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John Ruskin: sermons & stones.
Dean, Paul;Dean, Paul
Review Review | New Criterion; Nov2019, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p18-24, 7p Please log in to see more details

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Introduction.
Bradley, J. L.
Book Book | John Ruskin (0-415-13471-4). 1995, p1-29. 29p. Please log in to see more details
An introduction to "John Ruskin," edited by J. L. Bradley, is presented. A brief descr... more
Introduction.
John Ruskin (0-415-13471-4). 1995, p1-29. 29p.
An introduction to "John Ruskin," edited by J. L. Bradley, is presented. A brief description of Ruskin's literary, political and critical career is offered. The introduction discusses how the selection of to be included was decided and provides an overview of the works, including the "Modern Painters" series and works on the political economics of art.

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Prefaces & forewords - John Ruskin (Book) - Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 - Bradley, J. L. - Modern Painters (Book : Ruskin)

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Selections from the Works of John Ruskin.
Ruskin, John
Book Book | Selections from the Works of John Ruskin. 3/1/2006, p1. 1p. 32 Charts. Please log in to see more details
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Selections from the Works of John Ruskin.
Selections from the Works of John Ruskin. 3/1/2006, p1. 1p. 32 Charts.
Presents the complete text of "Selections from the Works of John Ruskin" by Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

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Essays - Project Gutenberg (Organization) - Electronic publications - Electronic books - Open access publishing

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THE ARTS & CRAFT MOVEMENT.
Kirby, Ian
Periodical Periodical | Woodworker's Journal. Jun2009, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p26-29. 4p. Please log in to see more details
The article focuses on the development of the arts and craft movement. It relates to t... more
THE ARTS & CRAFT MOVEMENT.
Woodworker's Journal. Jun2009, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p26-29. 4p.
The article focuses on the development of the arts and craft movement. It relates to the beginning of movement influenced by the lectures and writings of John Ruskins and William Morris in 1819 through 1900. However, regardless of the quality that William Morris' had argued, the primary reasons for the Arts and Crafts to flourish in the 21st century consumers, builders and designers could be attributed to the simplicity and elegance of their designs guided by the principles they created.

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ARTS & crafts movement - RUSKIN, John, 1819-1900 - WOODWORK - AESTHETIC movement (Art) - DECORATION & ornament - MORRIS, William, 1834-1896

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Literature and Sustainability : Concept, Text and Culture
Adeline Johns-Putra;John Parham;Louise Squire;Adeline Johns-Putra;John Parh...
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Literature and Sustainability : Concept, Text and Culture
2017
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of literature and sustainability. In today's sociopolitical world, sustainability has become a ubiquitous term, yet one potentially driven to near meaninglessness by the extent of its usage. While much has been written on sustainability in various domains, this volume sets out to foreground the contributions literary scholarship might make to notions of sustainability, both as an idea with a particular history and as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live. Essays in this volume take a range of approaches, using the tools of literary analysis to interrogate sustainability's various paradoxes and to examine how literature in its various forms might envisage notions of sustainability.

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Ecology in literature - Environmentalism in literature - Sustainability

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Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World : C. 500 BC – C. AD 300
Antonia Sarri;Antonia Sarri
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Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large num... more
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World : C. 500 BC – C. AD 300
2018; Vol. 00012
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

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Latin letters--History and criticism - Greek letters--History and criticism

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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde : An Annotated Selection
Oscar Wilde;Nicholas Frankel;Oscar Wilde;Nicholas Frankel
An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest write... more
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde : An Annotated Selection
2020
An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era.“I cannot think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde's gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration.Each story in the collection brims with Wilde's trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime” stands alongside Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde's day. Like his later writings, Wilde's stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six.Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde's short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era's most remarkable writers.

