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The Elgin Marbles

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842201
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Elgin Marbles written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elgin Marbles, designed and executed by Phidias to adorn the Parthenon, are some of the most beautiful sculptures of ancient Greece. In 1801 Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Turkish government in Athens, had pieces of the frieze sawn off and removed to Britain, where they remain, igniting a storm of controversy which has continued to the present day. In the first full-length work on this fiercely debated issue, Christopher Hitchens recounts the history of these precious sculptures and forcefully makes the case for their return to Greece. Drawing out the artistic, moral, legal and political perspectives of the argument, Hitchens's eloquent prose makes The Elgin Marbles an invaluable contribution to one of the most important cultural controversies of our times.

The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy

Author : Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415234917
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy written by Geoffrey Harvey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.

The Parthenon

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674261933
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Parthenon written by Mary Beard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history.” —Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic “In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is especially valuable because it is up to date on the restoration the Parthenon has been undergoing since 1986.” —Gary Wills, New York Review of Books At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this book conducts readers through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world. In the revised version of her classic study, Mary Beard now includes the story of the long-awaited new museum opened in 2009 to display the sculptures from the building that still remain in Greece, as well as the controversies that have surrounded it, and asks whether it makes a difference to the “Elgin Marble debate.”

Victorian Christmas in Print

Author : T. Moore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230623336
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Christmas in Print written by T. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with emotionally-charged expectations of reading. Tara Moore elucidates the evolution of Christmas publishing trends that dictated authors writing schedules and reflected gift-giving rituals. As Victorian shopping customs evolved, publishers satisfied consumers with a range of holiday print matter, including novels, ghost stories, periodicals, children s books, and poetry. Ultimately, Victorian Christmas in Print analyzes how the revitalized holiday and the flurry of texts supporting it contributed to English national identity.

On Exhibit

Author : Barbara J. Black
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918976
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book On Exhibit written by Barbara J. Black and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Victorians collect with such a vengeance and exhibit in museums? Focusing on this key nineteenth-century enterprise, Barbara J. Black illuminates British culture of the period by examining the cultural power that this collecting and exhibiting possessed. Through its museums, she argues, Victorian London constructed itself as a world city. Using the tools of cultural criticism, social history, and literary analysis, Black roots Victorian museum culture in key political events and cultural forces: British imperialism, exploration, and tourism; advances in science and changing attitudes about knowledge; the commitment to improved public taste through mass education; the growth of middle-class dominance and the resulting bourgeois fetishism and commodity culture; and the democratization of luxury engendered by the French and industrial revolutions. She covers a wide range of genres--from poetry to museum guidebooks to the triple-decker novel--and treats three London museums as case studies: Sir John Soane's house-museum, the Natural History Museum, and the exemplary South Kensington. While On Exhibit provides a fascinating analysis of Victorian society, it also reminds us how modern the Victorians were--how, in crucial ways, our culture derives from the Victorian era. Forging connections among museums, urbanism, and modernity, Black provokes us to examine cultural imperialism and the costs and advantages of cultural consensus.

Selected Poems

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300274610
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Thomas Hardy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardy’s extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal events, such as the end of the Great War. This selection shows why Hardy has been admired as the most inward and personal of the moderns, yet also the most accessible and widely read. Included here is the full and integral text of Chosen Poems of Thomas Hardy, the final selection of his own work that Hardy chose to publish. Bromwich has selected more than one hundred fifty additional poems that cover the length of Hardy’s career, from Wessex Poems to Winter Words. His critical and biographical introduction sets Hardy’s achievement in the context of a career in prose and poetry that has no parallel.

Life of Thomas Hardy

Author : Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349002860
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Life of Thomas Hardy written by Florence Emily Hardy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1962-06-18 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas Hardy Reappraised

Author : Keith Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442659548
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy Reappraised written by Keith Wilson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer who achieved major eminence in both fiction and poetry and whose engagement with these genres encompassed the period of transition from Victorianism to Modernism, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) enjoys a unique position in English Literary History. Michael Millgate, University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Toronto is widely recognized as the world's foremost Thomas Hardy scholar. His contributions to the study of Hardy over more than three decades include his recently 'revisited' biography, the seven volume edition of Hardy's collected letters, and the influential critical study Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist. In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent Hardy scholars. These essays address questions of biblical and literary allusiveness, cultural, historical, and philosophical context, narrative and poetic theory and practice, as well as Hardy's place in the modern world and his influence on younger writers. Together, the contributors offer one of the most significant reappraisals of Hardy's work to have appeared since Michael Millgate helped to transform Hardy studies. They offer graphic testimony to Hardy's enduring popularity and importance. Contributors: Pamela Dalziel Mary Rimmer Dennis Taylor Barbara Hardy U.C. Knoepflmacher Marjorie Garson Ruth Bernard Yeazell Simon Gatrell J. Hillis Miller George Levine Jeremy V. Steele William W. Morgan Samuel Hynes Norman Page W. J. Keith

London

Author : Mark Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088042
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book London written by Mark Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one that represents all classes of London's population over some seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the city's history--the beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitz--but the majority reflect the quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries. Ford's selections are arranged chronologically, thus preserving a sense of the strata of the capital's history. An introductory essay by the poet explores in detail the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of the verse inspired by this great city. The result is a volume as rich and vibrant and diverse as London itself.

