Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN: 9780897333542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This novel -- by the author of My Friend Flicka -- is set in the early 1900s in Brookly Heights and the fashionable Maine resort town of Kennebunkport. O'Hara brings the Wyntage family of life.
The Devil Enters by a North Window
Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN: 9780897333542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This novel -- by the author of My Friend Flicka -- is set in the early 1900s in Brookly Heights and the fashionable Maine resort town of Kennebunkport. O'Hara brings the Wyntage family of life.
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
ISBN: 9780897333542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This novel -- by the author of My Friend Flicka -- is set in the early 1900s in Brookly Heights and the fashionable Maine resort town of Kennebunkport. O'Hara brings the Wyntage family of life.
The Son of Adam Wyngate
Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher: New York : D. McKay Company
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A clergyman deals with the public and private sides of being a preacher.
Publisher: New York : D. McKay Company
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A clergyman deals with the public and private sides of being a preacher.
Novel-in-the-making
Author: Mary O'Hara
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Noctes Ambrosianæ
Author: John Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Noctes Ambrosianae
Author: John Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Indicators and Standards of Quality for the Visitor Experience at Arches National Park
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arches National Park (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arches National Park (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture
Author: John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 178042891X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book explains and celebrates the richness of English churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit.
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 178042891X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book explains and celebrates the richness of English churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit.
Telling Stories
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900449071X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900449071X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.
Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones
Author: Ken McNamara
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178914289X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils could cure illness, protect against being poisoned, ease the passage into the afterlife, ward off evil spirits, and even kill those who were just plain annoying. But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, and folklore, Ken McNamara takes us on a journey through prehistory with these curious stones, and he explores humankind’s unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178914289X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils could cure illness, protect against being poisoned, ease the passage into the afterlife, ward off evil spirits, and even kill those who were just plain annoying. But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, and folklore, Ken McNamara takes us on a journey through prehistory with these curious stones, and he explores humankind’s unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
The Symbol at Your Door
Author: Nigel Hiscock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351881361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the retrieval of meaning from architecture in the Greek East and the Latin West, and challenges the view that geometry was merely an outcome of practical procedures by masons. Instead, it attributes intellectual meaning to it as understood by Christian Platonist thought and provides compelling evidence that the symbolism was often intended. In so doing, the book serves as a companion volume to The Wise Master Builder by the same author, which found the same system implicit in plans of cathedrals and abbeys. The present book explains how the architectural symbolism proposed could have been understood at the time, as supported by medieval texts and its context, since it is context that can confer specific meaning. The introduction locates the study in its critical context and summarizes Christian Platonism as it determined the meaning of number and geometry. The investigation opens with the recurrent symbolism of the dome and the cube as heaven and earth in the Byzantine world and moves to the duality of the temple and the body in the East and West as reflections of Plato's universal macrocosm and human microcosm. The study then examines each of the figures of Platonic geometry in the architecture of the West against the background of their mathematics and metaphysics, before proceeding to their synthesis with the circle, as seen in circular and polygonal structures, the divisions of circles in Christian art, and their display in window tracery, culminating in the rose window. In view of the multivalency of the symbolism, the investigation establishes systematic occurrences of it, which strongly suggest patterns of thought underlying systems of design. The book concludes with a series of test cases, which show the after-life of the same symbolism as it overlapped with the Renaissance.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351881361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the retrieval of meaning from architecture in the Greek East and the Latin West, and challenges the view that geometry was merely an outcome of practical procedures by masons. Instead, it attributes intellectual meaning to it as understood by Christian Platonist thought and provides compelling evidence that the symbolism was often intended. In so doing, the book serves as a companion volume to The Wise Master Builder by the same author, which found the same system implicit in plans of cathedrals and abbeys. The present book explains how the architectural symbolism proposed could have been understood at the time, as supported by medieval texts and its context, since it is context that can confer specific meaning. The introduction locates the study in its critical context and summarizes Christian Platonism as it determined the meaning of number and geometry. The investigation opens with the recurrent symbolism of the dome and the cube as heaven and earth in the Byzantine world and moves to the duality of the temple and the body in the East and West as reflections of Plato's universal macrocosm and human microcosm. The study then examines each of the figures of Platonic geometry in the architecture of the West against the background of their mathematics and metaphysics, before proceeding to their synthesis with the circle, as seen in circular and polygonal structures, the divisions of circles in Christian art, and their display in window tracery, culminating in the rose window. In view of the multivalency of the symbolism, the investigation establishes systematic occurrences of it, which strongly suggest patterns of thought underlying systems of design. The book concludes with a series of test cases, which show the after-life of the same symbolism as it overlapped with the Renaissance.