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Many of Robert Browning's poems are concerned with different
aspects of human identity. In the great dramatic monologues, such
as Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto and My Last Duchess, the
question of exactly who is speaking obviously concerns us, but to
what extent do the speaker's language and attitudes mirror those of
the poet himself ? In the various poems on the theme of love and
sexual relationships which Browning included in his published
collections, we inevitably want to know which of these spring
directly from his personal experience. Browning, however, never
felt a duty to reveal himself to the reader within his poetry.
Though he admired several of the Romantic writers among the poetic
generation immediately preceding his own, especially Shelley and
Wordsworth, he was unwilling to follow their example by relating
his discourse to the concept of a dominant ego, an "I" whose
personal drama of feeling and experience formed the substance of a
sustained narrative. Several of his works deliberately criticise
the tendency, made fashionable by the Romantics, to see a poem as
offering clues to its writer's identity and, by association, his
private life. In 1874 Browning a poem, House, arguing that the
reader has no right to share an author's privacy: "For a ticket,
apply to the Publisher." No: thanking the public, I must decline. A
peep through my window, if folk prefer; But, please you, no foot
over threshold of mine!" In this guide, Jonathan Keates looks at
the roots of Browning's poetry, at at why he is so influential and
at how, despite his determination to keep his private and poetic
identities separate, some of his work is so shocking.
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Blaming (Paperback, New ed)
Elizabeth Taylor; Introduction by Jonathan Keates, Jonathon Keates
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'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!'
Elizabeth Jane Howard * A finely nuanced exploration of
responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the
twentieth century's finest novelists. When Amy is suddenly left
widowed and alone while on holiday in Istanbul, Martha, an American
traveller, comforts her and accompanies her back to England. Upon
their return, however, Amy is ungratefully reluctant to maintain
their relationship, recognising that, under any other
circumstances, the two women would not be friends. But guilt is a
hard taskmaster, and Martha has away of getting under one's skin
... * 'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had
been some turning-point in one's own experience' Elizabeth Bowen
'No writer has described the English middle classes with more
gently devastating accuracy' Rebecca Abrams, Spectator 'A Game of
Hide and Seek showcases much of what makes Taylor a great novelist:
piercing insight, a keen wit and a genuine sense of feeling for her
characters' Elizabeth Day, Guardian
How many times have you wanted to kill your boss? How far would you go for that corner office? Gloria Greene is young, beautiful, brilliant, and dead serious about what she wants. She's used her many charms to fuel her blazing rise from intern to editor in chief of sophisticated Portfolio magazine. But is she really the killer who hacked the former editor to pieces and shipped his body parts cross-country by UPS? The prime suspect, Gloria shines in the media spotlight and FBI glare, enjoying the attentions of a daddy who loves her a little too much and the excessive worrying of her fabulous and neurotic friends. Now she covets the editorship of the legendary Algonquin magazine-after all, nobody is a suspect forever...
Marvelous and mystical stories of the thirty-six anonymous saints
whose decency sustains the world-reimagined from Jewish folklore.
A liar, a cheat, a degenerate, and a whore. These are the last
people one might expect to be virtuous. But a legendary Kabbalist
has discovered the truth: they are just some of the thirty-six
hidden ones, the righteous individuals who ultimately make the
world a better place. In these captivating stories, we meet twelve
of the secret benefactors, including a timekeeper's son who shows a
sleepless village the beauty of dreams; a gambler who teaches a
king ruled by the tyranny of the past to roll the dice; a thief who
realizes that his job is to keep his fellow townsfolk honest; and a
golem-a woman made of mud-who teaches kings and peasants the real
nature of humanity.
With boundless imagination and a delightful sense of humor,
acclaimed writer and artist Jonathon Keats has turned the
traditional folktale on its head, creating heroes from the
unlikeliest of characters, and enchanting readers with these
stunningly original fables.
According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings
of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the
owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol
made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire
concept of originality. Forged explores art forgery from ancient
times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with
insightful art criticism, Jonathon Keats profiles individual art
forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role
of forgeries in society. From the Renaissance master Andrea del
Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici
patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped
the avaricious Hermann Goering, to the frustrated British artist
Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts,
art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time,
breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo. They
have also provocatively confronted many of the present-day cultural
anxieties that are major themes in the arts. Keats uncovers what
forgeries-and our reactions to them-reveal about changing
conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity,
authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art. The
book concludes by looking at how artists today have appropriated
many aspects of forgery through such practices as street-art
stenciling and share-and-share-alike licensing, and how these
open-source "copyleft" strategies have the potential to make
legitimate art meaningful again. Forgery has been much
discussed-and decried-as a crime. Forged is the first book to
assess great forgeries as high art in their own right.
"Not since Dr. Johnson explained the English language to the people
of his time has there been a lexicon so witty, deep and
indispensable. For any citizen of either the analog or -digital
space who wishes to live in this century instead of the last, this
is required reading."
Stanley Bing, author and columnist for FORTUNE magazine Bug--A
minor glitch in computer software or hardware that often results in
major problems for the user or owner. According to legend, the
first bug to cause system malfunction was a moth caught in one of
the relays of a Mark II computer at Harvard shortly after World War
II. Podcast--Audio or video programming automatically downloaded
from the Internet onto a portable MP3 player, such as the Apple
iPod, for listening or viewing on the go. Thumbing--A method of
texting on a portable device, such as a cell phone, by typing with
one or both thumbs. Frazzing--Frenzied multitasking, as occurs when
the combined output of cell phone, PDA, and laptop overwhelms the
processing power of the human brain. Web--The abbreviated name of
the World Wide Web, also often shortened to www. In Chinese, the
Web is called the wan wei wang, meaning "ten thousand-dimensional
net." The technology revolution is also a revolution in -language,
with new words created seemingly every day. And along with a new
vocabulary comes the mortifying fear of being out of the loop.
Control + Alt + Delete is a reference book that will inform and
entertain you while decoding the fast-changing language of
high-tech -culture.
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