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1601) A Book of Psalms
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This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarke's response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmer's divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
1602) Testament
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In this book-length poem, G. C. Waldrep addresses matters as diverse as Mormonism, cymatics, race, Dolly the cloned sheep, and his own life and faith. Drafted over twelve trance-like days while in residence at Hawthornden Castle, Waldrep responds to such poets as Alice Notley, Lisa Robertson, and Carla Harryman, and tackles the question of whether gender can be a lyric form. G. C. Waldrep's books include Disclamor (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007) and Your...
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All over the world, traditional tales were told at the fireside until books, newspapers, radio, and television took their place. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to recordings of Lowland cairds (travelers), some are well-known tales...
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Décryptez Le Chien des Baskerville d'Arthur Conan Doyle avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir du Chien des Baskerville, le roman culte de la littérature policière ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Sherlock Holmes, le docteur...
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The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, as well as forms of knowledge like inoculation. Showing how East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted, Rajani Sudan argues that the Enlightenment was born largely...
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"Legendary Landscapes of Ireland" is a book of the artist Veronica Heywood's paintings illustrated with words. Inspired by the Dindshenkus, ancient poems from the golden age; a guide map in poetry to the legendary landscapes. The heroes and heroines of the legends are, portrayed in their landscapes and tell their own stories. Then a leap into the present, telling of the artist painterly experiences and adventures in the search for these magical places....
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The book is a gathering together of all of Kenneth Steven's poems concerning the island of Iona through the years. These comprise poems that have been published in journals both at home and abroad, and broadcast on BBC Radio. A lengthy introduction tells the story of the forging of those first links with Iona, and those that have come through adult years. This is a book both for those who know and love the island, and for those who may yearn to visit...
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Michael Suk-Young Chwe is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge (Princeton).
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior
Game theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe...
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The real stories, lives and dramas behind the smash hit BBC series Call the Midwife which premieres on PBS September 30, 2012.
The official companion to seasons one and two, The Life and Times of Call the Midwife, gives fans a deeper insight into the period, the stories and the characters, and how Call the Midwife, based on the bestselling memoirs by Jennifer Worth, was brought to the screen.
With never before seen photographs taken on set as well...
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Anthology/journal on the theme of 'Language Evolves', including a diverse range of subjects and contributors, including prizewinning speculative stories, poetry, illustration, photography, creative nonfiction on ceramics and the slave trade, a nonfiction book preview on an abusive literary relationship and a literary essay on the Welsh stars, including Dylan Thomas, in mid twentieth-century apocalyptical poetry.
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A journey through the Bard's poetry with fun facts-and furry felines.
Join a band of curious cats for a journey through William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. Whether it's friendship, beauty, love, or something saucier, the Bard of Avon has a sonnet for every occasion. Learn what the sonnets mean and read fun facts about the poet, witches, Elizabethan life, and the unfortunate hygiene habits of the sixteenth century.
Despite being written four hundred...
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J.R.R. Tolkien's works have gained global appeal, leading to translations in over thirty languages and a host of stylistically unique illustrations.
As a translator and illustrator himself, Tolkien was acutely aware of the challenges and benefits that both bring to a written text. Translating and Illustrating Tolkien explores what these processes add to, emit from, or complement Tolkien's original text.
Hosted online, the Tolkien Society 2021 autumn...
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European female-led writing with a focus on Wales, photography, memoir, writing of place and poetry. On the theme of 'Casual Archaeology', it explores the rich archaeology of threatened estuary landscapes, the layers of time and affiliation in an Iranian exile's relationship to her poet father, and how an Iron Age hill fort inspires ideas about health and immunity. Paul Cabuts traces how the renaissance of the photographer's book in Wales documents...
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Philip Hardie is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge. His many books include Rumour and Renown and The Last Trojan Hero.
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists
Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious-displayed...
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The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which the mise-en-forme of the social domain itself was for the first time at stake, the problem of the aesthetic lay at the very core of the political; it...
1616) Contes fantastiques
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Extrait : "Hélas ! disait en pleurant l'infortunée créature, Dieu n'aura-t-il jamais pitié de moi ! Voilà trois ans que mon homme, en allant à sa vigne, trouva sur sa route un sac d'argent dont le bon emploi nous promettait quelque aisance. Il achète un coin de terre, avec un maisonnette, et, à peine installés, voilà que tous les malheurs nous arrivent."
1617) The Art of English Poesy
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George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into Elizabethan court culture, implicitly on display in the attitudes and values of the writer. His illustrative anecdotes enable us to watch European courtiers...
1618) Dracula de Bram Stoker (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr
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Décryptez Dracula de Bram stoker avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir de Dracula, le roman mythique de la littérature fantastique? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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• Un résumé complet
• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que le comte Dracula, le professeur Abraham Van Helsing et Jonathan Harker
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1619) The Commons
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Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries the majority of the English common lands were enclosed, by decree and by force, depriving communities of their independence and self-sufficiency. The resistance to capitalism's "primitive accumulation," registered in recurring peasant revolts and nighttime attacks on hedges and fences, failed to stem the tide of what we now call "privatization," but it spilled over into Romanticism's own advocacy of a...
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From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' How does one survive the death of a loved one, the mess of war, the experience of being schooled, of falling in love, of growing old, of losing your mind? Shakespeare's world is never too...
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