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Daybooks of Discovery

Author : Mary Ellen Bellanca
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926131
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Daybooks of Discovery written by Mary Ellen Bellanca and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews ceded to a more materialist outlook informed by an explosion of factual knowledge, lovers of nature both famous and obscure began to use daily composition as a quest for information about and a celebration of their surroundings. A central site of encounter, discovery, and expression, nature diaries took part in a vigorous cultural dialogue, performing, in an era called the "golden age" of nature writing, an engaging alchemy of language, science, and art. In Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870, Mary Ellen Bellanca offers the first critical study of this genre. In looking at the diaries of Gilbert White, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Shore, George Eliot, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as those of lesser-known figures, she explores the writers' pursuit of empirical knowledge of nature for its own sake, rather than focusing on Romantic nature philosophy or on 'ecology' as a metaphor for spiritual connectedness. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history, examining how journal writing enabled and mediated the diarist's practice as naturalist. A mélange of fact, narrative, and imaginative re-creation, the nature diary played a crucial role in literature and science in a period of burgeoning knowledge about the natural world. For students and scholars of environmental history, the history of science, ecocriticism, and Victorian studies, Daybooks of Discovery will prove an essential tool for understanding this distinct genre.

The Discovery (Dive #1)

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545628113
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Discovery (Dive #1) written by Gordon Korman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharks, shipwreck, and sunken treasure in the latest adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman.Four kids are on a marine expedition for the summer, diving to explore an underwater habitat that's just been altered by a seismic event. What they find, though, is much more than fish - it's sunken treasure. Can they salvage it without anyone else getting to it first? Will the prospect of wealth set them against one another? And what about those sharks . . . .DIVE is another action-packed trilogy from Gordon Korman. The narrative will shift between an account of two kids caught in the shipwreck and the story of the four kids fighting over and desperately trying to get the treasure.

Discovery In The Woods

Author : Sandy Barton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781490911496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Discovery In The Woods written by Sandy Barton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trees, moss, leaves, pine cones and a tree house too, are all of the things you'd find on a walk in the back woods. But one day, an ordinary walk turns into something very extra-ordinary! See what Sophie, the fluffy golden retriever finds deep down under the roots of an old pine tree. She makes a BIG discovery that turns out to be very little!"

The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Mexico

Author : Edward Weston
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Mexico written by Edward Weston and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1973 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifteen years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society, and his medium. Seldom has an artist written about his life as vividly, intimately, or sensitively. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature.A towering figure in twentieth-century photography, Weston sought to awaken human vision. His restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it created a body of work unrivaled in the medium. For more than fifteen years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society, and his medium. Seldom has an artist written about his life as vividly, intimately, or sensitively. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature.A towering figure in twentieth-century photography, Weston sought to awaken human vision. His restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it created a body of work unrivaled in the medium.

Peak Experiences

Author : Ian Marshall
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813921679
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Peak Experiences written by Ian Marshall and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peak Experiences, Marshall sets out on a far more personal and far-reaching journey: to discover how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being.".

Clare's Lyric

Author : Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511897
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Clare's Lyric written by Stephanie Kuduk Weiner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets—Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery—who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of lyric, 'Clare's lyric', that emphatically grounds its truth claims in mimetic accuracy. For these writers, accurate representation involves not only words that name objects, describe scenes, and create images pointing to a shared reality but also patterns of sound, the syntactic organization of lines, and the shapes of whole poems and collections of poems. Their works masterfully investigate how poetic language and form can refer to the world, word by word, line by line, and poem by poem. Written in a lively and accessible style, Clare's Lyric sheds light on a richly diverse body of poems and on enduring questions about how literature represents reality. Weiner's attentive close readings bring the writings of Clare, Symons, Blunden, and Ashbery to life by revealing precisely how they captured a vital, arresting, and complex world in their poems. Their unique approach to lyric is traced from Clare's poems about birdsong, his sonnets, and his later poems of loss and absence to Symons's efforts to make 'amends to nature' Blunden's vivid depictions of a European and English countryside scarred by the First World War, and Ashbery's unbounded and bountiful landscapes. This inventive study refines our understanding of the aesthetic of Romanticism, the genre of lyric, and the practice of literary representation, and it makes a compelling case for the ongoing importance of poems about nature and social life.

