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Magical imagery and full scenes grace the intensely colorful cards
in this popular tarot deck.
In the summer of 1910 a symposium on the subject of Instinct and
Intelligence was held in London at a joint meeting of the
Aristotelian and British Psychological Societies and of the Mind
association. Considerable interest in the discussion was shown both
in the room in which we met and beyond its walls. The papers then
taken as read, and subsequently published in the "British Journal
of Psychology," disclose not a little divergence in the sense in
which the terms instinctive and intelligent are used, an underlying
divergence in the principles on which the proffered interpretations
are based, and indications, more or less clear, of yet
deeper-seated differences of philosophical foundation.
In the summer of 1910 a symposium on the subject of Instinct and
Intelligence was held in London at a joint meeting of the
Aristotelian and British Psychological Societies and of the Mind
association. Considerable interest in the discussion was shown both
in the room in which we met and beyond its walls. The papers then
taken as read, and subsequently published in the "British Journal
of Psychology," disclose not a little divergence in the sense in
which the terms instinctive and intelligent are used, an underlying
divergence in the principles on which the proffered interpretations
are based, and indications, more or less clear, of yet
deeper-seated differences of philosophical foundation.
Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, Margiad Evans
(1909-1959) was one of the most remarkable women writers of the
mid-twentieth century. Having published three novels, two
autobiographical works and two volumes of poetry during her life,
her relatively slim output belies considerable achievement in the
face of intermittent poverty and the illness of her later years.
(Aged forty-one, she was diagnosed epileptic, falling pregnant the
same year; she died of a brain tumour in 1959.) Evans's fiction has
been compred to that of the Bronte sisters, her poetry to W.H.
Davies and de la Mare. Her writing ranges from the balanced
symmetries of her debut novel A Country Dance, to Creed with its
'postmodern' authorial interventions and anticipation of
structuralism, through the meditations on creativity and divinity
contained in the Autobiography, to the coming-to-terms with
mortality that is A Ray of Darkness. Unifying this complex oeuvre,
however, is a concentration on certain key themes which resonate
strongly today. Foremost is Evans's ground-breaking depictions of
love, sex, illness and death in the lives and work of women
inhabiting harsh and restrictive rural environments. Her beloved
south Herefordshire borderland was inspirational in itself. And, as
her health deteriorated, so death, and its unquiet acceptance,
became central. In this, the fullest study to date, Ceridwen
Lloyd-Morgan draws on Margiad Evans's extensive personal and
literary archives to offer valuable, sympathetic, well-balanced
criticism of an important and highly individual woman writer whose
work retains its force, identity and freshness.
English literature has a fine tradition of rural writing, and one
of this century's greatest exponents was Margiad Evans (1909-1958).
Although born in Uxbridge, she was brought up near Ross-on-Wye, and
it is the south Herefordshire borderlands, its farmsteads, hamlets
and towns, which are the setting for The Old And The Young, her
collection of short stories first published in 1948. These fifteen
stories are a distillation and refinement of all that is best in
Evans's writing. A close observer of nature, her descriptions of
trees, water, rocks, the movement of air and the interplay of light
and darkness, are both exact and fluid. She was equally attendant
to the subtleties of the human world. Her child's-eye narrations
are remarkably empathetic, coloured and informed by memories of an
idyllic year spent with her sister on her aunt's farm near the Wye.
But the countryside, though treasured, is not romanticised. A
rose-covered cottage could mean isolation, poverty and
back-breaking physical labour, as Evans herself experienced. Her
sympathies with the old, the infirm, the lonely and the careworn
are a constant strand. In many of these stories, all but one
written during the Forties, the hardships of rural living are
exacerbated by the war. Men are absent, families are separated,
women have to shoulder added burdens. This collection is testament
to the quiet heroism of the home front, to the stoic
resourcefulness of those who have no cenotaph. Indeed, in war or in
peace, it is Evans's ability to delineate the defining nature of
small incidents, and to uncover in a precise locality moments of
profound spirituality, which raise The Old And The Young to the
level of a classic.
This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian
literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh,
Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by
leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces
the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have
been constantly reworked and adapted from the Middle Ages to the
twentieth century. It shows how the figure of Arthur evolved from
the leader of a warband in early medieval north Britain to a king
whose court becomes the starting-point for knightly adventures, and
how characters and tales are reimagined, reshaped and reinterpreted
according to local circumstances, traditions and preoccupations at
different periods. From the celebrated early Welsh poetry and prose
tales to less familiar modern Breton and Cornish fiction, from
medieval Irish adaptations of the legend to the Gaelic ballads of
Scotland, Arthur in the Celtic Languages provides an indispensable,
up-to-date guide of a vast and complex body of Arthurian material,
and to recent research and criticism.
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Habit and Instinct
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
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Discovery Miles 10 400
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Habit and Instinct
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
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R729
Discovery Miles 7 290
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`No single recent enterprise has done more to enlarge and deepen
our understanding of one of the most critical periods in English
history'. Antiquaries Journal The proceedings of the 1996 Battle
Conference contain the usual wide range of topics, from the late
tenth century to 1200 and from Durham to Southern Italy,
demonstrating once again its importance as the leading forum for
Anglo-Norman studies. Many different aspects of the Anglo-Norman
world are examined, ranging from military technology to the
architecture of Durham Cathedral; there are also in-depth
investigations of individual families and characters, including
William Malet and Abbot Suger.
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