The Life And Work Of Jane Ellen Harrison

Author : Annabel Robinson
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019924233X

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The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison by Annabel Robinson Pdf

A rebel against Victorian mores, Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) became one of the first women to hold a research fellowship at Cambridge. A friend of such distinguished figures as Gilbert Murray and Francis Cornford, she was renowned for her public lectures on Greek art, for her books on Greekreligion and mythology, and for her unconventional and outspoken views.In her application of anthropology to classical studies, Harrison stirred up controversy amongst her academic colleagues, while, at the same time, influencing many writers, including Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Driven by the conviction that the study of primitive Greek culture was anintensely practical enterprise, addressing the fundamental emotional needs of all people, she set her academic research in the broader context of human life. Her work on Greek religion is really a critique of all religion.Although she was a powerful role model for academic women and addressed issues which were central to the women's movement, when it came to women's rights, her own views were not always in keeping with those of her suffragist contemporaries. Harrison wrote not to champion any cause, but out of apassionate desire to share what she believed to be important and true. In so doing, she both opened up new possibilities for academic women and made a considerable contribution to classical studies.

Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691227467

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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison Pdf

Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674008073

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The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard Pdf

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame.

Author : J.E. Harrison
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN : 9785872589761

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Themis by J.E. Harrison Pdf

Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781961341982

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Reminiscences of a Student's Life by Jane Ellen Harrison Pdf

The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called “my hero.” First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison’s Reminiscences are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian education “ingeniously useless,” who blazed a trail for female scholars, and who changed the way we see the ancient world. Growing up in the Yorkshire countryside, Harrison showed an early aptitude for languages: by the age of seventeen, with the help of a governess, she had learned Greek, Latin, German, and some Hebrew. (“Unfortunately, having no guide, we began with the Psalms, which are hard nuts to crack.”) She went on to become the most influential Classicist of her generation. Drawing on the insights of Nietzsche, Bergson, and Freud, and on archaeological research, she helped to revolutionize the study of Greek myth. “The great Mother,” she wrote, “is prior to male divinities.” Unconventional in her private life (“By what miracle I escaped marriage I do not know, for all my life I fell in love”), she spent her later years with the poet and novelist Hope Mirrlees, thirty-seven years her junior. Harrison’s zest for life is everywhere in these pages. Sprightly, amused, and amusing, her Reminiscences form an unforgettable sketch of a woman ahead of her time.

Author : Jane Ellen 1850-1928 N 50 Harrison,Publisher N 85026337 Hogarth Press
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019350423

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Reminiscences of a Student's Life by Jane Ellen 1850-1928 N 50 Harrison,Publisher N 85026337 Hogarth Press Pdf

Jane Ellen N. Harrison offers a charming and insightful account of her life as a student, both in Oxford and abroad. Harrison vividly describes the intellectual and social milieu of the late 19th century, as well as the challenges she faced as a woman navigating the male-dominated world of academia. This book is a wonderful glimpse into a bygone era, and a testament to the enduring power of curiosity and intellectual inquiry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106015712745

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The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard Pdf

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356843387

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Pdf

A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

Author : Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813930510

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The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915 by Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay Pdf

Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay argues that, although the existence and significance of the science of religion has been barely visible to modern scholars of the Victorian period, it was a subject of lively and extensive debate among nineteenth-century readers and audiences. She shows how an earlier generation of scholars in Victorian Britain attempted to arrive at a dispassionate understanding of the psychological and social meanings of religious beliefs and practices—a topic not without contemporary resonance in a time when so many people feel both empowered and threatened by religious passion—and provides the kind of history she feels has been neglected. Wheeler-Barclay examines the lives and work of six scholars: Friedrich Max Müller, Edward B. Tylor, Andrew Lang, William Robertson Smith, James G. Frazer, and Jane Ellen Harrison. She illuminates their attempts to create a scholarly, non-apologetic study of religion and religions that drew upon several different disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, the classics, and Oriental studies, and relied upon contributions from those outside as well as within the universities. This intellectual enterprise—variously known as comparative religion, the history of religions, or the science of religion—was primarily focused on non-Christian religions. Yet in Wheeler-Barclay’s study of the history of this field within the broad contexts of Victorian cultural, intellectual, social, and political history, she traces the links between the emergence of the science of religion to debates about Christianity and to the history of British imperialism, the latter of which made possible the collection of so much of the ethnographic data on which the scholars relied and which legitimized exploration and conquest. Far from promoting an anti-religious or materialistic agenda, the science of religion opened up cultural space for an exploration of religion that was not constricted by the terms of contemporary conflicts over Darwin and the Bible and that made it possible to think in new and more flexible ways about the very definition of religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : London : Nonesuch Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Bears
ISBN : OXFORD:502317762

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The Book of the Bear by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gare Thompson,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101640005

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Who Was Helen Keller? by Gare Thompson,Who HQ Pdf

At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things. This inspiring illustrated biography is perfect for young middle-grade readers. Black-and-white line drawings throughout, sidebars on related topics such as Louis Braille, a timeline, and a bibliography enhance readers' understanding of the subject.

Author : Rosie Wyles,Edith Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198725206

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Women Classical Scholars by Rosie Wyles,Edith Hall Pdf

La 4e de couverture indique : "the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship."

Author : Jane Marcus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781949979305

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Nancy Cunard by Jane Marcus Pdf

In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and “sexually dangerous New Woman,” offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.

Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019487313

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The Religion Of Ancient Greece by Jane Ellen Harrison Pdf

An exploration of the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Greece, including the worship of gods and goddesses such as Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, as well as cults and rituals devoted to heroes and the dead. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258895927

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Mythology by Jane Ellen Harrison Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.