Suspiria De Profundis

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041803972

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Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1094835617

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Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Beginning with a discussion of Levana, the ancient Roman goddess of childbirth, De Quincey imagines three companions for her: Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears; Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs; and Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Irish prose literature
ISBN : 9781427046093

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De Profundis by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5FB5

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Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4713542

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The English mail coach by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547021377

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On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001919513

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Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783750412101

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Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

IT is so painful to a lover of open-hearted sincerity that any indirect traits of vanity should even seem to creep into records of profound passion; and yet, on the other hand, it is so impossible, without an unnatural restraint upon the freedom of the narrative, to prevent oblique gleams reaching the reader from such circumstances of luxury or elegance as did really surround my childhood, that on all accounts I think it better to tell him, from the first, with the simplicity of truth, in what order of society my family moved at the time from which this preliminary narrative is dated. Otherwise it would happen that, merely by moving truly and faithfully through the circumstances of this early experience, I could hardly prevent the reader from receiving an impression as of some higher rank than did really belong to my family.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002023365U

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suspiria de profundis. With other essays, critical, historical, biographical, philosophical, imaginative and humorous by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Markus Iseli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137501080

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Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious by Markus Iseli Pdf

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

Author : De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00057562

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Suspiria de Profundis by De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQCHY

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The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspiria de profundis, with other essays, critical, historical, biographical, philosophical, imaginative and humorous by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : F. Burwick
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349416320

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Thomas de Quincey by F. Burwick Pdf

This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts.

Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781408840139

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Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson Pdf

'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet's former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts.De Quincey may never have felt the equal of the giants of the Romantic Literature he so worshipped but the writing style he pioneered - scripted and sculptured emotional memoir - was to inspire generations of writers: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf. James Joyce knew whole pages of his work off by heart and he was arguably the father of what we now call psychogeography.This spectacular biography, the produce of meticulous scholarship and beautifully supple prose, tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run, and both brings De Quincey and his martyred but wild soul triumphantly to life and firmly establishes Frances Wilson in the front rank of contemporary biographers.