Clio Among The Muses

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479832835

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Clio Among the Muses by Peter Charles Hoffer Pdf

History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces history’s complicated partnership with its coordinate disciplines of religion, philosophy, the social sciences, literature, biography, policy studies, and law. As in ancient days, when Clio was preeminent among the other eight muses, so today, the author argues that history can and should claim pride of place in the study of past human action and thought. Intimate and irreverent at times, Clio among the Muses synthesizes a remarkable array of information. Clear and concise in its review of the companionship between history and its coordinate disciplines, fair-minded in its assessment of the contributions of history to other disciplines and these disciplines' contributions to history, Clio among the Muses will capture the attention of everyone who cares about the study of history. For as the author demonstrates, the study of history is something unique, ennobling, and necessary. One can live without religion, philosophy and the rest. One cannot exist without history. Rigorously documented throughout, the book offers a unique perspective on the craft of history.

Author : Keith W. Whitelam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317799160

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The Invention of Ancient Israel by Keith W. Whitelam Pdf

The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam shows how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state, influenced by the realisation of the state of Israel in 1948. He explores the theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which Said identified as 'Orientalist discourse'. This study concentrates on two crucial periods from the end of the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age, a so-called period of the emergence of ancient Israel and the rise of an Israelite state under David. It explores the prospects for developing the study of Palestinian history as a subject in its own right, divorced from the history of the Bible, and argues that Biblical scholars, through their traditional view of this area, have contributed to dispossession both of a Palestinian land and a Palestinian past. This contoversial book is important reading for historians, Biblical specialists, social anthropologists and all those who are interested in the history of ancient Israel and Palestine.

Author : Albert Charles Hamilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0802079237

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The Spenser Encyclopedia by Albert Charles Hamilton Pdf

A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622751532

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Greek Gods & Goddesses by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

Giving Western literature and art many of its most enduring themes and archetypes, Greek mythology and the gods and goddesses at its core are a fundamental part of the popular imagination. At the heart of Greek mythology are exciting stories of drama, action, and adventure featuring gods and goddesses, who, while physically superior to humans, share many of their weaknesses. Readers will be introduced to the many figures once believed to populate Mount Olympus as well as related concepts and facts about the Greek mythological tradition.

Author : Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503633933

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Auden and the Muse of History by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb Pdf

Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder, this startling new study reveals the intensity of the poet's struggles with the meanings of history. Through meticulous readings, significant archival findings, and critical reflection, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb presents a new image and understanding of Auden's achievement and reveals how his version of modernism illuminates urgent contemporary issues and theoretical paradigms: from the meaning of marriage equality to the persistence of fascism; from critical theory to psychoanalysis; from precarity to postcolonial studies. "The muse does not like being forced to choose between Agit-prop and Mallarmé," Auden writes with characteristic lucidity, and this study elucidates the probity, humor, and technical skill with which his responses to historical reality in the mid-twentieth century illuminate our world today.

Author : Mark Sandle,William Van Arragon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498299985

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Re-Forming History by Mark Sandle,William Van Arragon Pdf

Does the discipline of history need a reformation? How should Christian faith shape the ways historians do their work? This book, written for students, considers the “how” of doing history. The authors first examine the current “liturgies” of the historical profession and suggest that the discipline is in crisis. They argue for “re-formed” Christian practices and methodologies for history. The book asks important questions: why do we do history, and for whom? How should faith shape how we do our research and tell stories? What do we owe the dead? How should Christian historians practice “dangerous memory”? And how can Christian historians do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God? How might we rethink, reform, renew, reimagine, and re-practice the study of the past? Christian historians must be sentinels of hope against the world’s forgetfulness, the authors argue, and this book offers some pathways for rethinking our practices from a Christian perspective.

Author : Thora llin Bayer,Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801474729

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Giambattista Vico by Thora llin Bayer,Donald Phillip Verene Pdf

Brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work.

