A Modern De Quincey

Author : Herbert Reginald Robinson
Publisher : Asian Portraits
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060381251

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A Modern De Quincey by Herbert Reginald Robinson Pdf

In 1923, upon completion of a posting in northern Burma, Captain Robinson returned to Mandalay to await a new assignment. While there he sampled the pleasures of the opium den. This is his account of the seduction of a naive young romantic by the East and of his narrow escape from death. Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma, returned to Mandalay in 1923 to await a new assignment. One evening, Robinson and two friends, came upon an opium den. While his friends called it a night, Robinson stayed on to sample the forbidden

Author : Herbert Reginald Robinson
Publisher : London : G.G. Harrap and Company Limited
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Burma
ISBN : LCCN:42024531

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A Modern De Quincey by Herbert Reginald Robinson Pdf

Author : Alina Clej
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804780766

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A Genealogy of the Modern Self by Alina Clej Pdf

As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his imaginary investment in Coleridge.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aesthetic, French
ISBN : 0262121662

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Quatremere de Quincy by Sylvia Lavin Pdf

Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language.

Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781408840139

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Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson Pdf

'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet's former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts.De Quincey may never have felt the equal of the giants of the Romantic Literature he so worshipped but the writing style he pioneered - scripted and sculptured emotional memoir - was to inspire generations of writers: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf. James Joyce knew whole pages of his work off by heart and he was arguably the father of what we now call psychogeography.This spectacular biography, the produce of meticulous scholarship and beautifully supple prose, tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run, and both brings De Quincey and his martyred but wild soul triumphantly to life and firmly establishes Frances Wilson in the front rank of contemporary biographers.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101075373900

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De Quincey's Works ...: Sketches: critical and biographic by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89001275650

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De Quincey's Works ...: Studies on secret records, personal and historic: with other papers by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830

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The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum Pdf

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

Author : Markus Iseli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137501080

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Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious by Markus Iseli Pdf

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497816629

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The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Drug addicts
ISBN : PRNC:32101075373959

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De Quincey's works by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497817862

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The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547021377

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On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112079773856

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De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851 by Thomas De Quincey Pdf