Author: E. H. McCormick
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775580156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Absurd Ambition
Author: E. H. McCormick
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775580156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775580156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
An Absurd Ambition
Author: Eric Hall McCormick
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Ambition
Author: Eckart Goebel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501383868
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501383868
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.
Works
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Armorel of Lyonesse
Author: Walter Besant
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Everybody's Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Pages : 1084
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A Strange Story
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Category : Haunted houses
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Category : Haunted houses
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Armorel of Lyonesse
Author: Sir Walter Besant
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Pages : 450
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Out of Eden
Author: Dora Russell
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Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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