Jeoffry

Author : Oliver Soden
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750995931

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Jeoffry by Oliver Soden Pdf

Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as 'a mixture of gravity and waggery'. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden's biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry's life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.

Author : Christopher Smart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cats
ISBN : OCLC:1066135497

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My Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart Pdf

Author : Virginia Brackett
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108353

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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry by Virginia Brackett Pdf

Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author : Jan Drake
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781423655312

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Wild Horses of the West by Jan Drake Pdf

Captivating photographs and stories of the wild horses of the west. Take an intimate look at the majestic equines who roam the public lands of the Mountain West: Wild Horses of the West provides a front row seat to a world rarely glimpsed by most people. Stories highlight specific horses known in these areas as The Old Man, One-Ear, and the Cremello Brothers whom the photographer, Jan Drake, has been following with her camera for years. More than 200 color photographs are divided into sections including Family Bands, Mares & Foals, Fighting Mustangs, Stallions & Bachelors, and Cedar Mountain Mustangs. Jan Drake is a long-time photographer based in Park City, Utah. She oversees the equestrian center at the National Ability Center (NAC) where adaptive horseback riding, trail riding, equine-assisted learning, and hippotherapy is made available to all ages and abilities. As an annual fundraiser for the NAC, Drake guides private groups on photography excursions to see wild horses of the West up close. She also volunteers regularly with the nonprofit Intermountain Wild Horse and Burros Advisors. This is her first book.

Author : Jonathan Barnes,Professor of Ancient Philosophy Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199282814

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Truth, Et Cetera by Jonathan Barnes,Professor of Ancient Philosophy Jonathan Barnes Pdf

Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. Its six chapters discuss, first, certain ancient ideas about truth; secondly, the Aristotelian conception of predication; thirdly, various ideas about connectors which were developed by the ancient logicians and grammarians; fourthly, the notion of logical form, insofar as it may be discovered in the ancient texts; fifthly, thequestion of the 'justification of deduction'; and sixthly, the attitude which has been called logical utilitarianism and which restricts the scope of logic to those forms of inference which are or might be useful for scientific proofs. In principle, the book presupposes no knowledge of logic and no skill inancient languages: all ancient texts are cited in English translation; and logical symbols and logical jargon are avoided so far as possible. There is no scholarly apparatus of footnotes, and no bibliography. It can be read in an armchair. Anyone interested in ancient philosophy, or in logic and its history, will find it interesting.

Author : Tobias Menely
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226239422

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The Animal Claim by Tobias Menely Pdf

This “passionately eloquent” study shows the influence of eighteenth-century poetry on political theory, philosophy, and early discourse on animal rights (Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles). During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws. In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely links this poetics of sensibility with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of communication. In the Restoration and eighteenth century, philosophers emphasized the role of sympathy in collective life and began regarding the passionate expression humans share with animals, rather than the spoken or written word, as the elemental medium of community. Menely shows how poetry came to represent this creaturely voice and, by virtue of this advocacy, facilitated the development of a viable discourse of animal rights in the emerging public sphere. Placing sensibility in dialogue with classical and early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies, The Animal Claim uncovers crucial connections between eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and post-absolutist, rights-based politics.

Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250237569

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For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll Pdf

"For He Can Creep" by Siobhan Carroll is a dark fantasy about Jeoffry, a cat who fights demons, a poet, who is Jeoffry’s human confined to an insane asylum, and Satan, who schemes to end the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Christopher Smart,Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Cats
ISBN : 0689310269

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For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart,Emily Arnold McCully Pdf

Enumerates all the special qualities of Jeoffry the cat.

Author : Robin Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101203804

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Godplayer by Robin Cook Pdf

Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is about to discover that neither her marriage nor her job is what she thought. And when she sets out to find the truth, it may just kill her.

Author : Caroline Casey,Chris Fischbach,Sarah Schultz
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781566894128

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Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey,Chris Fischbach,Sarah Schultz Pdf

“Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we’re talking about when we’re talking about cat videos.” —New York magazine Are cat videos art? This essay collection, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, addresses not just our fascination with cat videos, but also how we decide what is good or bad art, or art at all; how taste develops, how that can change, and why we love or hate something. It’s about people and technology and just what it is about cats that makes them the internet’s cutest despots. This lively essay collection is intended as “an earnest attempt to uncover more about human nature—especially in today’s internet-driven world.” —Cool Hunting Contributors include: Sasha Archibald, Will Braden, Stephen Burt, Maria Bustillos, David Carr, Matthea Harvey, Alexis Madrigal, Joanne McNeil, Ander Monson, Kevin Nguyen, Elena Passarello, Jillian Steinhauer, Sarah Schultz, and Carl Wilson. “This clever collection is highly recommended for people who watch cat videos, which is apparently nearly everyone.” —Publishers Weekly “A delight.” —Chicago Tribune

Author : Christine Gerrard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118702291

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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by Christine Gerrard Pdf

A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).

Author : Chris Mounsey
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 083875483X

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Christopher Smart by Chris Mounsey Pdf

"This new biography of Christopher Smart offers a picture of a multifaceted eighteenth-century wit whose writing has far-reaching social, political, and historical significance. Poet, journalist, theater performer, cross-dresser, and theologian, who was questionably incarcerated for insanity, wherever Smart found himself his approach to life was at once serious and joyful, confirming him as one of God's clowns." "Building on previous biographical, bibliographical, and critical work - as well as on a broad scholarship on the publishing trade, on Grub Street and the position of the professional writer, and on the institutional treatment of madness in eighteenth-century England - Chris Mounsey constructs a version of Smart's life that is radically original. In its intelligent use of legal, parliamentary, and other archives, Mounsey both reappraises the familiar source material and mounts a challenge to earlier accounts of Smart's life and career. New interpretations of Smart's relationship with others (including his father-in-law John Newbery), his life on Grub Street as a political satirist, and his involvement in theological speculations provide a fuller and more engaging picture of the social, political, scientific, and religious context of his life and work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521829410

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Romanticism and Animal Rights by David Perkins Pdf

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Author : Franz Karl Wöhrer,John S. Bak
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643903365

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British Literature and Spirituality by Franz Karl Wöhrer,John S. Bak Pdf

This book reflects the current state of research in the field of the spiritual in British literature, where spirituality is understood as a culturally-determined, universal phenomenon or a factuality of humanity, consisting of the living apprehension of the 'Sacred' during rare gratuitous moments of illumination. With critical essays by scholars working in various disciplines (English studies, music, the arts, psychology, theology, etc.), the book explores a corpus of encoded narratives of - as well as reflections on - the 'Sacred' in British literature, from the Late Middle Ages to the present. Multi-disciplinary in nature and interdisciplinary in method, British Literature and Spirituality illustrates the hermeneutic potential of readings that transcend the disciplinary boundaries of spiritual writings. (Series: Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft / Austria: Research and Science - Literature and Linguistics - Vol. 24)

Author : Onno Oerlemans
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231547420

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Poetry and Animals by Onno Oerlemans Pdf

Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine the boundaries between human and animal. In Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about “the animal” broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals’ difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.