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This article features writer and artist [Percy] Wyndham Lewis . He was born on November 18, 1882 aboard a yacht off Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada and died on March 7, 1957 in London, England. He was the son of an American father and a British mother of Scots and Irish descent. His parents separated in 1893, and his mother brought him to London where they lived in genteel poverty. He was educated at Rugby and at the age of sixteen he won a scholarship to London's Slade School of Art but leaving three years later without completing his course, he traveled to Germany, visited Spain and Holland, and went to Paris where he painted and attended lectures at the Sorbonne. Lewis enlisted in March 1916 and served during World War I with great distinction in France, first as an artillery officer and later as an official war artist.
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Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese During the First Millennium BC : Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference
Maria Achiola;Manolis I. Stefanakis;Georgios Mavroudis;Fani K. Seroglou;Mar...
Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC publishes the proce...
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Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese During the First Millennium BC : Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference
2023
Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name, held in Rhodes in October 2018. Religion has always been one of the major components of peoples'lives, an integral part of social, economic and political contexts, contributing to the formation of culture and history. In order to study and understand the religious and cult practices of a particular region, it is necessary to explore their various expressions through material culture and written sources. The oldest known cult remains in the Dodecanese can be dated to the end of the 10th and early 9th centuries BC and throughout the 1st millennium BC. They demonstrate the existence of a vibrant island society with various evolving cult practices. As a major stopover on maritime trade routes, the southeastern Aegean was influenced by contacts from throughout the Greek world and beyond. The contributions to this volume draw on archaeological and literary sources to explore both the development and continuity of cults in the Dodecanese, from the Early Iron Age through to the 1st century BC.
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El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura: un estudio interdisciplinar sobre lengua, literatura y traducción.
Garcés Manzanera, Aitor;Ould García, Omar Salem;Flores Borjabad, Salud Adel...
Todo ser vivo necesita interactuar con el medio que lo rodea, generando un tipo de inf...
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El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura: un estudio interdisciplinar sobre lengua, literatura y traducción.
2022
Todo ser vivo necesita interactuar con el medio que lo rodea, generando un tipo de información que lo lleva a crear un acto de comunicación. Así, se desarrollan una serie de lenguajes que los llevan a comunicarse con la comunidad. Por ejemplo, en el caso de los animales se puede observar cómo emiten diferentes sonidos para realizar cualquier tipo de acción o, incluso, para advertir de cualquier peligro a su alrededor.En el caso de los seres humanos, desde nuestros orígenes, hemos generado gestos y expresiones que varían de un lugar a otro, así como también hemos elaborado sistemas de comunicación basados en señales para poder comunicarnos. No obstante, en el caso de los seres huma-nos, todo esto va más allá, en tanto que hemos sido capaces de desarrollar un sistema de comunicación verbal y escrito, otorgándole convenciones que varían de un lugar a otro. Siguiendo esta línea, nuestra forma de comunicación ha ido más allá de la simbología, hasta tal punto de elaborar un sistema de símbolos sonoros y gráficos que se articulan de diferentes formas con el fin de elaborar un sistema complejo de estructuras que nos llevan a comentar nuestro presente, pasado y futuro, lo que se ha denominado lengua. Además de todo esto, hay que tener en cuenta el factor geográfico, puesto que no se puede hablar en exclusiva de una única lengua. En este contexto, la lengua o las lenguas va-rían en función de los fenómenos socioculturales que la rodean, es decir, existe una relación intrínseca entre lengua, lenguaje y sociedad, teniendo en cuenta sus usos y el contexto en el que se desenvuelven.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: British, Irish January 2012, p1-3
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: British, Irish January 2012, p1-3
A biographical essay about Wyndham Lewis , with brief critical analysis of major short fiction works.
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Ch. 10: The Ascent of F6: Part 4: Wyndham Lewis on Marxian Playboys.
Lewis, Wyndham
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Ch. 10: The Ascent of F6: Part 4: Wyndham Lewis on Marxian Playboys.
W.H. Auden (9780415159401). 1997, p198-199. 1p.
The article presents the tenth chapter of the book "W. H. Auden," edited by B. C. Southam. A reprint of Wyndham Lewis ' 1937 essay in the "Blasting and Bombardiering," is included. The author analyzes W. H. Auden's play "The Ascent of F6," discusses the merits of Auden and Christopher Isherwood's collaborations, and focuses on Marxian writing.
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Yeats's Legacies : Yeats Annual No. 21
Warwick Gould;Warwick Gould
The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family's 80-year ...
