Fortune And Fatality

Author : Leonard St. Clair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:12244541

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A Fortune in Death by Leonard St. Clair Pdf

Author : Desmond Hosford,Charles Wrightington
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443814928

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Fortune and Fatality by Desmond Hosford,Charles Wrightington Pdf

As an aesthetic notion and dramatic genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period when debates over its nature and philosophy reflected fascination with a style whose fundamental principles were drawn from ancient Greek sources. Through the works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, routinely cited for an alleged regularity of form and content exemplifying the academic notion of French Classicism, tragedy has grounded the French literary canon. Because of its place at the heart of canonical French literary studies, tragedy’s traditionally prescribed boundaries and interpretations have rarely been questioned. Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France challenges conventional notions of the nature and function of tragedy and the ends to which philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic were appropriated during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scope of material explored in this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, but to those working in areas such as theater, gender studies, aesthetics, history, religion, philosophy, classics, and cultural studies.

Author : Virginia McConnell
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780275984731

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Fatal Fortune by Virginia McConnell Pdf

Details the likely murder of 21-year-old millionaire Billy McClintock in December 1924 through the administration of typhoid germs by his guardians, who stood to inherit everything, but only if Billy died before his February 1925 wedding.

Author : Mark D Bishop
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780244917463

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Ancestral Chains (DNA Part V of VIII) Fortune Bloodline by Mark D Bishop Pdf

Like the phases of the moon, fortunes wax & wane. From humble beginnings in Lacock; from hard-working agricultural labourer stock in Avon, to mining and engineering, the Fortune family flourished as it spread throughout the globe. From gold digging in NZ, to administration in Hong Kong, the Fortunes worked far & wide. The inevitability of war sorted the men from the boys & the Fortunes were there; but sometimes at a terrible price. Not only did great-grandfather, John Alfred Fortune, lose cousins though; his own mother was to disappear in very mysterious circumstances. Was it murder? Did she run off with Sailor Sam to the antipodes, or was she just not able to deal with family life? But what she left behind was an urge to travel in John Alfred Fortune, an urge to help others and a benevolent attitude to those who worked for him. In his short life he served the aorta of England, the River Thames as Conservancy Engineer, but did the River serve him? However one views it, his legacy, his monument, is that River.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199257604

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Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne by Hugh Grady Pdf

The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:555031950

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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015068411027

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Italy, Past and Present by Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga Pdf

Author : Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cycles in literature
ISBN : 9780821415146

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Fortune's Wheel by Elizabeth A. Campbell Pdf

This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.

Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317168690

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Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France by John D. Lyons Pdf

In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a fresh emphasis on direct, empirical observation of nature and society, the revival of dramatic tragedy with its paradoxical theme of the misfortunes that befall relatively good people, and growing introspective awareness of the somewhat arbitrary quality of consciousness itself. This volume is the first in English to offer a broad cultural and literary view of the field of chance in this period. The essays, by a distinguished team of scholars from the U.S., Britain, and France, cluster around four problems: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics, and Chance and its Remedies. Convincing and authoritative, this collection articulates a new and rich perspective on the culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France.

Author : Phoebe S. Spinrad
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 9780814204436

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The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage by Phoebe S. Spinrad Pdf

Author : Norma Lorre Goodrich
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 260003482X

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Charles of Orleans by Norma Lorre Goodrich Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Iser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034998794

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Henry Fielding und Der Englische Roman Des 18. Jahrhunderts by Wolfgang Iser Pdf

Author : Jonathan Sheehan,Dror Wahrman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226824048

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Invisible Hands by Jonathan Sheehan,Dror Wahrman Pdf

A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency. Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems—natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others—whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such orders, rooted in either divine providence or the mechanical operations of nature, began to fall away. In their place arose a new appreciation for the complexity of things, a new recognition of the world’s disorder and randomness, new doubts about simple relations of cause and effect—but with them also a new ability to imagine the world’s orders, whether natural or manmade, as self-organizing. If large systems are left to their own devices, eighteenth-century Europeans increasingly came to believe, order will emerge on its own without any need for external design or direction. In Invisible Hands, Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman trace the many appearances of the language of self-organization in the eighteenth-century West. Across an array of domains, including religion, society, philosophy, science, politics, economy, and law, they show how and why this way of thinking came into the public view, then grew in prominence and arrived at the threshold of the nineteenth century in versatile, multifarious, and often surprising forms. Offering a new synthesis of intellectual and cultural developments, Invisible Hands is a landmark contribution to the history of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106014328485

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. I. Rodale
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781623367596

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The Synonym Finder by J. I. Rodale Pdf

Originally published in 1961 by the founder of Rodale Inc., The Synonym Finder continues to be a practical reference tool for every home and office. This thesaurus contains more than 1 million synonyms, arranged alphabetically, with separate subdivisions for the different parts of speech and meanings of the same word.