A culture of curiosity

Author : Leonie Hannan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526153041
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book A culture of curiosity written by Leonie Hannan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry.

Heroes of Invention and Discovery

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Heroes of Invention and Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Author : Brycchan Carey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030327922
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature written by Brycchan Carey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p

One Day

Author : Gene Weingarten
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399185836
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book One Day written by Gene Weingarten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.

The Dot

Author : Peter H. Reynolds
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 153621809X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Dot written by Peter H. Reynolds and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind and she goes on to encourage another student who feels the same as she had.

The Victorian Diary

Author : Anne-Marie Millim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317012615
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Diary written by Anne-Marie Millim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either coveted or feared. Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres to show that well-known writers and public figures of both sexes exploited the diary's self-reflexive, diurnal structure in order to enhance their creativity and establish themselves as authors. Their object was to manage, rather than to indulge or repress, their emotions for the purposes of perfecting their observational and critical skills. Reading these diaries as literary works in their own right, Millim analyses their crucial role in the construction of authorship. By relating these Victorian writers' diaries to their publications and to contemporary works of cultural criticism, Millim shows the multifarious ways in which diaristic practices, emotional management and professional output corresponded to experiences of the literary marketplace and to nineteenth-century codes of propriety.

Out of the Shadow

Author : Rinda West
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926568
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadow written by Rinda West and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." Our increasing lack of intimacy with the land has led to a decreased capacity to access parts of the psyche not normally valued in a capitalist culture. In Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land, Rinda West uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown. Bringing together ideas from analytical psychology, environmental thought, and literary studies, West explores a variety of literary texts--including several by contemporary American Indian writers--to show, through a sort of geography of the psyche, how alienation from nature reflects a parallel separation from the "nature" that constitutes the unconscious. Through her analysis of narratives that offer images of people confronting shadow, reconnecting with nature, and growing psychologically and ethically, West reveals that when characters enter into relationship with the natural world, they are better able to confront and reclaim shadow. By writing "from the shadows," West argues that contemporary writers are exploring ways of being human that have the potential for creating more just and honorable relationships with nature, and more sustainable communities. For ecocritics, conservation activists, scholars and students of environmental studies and American Indian studies, and ecopsychologists, Out of the Shadow offers hope for humans wishing to reconcile with themselves, with nature, and with community.

Columbus Day

Author : Vicki Liestman
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 9780876145593
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Columbus Day written by Vicki Liestman and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the controversy surrounding the celebration of Columbus's invasion of the "new world" argues that expeditions such as his had negative and positive effects and helps young readers gain a understanding of the responsibilities of future explorers. Reprint.

Unsettling Nature

Author : Taylor Eggan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946859
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Nature written by Taylor Eggan and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought—and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology—along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world—produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature’s defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger’s phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"—an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004349316
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE–220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or “knowledge of good and bad days.” Daybooks reveal the place of hemerology in daily life and are invaluable sources for the study of popular culture. Eleven scholars have contributed chapters examining the daybooks from different perspectives, detailing their significance as manuscript-objects intended for everyday use and showing their connection to almanacs still popular in Chinese communities today as well as to hemerological literature in medieval Europe and ancient Babylon. Contributors include: Marianne Bujard, László Sándor Chardonnens, Christopher Cullen, Donald Harper, Marc Kalinowski, Li Ling, Liu Lexian, Alasdair Livingstone, Richard Smith, Alain Thote, and Yan Changgui.

England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620

Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000963802
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620 written by David B. Quinn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16th century history. Marshalling evidence that cannot be pushed aside and sifting a mass of fascinating detail (including problems of cartography and the Vinland Map controversy), Professor Quinn presents circumstantial indications pointing to 1481 as the date or the discovery of America by Bristol voyagers – fishermen seeking new sources of cod, and merchant sailors with maps carrying promise of unexploited Atlantic islands. Whereas England did little to follow up her early lead, Quinn demonstrates that English initiatives from the 1580s onward, though slow, were of great importance. He brings to life the men involved in a variety of rash and heroic experiments in colonization and casts new light on their fates. He makes it clear that it was this very profusion of trial and error and trail again, as well as the conviction that settlement in temperate latitudes in North America could be effective if tenaciously enough sought, that enabled the English to strike and maintain routes in their new American world. This book will be of interest to students of English history, American history, colonial history and naval history.