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Electronic books - Short stories, English

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Letter Writing Among Poets : From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
Ellis, Jonathan;Ellis, Jonathan
The first book to look at poets'letters seriously as an art form Fifteen enlightening ... more
Letter Writing Among Poets : From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop
2015
The first book to look at poets'letters seriously as an art form Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth. In doing so, they respond to the following questions. Who are the great letter writers of the past? Why is reading other people's mail so addictive? What is the relationship between letter writing and other literary genres such as poetry? Divided into three sections—Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing, and Twentieth-Century Letter Writing—the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure that virtual post struggles to replicate. Key Features: A comprehensive collection of essays on the art and genre of letter writing among Romantic, Victorian and Twentieth Century poets Contributors are leading international biographers, critics and poets, including Hermione Lee, Paul Muldoon, Daniel Karlin, Hugh Haughton, Anne Fadiman, Edna Longley and Angela Leighton An absorbing history of literary friendship, literary love, and literary rivalry A sensitive study of the often close relationship between letter writing and poetry

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Authors, English--Biography - Poets, English--Biography - Letter writing--History

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Tennyson’s Poems : New Textual Parallels
R. H. Winnick;R. H. Winnick
In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thous... more
Tennyson’s Poems : New Textual Parallels
2019
In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson's poems was published. Each of these instances may be deemed an allusion (meant to be recognized as such and pointing, for definable purposes, to a particular antecedent text), an echo (conscious or not, deliberate or not, meant to be noticed or not, meaningful or not), or merely accidental. Unless accidental, Winnick writes, these new textual parallels significantly expand our knowledge both of Tennyson's reading and of his thematic intentions and artistic technique. Coupled with the thousand-plus textual parallels previously reported by Christopher Ricks and other scholars, he says, they suggest that a fundamental and lifelong aspect of Tennyson's art was his habit of echoing any work, ancient or modern, which had the potential to enhance the resonance or deepen the meaning of his poems. The new textual parallels Winnick has identified point most often to the King James Bible and to such canonical authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth. But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Michael Drayton, Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Wilson, and—with surprising frequency—Felicia Hemans. Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels is thus a major new resource for Tennyson scholars and students, an indispensable adjunct to the 1987 edition of Tennyson's complete poems edited by Christopher Ricks.

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Romanticism and Time : Literary Temporalities
Sophie Laniel-Musitelli;Céline Sabiron;Sophie Laniel-Musitelli;Céline Sabir...
‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time'. This original edited volume takes ... more
Romanticism and Time : Literary Temporalities
2021
‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time'. This original edited volume takes William Blake's aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the question of time from a literary perspective, applying a diverse range of critical approaches to Romantic authors from William Blake and Percy Shelley to John Clare and Samuel Rodgers. Close readings uncover fresh insights into these authors and their works, including Frankenstein, the most familiar of Romantic texts. Revising current thinking about periodisation, the authors explore how the Romantic poetics of time bears witness to the ruptures and dislocations at work within chronological time. They consider an array of topics, such as ecological time, futurity, operatic time, or the a-temporality of Venice. As well as surveying the Romantic canon's evolution over time, these essays approach it as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders. Romantic authors are compared with American or European counterparts including Beethoven, Irving, Nietzsche and Beckett. Romanticism and Time will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Romantic Studies. It will be of further interest to philosophers and historians working on the connections between philosophy, history and literature during the nineteenth century.

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English poetry--19th century - Romanticism - Romanticism--Great Britain--History and criticism

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Historical Dictionary of French Literature
John Flower;John Flower
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don't know French, because it is p... more
Historical Dictionary of French Literature
2013
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don't know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don't read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition (Les Mis). So this is a particularly interesting volume in the literature series, since it covers French literature from the earliest times to the present. It is also a particularly rich literature, espousing ever genre from poetry, to novel, to biography, to drama, and adopting every style, including realism and surrealism, and expressing the views of all classes and political stands, with recently strong feminist and gay strains.Obviously, the core dictionary section includes among its panoply of often substantial and detailed entries, hundreds of authors, dozens of significant works, the various styles mentioned above and many others, events that have impacted literature such as the Dreyfus Affair and the Algerian War, and literary prizes. The chronology manages to cover about 1,200 years of literary output. And the introduction sets it all out neatly from one historical and literary period to the next. The bibliography, broken down by period and author, directs us to further reading in both French and English.

