Kashuba, Irma M.
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-8. 8p.
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-8. 8p.
A biographical essay about Denis Diderot , with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Robb, Bonnie
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Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1986 World Drama Index, p163-168. 6p.
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This article presents a research guide to the life and works of playwright Dennis Dide...
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Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1986 World Drama Index, p163-168. 6p.
This article presents a research guide to the life and works of playwright Dennis Diderot . He was born on October 5, 1713 , in Langres, Champagne, France, to Didier Diderot and Angé1ique Vigneron. At the beginning of his career, Diderot published his works anonymously for the most part, although his authorship became known and caused him trouble. There has been plenty of documentary evidence on Diderot's life for biographers, except for the period of his early formative years in Paris, about which little has been discovered.
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Rosenblum, Joseph
As editor of and contributor to the Encyclopedia, Diderot codified and promulgated the...
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World Philosophers & Their Works. Feb2000, p1-3. 3p.
As editor of and contributor to the Encyclopedia, Diderot codified and promulgated the views of the French Enlightenment. He developed a philosophy of nature and promoted biology and chemistry with physiological investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers; January 2012, p1-2
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers; January 2012, p1-2
A biographical essay about Denis Diderot , with brief critical analysis of major short fiction works.
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
Jan Hansen;Jochen Hung;Jaroslav Ira;Judit Klement;Sylvain Lesage;Juan Luis ...
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians f...
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
2023
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today's history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European'analyses of the continent's past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.
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LiebeLesen : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu einem großen Gefühl und dessen Aneignung
Ottmar Ette;Ottmar Ette
Unsere Vorlesung versucht, einem verführerisch vielfältigen und unendlich verwirrenden...
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LiebeLesen : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu einem großen Gefühl und dessen Aneignung
2020
Unsere Vorlesung versucht, einem verführerisch vielfältigen und unendlich verwirrenden Thema näher und auf die Schliche zu kommen: der Liebe. Und zugleich einer Tätigkeit und kulturellen Praxis, die Literatur erst zum Leben erweckt: dem Lesen. Was haben Leben und Liebe mit dem Lesen, mit dem Akt der Lektüre zu tun? Es geht beim Lesen immer um die Sehnsucht nach einer Ganzheit von Leben und Liebe, um die Herstellung jener Totalität, die uns Menschen im realen Leben grundlegend entzogen ist. Allein die Literatur erlaubt es uns, über die Totalität eines Lebens mit seinen Anfängen und seinen Enden zu verfügen. Und genau dies gilt auch und gerade für die Liebe und deren Geschichten und Vorgeschichten. Von der Liebe und dem Abendland (Denis de Rougemont) bis zu den Fragmenten einer Sprache der Liebe (Roland Barthes), den Schreibformen des Marquis de Sade, von Giacomo Casanova oder Italo Calvino über die Liebes- und Lesekristallisationen Prousts bis hin zur Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez), von der Liebe zwischen zwei Dichtern und der Transzendenz ihres Begehrens (Juana Borrero) zu den Liebesgeschichten zwischen den Sprachen und Kulturen (Assia Djebar), hin zu den Theorien der Liebesgeschichten nach der Liebe (Michel Houellebecq), von Tristan und Isolde über Don Juan sowie Romeo und Julia bis zu Sab, Emma Bovary und den Versatzstücken aktueller Massenkommunikation zwischen Lese- und Liebesrevolution soll das Verhältnis von Liebe, Leben und Lesen, von Literatur und Leidenschaft leidenschaftslos analysiert werden.
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Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers
Beatrice Schuchardt;Christian von Tschilschke;Beatrice Schuchardt;Christian...
What form did the portrayal of business owners, entrepreneurs, peasants, craftspeople ...
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Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers
2022; Vol. 00028
What form did the portrayal of business owners, entrepreneurs, peasants, craftspeople and similar ‘protagonists of production'take before it became the subject of negative assessments in the epoch of industrialization? Focusing on the European Enlightenment movement with a special emphasis on Spain, this volume sheds light on how both male and female figures working in production are represented by novels, plays, economic tracts and in the press. Literary scholars, historians, and economists analyse how those portrayals are related to the history of economic thought, 18th-century economic discourse, and enlightened Political Economy. With an epilogue by Deirdre McCloskey.
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
Jonathan P. Ribner;Jonathan P. Ribner
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religi...
