells Chiming from the Past is aimed at an international readership and makes a desirable addition to the field of Historical Linguistics, featuring as it does contributions from an array of well-known professionals from different academic and scientific institutions.
