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First published in 1987, The Literature of Controversy is a
collection of essays by scholars from Britain, the United States,
and Australia on major works from a classic epoch of English
controversial prose. Each essay engages a single text or series of
texts, less to discuss the ideas and arguments per se than to
consider the rhetorical techniques assumed for the political
manipulation of the readers. Though emphasis varies from
contribution to contribution, the purpose, broadly, is to explore
how the constituents of those texts are organised to coax, cajole,
persuade or inspire those to whom they address. As the editor
argues in his introduction, this approach, the critique of
polemical strategy, for the most part accepts the validity of
paying regard to the author and his intentions; it engages
questions about the responses of the readership at which the texts
were targeted; and it proceeds intertextuality in its attempts to
reconstruct the controversies in which the texts were embedded and
the codes within which they operated. This book will be of interest
to students of literature, rhetoric and history.
Paradise Lost is not merely the masterpiece of John Milton
(1608-74) but a turning point in style and form, which had a
profound influence on the poetry of the following century. Divided
into two parts, this major survey begins by discussing the
revolutionary characteristics of Paradise Lost in the context of
contemporary literary norms and examines the theological,
psychological, stylistic and narrative innovation in the poem. It
then provides a fuller account of the complex, and now obscure
political, and theological issues and other issues that Milton's
poem addresses and sought to resolve. It concludes by examining the
themes discussed in the light of the influence of the poem on the
tradition of English literature.
The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical
solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe;
dimensionality and causality constraints. The essence of this book
is to show that everything has a price within our temporal (t >
0) universe; energy and time. In mathematics, every postulation
needs proof; there exists a solution before searching for the
solution. Yet science does not have seem to have a criterion as
mathematics does; to prove first that a postulated science exists
within our temporal universe. Without such a criterion, fictitious
science emerges, as already have been happening in every day's
event. In this book, the author has shown there exists a criterion
for a postulated science whether or not it is existed within our
universe. The author started this book from Einstein's relativity
to the creation of our temporal universe. He has shown that every
subspace within our universe is created by energy and time, in
which subspace and time are coexisted. The important aspect is that
every science has to satisfy the boundary condition of our
universe; causality and dimensionality. Following up with temporal
universe, the author has shown a profound relationship with the
second law of thermodynamics. He examines the relationship between
entropy with science as well as communication with quantum limited
subspace throughout the book. The author discusses the paradox of
Schroedinger's Cat (which has been debated by Einstein, Bohr,
Schroedinger and many others since 1935) that triggered his
discovering that Schroedinger's quantum mechanics is a timeless
machine, in which he has disproved the fundamental principle of
superposition within our universe. Since quantum mechanics is a
virtual mathematics, he has shown that a temporal quantum machine
can, in principle, be built on the top of a temporal platform. This
book is intended for cosmologists, particle physicists,
astrophysicists, quantum physicists, computer scientists,
engineers, professors and students as a reference and
research-oriented book.
First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of
path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic
literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad
appraisals of Coleridge's own critical practises; demonstrations of
the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for
contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of
the English Civil War on Coleridge's early political and religious
dissent; and the influence of the Hebrew prophetic tradition in his
move away from the conjectural millenarianism of his youth towards
the interpretation of Prophecy and a symbolic narrative.
Paradise Lost is not merely the masterpiece of John Milton
(1608-74) but a turning point in style and form, which had a
profound influence on the poetry of the following century. Divided
into two parts, this major survey begins by discussing the
revolutionary characteristics of Paradise Lost in the context of
contemporary literary norms and examines the theological,
psychological, stylistic and narrative innovation in the poem. It
then provides a fuller account of the complex, and now obscure
political, and theological issues and other issues that Milton's
poem addresses and sought to resolve. It concludes by examining the
themes discussed in the light of the influence of the poem on the
tradition of English literature.
First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of
path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic
literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad
appraisals of Coleridge's own critical practises; demonstrations of
the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for
contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of
the English Civil War on Coleridge's early political and religious
dissent; and the influence of the Hebrew prophetic tradition in his
move away from the conjectural millenarianism of his youth towards
the interpretation of Prophecy and a symbolic narrative.