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Yeats's Legacies : Yeats Annual No. 21
2018; Vol. 00021
The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family's 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland's great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan's brilliant history of Yeats's versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses Yeats's responses to the Rising's appropriation of his symbols and myths, the daring artistry of his ritual drama developed from Noh, his poetry of personal utterance, and his vision of art as a body reborn rather than a treasure preserved amid the testing of the illusions that hold civilizations together in ensuing wars. Warwick Gould looks at Yeats as founding Senator in the new Free State, and his valiant struggle against the literary censorship law of 1929 (with its present-day legacy of Irish anti-blasphemy law still presenting a constitutional challenge). Drawing on Gregory Estate documents, James Pethica looks at the evictions which preceded Yeats's purchase of Thoor Ballylee in Galway; Lauren Arrington looks back at Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929) in Rapallo. Having co-edited both versions of A Vision, Catherine Paul offers some profound reflections on ‘Yeats and Belief'. Grevel Lindop provides a pioneering view of Yeats's impact on English mystical verse and on Charles Williams who, while at Oxford University Press, helped publish the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Stanley van der Ziel looks at the presence of Shakespeare in Yeats's Purgatory. William H. O'Donnell examines the vexed textual legacy of his late work, On the Boiler while Gould considers the challenge Yeats's intentionalism posed for once-fashionable post-structuralist editorial theory. John Kelly recovers a startling autobiographical short story by Maud Gonne. While nine works of current biographical, textual and literary scholarship are reviewed, Maud Gonne is the focus of debate for two reviewers, as are Eva Gore-Booth, Constance and Casimir Markievicz, Rudyard Kipling, David Jones, T. S. Eliot and his presence on the radio.
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Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell : Yeats Annual No. 20
Warwick Gould;Warwick Gould
This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College ...
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Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell : Yeats Annual No. 20
2016; Vol. 00020
This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003-2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O'Donoghue and Helen Vendler. Those that were available in pamphlet form are now collectors'items, but here is the complete series. These revised essays cover such themes as Yeats and the Refrain, Yeats as a Love Poet, Yeats, Ireland and Europe, the puzzles he created and solved with his art of poetic sequences, and his long and crucial interaction with the emerging T. S. Eliot. The series was inaugurated by a study of Yeats and his Books, which marked the gift to the Boole Library, Cork, of Dr Eamonn Cantwell's collection of rare editions of books by Yeats (here catalogued by Crónán Ó Doibhlin). Many of the volume's fifty-six plates offer images of artists'designs and resulting first editions. This bibliographical theme is continued with Colin Smythe's census of surviving copies of Yeats's earliest separate publication, Mosada (1886) and a resultant piece by Warwick Gould on that dramatic poem's source in the legend of the Phantom Ship. John Kelly reveals Yeats's ghost-writing for Sarah Allgood; Geert Lernout discovers the source for Yeats's ‘Tulka', Günther Schmigalle unearths his surprising connexions with American communist colonists in Virginia, while Deirdre Toomey edits some new letters to the French anarchist, Auguste Hamon—all providing new annotation for standard editions. The volume is rounded with review essays by Colin McDowell (on A Vision, and Yeats, Hone and Berkeley), shorter reviews of current studies by Michael Edwards, Jad Adams and Deirdre Toomey, and obituaries of Jon Stallworthy (Nicolas Barker) and Katharine Worth (Richard Cave).
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Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm : An Australian Tragedy
Cameron Hazlehurst;Cameron Hazlehurst
'In the whole history of government in Australia, this was the most devastating traged...
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Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm : An Australian Tragedy
2013
'In the whole history of government in Australia, this was the most devastating tragedy.'Three decades after what he called ‘a dreadful air crash, almost within sight of my windows'Robert Menzies wrote ‘I shall never forget that terrible hour; I felt that for me the end of the world had come…'Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm tells the lives of the ten men who perished in Duncan Cameron's Canberra property on 13 August 1940: three Cabinet ministers, the Chief of the General Staff, two senior staff members, and the RAAF crew of four. The inquiries into the accident, and the aftermath for the Air Force, government, and bereaved families are examined. Controversial allegations are probed: did the pilot F/Lt Bob Hitchcock cause the crash or was the Minister for Air Jim Fairbairn at the controls?‘Cameron Hazlehurst is a story-teller, one of the all-too rare breed who can write scholarly works which speak to a wider audience. In the most substantial, original, and authoritative account of the Canberra aircraft accident of August 1940 he provides unique insights into a critical, poignant moment in Australian history. Hazlehurst's account is touched with irony and quirks, set within a framework of political, social, and military history, distinctions of class, education, and rank, and the machinations of parliamentary and service politics and of the ‘official mind'. The research is meticulous and wide-ranging, the analysis is always balanced, and the writing at once skilful and compelling. This is a work of an exceptional historian.'— Ian Hancock (author of Nick Greiner: A Political Biography, John Gorton: He Did It His Way, and National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia)‘Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm is a monumental work of historical research pegged on a single, lethal moment at the apex of government at an extraordinarily sensitive time in Australia's history. The book embodies top drawer scholarship, deep sensitivity to antipodean class structures and sensibilities, and a nuanced understanding of both democratic and bureaucratic politics.'— Christine Wallace (author of Germaine Greer Untamed Shrew and The Private Don: the man behind the legend of Don Bradman)
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Lives of the Novelists : A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
Sutherland, John;Sutherland, John
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels wri...
