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Author: Gelett Burgess
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Gelett Burgess
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Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Gelett Burgess
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ISBN: 9781330679203
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Excerpt from The Romance of the Commonplace Of course you have heard of that faithful widow who, in her old age, visited the glacier to find the body of her husband, fallen into a crevasse during their honeymoon. So it seems now to publish, after sixteen years, the careless chattering of my youth. And as she marveled at the change, so do I. To her, poor soul, the alteration was in that half-forgotten, idealized youthful mate - but I have no such illusion. Well I know the change is in myself. So, how innocent, how irresponsible do these slight essays now appear! And yet I can not redress them in the sophisticated diction of my prime. They must wear the frivolous costume in which they first went forth, or lose all their character. As well might one try to rewrite a love-letter when ones passion has cooled. For those wherein I have prosecuted my main thesis I have less desire to apologize. Their enthusiasm will, I.hope, atone for their superficiality. And, too, even in middle age I see no great flaw in their optimistic reasoning, such as it is, for to view life romantically I have found the surest cure for cynicism and ennui. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Gelett Burgess
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781313434881
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Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Burgess Gelett
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016197632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Gelett 1866-1951 Burgess
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373154835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Karen Sullivan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022654043X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones, reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unrealistic,” critics say, doing readers a disservice by not accurately representing human experiences. It is considered by some to be a distraction from real literature, a distraction from real life, and little more. Yet is it possible that romance is expressing a truth—and a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes in its pages the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time, and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The Danger of Romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them. It demonstrates that that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception—or even the hope—of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.

Author: Lisa Ampleman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171190
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor knights bemoaning their allegedly cruel beloveds, Romances emphasizes the voices of female troubadours, along with those of historical figures such as Dante’s wife, Petrarch’s Laura, and Anne Boleyn. Ampleman also incorporates the work of the Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa, mentioned in Rilke’s Duino Elegies, through a series of adaptations of her verse. Elsewhere, a contemporary sonnet sequence dedicated to Courtney Love shows the 1990s grunge rocker as subject, object, performer, and mother. As her poems reflect on popular romantic ideas about the past, the means by which elegies romanticize the dead, or the conventional romance of a happy marriage, Ampleman addresses a range of romantic entanglements: courtly and commonplace, sentimental and prosaic, toxic and mutual.

Author: Gelett Burgess
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294313229
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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