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Glory, Jest and Riddle

Author : James Malcolm Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Glory, Jest and Riddle written by James Malcolm Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century Enlightenment in Western Europe was a time in which everyday life was still dominated by religion. Religion was the context in which life was lived from cradle to grave, scientific innovations were judged against its truth and it claimed allegiance from all levels of society. It was also a powerful political force, and the church dominated education. Religion impinged on people's lives whether they wished it or not. So investigation of religious thought in the Enlightenment goes to the very heart of what the Enlightenment was. The aim of this new text book is to situate Enlightenment ideas in context, to show the concerns which gave rise to them and to point out their consequences - which were far-reaching and tied to practical concerns. After two chapters which give a historical account of the period the focus turns to the main figures -Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau and Kant - along with considerations of the rise of deism and the shift from scepticism to atheism. There is also an account of the impact that science began to have on religion. Today the Enlightenment is seen not only in positive terms, as the emergence of humanity from darkness and an important step forward, but also negatively, as bearing the seeds of many of the ills of the modern world. In particular, theologians dissatisfied with the liberal theology which followed the Enlightenment have argued that true Christian theology must side-step, or go back on, Enlightenment thought. The argument is likely to go on for some time, but at least this book will help it to continue with a greater degree of understanding than has often been shown so far. James Byrne is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.

An Essay on Man

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on Man written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origins of Biblical Monotheism

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195167686
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Biblical Monotheism written by Mark S. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope

Author : Leopold Damrosch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059757
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope written by Leopold Damrosch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney

Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Satire

Author : Dustin Griffin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147816
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Satire written by Dustin Griffin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory. Satire is a staple of the literary classroom. Dustin Griffin moves away from the prevailing moral-didactic approach established thirty some years ago to a more open view and reintegrates the Menippean tradition with the tradition of formal verse satire. Exploring texts from Aristophanes to the moderns, with special emphasis on the eighteenth century, Griffin uses a dozen figures—Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Lucian, More, Rabelais, Donne, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Blake, and Byron—as primary examples. Because satire often operates as a mode or procedure rather than as a genre, Griffin offers not a comprehensive theory but a set of critical perspectives. Some of his topics are traditional in satire criticism: the role of satire as moralist, the nature of satiric rhetoric, the impact of satire on the political order. Others are new: the problems of satire and closure, the pleasure it affords readers and writers, and the socioeconomic status of the satirist. Griffin concludes that satire is problematic, open-ended, essayistic, and ambiguous in its relationship to history, uncertain in its political effect, resistant to formal closure, more inclined to ask questions than provide answers, and ambivalent about the pleasures it offers.

The Meaning of Life

Author : William Gerber
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836806
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Life written by William Gerber and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to present the wisdom of sages, great thinkers, renowned writers, and philosophers, of many countries and time periods, in their own words, regarding life. The book also aims to place the numerous quotations from these sources in a structured organization, with introductory and explanatory comments and comparisons. Main Topics or Fields - See Organization or Principal Parts.

The Glory of the Heavens; Or, Reflections on the Analogy Between the Works and Word of God ... The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged

Author : Thomas BASELEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Glory of the Heavens; Or, Reflections on the Analogy Between the Works and Word of God ... The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged written by Thomas BASELEY and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brink of All We Hate

Author : Felicity A. Nussbaum
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813164079
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Brink of All We Hate written by Felicity A. Nussbaum and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is it not monstrous, that our Seducers should be our Accusers? Will they not employ Fraud, nay often Force to gain us? What various Arts, what Stratagems, what Wiles will they use for our Destruction? But that once accomplished, every opprobrious Term with which our Language so plentifully abounds, shall be bestowed on us, even by the very Villains who have wronged us"—Laetitia Pilkington, Memoirs (1748). In her scandalous Memoirs, Laetitia Pilkington spoke out against the English satires of the Restoration and eighteenth century, which employed "every opprobrious term" to chastise women. In The Brink of All We Hate, Felicity Nussbaum documents and groups those opprobrious terms in order to identify the conventions of the satires, to demonstrate how those conventions create a myth, to provide critical readings of poetic texts in the antifeminist tradition, and to draw some conclusions about the basic nature of satire. Nussbaum finds that the English tradition of antifeminist satire draws on a background that includes Hesiod, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal, as well as the more modern French tradition of La Bruyere and Boileau and the late seventeenth-century English pamphlets by Gould, Fige, and Ames. The tradition was employed by the major figures of the golden age of satire—Samuel Butler, Dryden, Swift, Addison, and Pope. Examining the elements of the tradition of antifeminist satire and exploring its uses, from the most routine to the most artful, by the various poets, Nussbaum reveals a clearer context in which many poems of the Restoration and eighteenth century will be read anew.

Old Testament Stories from the Back Side

Author : Dr. J. Ellsworth Kalas
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426728646
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Old Testament Stories from the Back Side written by Dr. J. Ellsworth Kalas and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an approach similar to that in his book Parables from the Back Side, popular author J. Ellsworth Kalas brings a new perspective to selected Old Testament stories by approaching them from the “back side”—through a unique starting point, a creative retelling, a new “lens,” or the eyes of a minor or unsympathetic character. Chapter titles and Scripture: “The Second Sin” (Genesis 3:1-13); “The Importance of Naming Joseph” (Genesis 30:22-24); “Because My Mother Told Me” (Exodus 2:1-10); “Moses’ Midlife Crisis” (Exodus 2:11-22); “Patron Saint of the Minority Report” (Numbers 13:1-3, 25-33); “Tragic Son, Tragic Father” (Judges 11:1-6, 30-35); “Honey in the Lion” (Judges 14:5-14); “Beauty and the Beast” (1 Samuel 25:2-42); “A Refugee at the King’s Table” (2 Samuel 9:1-13); “In Defense of Job’s Wife” (Job 2:1-10); “Jonah’s Christmas Story” (Jonah 3:1-6, 10; Matthew 12:38-42); “God Is Better Than His Plans” (Ruth 1:1-5; 4:13-17). Includes 12 Sessions with a study guide.

A Preface to Pope

Author : Ian Robert Fraser Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315505231
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book A Preface to Pope written by Ian Robert Fraser Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Ian Gordon's A Preface to Pope places the poet within the social, cultural and intellectual context of his time. It throws new light on the theoretical and imaginative structures of Pope's poetry focusing on the linguistic complexity at its centre. It offers a critical survey of his work and also contains introductory essays. The book concludes with a reference section which includes indispensible information on places and people in Pope's poetry, together with a glossary of technical terms and a guide to further reading.

Dramatists of To-day

Author : Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dramatists of To-day written by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems, Original and Translated

Author : Richard Dabney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Poems, Original and Translated written by Richard Dabney and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary

Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405135026
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature written by John Richetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of English literature. Topics covered include: Verse in the early 18th century, from Pope, Gay, and Swift to Addison, Defoe, Montagu, and Finch Poetry from the mid- to late-century, highlighting the works of Johnson, Gray, Collins, Smart, Goldsmith, and Cowper among others, as well as women and working-class poets Prose Fiction in the early and 18th century, including Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett The novel past mid-century, including experimental works by Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, and Burney Non-fiction prose, including political and polemical prose 18th century drama

The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service

Author : Nathaniel Pryor Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000306593
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service written by Nathaniel Pryor Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides in-depth coverage of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency that manages the national wildlife refuge system, protects endangered species, and conducts fish and wildlife research. In addition to detailing the history and organization of the service, the authors take a hard look at its current—and often controversi

Poets Thinking

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044622
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Poets Thinking written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.