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Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Ancient and Modern Familiar Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages
Author: Quotology
Author: Willis Goth RegierPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803217528
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and cups; paint them on doors and walls, ?even on the glass of a window.? Emerson noted that ?in Europe, every church is a kind of book or bible, so covered is it with inscriptions and pictures.? In Arabic script as tall as a man, the Koran is quoted on the walls and domes of mosques. ø We quote to admire, provoke, commemorate, dispute, play, and inspire. Quotations signal class, club, clique, and alma mater. They animate wit, relay prophecies, guide meditation, and accessorize fashion. ø In Quotology Willis Goth Regier draws on world literature and contemporary events to show how vital quotations are, how they are collected and organized, and how deceptive they can be. He probes all these aspects, identifying fifty-nine types of quotations, including misquotations and anonymous sayings. Following the logic of quotology, Quotology concludes with famous last words.
Grounds of Comparison
Author: Pheng CheahPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135382670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists, it has become an unavoidable document. For people in the humanities, Anderson is particularly interesting because he explores the rise of nationalism in connection with the rise of the novel.
The King's Two Bodies
Author: Ernst KantorowiczPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400880785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma posed by the “King’s two bodies”—the body natural and the body politic—back to the Middle Ages. The king’s natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, as do all humans; however the king’s spiritual body transcends the earth and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule. Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, Kantorowicz demonstrates how early modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a political theology. Featuring a new introduction and preface, The King’s Two Bodies is a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state.
Aeneidea
Author: James HenryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108063926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 969
Book Description
This monumental multi-volume commentary on the Aeneid, published between 1873 and 1892, remains a landmark in Virgilian scholarship.
AEneidea
Author: VirgilWhy Do the People Hate Me So?
Author: Jeremy DobsonPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781848762480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The era over which Stanley Baldwin presided became known as the ‘Baldwin Age’. Yet, despite a dozen or so biographies and several portraits in the memoirs of the great and the good, he remains little remembered today. Nonetheless the country owed much to him. The Great War of 1914-1918 had been the greatest conflict the world had known and that world had changed, robbed of its order, structure and beliefs; dictators came soon enough to replace the toppled monarchs. This biography details the many challenges Baldwin faced during his life.
The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College
Author: John WardA New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin and Modern Languages, translated into English and occasionally accompanied with illustrations, historical, poetical, and anecdotical. By the author of "Live and Learn" ... With an extensive index, referring to every important word
Author: DICTIONARY.Sextus Propertius
Author: Francis CairnsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521864577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A study of Propertius' four books of elegies investigating their sources and motives.