Author: John LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Ld Bishop of Worcester
Author: John LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Blindness and Writing
Author: Heather TilleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107194210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used textual means to shape their own identities, the book argues that blindness was also a significant trope through which writers reflected on the act of crafting literary form. Supported by an illuminating range of archival material (including unpublished letters from Wordsworth's circle, early ophthalmologic texts, embossed books, and autobiographies) this is a rich account of blind people's experience, and reveals the close, and often surprising personal engagement that canonical writers had with visual impairment. Drawing on the insights of disability studies and cultural phenomenology, Tilley highlights the importance of attending to embodied experience in the production and consumption of texts.
Christianity's Dangerous Idea
Author: Alister McGrathPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061436860
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A New Interpretation of Protestantism and Its Impact on the World The radical idea that individuals could interpret the Bible for themselves spawned a revolution that is still being played out on the world stage today. This innovation lies at the heart of Protestantism's remarkable instability and adaptability. World-renowned scholar Alister McGrath sheds new light on the fascinating figures and movements that continue to inspire debate and division across the full spectrum of Protestant churches and communities worldwide.
Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary
Author: Dennis E. BaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book contains 25 essays about English words, and how they are defined, valued, and discussed. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, "Language Lore," examines some of the myths and misconceptions that affect attitudes toward language--and towards English in particular. The second section, "Language Usage," examines some specific questions of meaning and usage. Section 3, "Language Trends," examines some controversial trends in English vocabulary, and some developments too new to have received comment before. The fourth section, "Language Politics," treats several aspects of linguistic politics, from special attempts to deal with the ethnic, religious, or sex-specific elements of vocabulary to the broader issues of language both as a reflection of the public consciousness and the U.S. Constitution and as a refuge for the most private forms of expression. (MS)
The Geography of the Imagination
Author: Guy DavenportPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920802
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr. Locke's Letter
Author: Edward StillingfleetThe Independent Whig
Author: John TrenchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods
Author: Andrew O'MalleyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319947370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts, these essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period, while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social interaction. Together, they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child alongside the shifting, sometimes competing, meanings that attached themselves to childhood during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr. Locke's Letter, Concerning Some Passages Relating to His Essay of Humane Understanding, Mention'd in the Late Discourse in Vindication of the Trinity. With a Postscript in Answer to Some Reflections on that Treatise in a Late Socinian Pamphlet
Author: Edward StillingfleetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
On Philosophy and Philosophers
Author: Richard RortyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108488455
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--