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Lives of the Novelists : A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
2012
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
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Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic
Barbara E. Borg;Barbara E. Borg
In der Welt der Zweiten Sophistik stellte Bildung, paideia, einen entscheidenden Fakto...
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Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic
2004; Vol. 00002
In der Welt der Zweiten Sophistik stellte Bildung, paideia, einen entscheidenden Faktor in den Machtdiskursen dar. Für die kaiserzeitlichen Eliten wurde die Verbindung von Kenntnissen auf den Gebieten der Medizin, Geschichte, Philosophie und Dichtung mit rhetorischer Brillanz und repräsentativem Auftreten zum Kennzeichen eines umfassenden Habitus. Dieser garantierte einen hohen Sozialstatus, politische und ökonomische Macht für den Einzelnen sowie maßgebliche Vorteile für ihre Heimatstädte in der Städtekonkurrenz. Da sich Bildung wesentlich auf die klassisch-griechische Antike bezog, war sie zudem entscheidend für das neue Selbstbewusstsein des griechischen Ostens. Dieser Band führt erstmals in multidisziplinärer Breite verschiedenste Lebensbereiche und Medien zusammen, in denen sich diese Ideologie manifestiert. So wird deutlich, dass die Sophisten und ihre Texte nur die Exponenten eines Systems von Denkweisen und Wertvorstellungen waren, welche das Leben der Eliten insgesamt strukturierte.
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Daniel Balderston;Mike Gonzalez;Daniel Balderston;Mike Gonzalez
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–20...
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
2004
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses.
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West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Bill Schwarz;Bill Schwarz
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op...
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West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
2003
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study thus far has concentrated on Caribbean literature and how authors ‘write back'to Britain – this book is the first to consider how they ‘think back'to Britain. A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul.
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Percy Wyndham Lewis was born on November 18th, 1882. He was educated at Rugby, where ...
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Literary Encyclopedia; 2005 People, p1, 1p
Percy Wyndham Lewis was born on November 18th, 1882 . He was educated at Rugby, where he gave little indication of his future talents, before enrolling at the Slade School of Art in London, studying there between 1898 and 1901. After leaving the Slade, where he had gained a reputation as a first-rate draughtsman, he went abroad, where he stayed until 1909, living mainly in Paris but travelling to Holland, Germany, and Spain. During these years of study, reading, and painting he came under the influence of Bergson and Nietzsche-especially the light, aphoristic Nietzsche of works like The Gay Science (1882 ). Having returned to England, he began to establish himself as a writer and painter, publishing early stories (later to be rewritten for the collection titled The Wild Body (1927)) in Ford Madox Hueffer's (Ford's) English Review and Douglas Goldring's The Tramp, and exhibiting early paintings in 1911. Lewis in this period became active in various artistic ventures, such as the Camden Town Group, the London Group, the Omega Workshops, the Rebel Art Centre, and finally Vorticism, launched in 1914 in the journal Blast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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American Indian Medicine
Virgil J. Vogel;Virgil J. Vogel
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal p...
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American Indian Medicine
1970; Vol. 00095
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the'Indian doctors'and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
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Death Valley and the Amargosa : A Land of Illusion
Richard E. Lingenfelter;Richard E. Lingenfelter
This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It em...
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Death Valley and the Amargosa : A Land of Illusion
1986
This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history.
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Reading Hemingway : The Facts in the Fictions
Mandel, Miriam B.;Mandel, Miriam B.
Biographical Companion to Literature in English
Kamm, Antony;Kamm, Antony
Rev. and updated ed. of: Collins biographical dictionary of English literature. c1993.
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Biographical Companion to Literature in English
1997
Rev. and updated ed. of: Collins biographical dictionary of English literature. c1993.
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UNA HERMANDAD DE OLVIDADAS: "LAS OTRAS" ESCRITORAS Y EDITORAS EN LENGUA INGLESA DURANTE LA PRIMERA GUERRA MUNDIAL. (Spanish)
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Argumentos de Razan Tecnica; 2020, Issue 23, p45-60, 16p
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Morató, Yolanda
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Argumentos de Razan Tecnica; 2020, Issue 23, p45-60, 16p
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Literaturen der Welt in deutscher Übersetzung; 1997, p132-464, 333p
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Rössig, Wolfgang
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Literaturen der Welt in deutscher Übersetzung; 1997, p132-464, 333p
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Klassiker der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur; 2004, p1185-1236, 52p
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