Figures Of Several Centuries

Author : ARTHUR SYMONS
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789361154850

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Figures Of Several Centuries by ARTHUR SYMONS Pdf

Figures of Several Centuries" is a collection of essays written by Arthur Symons, a British poet, critic, and essayist. The book features Symons' astute observations and critiques of a wide range of literary and artistic luminaries over several centuries. Known for his contributions to English Decadent poetry and affiliated with the Symbolist movement, Symons examines the lives and works of a variety of characters in the arts and literature. The essays address a wide range of subjects, such as debates on poets, authors, and artists from many eras of history. As a literary critic, Symons analyses each person with a lyrical sensibility and a profound respect for art. In addition to providing historical context, the collection highlights the importance of several creative figures over time in various historical eras. With its insight into the rich fabric of artistic expression across the centuries, "Figures of Several Centuries" advances knowledge of the relationship between art, literature, and culture.

Author : Arthur Symons
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752422504

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Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons Pdf

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Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1570 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000064089126

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Joseph E. Riehl
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130403

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That Dangerous Figure by Joseph E. Riehl Pdf

The English poet Charles Lamb (1775-1834) stimulates reactions that often lie outside the boundaries of literary criticism, reactions that are often motivated by ideological, cultural or political concerns. He poses particularly difficult, even unanswerable, questions that often provoke intemperate anger or great affection in readers. Historically, the first critical misunderstanding of Lamb is to see him as a radical; later he is canonized a domestic saint; in the 1930s he is a reactionary bourgeois. More recently, he is understood as a conscious artist; first, by New Critics as a transcendent optimist, then, in the post-structuralist version, as a tormented soul creating his artifice out of the limitations of human life. This study, a comprehensive history of reactions to Lamb, proposes that perhaps Lamb is a literary 'trickster' who delights in raising just those contradictions of modern life which thosewho attempt a systematic style of criticism would like to ignore.

Author : Jeanne Fahnestock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195353556

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Rhetorical Figures in Science by Jeanne Fahnestock Pdf

Rhetorical Figures in Science breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves in scientific texts. Examples, both verbal and visual, range across disciplines and centuries to reaffirm the positive value of these once widely-taught devices.

Author : James R Hines
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097041

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Figure Skating in the Formative Years by James R Hines Pdf

Once a winter pastime for socializing and courtship, skating evolved into the wildly popular competitive sport of figure skating, one of the few athletic arenas where female athletes hold a public profile--and earning power--equal to that of men. Renowned sports historian James R. Hines chronicles figure skating's rise from its earliest days through its head-turning debut at the 1908 Olympics and its breakthrough as entertainment in the 1930s. Hines credits figure skating's explosive expansion to an ever-increasing number of women who had become proficient skaters and wanted to compete, not just in singles but with partners as well. Matters reached a turning point when British skater Madge Syers entered the otherwise-male 1902 World Championship held in London and finished second. Called skating's first feminist, Syers led a wave of women who made significant contributions to figure skating and helped turn it into today's star-making showcase at every Winter Olympics. Packed with stories and hard-to-find details, Figure Skating in the Formative Years tells the early history of a sport loved and followed by fans around the world.

Author : Diana V. Edelman,Ehud Ben Zvi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199664160

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Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods by Diana V. Edelman,Ehud Ben Zvi Pdf

Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and prophets are explored by a group of international scholars. The presumed social settings when most of the books comprising the TANAK had come into existence and were being read together as an emerging authoritative corpus are the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods. It is in this context then that we can profitably explore the symbolic values and networks of meanings that biblical figures encoded for the religious community of Israel in these eras, drawing on our limited knowledge of issues and life in Yehud and Judean diasporic communities in these periods. This is the first period when scholars can plausibly try to understand the mnemonic effects of these texts, which were understood to encode the collective experience members of the community, providing them with a common identity by offering a sense of shared past while defining aspirations for the future. The introduction and the concluding essay focus on theoretical and methodological issues that arise from analysing the Hebrew Bible in the framework of memory studies. The individual character studies, as a group, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the potentialities of using a social memory approach in Biblical Studies, with the essay on Cyrus written by a classicist, in order to provide an enriching perspective on how one biblical figure was construed in Greek social memory, for comparative purposes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555092878

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Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Bibliothecis Angliae, Cambriae, Scotiae, Et Hiberniae, 1833 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth McCahill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674726154

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Reviving the Eternal City by Elizabeth McCahill Pdf

In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century. As Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and the Curia were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical texts and surviving archival materials, McCahill reconstructs the niche that scholars carved for themselves as they penned vivid descriptions of Rome and offered remedies for contemporary social, economic, religious, and political problems. In addition to analyzing the humanists' intellectual and professional program, McCahill investigates the different agendas that popes Martin V (1417-1431) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447) and their cardinals had for the post-Schism pontificate. Reviving the Eternal City illuminates an urban environment in transition and explores the ways in which curialists collaborated and competed to develop Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.

Author : Arthur Coke Burnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Inscriptions
ISBN : OXFORD:590184593

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Elements of South-Indian Palæography from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. by Arthur Coke Burnell Pdf

Author : Stefan Rohdewald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516335

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Sacralizing the Nation through Remembrance of Medieval Religious Figures in Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia by Stefan Rohdewald Pdf

Religious figures of remembrance served to consolidate dynastic rule and later nation-state legitimacy and community. The study illuminates the interweaving of (Eastern) Roman, medieval Serbian and Bulgarian, as well as Ottoman and Western European national discourses culminating in the sacralization of the nation.

Author : A. C. Burnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108046107

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Elements of South-Indian Palaeography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century, AD by A. C. Burnell Pdf

This groundbreaking and extensive 1874 study of the Sanskrit manuscripts of southern India is still cited by scholars today.

Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0826322891

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American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century by Nancy Shoemaker Pdf

Studies the growth of Indian populations since 1900, showing why and how American Indian populations recovered in the 20th century.

Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588395757

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Kongo: Power and Majesty by Alisa LaGamma Pdf

A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.

Author : Sphinx Fine Art,Edward Strachan,Roy Bolton
Publisher : Sphinx Fine Art
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Painting, European
ISBN : 1907200029

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Russia & Europe in the Nineteenth Century by Sphinx Fine Art,Edward Strachan,Roy Bolton Pdf