Interpreting Nightingales

Author : Jeni Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847141859

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Interpreting Nightingales by Jeni Williams Pdf

The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.

Author : Jeni Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847141859

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Interpreting Nightingales by Jeni Williams Pdf

The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.

Author : Christiana de Groot,Marion Ann Taylor
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589838345

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Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible by Christiana de Groot,Marion Ann Taylor Pdf

Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture throughout the ages, yet the usual history of biblical interpretation includes few women’s voices. To introduce readers to this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation, this volume presents forgotten works from the nineteenth century written by women—including Grace Aguilar, Florence Nightingale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others—from various faith backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy, women’s interpretive writings addressed primarily a nonscholarly audience and were written in a variety of genres: novels and poetry, catechisms, manuals for Bible study, and commentaries on the books of the Bible. To recover these nineteenth-century women interpreters of the Bible, each essay in this volume locates a female author in her historical, ecclesiastical, and interpretive context, focusing on particular biblical passages to clarify an author’s contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the text was shaped by her experience as a woman.

Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501727573

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Sung Birds by Elizabeth Eva Leach Pdf

Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.

Author : Catherine Maxwell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719057523

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The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne by Catherine Maxwell Pdf

This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry.

Author : 张亚婷著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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中世纪英国动物叙事文学研究 by 张亚婷著 Pdf

本书以环境伦理学为切入点，研究12至15世纪英国作家在拉丁语、盎格鲁－诺曼语和中世纪英语作品中对人与动物关系的再现和环境伦理的展示。研究涉及玛丽、尼格尔、乔叟、“猫头鹰”诗人、“哈夫洛克”诗人、马洛礼、曼德维尔和多名佚名诗人的作品，以文本中动物与人的多重关系、动物的再现政治为重点进行细读研究，探讨人性与动物性、叙事策略和道德意识、动物与文化隐喻的关系，观照这些作家在中世纪英国动物叙事文学发展方面所做出的贡献。

Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521395690

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Explaining Epidemics by Charles E. Rosenberg Pdf

Collection of author's essays previously published individually

Author : Edward Moises
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Persian language
ISBN : PRNC:32101076396660

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The Persian Interpreter: in Three Parts by Edward Moises Pdf

Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780889207073

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Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature by Lynn McDonald Pdf

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.

Author : Florence Nightingale,Lynn McDonald
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889203716

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Florence Nightingale's Theology by Florence Nightingale,Lynn McDonald Pdf

Florence Nightingale is famous as the ""lady with the lamp"" in the Crimean War, 1854-56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale's efforts to achieve real reforms. He.

Author : Spring Hermann
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766083462

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Reading and Interpreting the Works of Tennessee Williams by Spring Hermann Pdf

As a child growing up in the Deep South, Tom “Tennessee” Williams escaped from his tumultuous home life by retreating into his imagination. His love for made-up stories would eventually translate into a propensity for writing drama and poetry. This compelling text places the playwright’s work in the context of his life and times, allowing readers to gain a greater understanding of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Featuring quotes, excerpts, and in-depth critical analysis of his most famous plays as well as his lesser-known works, the text provides an in-depth look at this hard-working, prolific playwright considered by many to be among the greatest of his time.

Author : Jarlath Killeen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754687542

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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by Jarlath Killeen Pdf

Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been relegated to the margins in studies of his work. In this, the first full-length study of Wilde's fairy tales, Jarlath Killeen resituates the collections in a complex nexus of theological, political, social, and national concerns and restores the tales to their proper place in the Wilde canon.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Richard Mabey,Derrick Greaves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Nightingale
ISBN : 0956186912

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The Barley Bird by Richard Mabey,Derrick Greaves Pdf

Mabey explores the nightingale's link with Suffolk culture and landscape and traces the bird's course through myth, lore and tradition. He plumbs his subject for its fascinating literary and historical references and opens the readers ears to the bird itself and its extraordinary song.

Author : Bartolo Natoli
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299312107

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Silenced Voices by Bartolo Natoli Pdf

Examines speech loss across all of Ovid's writings and the ways that motif is explored, developed, and modified in the poet's work after his exile from Rome.