Author : Sara Crawford
Publisher : Sara Crawford
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Muse Chronicles: Books 1 - 3 by Sara Crawford Pdf

What could you create if you fell in love with a Muse? 16-year-old musician, Sylvia Baker, has always been different. She's the only one who can see the "flickering people." When she sees a gorgeous flickering man named Vincent, she learns that they are Muses. With his help, she finds herself creating exquisite songs that she loves almost as much as songs by her favorite bands--Radiohead, M83, and The Black Keys--and she is falling in love in a way she never knew was possible. While trying to maintain her newfound friendships and her band, she falls deeper into the world of the Muses. When the original Greek Muses wake to find a world in which the internet has given everyone the tools to be an artist, a battle between traditional and new methods of creation ensues. As Sylvia discovers how she is connected to the world of the Muses, she learns that this war may put her music, her love, her very life at stake. Book 1 of this young adult urban fantasy romance was a semi-finalist in the YA Books Central 2017 Awards in the "All the Feels" category

Author : Elizabeth Muir Tyler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487513382

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England in Europe by Elizabeth Muir Tyler Pdf

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor. Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two queens actively engaged in the patronage of history-writing and poetry to exercise their royal authority. Tyler’s innovative combination of attention to intertextuality and regard for social networks emphasizes the role of women at the centre of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman court literature. In doing so, she argues that both Emma and Edith’s negotiation of conquests and factionalism created powerful models of queenly patronage that were subsequently adopted by individuals such as Queen Margaret of Scotland, Countess Adela of Blois, Queen Edith/Matilda, and Queen Adeliza. England in Europe sheds new lighton the connections between English, French, and Flemish history-writing and poetry and illustrates the key role Anglo-Saxon literary culture played in European literature long after 1066.

Author : Tibor Grüll
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803275673

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Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments by Tibor Grüll Pdf

Ancient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient literacy. The eight studies in this volume enrich our knowledge of Roman writing with many new aspects and detailed observations.

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PRNC:32101078163332

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The Cyclopaedia by Abraham Rees Pdf

Author : Lynette Felber
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874139813

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Clio's Daughters by Lynette Felber Pdf

They discover new texts and methodologies, exploring nineteenth-century British women's historiography, their writing of history, often through unexpected sources not previously regarded as historical venues: journalism, travel writing, architectural preservation, and costume balls."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954415

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Readings in the Cantos by Richard Parker Pdf

This volume offers clear readings of 28 Cantos from The Cantos of Ezra Pound in 23 essays written by eminent Poundians, with careful explanation of sources balanced with critical analysis of Pound’s project.

Author : Benjamin Binstock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136087066

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Vermeer's Family Secrets by Benjamin Binstock Pdf

Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeer’s life that Binstock brings to bear on Vermeer’s art for the first time; he also offers new interpretations of several key documents pertaining to Vermeer that have been misunderstood. Lavishly illustrated with more than 180 black and white images and more than sixty color plates, the book also includes a remarkable color two-page spread that presents the entirety of Vermeer's oeuvre arranged in chronological order in 1/20 scale, demonstrating his gradual formal and conceptual development. No book on Vermeer has ever done this kind of visual comparison of his complete output. Like Poe's purloined letter, Vermeer's secrets are sometimes out in the open where everyone can see them. Benjamin Binstock shows us where to look. Piecing together evidence, the tools of art history, and his own intuitive skills, he gives us for the first time a history of Vermeer's work in light of Vermeer's life. On almost every page of Vermeer's Family Secrets, there is a perception or an adjustment that rethinks what we know about Vermeer, his oeuvre, Dutch painting, and Western Art. Perhaps the most arresting revelation of Vermeer's Family Secrets is the final one: in response to inconsistencies in technique, materials, and artistic level, Binstock posits that several of the paintings accepted as canonical works by Vermeer, are in fact not by Vermeer at all but by his eldest daughter, Maria. How he argues this is one of the book's many pleasures.

Author : David Cowart
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809314797

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History and the Contemporary Novel by David Cowart Pdf

Cowart presents a study of international historical fiction since World War II, with reflections on the affinities between historical and fictional narrative, analysis of the basic modes of historical fiction, and readings of a number of historical novels, including John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s The Leopard, D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel, William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. He proposes recognizing four modes of the historical novel: the past as a "distant mirror" of the present, fictions whose authors seek to pinpoint the precise historical moment when the modern age or some prominent feature of it came into existence, fictions whose authors aspire purely or largely to historical verisimilitude, and fictions whose authors reverse history to contemplate utopia and dystopia in the future. Thus, historical fiction can be organized under the rubrics: The Distant Mirror; The Turning Point; The Way It Was; and The Way It Will Be. This fourfold schema and his focus on postwar novels set Cowart’s work apart from previous studies, which have not devoted adequate space to the contemporary historical novel. Cowart argues that postwar historical fiction merits more extensive treatment because it is the product of an age unique in the annals of history—an age in which history itself may end.