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
2022
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation's demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of 1830. The central claim is that imaginative response to these politically charged experiences of loss constitutes a major shaping force in French Romantic art, and that pursuit of this theme in light of parallel developments in literature and political debate reveals a pattern of disenchantment transmuted into cultural capital. Focusing on imagery that spoke to loss through visual and verbal idioms particular to France in the aftermath of the Revolution and Empire, the book illuminates canonical works by major figures such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, and Camille Corot, as well as long-forgotten images freighted with significance for nineteenth-century viewers. A study in national bereavement—an urgent theme in the present moment—the book provides a new lens through which to view the coincidence of imagination and strife at the heart of French Romanticism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, French literature, French history, French politics, and religious studies.
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Romanticism--France - Romanticism in art - Loss (Psychology) in art - Arts and society--France--History--19th century - Arts, French--19th century--Themes, motivesContent provider:
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Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847) : Ilustración – emancipación – convivencias excluyentes
Hans Fernández;Hans Fernández
La Inglaterra protestante del siglo XVIII vio nacer de la pluma de Joseph Addison y Ri...
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Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847) : Ilustración – emancipación – convivencias excluyentes
2022; Vol. 00095
La Inglaterra protestante del siglo XVIII vio nacer de la pluma de Joseph Addison y Richard Steele el género spectator, cuyo prototipo enseguida se difundió con gran éxito en Europa —especialmente en los países católicos del sur hablantes de lenguas románicas—, logrando configurar en plena Ilustración una poderosa red transeuropea de textos que buscaban reformar moralmente las sociedades en las cuales circulaban. ¿Qué ocurre con las características estéticas y las funciones de los spectators cuando estos migran a contextos extraeuropeos y (post)coloniales? En Hispanoamérica y Brasil tuvo lugar una importante recepción del género durante el siglo XIX en el marco de los procesos emancipativos por parte de las élites criollas en que dichos textos se convirtieron de escritos morales en escritos políticos y representaron el medio ideal para diseñar modalidades de convivencia favorables a los intereses locales criollos. La presente monografía constituye el primer estudio panorámico sobre el estado de los spectators en América Latina, que amplía el conocimiento de lo que hasta ahora se sabía sobre el género en Europa. Identifica un corpus de textos, reflexiona sobre las configuraciones que la poética adquiere en suelo americano y, en el entendido de que el género ha cambiado en relación con su estado previo europeo, problematiza en qué medida son spectators latinoamericanos.
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Latin As the Language of Science and Learning
Philipp Roelli;Philipp Roelli
This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and lea...
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Latin As the Language of Science and Learning
2021; Vol. 00007
This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science'through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science'as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin's heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
Clorinda Donato;Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink;Clorinda Donato;Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met t...
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
2021
From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic “paper empires” that became symbols of power and potential. In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century. Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, it argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation's cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century.
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Translating and interpreting--History - Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism - Learning and scholarship--HistoryContent provider:
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Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der romanischen Literaturen des 18. Jahrhunderts
Ottmar Ette;Ottmar Ette
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l'Europe des Lumi...
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Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der romanischen Literaturen des 18. Jahrhunderts
2021
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l'Europe des Lumières“. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufklärung nur in Europa? Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, nach der (verlorenen) Einheit der Aufklärung und nach den transatlantisch verflochtenen Geschichten des 18. Jahrhunderts im Bewusstsein der Vielgestaltigkeit aufklärerischer Diskurse zwischen zwei Welten, Europa und Amerika, zu fragen. Gab es eine Aufklärung oder gab es deren viele? Mit einem deutlichen Schwerpunkt innerhalb der Romania will die Vorlesung ein Verständnis dafür wecken, auf welche Weise im „Siècle des Lumières“ inter- und transkulturelle Kontakte und Beziehungen im Bereich von Literatur, Philosophie und Kultur funktionierten und wie die literarischen Räume der Aufklärung transatlantisch in Bewegung gerieten. Ziel der Vorlesung ist es, aus vergleichender Sicht monokulturelle Bilder der Aufklärung wie der entstehenden Moderne zu hinterfragen.
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The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
William Max Nelson;William Max Nelson
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of...
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The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
2021
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present. The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future first arose through the development of practices and instruments aimed at countering degeneration. In their attempts to regenerate a healthy natural state, Enlightenment philosophes created the means to exceed previously recognized limits and build a future that was not merely a recuperation of the past, but fundamentally different from it. A theoretically inflected work combining intellectual history and the history of science, this book will appeal to anyone interested in European history and the history of science, as well as the history of France, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.