A Hardy Chronology

Author : Timothy Hands
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349100307
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book A Hardy Chronology written by Timothy Hands and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hardy Chronology provides the Hardy student with an abbreviated biography and reference guide, listing year by year the full details of a remarkably full life and prodigious literary output. Background information is provided, especially for those historical events in which Hardy took most interest, but the chief aim has been to provide the reader with an account of Hardy's life which uses the author's own words wherever possible.

Student Companion to Thomas Hardy

Author : Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313088330
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Student Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid- late 1800s and early 1900s, Thomas Hardy produced a plethora of eclectic works that were considered too candid and even sacrilegious for their time. Hardy's publishing of fiction, drama, poetry, and the short story ranks him with Shakespeare, one of few other authors in the English language to write major works in more than one literary genre. Growing up, Hardy apprenticed as an architect but soon realized his true calling was writing. He based much of his work on his homeland and local culture in England, creating the fictional county of Wessex, the setting for most of his works. This companion explores the life of Hardy, examining his career and most important works. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, as well as readers with a general interest in Hardy's life and works, this book takes a close look at Hardy's unconventional works and why he ultimately decided to abandon novel-writing in favor of his first love-poetry.

Thomas Hardy in Context

Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139618911
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy in Context written by Phillip Mallett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to the social and political challenges of his time; his engagement with contemporary intellectual debate; and his legacy in the twentieth century and after. Emphasising the subtle and ongoing interaction between Hardy's life, his creative achievement and the unique historical moment, the collection also examines Hardy's relationship to such issues as class, education, folklore, archaeology and anthropology, evolution, marriage and masculinity, empire and the arts. A valuable contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature, the collection will also prove accessible for the general reader of Hardy.

Thomas Hardy

Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201189
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Claire Tomalin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth-century novelist and poet discusses his humble origins, rise through the London literary scene, and efforts to challenge the sexual and religious conventions of his time.

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy

Author : Nilüfer Özgür
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351248618
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Hardy Deconstructing Hardy written by Nilüfer Özgür and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean, Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy, this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While Hardy is not conventionally considered a Modernist poet, he shares with Modernists an element that can be referred to as the linguistic crisis by which they try to get over the sense of anxiety against the backdrop of a chaotic world and problematized language. The forerunner of Deconstructionism, Derrida, exposes a long established history of logocentric thinking, which has continually been moving between binary oppositions and Platonic dualities. Derrida simply puts forward the idea that there is no logos, no origin, and no centre of truth. The centre is always somewhere else; he identifies this as a ―free play of signifiers.‖ Consequently, the anxiety of the poet with modern sensibility to find a point of reference inevitably results in a ―crisis of representation,‖ or, in a problematic relation between language and truth, the signifier and the signified. This crisis can be observed in Hardy‘s poetry, too. For this purpose, this research focuses on four key concepts in Hardy‘s poetry that expose this problematic relationship between language and truth: his agnosticism, his concept of the self, his language and concept of structure, and his concept of time and temporality. These aspects are explored in the light of Derrida‘s Deconstructionism with reference to poems by Hardy which heralded the Modernist crisis of representation. This text will fulfill the function of reconciling theory with practice and become the manifestation of the importance of Poststructuralist criticism.

Thomas Hardy

Author : Michael Millgate
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199275656
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Michael Millgate and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Millgate, one of the world's leading Hardy scholars adds 20 years' worth of new research to his classic biography. He presents new insights into Hardy's writing, his private life and his two marriages.

The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928

Author : Florence Emily Hardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108033822
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 written by Florence Emily Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume (1930) of a fascinating account of Hardy's life, compiled by him in collaboration with his second wife.

Thomas Hardy

Author : Tim Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317863208
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy written by Tim Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardy’s poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poet’s career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically. Head notes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardy’s manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy’s notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading. Tim Armstrong’s critical Introduction discusses Hardy’s career, his poetics, his use of memory and allusion and examines his position in the context of Victorian debates on aesthetics and belief. The generous selection of poems includes many lesser-known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary, and the important elegiac sequence ‘Poems of 1912-13’ is included in its entirety.