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French literature--Dictionaries

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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : A Life
William F. Halloran;William F. Halloran
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of h... more
William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : A Life
2022
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman. Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp's Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp's life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties. The biography illuminates his wide network of close male and female friendships, through which he developed advanced ideas about the place of women in society, the constraints of marriage, the fluidity of gender identity, and the complexity of the human psyche. Uniquely this biography reveals the autobiographical content of the writings of Fiona Macleod, the remarkable extent to which Sharp used the feminine pseudonym to disguise his telling and retelling the complex story of his extramarital love affair with a beautiful and brilliant woman. The biography illuminates not only the talented and conflicted William Sharp, but also the cultural landscape of Great Britain in the late-nineteenth century. From late Pre-Raphaelitism through the'yellow nineties” and on to the excesses of the early twentieth century, Sharp dabbled in all the movements that comprised what some have called the Age of Decadence.

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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... more
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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Novelists--Biography - Fiction--History and criticism - English fiction--History and criticism - Novelists, English--Biography - American fiction--History and criticism

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Green Man Hopkins : Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination
John Parham;John Parham
eBook eBook | 2010; Vol. 00006 Please log in to see more details
This book, the first to consider Gerard Manley Hopkins as an ecological writer, explor... more
Green Man Hopkins : Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination
2010; Vol. 00006
This book, the first to consider Gerard Manley Hopkins as an ecological writer, explores the dimension that social ecology offers to an ecocriticism hitherto dominated by romantic nature writing. The case for a ‘green Hopkins'is made through a paradigm of ‘Victorian Ecology'that expands the scope of existing studies in Victorian literature and science. Parham argues that Hopkins developed a two-fold understanding of ecology – as a scientific philosophy constructed around ecosystems theory; and as a corresponding theory of society organised around the sustainable use of energy – as well as a corresponding poetic practice. In a radical new reading of the poems, he suggests that Hopkins translated an innovative nature poetry, in which rhythm conveyed a nature characterised by dialectical energy exchange, into a social ‘ecopoetry'that embodied the environmental impact of Victorian ‘risk'society on its human population.Located within a ‘Victorian ecological imagination'that fused romanticism and pragmatism, the book views Hopkins'work as indicating the value of reconciling a deep ecological assertion of the intrinsic value of (nonhuman) nature with social ecology's more pragmatic attempts to critique and re-conceptualise human life.

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young
Andrew Robinson;Andrew Robinson
No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so... more
The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young
2023
No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers.

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Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--18th century - Science--Great Britain--History--19th century - Physicians - Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--19th century - Physicians--Great Britain--Biography - Scientists--Great Britain--Biography - Science--Great Britain--History--18th century - Linguists--Great Britain--Biography

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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... more
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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Educar para transformar: Innovación pedagógica, calidad y TIC en contextos formativos.
López-Meneses, Eloy;Martín-Padilla, Antonio-Hilario;Molina-García, Laura;Ja...
Educar para transformar: Innovación pedagógica, calidad y TIC en contextos formativos.
2023