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Philosophy, French--18th century - Enlightenment--France--Influence - Enlightenment--France - Forecasting--Social aspects--France--History--18th century - Future, The--Philosophy - Future, The--Social aspects--France--History--18th centuryContent provider:
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Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
Martin Hummel;Anna Gazdik;Martin Hummel;Anna Gazdik
Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type c...
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Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
2021; Vol. 00001
Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type couper court, dans lesquels un verbe est combiné avec un adjectif à fonction adverbiale. Ordonnées alphabétiquement, les 2 600 entrées du dictionnaire vont de abaisser bas à voter utile. Elles sont attestées par quelque 12 000 citations couvrant l'histoire de la langue française, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. « Expressions savoureuses » selon Lucien Tesnière, les adjectifs-adverbes constituent une ressource stylistique précieuse tant en littérature que dans la publicité et au quotidien. Ce dictionnaire fait ainsi la part belle au plaisir de la langue. Élaboré à partir de quelque 70 publications dédiées à la morphologie et à la syntaxe de l'adjectif-adverbe dans la Romania, il combine de façon unique documentation lexicographique et recherche linguistique.
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French language--Adjective--Dictionaries - French language--Adverb--DictionariesContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Über Wissenschaft reden : Studien zu Sprachgebrauch, Darstellung und Adressierung in der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsprosa um 1800
Claude Haas;Daniel Weidner;Claude Haas;Daniel Weidner
Um 1800 verstärkt sich das Problembewusstsein für eine der wissenschaftlichen Reflexio...
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Über Wissenschaft reden : Studien zu Sprachgebrauch, Darstellung und Adressierung in der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsprosa um 1800
2020; Vol. 00004
Um 1800 verstärkt sich das Problembewusstsein für eine der wissenschaftlichen Reflexion adäquate Darstellung, da sich die Überzeugung durchsetzt, die Sprache sei nicht nur ein Werkzeug, sondern vielmehr ein »bildendes Organ des Gedankens« (Wilhelm v. Humboldt).Das enge Verhältnis von Aussage und Ausdruck rückt die Wissenschaft in der deutschen Tradition geradezu zwangsläufig in die Nähe zur Literatur. Dabei zeigt sich das wissenschaftliche Selbstverständnis dieser Jahre in der Frage v.a. seiner Adressierung von einer interessanten Paradoxie geprägt. So soll der jeweilige Sprachgebrauch überhaupt erst den szientistischen Anspruch wissenschaftlicher Projekte beglaubigen und diese gleichsam als Spezialdiskurse legitimieren, zugleich muss der ideale Adressat der Wissenschaft solche Spezialdiskurse aber immer auch überschreiten. J. G. Fichte etwa weist den Vorwurf der »Unverständlichkeit« seiner »Wissenschaftslehre« als implizites Verlangen nach »Seichtigkeit« seitens der Leser zurück, zugleich aber erlegt er dem Wissenschaftler die Aufgabe auf, einen Beitrag zum »Fortgang des Menschengeschlechts« zu leisten. Derartigen Spannungen spürt der Band im Kontext vornehmlich des Niedergangs (wie Fortlebens) der Rhetorik und der Neubegründung der Universität nach.
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Communication in science--HistoryContent provider:
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A People's History of Classics : Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
Edith Hall;Henry Stead;Edith Hall;Henry Stead
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the liv...
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A People's History of Classics : Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
2020
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone'. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People's History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
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Working class--Great Britain--Intellectual life - Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Ireland--History - Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History - Working class--Ireland--Intellectual lifeContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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ReiseSchreiben : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zur Reiseliteratur
Ottmar Ette;Ottmar Ette
Reiseliteratur besaß als Genre bis weit in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts weit...
