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Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other Dramatists. by S.T Coleridge
epub |eng | | Author:S.T Coleridge

No doubt, it should be statua, as in the same age, they more often pronounced ‘heroes’ as a trisyllable than dissyllable. A modern tragic poet would have written, Last night ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale by Judith Bronfman;
epub |eng | 1994-01-15 | Author:Judith Bronfman;

In 1841, the Shakespeare Society reprinted Dekker’s play,57 and the following year the Percy Society reprinted The pleasant and sweet history of patient Grissell,58 the tract with prose paragraphs flanking ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History by Lock F. P.;
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Lock, F. P.;

Incredible Numbers Exaggeration was far more prevalent than understatement. Detecting it, always a historian’s duty, was for Gibbon additionally a pleasure. Critiquing and exposing the inflated numbers reported in the ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Wartime by Fussell Paul;Fussell Paul;
epub |eng | 1989-01-15 | Author:Fussell, Paul;Fussell, Paul;

Journalists . . . richly nourished twice daily at Chinese government press conferences reported tales of heroism. . . . China was seen as fighting democracy’s battle and personified by ...
( Category: United States January 1,2023 )
Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales by Roger Ellis
pdf | | 2016-11-05 | Author:Roger Ellis

( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Sweet Science by Amanda Jo Goldstein
epub |eng | 2017-05-18 | Author:Amanda Jo Goldstein [Goldstein, Amanda Jo]

c. Events Take Shape Between the grim “Pageant” that opens the poem and the rousing political oration with which it closes—and, spatially, between the “prostrate multitude” and the allegorical “Destructions” ...
( Category: 18th Century January 1,2023 )
Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker
pdf | | 2022-06-28 | Author:Eleanor Parker

( Category: Medieval January 1,2023 )
Eighteenth Century Writing From Wales by Sarah Prescott;
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Prescott;

Rolt focuses on the preservation of the Welsh language as a marker of the resilience of the plain British spirit in contrast to the great, yet vanished, culture and language ...
( Category: British & Irish January 1,2023 )
Ornamental Aesthetics by Davis Theo;
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Davis, Theo;

CONCLUSION In Elisa New’s discussion of Dickinson, she reassures us that in one poem, “[t]‌he butterfly’s resplendence” is “not merely decorative,” and that in another, “[t]he ‘Fuzz’ on which the ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Fake History by Otto English;
epub |eng | | Author:Otto English;

1 A “dead cat” strategy is a political tool whereby politicians distract the public by throwing a metaphorical “dead cat” onto the table. People are too busy talking about the ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies by Rondolino Massimo A
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Rondolino, Massimo A.

Being human As noted, claims to the exceptionality of Milarepa’s life were already present in the earlier sources, although, rather than resulting from genealogical considerations, whose treatment, instead, greatly downplayed ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Lucky Mud & Other Foma by Christina Jarvis
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Christina Jarvis [Jarvis Christina]

Vonnegut moves from these reflections to a description and image of goblet cells and the social hierarchies created by different skin characteristics, noting that “persons with oily skins were much ...
( Category: Nature January 1,2023 )
Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection: The Complete Translation by Bradley K. Storin
epub |eng | | Author:Bradley K. Storin

NOTES INTRODUCTION 1. For Prohaersius, see Gr. Naz., Epit. 5; for his education broadly, see Gr. Naz., Ep. 30.2; Carm. 2.1.11.211–20; Or. 43.15–23. At Athens, Gregory formed some of his ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Book Madness by Denise Gigante;
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Gigante;

A Biblical Bibliomaniac Like others in our story, George Livermore spent all his savings on books and all his spare time reading. Bibliomania was the occupational hazard of the bibliographer, ...
( Category: History of Books January 1,2023 )
Populating the Novel by Emily Steinlight;
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Steinlight;

Interlopers “Give me any name you like,” she said; “I have as much right to one as to another.” —Wilkie Collins, No Name To some Victorian writers, the onslaught of ...
( Category: Victorian January 1,2023 )

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