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A collection of magazine stories that Ruark wrote in the 1950s and
1960s, but were never published in book form.
Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond is a collection of eight
essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects
of the poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). Ennius'
epic poem The Annals and his many other works, including tragedies,
satires and epigrams, survive only in mystifying fragments, but his
influence on Latin poetry was enormous. He is now beginning to be
appreciated, thanks both to excellent critical editions and to more
enlightened literary and historical approaches, as a complex and
varied poet and a fascinating representative of an era of intense
cultural and political change. While they acknowledge the extent to
which later authors are responsible for creating a misleading
perception of Ennius as monolithic, jingoistic and clumsy, these
essays also reflect on what can be said about the nature and aims
of his work, given the limitations of our evidence. Subjects
discussed include Cicero's "invention" of Ennius, the part played
by the cor (heart) in unifying Ennius' literary project, the
possibility of "further voices" and a role for women in Ennius,
Virgil's fraught "father-son" relationship with his epic
predecessor and Ennius' later reincarnation in the works of Horace
and Petrarch. The collection is likely to appeal to all who are
interested in Latin literature, literary history or reception
studies.
One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention
to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in
celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.
'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a
novelist' Sunday Telegraph 'A delight from start to finish . . .
achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view
of Joyce' Sunday Times 'Accessible and passionate, it is a book
which should bring Joyce in all his glory and agony to a new and
very wide audience' Irish Independent Edna O'Brien depicts James
Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such
adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and
angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his
lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children,
wanderings, debt and profligacy, and Joyce's obsession with the
city of Dublin, which he would re-render through his words. Nor
does Edna O'Brien spare us the anger and isolation of Joyce's later
years, when he felt that the world had turned its back on him, and
she asks how could it be otherwise for a man who knew that conflict
is the source of all creation.
The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based
primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of
this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed
reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the
early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siecle, the
book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public's
understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of
defining a person's character by way of the bumps on their skull.
Highly relevant to the study of the many authors - Wilkie Collins,
Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them - whose fiction was
informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will
prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the
popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including
literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader. -- .
It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred
feet high-a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors
that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that
has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the
fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of
the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a
real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've been caught,
helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding
or control. Winner of the American Library Association's 1998 Alex
Award.
Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with
manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding
comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and
Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two
authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a
vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional
quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language
foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is
not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting
guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at
least the most common problems here. Technical terminology
searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a
number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering
disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with
advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the
emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of
modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are
also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to
translators, and scientists who need to present their work in
languages other than English.
In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular
eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion,
manners and party politics. Using the theatre as a means of
circulating and publicizing radical Enlightenment ideas, many plays
made passionate arguments for religious and cultural toleration,
and voiced protests against imperial invasion and forced conversion
of indigenous peoples by colonial Europeans. Irish and
labouring-class dramatists wrote plays, often set in the
countryside, attacking social and political hierarchy in Britain
itself. Another crucial but as yet unexplored aspect of early
eighteenth-century theatre is its connection to freemasonry.
Freemasons were pervasive as actors, managers, prompters,
scene-painters, dancers and musicians, with their own lodges,
benefit performances and particular audiences. In addition to
promoting the Enlightened agenda of toleration and cosmopolitanism,
freemason dramatists invented the new genre of domestic tragedy, a
genre that criticized the effects of commercial and colonial
capitalism.
First published in 1938, this collection of stories set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley includes the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder," as well as one of Steinbeck's most famous short works, "The Snake."
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