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In this new edition of The Historical Novel, Jerome de Groot charts the evolution of one of literature's most beloved and complex forms. From its 18th-century origins to postmodern and contemporary historical fiction, de Groot reveals how historical fiction continues to challenge, provoke, and...

This is a meticulously compiled catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and other items from the esteemed collection of the late George T. Strong, Esq. Offered for auction by Messrs. Bangs & Co. in New York, beginning November 4th, 1878, this catalogue provides a comprehensive...

The Book of Job remains one of the most profound and unsettling texts in religious and philosophical thought, raising timeless questions about suffering, justice, and the human relationship with the divine. Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job brings together a diverse...

In the book MILLION MAN MARCH, the author travels through recent decades of American History and through daily experiences with racism on his way to the transforming experience of the Million Man March.After having sought equality through the civil rights movement, the author concludes,...

The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza") by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a philosophical exploration of life, morality, and the human condition, focusing on reconciling the painful realities of existence with a joyful acceptance of life. Nietzsche challenges conventional beliefs, positioning himself as a key...

"Critical Miscellanies" by John Morley is a collection of insightful essays reflecting the writer's vital views on literature, politics, and society. Published inside the overdue nineteenth century, Morley's essays display his eager mind and extensive-ranging pursuits, offering readers a diverse and thought-frightening exploration of...

The well-known British politician and literary critic John Morley wrote "Critical Miscellanies" Volume III, which continues his intellectual have a look at of an extensive variety of topics. This ----collection of articles shows how knowledgeable Morley become and the way fascinated he turned into...

The book "" The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is...

The first volume to collect essays from the emergent field of cultural studies that specifically address the work of James Joyce, Cultural Studies of James Joyce includes work from both well-established Joyce scholars such as Margot Norris and Cheryl Herr and by such younger...

Danish writer Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen (1885-1962) was a colonial plantation manager, big-game hunter, animal rights activist, nature conservationist, flower gardener, and much more. Most importantly, Dinesen wrote thought-provoking, mind-bending, boundary-shifting tales that can help us think constructively and creatively about many facets of life...

The book continues the project of publishing all the manuscripts about agronomy, technology, and economy by Raffaello Lambruschini. This fourth volume tell us about the central role that Lambruschini had in the national and international scientific community, tank to the important relationships that he...

The horror author infamously famous for his listless, gaunt, lantern-jawed face, H. P. Lovecraft is smiling. This picture is the only such one. The effect is uncanny. Weird it may be, it is not the rare occasion that horror geeks or slasher fans cannot...

This book is the first attempt made to analyse the equivocal language of the Absurd Theatre via pure linguistic models carefully employed and illustrated by a wide range of significant examples, questions, and discussions. It provides the multiple tools necessary for understanding this language...

Das Tocharische, ein erst im letzten Jahrhundert entdeckter Hauptsprachzweig der indogermanischen Sprachfamilie, dessen Sprecher am Rande der Seidenstrasse im zentralasiatischen Tarim-Becken lebten und der Ende des 1. Jahrtausends n. Chr. ausstarb, gewinnt in den letzten Jahrzehnten in der historisch-vergleichenden indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft zunehmend an Bedeutung....

Pre-University Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 9, Rhön Gymnasium, Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale (Rhön Gymnasium, Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale), language: English, abstract: Britney Spears is and has been one...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Based on a True Story with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, which follows a narrator who bears a striking resemblance...

Author: Alexis TadieISBN-10: 2252040068ISBN-13: 9782252040065Publisher: KlincksieckLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2017Pages: 159Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbs

ArticlesKERRY-JANE WALLART Decontextualizing Caryl Phillips's Crossing the RiverNATHALIE COCHOY L'accent mis ailleurs: My Antonia, de Willa CatherJEAN-FRANCOIS BAILLON Of Mirrors, Paintings and Windows: Spectatorship in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)STEPHANE PORION Reassessing a Turbulent Decade: the Historiography of 1970s Britain in Crisis VANESSA...

YOU EVER WONDER? Where did the original Inhabitants of America come from? Who named them Indians? Why the Pilgrims left their homes in Europe to come to America? How did America get its name? What is a Republic, or a Democracy? Why did our...

Literary Nonfiction. Kurt Brokaw is a literary phenomenon. A pulp fixture on the streets of New York City, Brokaw is a living testimony to the greatest popular writers on the 20th century, and one of the most knowledgeable authorities on the pulp genre in...

EROTIC ART IN THE 18TH CENTURYby Cassidy HughesThe history of erotic art in the 18th century is explored in this detailed and fully illustrated survey.The major erotic artists of the eighteen century are featured: Thomas Rowlandson, Johan Tobias Segel, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Antoine...

TOLKIEN'S HEROIC QUESTBy Robert Rorabeck J.R.R. Tolkien was above all else a philologist, a scholarly and expert on the Anglo-Saxon corpus of poetry. Yet, it is not Tolkien's scholarly work which he is primarily remembered for, but his mainstream success with The Hobbit and...