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ReiseSchreiben : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zur Reiseliteratur
2020
Reiseliteratur besaß als Genre bis weit in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts weitgehend marginale Bedeutung und wurde bestenfalls dokumentarisch gelesen oder sozialwissenschaftlich »ausgewertet«. Heute gehört sie zu jenen literarischen Vermittlungsformen, in denen sich am eindringlichsten die Probleme der (europäischen) Moderne, aber auch aktuelle transkulturelle Herausforderungen, Erfahrungsmodi, Projektionen und Sehnsüchte reflektieren. Der vorliegende Band behandelt Reiseliteratur systematisch wie historisch und stellt die Frage nach den ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Hintergründen des Reisens, nach der Entwicklung der Gattung seit der frühen Neuzeit, nach den Strukturierungen reiseliterarisch dargestellter hermeneutischer Bewegungen, aber auch nach den Figuren von Reisenden und Lesenden. Im Zentrum stehen französisch-, spanisch- und italienischsprachige Reisen(de), aber auch deutsch- und englischsprachige Texte seit der Frühen Neuzeit sowie reiseliterarische Ausdrucksformen des ausgehenden 20. und beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts. Sagt uns die Reiseliteratur, wohin die Reise unserer Gesellschaften geht?
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Literature (General)Content provider:
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823
Gianni Paganini;Margaret C. Jacob;John Christian Laursen;Gianni Paganini;Ma...
Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic tex...
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823
2020
Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture. After Ira Wade's pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political and religious thought, and moral and sexual behaviour are addressed by contemporary authors working in both America and Europe. These manuscripts shed light on the birth of pornography and provide an important avenue for investigating philosophical, religious, political, and social critique.
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Underground literature--Europe--Manuscripts--Congresses - Philosophy, Modern--History--Congresses - Philosophy (General) - Underground literature--Europe--History and criticism--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--19th century--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--17th century--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--18th century--CongressesContent provider:
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Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment
Silke Pasewalck;Matthias Weber;Silke Pasewalck;Matthias Weber
The first issue of the newly designed Journal for Culture and History of the Germans i...
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Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment
2020; Vol. 00001
The first issue of the newly designed Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (JKGE) addresses the specific conditions of education practices and education processes in the era of Enlightenment in Eastern Europe and its pluricultural and multilingual regions. Research on the Enlightenment period and on ‘entangled history'has recently gained a more global focus, and this has foregrounded questions of transfer, translation, networking, interferences, asynchronicity and ambivalence. Were educational practices guided by rationality or by a spirit of colonialism, or somewhere along the spectrum between these? To what extent did the structures of authority exercise an influence on educational initiatives and practices, especially those in popular education? How did the multiconfessional context of Eastern Europe affect the transition from religious education to strongly rational ways of organizing knowledge and education? Researchers from Germany, Estonia, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary focus on aspects of education practices in politics, science, education, church life and culture.
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Education--Europe, Eastern--History--18th century - Education--Europe, Eastern--History--17th centuryContent provider:
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-1. 1p.
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A biographical essay about Denis Diderot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-1. 1p.
A biographical essay about Denis Diderot . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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RATTO, ADRIÁN
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Diánoia. may-oct2019, Vol. 64 Issue 82, p115-130. 16p.
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Exploring the Interior : Essays on Literary and Cultural History
Karl S. Guthke;Karl S. Guthke
In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke exa...
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Exploring the Interior : Essays on Literary and Cultural History
2018
In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im Hof called'the grand opening-up of the wide world”, especially of the interior of the non-European continents. This outward turn was complemented by a fascination with'the world within” as anthropology and ethnology focused on the humanity of the indigenous populations of far-away lands – an interest in human nature that suggested a way for Europeans to understand themselves, encapsulated in Gauguin's Tahitian rumination'What are we?” The essays in the first half of the book discuss first- or second-hand, physical or mental encounters with the exotic lands and populations beyond the supposed cradle of civilisation. The works of literature and documents of cultural life featured in these essays bear testimony to the crossing not only of geographical, ethnological, and cultural borders but also of borders of a variety of intellectual activities and interests. The second section examines the growing interest in astronomy and the engagement with imagined worlds in the universe, again with a view to understanding homo sapiens, as compared now to the extra-terrestrials that were confidently assumed to exist. The final group of essays focuses on the exploration of the landscape of what was called'the universe within”; featuring, among a variety of other texts, Schiller's plays The Maid of Orleans and William Tell, these essays observe and analyse what Erich Heller termed'The Artist's Journey into the Interior.” This collection, which travels from the interior of continents to the interior of the mind, is itself a set of explorations that revel in the discovery of what was half-hidden in language. Written by a scholar of international repute, it is eye-opening reading for all those with an interest in the literary and cultural history of (and since) the Enlightenment.
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Anthropology--Europe--History--18th century - Ethnology--Europe--18th century - Literature and society - European literature--History and criticism - EnlightenmentContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2018
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
