A First Book in English Literature
Author | : Henry Spackman Pancoast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Henry Spackman Pancoast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0824878213 |
This is the first book in English to offer an extensive introduction to the Tongmunsŏn (Selections of Refined Literature of Korea)—the largest and most important Korean literary collection created prior to the twentieth century—as well as translations of essays from key chapters. The Tongmunsŏn was compiled in 1478 by Sŏ Kŏjŏng (1420–1488) and other Chosŏn literati at the command of King Sŏngjong (r. 1469–1494). It was modeled after the celebrated Chinese anthology Wen Xuan and contains poetry and prose in an extensive array of styles and genres. The Translators’ Introduction begins by describing the general structure of the Tongmunsŏn and contextualizes literary output in Korea within the great sweep of East Asian literature from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. The entire Tongmunsŏn as well as all of the essays selected for translation were written in hanmun (as opposed to Korean vernacular), which points to a close literary connection between the continent and the peninsula. The Introduction goes on to discuss the genres contained in the Tongmunsŏn and examines style as revealed through prosody. The translation of two of these genres (treatises and discourses) in four books of the Tongmunsŏn showcases prose-writing and the intellectual concerns of the age. Through their discussions of morality, nature, and the fantastic, we see Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian themes at work in essays by some of Korea’s most distinguished writers, among them Yi Kyubo, Yi Saek, Yi Chehyŏn, and Chŏng Tojŏn. The translations also include annotations and extensive cross-references to classical allusions in the Chinese canon, making the present volume an essential addition to any East Asian literature collection.
Author | : Paulo Coelho |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-03-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141957344 |
'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a sort of reminder of something else, a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring with their fragrance and colorfulness the reminder of the fields, of a season. Coelho's anthology, therefore, is not only a collection of texts or poems, but a gift, something arranged according to his sensitivities, to give to others. The selection of books presented in this volume have been chosen as if from a vast field of flowers, stretching infinitely into time's horizon. Coelho's selection is ordered in to the four elements, symbolizing both our world on all its directions, and the way we dwell in this world, the way we say it. In 'Earth' we find writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde and D H Lawrence; in 'Air' Nelson Mandela and Gabriel Garcia Marques; in 'Fire' Rumi and Mary Shelley; in 'Water' Hans Christian Anderson and Machiavelli.
Author | : Janet M. Atwill |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education, Humanistic |
ISBN | : 9780801476051 |
Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotle's Rhetoric. This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techn , or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the fifth century B.C.E. Atwill examines these traditions, together with sophistic and platonic conceptions, and considers the commentaries on Aristotle's Rhetoric by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techn and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity, Atwill's examination of techn also explores the role of political, economic, and educational institutions in standardizing a specific model for subjectivity. She argues that the liberal arts traditions largely eclipsed the social and political functions of rhetoric, transforming it from an art of disrupting and reinventing lines of power to a discipline of producing a normative subject, defined by virtue but modeled on a specific gender and class type.
Author | : Christopher Cannon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199270821 |
Using an innovative theory of literary form applied to a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Christopher Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English literature.
Author | : William Swinton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Samuel Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas Marsh |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780333640906 |
This fully revised and expanded new edition gives practical help and guidance to students and sets out a logical method for approaching novels, plays and poems. Useful chapters on themes, characters, structure and style explain how to analyse a text and later chapters give advice on writing successful essays and on how to set about revision. Straightforward and lively, the book is an invaluable companion to all students of literature.
Author | : Leopold Damrosch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : William Henry Hudson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1914 |
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