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Educational innovations

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Feminismo en la línea del tiempo, desde las (in)visibilidades al concepto de felicidad.
Bandrés-Goldáraz, Elena (Coordinador);Bandrés-Goldáraz, Elena (Coordinador)
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Hay dos maneras de abordar este libro en el que se tratan asuntos en los que el género... more
Feminismo en la línea del tiempo, desde las (in)visibilidades al concepto de felicidad.
2023; Vol. 00098
Hay dos maneras de abordar este libro en el que se tratan asuntos en los que el género juega un papel determinante en casi todas las parcelas de la vida y en el que las mujeres ocupan el tema central en diferentes aspectos, épocas y lugares a lo largo de la historia. Una de estas maneras es leerlo desde el principio con la intención de adentrarse en pequeñas cápsulas de conocimiento que nos llevarán desde Roma, en pleno Imperio, hasta la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XIX, pasando por los contextos migratorios de la mujer en Latinoamérica o a descubrir figuras como Belén de Sárraga, Antonia Brico o Elvira López Mourín. La otra es consultar el índice para abrir la ventana a todo tipo de universos en los que historias de vida de mujeres, sus representaciones, las imágenes en el imaginario colectivo o la reivindicación del Herstory en el Arte palpitan con un latido que engancha.

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Feminism--History - Women--Social conditions--History - Women--Social conditions

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China and the West : Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting
Elisa Ambrosio;Francine Giese;Alina Martimyanova;Hans Bjarne Thomsen;Elisa ...
With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art histor... more
China and the West : Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting
2023
With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of East Asian art, the volume traces its long history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe and for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks studied in this volume constitute a paramount part of Chinese visual culture and attest to the intensive cultural and artistic exchange between China and the West. With contributions by Thierry Audric, Kee Il Choi Jr., Patrick Conner, Karina H. Corrigan, Elisabeth Eibner, Patricia F. Ferguson, Lihong Liu, William H. Ma, Alina Martimyanova, Christopher L. Maxwell, Rupprecht Mayer, Jessica Lee Patterson, Michaela Pejčochová, Jérôme Samuel, Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Jan van Campen, Rosalien van der Poel

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Glass underpainting--China--History--19th century - Glass underpainting--China--History--18th century

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Time and Space
Maria do Rosário Monteiro;Mário S. Ming Kong;Maria João Pereira Neto;Maria ...
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were c... more
Time and Space
2023
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Time and Space has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.

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A Curious History of Sex
Kate Lister;Kate Lister
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cu... more
A Curious History of Sex
2020
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless.The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from.Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Kate unashamedly roots around in the pants of history, debunking myths, challenging stereotypes and generally getting her hands dirty.This fascinating book is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang, and illustrated with eye-opening, toe-curling and meticulously sourced images from the past.You will laugh, you will wince and you will wonder just how much has actually changed.

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Sex customs--History - Sex--History

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Alfred Tennyson : A Companion
Laurence W. Mazzeno;Laurence W. Mazzeno
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtual... more
Alfred Tennyson : A Companion
2020
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.

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Architecture and Politics in Africa : Making, Living and Imagining Identities Through Buildings
Joanne Tomkinson;Daniel Mulugeta;Julia Gallagher;Joanne Tomkinson;Daniel Mu...
Honourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collec... more
Architecture and Politics in Africa : Making, Living and Imagining Identities Through Buildings
2022
Honourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic activity, reflect political ideas, and impact state-society relations. They are materially and symbolically interwoven with the everyday lives of elites and citizens, as well global flows of money, goods, and contracts. Yet, to date, there has been no research that explicitly connects debates about Africa's domestic and international politics with the study of architecture. This innovative book fills this gap, providing a new and compelling reading of the politics of identity in sub-Saharan Africa through an examination of some of its most significant buildings. Using case studies from nine countries across sub-Saharan Africa, this volume reveals how they are commissioned and built, how they enable elites to project power, and how they form a basis for popular conceptions of the state. Exploring a diverse range of buildings including parliaments, airports, prisons, ministries, regional institutions, libraries, universities, shopping malls, public housing, cathedrals and palaces, the contributors suggest a innovative perspective on African politics, identity and urban development. This book will be a compelling reference for scholars and students of African politics, development studies and city life in its elaboration of and challenges to established concepts and arguments about the relationship between material objects and political ideas. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.

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Architecture--Africa, Sub-Saharan - Architecture--Political aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan

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