Author: Mrs. Ritson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 39
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Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year is a book by Anne Ritson. It presents the reader with amusing riddles and flabbergasting conundrums based on English and Roman histories in a humorous manner.
Author: Abraham John Valpy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108058094 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 395
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This forty-volume collection comprises all the issues of an early and influential classical periodical, first published between 1810 and 1829.
Author: Anne Ritson Publisher: W. DARTON ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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Classical Enigmas : Adapted to Every Month in the Year, Composed from the English and Roman Histories, Heathen Mythology and Names of Famous Writers That Monster of Rome, who no equal can claim, For the crimes that for ever, have blacken'd his name. Augustus's sister, great Anthony's wife, Whom he left for that beauty, who cost him his life. The Emperor, who thought it improper to lay, When death call'd his soul from his body away, Determin'd the summons undaunted to meet, And was plac'd by his courtiers erect on his feet. That Prince whom the Romans delighted to name, As first of their race, tho' from Venus he came. That Emperor gigantic, who for his ring chose A bracelet, the wrist of his wife could enclose. The harsh Roman Father, who sternly sat by To condemn, and behold, his own children die. The conquer'd, whom first Cincinnatus did doom To pass through the yoke, for contending with Rome. Last one of the Twins, who was nurs'd by a goat, Yet founded old Rome, that great city of note. Now take the initials, and put them together, They'll tell you a month, that has often wet weather.
Author: Mrs. Ritson Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 38
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Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year is a book by Anne Ritson. It presents the reader with amusing riddles and flabbergasting conundrums based on English and Roman histories in a humorous manner.
Author: Leah Culligan Flack Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 135000412X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 176
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James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce's defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. Responding to a long-standing critical paradigm that has viewed the classical world as a means of granting a coherent order, shape, and meaning to Joyce's modernist innovations, Leah Flack explores how and why Joyce's fiction deploys the classical as the language of the new. This study tracks Joyce's sensitive, on-going readings of classical literature from his earliest work at the turn of the twentieth century through to the appearance of Ulysses in 1922, the watershed year of high modernist writing. In these decades, Joyce read ancient and modern literature alongside one another to develop what Flack calls his classical modernist aesthetic, which treats the classical tradition as an ally to modernist innovation. This aesthetic first comes to full fruition in Ulysses, which self-consciously deploys the classical tradition to defend stylistic experimentation as a way to resist static, paralyzing notions of the past. Analysing Joyce's work through his career from his early essays, Flack ends by considering the rich afterlives of Joyce's classical modernist project, with particular attention to contemporary works by Alison Bechdel and Maya Lang.
Author: Curtis A. Gruenler Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268101655 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 636
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In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.
Author: Anne Ritson Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781290334969 Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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