Author: Charles Vince (of Birmingham.)
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Selina DAVENPORT
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Kenneth B. Newell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443828017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Because of the triumph of postmodern studies, explication of classic poems by great dead white male English poets of preceding centuries has greatly declined in the last several decades, even though many of the poems may still be puzzling to interested readers, young and old. This book is addressed to both audiences in the hope that new explications of twelve classic poems (or sections of these poems) by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hardy, Yeats, and Auden may help sustain interest in the poems. Although the explication procedure is now unpopular in theory and held to be as subjective as interpretation, the procedure is based on the experience that, if a puzzling poem is reasoned with, it can often be found to make sense on a basic level of understanding—a sense perhaps complex, ambiguous, or ambivalent but not self-contradictory. In essence, then, this is a book of poetry explications having esthetic aims but written in an era of unesthetic political and cultural studies. The term conservative in the title refers to explicatory rather than political conservatism as well as to critical and literary conservation—i.e., to conserving the practice of explication whether upon literary works old or new, and so also conserving esthetic interest in the old works themselves. The book also attempts to show that new conservative explications are still possible and can be still useful—even in the postmodern era and even on classic poems already much explicated—and that therefore explication still has much to do in the work of literary studies in the postmodern era.

Author: Eilert Ekwall
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1676

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Author: Peter Stanford
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1529396441
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed. In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other. 'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday

Author: Scott Taylor
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0985332840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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With a world still recovering from a global war, the Samaya have prevailed and hunt the last remnants of magically adept Enlightened to extinction. Petty kingdoms, dictators, and bandit lords rise from the ashes and huge dead-zones are the new frontier for the rekindled and expanding populace. This is the Gun Kingdoms, a time of six-shooters, forbidden magic, and relics that remain from a forgotten age of war.

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Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: David Holdeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113945787X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments, his obsession with Ireland, and the modern era's loss of faith in traditional beliefs about art, religion, empire, social class, gender and sex. His works uniquely reflect the gradual transition from Victorian aestheticism to the modernism of Pound, Eliot and Joyce. This is the first introductory study to consider his work in all genres in light of the latest biographies, new editions of his letters and manuscripts, and recent accounts by feminist and postcolonial critics. While using this introduction, students will have instant access to the world of current Yeats scholarship as well as being provided with the essential facts about his life and literary career and suggestions for further reading.

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Publisher: Norman Imbong
ISBN: 1465934626
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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