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Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural
History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between
artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect
Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with leading
Pre-Raphaelite artists on the design and decoration of the
building. The decorative art was modelled on the Pre-Raphaelite
principle of meticulous observation of nature, itself indebted to
science, while individual artists designed architectural details
and carved portrait statues of influential scientists. The entire
structure was an experiment in using architecture and art to
communicate natural history, modern science and natural theology.
'Temple of Science' sets out the history of the campaign to build
the museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum
itself. It looks at the facade and the central court, with their
beautiful natural history carvings and marble columns illustrating
different geological strata, and at the pantheon of scientists.
Together they form the world's finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite
sculpture. The story of one of the most remarkable collaborations
between scientists and artists in European art is told here with
lavish illustrations.
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship
between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this
companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and
up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual,
material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western
culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes
were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a
cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development
was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of
literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this
companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the
field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for
the interactions between literature and science, how science
affected different genres of writing, and the importance of
individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary
culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The
volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by
the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of
nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his
sonnet sequence The House of Life. Over the next twenty years,
dozens of poets wrote thousands of sonnets resulting in the
greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John
Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study explores the
causes behind this remarkable outpouring, illuminating the
contributions of the leading late Victorian sonneteers to the
poetry and culture of their age. The sonnet sequence had
traditionally engaged with questions of religious belief, sexual
love and selfhood. By the 1860s, belief was threatened by radical
scientific theories, while sexual attraction had been complicated
by shifting gender relations and emerging ideas of sexuality. Poets
such as Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, John Addington
Symonds, Augusta Webster and Rosa Newmarch drew on the heritage of
the sonnet sequence to create poetic self-portraits that are
unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.
Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have
come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science
in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays
to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments
going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading
experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how
poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can
offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can
and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and
Ireland, America and Australia. What does the poetry of a leading
immunologist and a Nobel-Prize-winning chemist tell us about how
poetry can engage with science? Scientific experiments aim to yield
knowledge, but what do the linguistic and formal experiments of
contemporary American poets suggest about knowledge in their turn?
How can universities help to bring these different experimental
cultures and practices together? What questions do literary critics
need to ask themselves when looking at poems that respond to
science? How did developments in biology between the wars shape
modernist poetry? What did William Empson make of science fiction,
Ezra Pound of the fourth dimension, Thomas Hardy of anthropology?
How did modern poets from W. B. Yeats to Elizabeth Bishop and
Judith Wright respond to the legacy of Charles Darwin? This book
aims to answer these questions and more, in the process setting out
the state of the field and suggesting new directions and approaches
for research by students and scholars working on the fertile
relationship between science and poetry today.
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his
sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the
greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John
Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how
leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington
Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early
twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke,
addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and
doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late
Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence,
the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their
subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.
There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language
varieties are structurally quite different from the European
languages out of which they grew; however, until recently,
linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their
genesis or their synchronic structure. This 2003 study argues that
the transmission of source languages from native to non-native
speakers led to 'partial restructuring', whereby some of the source
languages' morphosyntax was retained, but a significant number of
substrate and interlanguage features were also introduced.
Comparing languages such as African-American English, Afrikaans and
Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese, John Holm identifies the
linguistic processes that lead to partial restructuring, bringing
into focus a key span on the continuum of contact-induced language
change which has not previously been analysed. Informed by the
first systematic comparison of the social and linguistic facts in
the development of these languages, this book will be welcomed by
students of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and anthropology.
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship
between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this
companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and
up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual,
material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western
culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes
were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a
cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development
was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of
literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this
companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the
field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for
the interactions between literature and science, how science
affected different genres of writing, and the importance of
individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary
culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The
volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by
the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of
nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Paperback)
George List; Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Juan Sebastian Rojas E; Contributions by Hasan M.El- Shamy
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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast
represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told
during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the
semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the
funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive
practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In
this volume these stories are situated within their performance
contexts and represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge
that for centuries has been preserved and cultivated by
African-descendant populations in the Americas. Ethnomusicologist
George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long
fieldwork amongst the rural costenos, a chiefly African-descendent
population, in the mid-20th century and, with the help of a
research team, transcribed and translated them into English before
his death in 2008. In this volume, John Holmes McDowell and Juan
Sebastian Rojas E. have worked to bring this previously unpublished
manuscript to light, providing commentary on the transcriptions and
translations, additional cultural context through a new
introduction, and further typological and cultural analysis by
Hasan M. El-Shamy. Supplementing the transcribed and translated
texts are links to the original Spanish recordings of the stories,
allowing readers to follow along and experience the traditional
telling of the tales for themselves.
Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers
preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three
volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each
volume includes teaching hints and strategies, many practice
exercises for ABRSM exams including answers where appropriate, and
CD recordings of all exercises.
There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language
varieties are structurally quite different from the European
languages out of which they grew; however, until recently,
linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their
genesis or their synchronic structure. This 2003 study argues that
the transmission of source languages from native to non-native
speakers led to 'partial restructuring', whereby some of the source
languages' morphosyntax was retained, but a significant number of
substrate and interlanguage features were also introduced.
Comparing languages such as African-American English, Afrikaans and
Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese, John Holm identifies the
linguistic processes that lead to partial restructuring, bringing
into focus a key span on the continuum of contact-induced language
change which has not previously been analysed. Informed by the
first systematic comparison of the social and linguistic facts in
the development of these languages, this book will be welcomed by
students of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and anthropology.
A beautifully illustrated Mythras Adventure for Monster Island A
Bird in the Hand is a scenario set on Monster Island. The
characters become involved in a quest to assist a lizardfolk tribe,
and a struggle against a malevolent evil threatening to dominate
life on the island.
Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of
the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining
life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of
traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted
objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social
turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological
collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be
human, the authors place performance at the center of people's
responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of
human beings as they work, independently and together, to address
ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people's critical
perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering
force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanity's response to
climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental
catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in
scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the
merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front
lines of today's global emergency. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen,
Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Rebecca Dirksen, Mary
Hufford, John Holmes McDowell, Mark Pedelty, Jennifer C. Post, Chie
Sakakibara, Jeff Todd Titon, Rory Turner, Lois Wilcken
Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers
preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three
volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each
volume includes teaching hints and strategies, many practice
exercises for ABRSM exams including answers where appropriate, and
CD recordings of all exercises.
Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers
preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three
volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each
volume includes teaching hints and strategies, many practice
exercises for ABRSM exams including answers where appropriate, and
CD recordings of all exercises.
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