Early Essays

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226092372

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The Early Essays by Talcott Parsons Pdf

The Heritage of Sociology.In his superb introductory essay, Camic situates Parson's early writings in their sociointellectual and biographical context. Drawing upon extensive historical research, he identifies three overlapping but relatively distinct thematic phases in the early development of Parson's ideas: that on capitalist society and its origins, that on the historical development of the theory of action, and that on the foundations of analytical sociology. Reproducing in full each of twenty-one selections, this volume charts the changes and continuities in the early development of some of Parson's most fundamental ideas.

Author : Ian Maclean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047428947

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Learning and the Market Place by Ian Maclean Pdf

These essays on the learned book in Early Modern Europe investigate the transmission of knowledge and the operation of the book market from the point of view of its major participants: authors, editors, publishers, readers and bibliographers.

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486299368

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The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays by T. S. Eliot Pdf

One of poetry's great voices reviews the creations of his literary forebears with essays on the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Blake, the Metaphysical Poets, and other authors. Plus 4 essays from The Times Literary Supplement.

Author : Michael Anthony Knibb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004167254

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Essays on the Book of Enoch and Other Early Jewish Texts and Traditions by Michael Anthony Knibb Pdf

This volume brings together twenty-one essays by Michael Knibb on the Book of Enoch and on other Early Jewish texts and traditions, which were originally published in a wide range of journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings and thematic collections. A number of the essays are concerned with the issues raised by the complex textual history and literary genesis of 1 Enoch, but the majority are concerned with the interpretation of specific texts or with themes such as messianism. The essays illustrate some of the dominant concerns of Michael Knibb's work, particularly the importance of the idea of exile; the way in which older texts regarded as authoritative were reinterpreted in later writings; and the connections between the apocalyptic writings and the sapiential literature.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317565048

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Imagining Culture (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Imagining Culture, first published in 1996, discusses literature as a whole rather than a partisan interest in those who are in or out of favour, and how that literature relates to other arts as well as to philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. This title will be of interest to students of literature and cultural studies.

Author : F.A. Hayek
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226321271

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Money, Capital, & Fluctuations by F.A. Hayek Pdf

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1. THE MONETARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE RECOVERY FROM THE 1920 CRISIS (1925) 2. SOME REMARKS ON THE PROBLEM OF IMPUTATION (1926) 3. ON THE PROBLEM OF THE THEORY OF INTEREST (1927) 4. INTERTEMPORAL PRICE EQUILIBRIUM AND MOVEMENTS IN THE VALUE OF MONEY (1928) 5. THE FATE OF THE GOLD STANDARD (1932) 6. CAPITAL CONSUMPTION (1932) 7. ON 'NEUTRAL MONEY' (1933) 8. TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND EXCESS CAPACITY (1936) Two reviews MARGINAL UTILITY AND ECONOMIC CALCULATION (1925) THE EXCHANGE VALUE OF MONEY (1929) NAME INDEX

Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550430

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Thomas Scott's Body by J.M. Bumsted Pdf

What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.

Author : Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781618119230

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Before They Were Titans by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen Pdf

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136774201

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Learning to Curse by Stephen Greenblatt Pdf

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.

Author : Frederick Rudolph
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674864581

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Essays on Education in the Early Republic by Frederick Rudolph Pdf

Author : Mark S.R. Jenner,Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0719051525

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Londinopolis, C.1500 - C.1750 by Mark S.R. Jenner,Paul Griffiths Pdf

Events such as the Fire of London and the Plague, and historic locations like the Globe Theatre, are part of London's heritage. Yet until recently, the history of the city between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. During this period, London's population soared from around 50,000 to nearly half a million--the demographic explosion transformed the city to a metropolis. London became a center of new social and sexual identities and a solvent of older, more hierarchical forms of social organization. The essays in this volume cover the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption. Within these themes are thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, “great quantities of gooseberry pye,” and the taxing question of fresh water.

Author : Jean-Paul Reding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351950053

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Comparative Essays in Early Greek and Chinese Rational Thinking by Jean-Paul Reding Pdf

This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures. Reding develops and defends the bold hypothesis that Greek and Chinese rational thinking are one and the same phenomenon. Rather than stressing the extreme differences between these two cultures - as most other writings on these subjects - Reding looks for the parameters that have to be restored to see the similarities. Reding maintains that philosophy is like an unknown continent discovered simultaneously in both China and Greece, but from different starting-points. The book comprises seven essays moving thematically from conceptual analysis, logic and categories to epistemology and ontology, with an incursion in the field of comparative metaphorology. One of the book's main concerns is a systematic examination of the problem of linguistic relativism through many detailed examples.

Author : Kevin White,Henry Wyldbore Rumsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415252032

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The Early Sociology of Health and Illness: Essays on state medicine by Kevin White,Henry Wyldbore Rumsey Pdf

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0804709726

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Society and Culture in Early Modern France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.