Author: James Florence WillisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Bibliophily
Author: James Florence WillisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
1979-1990
Author: Henryk SawoniakPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110975068
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Unperfect Histories
Author: Harriet ArcherPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019252884X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, and Richard Niccols between 1574 and 1610 extended the Mirror's scope, shifted its focus, and prolonged its popularity; in particular, the texts' later manifestations profoundly influenced the work of Spenser and Shakespeare. Unperfect Histories is the first monograph to consider the text's early modern transmission history as a whole. In chapters on Baldwin, Higgins, Blenerhasset, and Niccols's complaint collections, it demonstrates that the Mirror is an invaluable witness to how verse history was conceptualized, written, and read across the period, and explores the ways in which it was repeatedly reinterpreted and redeployed in response to changing contemporary concerns. The Mirror corpus encompasses topical allegory, nationalist polemic, and historiographical skepticism, as well as the macabre humour and metatextual play which have come to be known as hallmarks of Baldwin's mid-Tudor writings. What has not been recognised is the complex interaction of these themes and techniques right across the Mirror's history. Higgins, Blenerhasset, and Niccols's contributions are analysed for the first time here, both within their own literary and historiographical contexts, and in dialogue with Baldwin's early editions. This new reading offers a lively account of the texts' depth and variety, and provides insight into the extent of the Mirror's influence and ubiquity in early modern literary culture.
On the Margin
Author: Aldous HuxleyPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This collection of short stories and essays by renowned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. This edition includes these stories:, Centenaries, On Re-reading "Candide", Accidie, Subject-matter of Poetry, Water Music, Pleasures, Modern Folk Poetry, Bibliophily, Democratic Art, Accumulations, On Deviating into Sense, Polite Conversation, Nationality in Love, How the Days Draw In!, Tibet, Beauty in 1920, Great Thoughts, Advertisement, Euphues Redivivus, The Author of "Eminent Victorians", A Wordsworth Anthology, Ferhaeren, Edward Lear, Sir Christopher Wren, Ben Jonson, Chaucer
The Secret Museum
Author: Walter M. KendrickPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520207295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Although erotica has always existed, "pornography" is a recent phenomenon: as late as the eighteenth century the word did not exist. From the secret museums to the pornography trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterly's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Walter Kendrick explores how conceptions of pornography relate to issues of freedom of expression and censorship. He provides, too, a fascinating portrait gallery of the jurists, artists, guardians of public morality, sleaze merchants, and civil libertarians who have played roles in the changing definitions of pornography.
The Anatomy of Bibliomania
Author: Holbrook JacksonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070433
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania. This title comments on why we read, where we read - on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet (this has 'a long but mostly unrecorded history'), in bed, and in prison - and what happens to us when we read.
Art, Intellect and Politics
Author: Giusy Maria Ausilia MargagliottaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004242201
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times.
Universitas
Author: On the Margin
Author: Aldous HuxleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description