CHARLES BAUDELAIREPOEMS IN PROSEPoems translated by Arthur SymonsCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of...

Tennessee Williams and His Contemporaries compiles eight transcribed panels that were featured at The Tennessee Williams Scholars' Conference, an annual event held each March in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. This study, the first of its kind, explores issues involving Williams's...

In Objects, Audiences, and Literatures: Alternative Narratives in the History of Design, five art historians tap a variety of unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, interior design, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays consider both...

This three-volume set brings together current research in the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Europe and beyond. Providing the first overview of research in the field, it will be an indispensable reference for teachers, teacher educators and all those interested in...

Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an...

*The present anthology comprises 14 creative non-fiction essays on the topic of food by professional hyphen-canadian writers. The authors behind this anthology have studied their own hungers, to paraphrase American food writer M.F.K. Fisher. Their vivid re-telling of past culinary experiences bears little resemblance...

"Biographia Literaria" has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art....

Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.Author: Chris KrausISBN-10: 1635900395ISBN-13: 9781635900392Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

The essays in this collection explore the diverse character of emerging Christian narratives. From priestly beginnings at the temple in Luke to the enigmatic figure of the cross of light in Acts of John, early Christians found a variety of ways to interpret and...

Neuroscience tells us that the brain is nothing but a metaphor machine capable of extracting meaning from a chaotic reality. Following Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin and Zizek, a theory of violence can be established according to which violence is a reaction on the part of...

All of the glory that had broken on me Surrounded me and saw me through and through Although I had no idea how to name A power that engulfed me totally And turned my soul onto another road. --Book XVI, lines 700-704 Preludes is...

This is a collection of thoughts I have had over the past ten years since retirement. They are mostly in poetic form--some rhyme, others don't. I am bringing them to print mainly for my children and grandchildren. As the name of the book implies,...

Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) may not be widely known, but her credentials as a poet are extensive; in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a loyal reader- ship. In total she produced 17 volumes of new and collected verse. Her A Trophy...

Author: Charles E. WinquistISBN-10: 1589835875ISBN-13: 9781589835870Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1987Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

Allegory in the parables of Jesus has never been addressed properly. By studying the allegorical features in parables and evaluating some former parable theories, current study hopes to bring insight to the hermeneutics of allegory in the parables of Jesus.Author: Suk Kwan WongISBN-10: 1532612257ISBN-13:...

The goal of this book is to define and explain the archetypal pattern of redemption that underlies our whole notion of resolution in literature and to demonstrate, through multiple examples, that successful literature--poems and stories that have shown endurance or popularity--uses this pattern in...

S. Dorman began Maine Metaphor with The Green and Blue House. She continued her explorations in the Western Mountains of Maine, studying Maine's characteristic ways and natural realm, possessing the experience, studies, and journaling of rural life and creation. And she wanted to learn...

Learn to paint, learn to see--it will change your life. On Sabbatical, Janice carries her art pack and folding stool into one of the most incredible landscapes on the planet: the canyons, deserts, mountains, and river valleys of the greater Southwest. Awed, amazed, inspired,...

The Spirit of Adoption explores many of the complexities inherent in adoption and its relationship to spirituality, challenging us to move beyond the common mythologies about adoption to consider the more difficult questions adoption raises about the nature of God, family, culture, loss, and...

The Bible is a perplexing book. It blends primitive beliefs with timeless truths, swings between compassionate love and ruthless violence, and forms a sympathetic heavenly father from the remains of a savage tribal god. What are we to make of it all? Petri Merenlahti...

This book offers a cross-section of the work of the Carolina Playmakers from 1919 until 1945. It tells of the work of the founder of the Playmakers, Frederick Henry Koch, and of the accomplishments of the young playwrights who made up the group's membership....

Few poems in English have a more mysterious charm than Rosetti's The Blessed Damozel. Born in the imagination of a youth of eighteen, cherished and labored over for more than thirty years, it is a poem of remote and fragile beauty. This complete collation...

In "Essays in the Art of Writing", Robert Louis Stevenson explores different literary techniques and offers interesting insights into the writing of "Treasure Island" (1883) and "The Master of Ballantrae" (1889). These fascinating and useful essays will appeal to those with a keen interest...

Emerson's Essays By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Contents Include: History Self-Reliance Compensation Spiritual Laws Loves Friendship Prudence Heroism The over-soul Circles Intellect Art. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure...

An Inquiry Concerning The Principles Of Natural Knowledge is a philosophical work written by A. N. Whitehead and first published in 1919. The book explores the fundamental principles of natural knowledge and how they can be understood and applied in the world. Whitehead argues...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

A study of the classic pulp magazine "Adventure." Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies #4.Author: Robert Kenneth JonesISBN-10: 143449618XISBN-13: 9781434496188Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2007Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d

Many documents essential for understanding the development of Soviet labor policies from 1917 to 1921 have been selected, translated, and presented in this volume. It starts with the early months of the revolution, when the utopian slogans of workers' control of industry and the...