This book provides a qualitative and quantitative exploration of
the action of radiation on living matter which leads to a complete
and coherent interpretation of radiation biology. It takes readers
from radiation-induced molecular damage in the nucleus of the cell
and links this damage to cellular effects such as cell killing,
chromosome aberrations and mutations before exploring organ damage,
organism lethality and cancer induction. It also deals with
radiological protection concepts and the difficulties of predicting
the dose-effect relationship for low-dose and dose rate radiation
risk. The book ends with separate chapters dealing with the effects
of UV light exposure and risk classification of chemical mutagens,
both of which are derived by logical extensions of the radiation
model. This book will provide the basic foundations of radiation
biology for undergraduate and graduate students in medical physics,
biomedical engineering, radiological protection, medicine,
radiology and radiography. Features Presents a comprehensive
insight into radiation action on living matter Contains important
implications for radiological protection and regulations Provides
analytical methods for applications in radiotherapy
This book provides a qualitative and quantitative exploration of
the action of radiation on living matter which leads to a complete
and coherent interpretation of radiation biology. It takes readers
from radiation-induced molecular damage in the nucleus of the cell
and links this damage to cellular effects such as cell killing,
chromosome aberrations and mutations before exploring organ damage,
organism lethality and cancer induction. It also deals with
radiological protection concepts and the difficulties of predicting
the dose-effect relationship for low-dose and dose rate radiation
risk. The book ends with separate chapters dealing with the effects
of UV light exposure and risk classification of chemical mutagens,
both of which are derived by logical extensions of the radiation
model. This book will provide the basic foundations of radiation
biology for undergraduate and graduate students in medical physics,
biomedical engineering, radiological protection, medicine,
radiology and radiography. Features Presents a comprehensive
insight into radiation action on living matter Contains important
implications for radiological protection and regulations Provides
analytical methods for applications in radiotherapy
This collection of original essays by literary critics and
historians analyzes a wide range of Milton's writing, from his
early poetry, through his mid-century political prose, to De
Doctrina Christiana, which was unpublished in his lifetime, and
finally to his last and greatest poems. The contributors
investigate the rich variety of approaches to Milton's engagement
with Catholicism and its relationship to reformed religion. The
essays address latent tensions and contradictions, explore the
nuances of Milton's relationship to the easy commonplaces of
Protestant compatriots, and disclose the polemical strategies and
tactics that often shape that engagement. The contributors link
Milton and Catholicism with early modern confessional conflicts
between Catholics and Protestants that in turn led to new models
and standards of authority, scholarship, and interiority. In
Milton's case, he deployed anti-Catholicism as a rhetorical device
and the negative example out of which Protestants could shape their
identity. The contributors argue that Milton's anti-Catholicism
aligns with his understanding of inwardness and conscience and
illuminates one of the central conflicts between Catholics and
Protestants in the period. Building on recent scholarship on
Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses over the English Tudor and
Stuart period, new understandings of martyrdom, and scholarship on
Catholic women, Milton and Catholicism, provides a diverse and
multifaceted investigation into a complex and little-explored field
in Milton studies. Contributors: Alastair Bellany, Thomas Cogswell,
Thomas N. Corns, Ronald Corthell, Angelica Duran, Martin
Dzelzainis, John Flood, Estelle Haan, and Elizabeth Sauer.
The Milton Encyclopedia offers easy and immediate access to a
wealth of information about Milton. It will serve as a general and
comprehensive reference tool for general readers, students, and
scholars alike, enhancing the experience of reading Milton.
Articles cover each poem and prose work by Milton; the life of
Milton and the members of his family; all events and all
contemporary and historical figures mentioned significantly in his
writings; every book of the Bible in its relation to Milton's own
work; printers, booksellers, and publishing history; the critical
and editorial traditions; illustrators; and those whose own writing
was shaped by Milton's influence.
This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the
monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I. It looks
at both sympathetic and hostile representations of Charles I and
addresses not only the period of mid-century crisis but also the
earlier years of his reign and the afterlife of his royal image.
Besides courtly and popular literary representations, it examines
Charles's visual image in paintings, sculpture, engravings and
coins and considers the role of the King's Music in projecting a
positive view of the monarch. The volume will appeal not only to
literary scholars but also to historians, art historians and
musicologists.
Debate about the authorship of the manuscript known to us as De
Doctrina Christiana has bedevilled Milton studies over recent
years. In this book four leading scholars give an account of the
research project that demonstrated its Miltonic provenance beyond
reasonable doubt. But the authors do much more besides, locating
Milton's systematic theology in its broader European context,
picking open the stages and processes of its composition, and
analysing its Latinity.
1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the crisis the execution provoked in the representation of the monarchy. It looks at both sympathetic and hostile representations of Charles I, and addresses not only the period of mid-century crisis but also the earlier years of his reign and the afterlife of his royal image. It will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to historians, art historians and musicologists.
English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century, an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This introductory Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, provides individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell, together with general essays on the political, social and religious context, and the relationship of poetry to the mutations and developments of genre and tradition.
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