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Author: Aelian Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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Varia Historia is a miscellany of anecdotes, lists, apophthegms, biographical sketches, and descriptions of natural wonders. The present volume presents Aelian in such a way that his program for selection and compilation of information becomes apparent.
Author: Aelian Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Varia Historia is a miscellany of anecdotes, lists, apophthegms, biographical sketches, and descriptions of natural wonders. The present volume presents Aelian in such a way that his program for selection and compilation of information becomes apparent.
Author: Thomas Ayres Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 030748825X Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 208
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For armchair generals, history buffs, and military enthusiasts everywhere, A Military Miscellany is an essential and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America’s rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories overlooked by historians, it’s all here in a book that will enlighten and amaze even the most avid student of American military history. Did you know that American soldiers have been sent to invade foreign nations or their territories more than two hundred times since Thomas Jefferson dispatched troops to North Africa in 1803 to punish Muslim pirates? Or that during the Vietnam War a can opener was called a John Wayne? Or that a downed World War II airman once trekked across Germany, through occupied France, and across the mountains into Spain to avoid capture–only to be treated as a spy because Allied military intelligence said it couldn’t be done? Open this book anywhere and you’ll find yourself instantly captivated. From the "peace president" who was our most frequent practitioner of gunboat diplomacy to the Revolutionary War hero whose refusal to cut his hair set off a four-year rebellion that went all the way to the White House, there’s plenty of fascinating lore here–from the monumental to the trivial–in an indispensable encyclopedic work that takes up where ordinary history books leave off.
Author: Megan Heffernan Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812252802 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 304
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In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history. The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text. Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.
Author: Aelian Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674995352 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 532
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