Author: Tee Lin Say
Publisher: Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN: 9671520928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Faces of Fortune 2
Author: Tee Lin Say
Publisher: Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN: 9671520928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Publisher: Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN: 9671520928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Fortune's Faces
Author: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801881552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces, Daniel Heller-Roazen calls into question these assessments, offering a new and compelling interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed and far-reaching exploration of the place of fortune, chance, and contingency in literary writing. Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the thirteenth-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provençal, French, and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their "verses of pure nothing"in a language Dante defined as "without grammar," and that of Aristotle's discussion of "future contingents" as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology, and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas.Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, Fortune's Faces charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory, and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent. Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801881552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces, Daniel Heller-Roazen calls into question these assessments, offering a new and compelling interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed and far-reaching exploration of the place of fortune, chance, and contingency in literary writing. Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the thirteenth-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provençal, French, and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their "verses of pure nothing"in a language Dante defined as "without grammar," and that of Aristotle's discussion of "future contingents" as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology, and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas.Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, Fortune's Faces charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory, and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent. Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.
Fortune's Wheel
Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
My Face is My Fortune
Author: Francis Charles Philips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Fortune Telling by Cards
Author: Margot Lemyne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Type Specimens
Author: Dori Griffin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350116610
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Type Specimens introduces readers to the history of typography and printing through a chronological visual tour of the books, posters, and ephemera designed to sell fonts to printers, publishers, and eventually graphic designers. This richly illustrated book guides design educators, advanced design students, design practitioners, and type aficionados through four centuries of visual and trade history, equipping them to contextualize the aesthetics and production of type in a way that is practical, engaging, and relevant to their practice. Fully illustrated throughout with 200 color images of type specimens and related ephemera, the book illuminates the broader history of typography and printing, showing how letterforms and their technologies have evolved over time, inspiring and guiding designers of today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350116610
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Type Specimens introduces readers to the history of typography and printing through a chronological visual tour of the books, posters, and ephemera designed to sell fonts to printers, publishers, and eventually graphic designers. This richly illustrated book guides design educators, advanced design students, design practitioners, and type aficionados through four centuries of visual and trade history, equipping them to contextualize the aesthetics and production of type in a way that is practical, engaging, and relevant to their practice. Fully illustrated throughout with 200 color images of type specimens and related ephemera, the book illuminates the broader history of typography and printing, showing how letterforms and their technologies have evolved over time, inspiring and guiding designers of today.
The Theodora Duology: Fortune's Child; Too Soon the Night (The Complete Story of Empress Theodora) (Box set)
Author: James Conroyd Martin
Publisher: Hussar Quill Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the sixth-century Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography? Fortune's Child is "a meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama." Kirkus Reviews OVERALL GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards "I felt like I was there." ~Lisa Wingate, bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Too Soon the Night is "a gorgeous tapestry of impeccable research and intricate world-building. A must-have for any fan of ancient-world historical fiction." ~Kate Quinn, bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye "Readers will be enchanted with the inimitableTheodora in this elegant second novel." Eileen Stephenson, bestselling author of Tales of Byzantium Chaucer Grand Prize Winner, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Winner of an IPPI Bronze Medal
Publisher: Hussar Quill Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the sixth-century Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard's apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography? Fortune's Child is "a meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama." Kirkus Reviews OVERALL GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards "I felt like I was there." ~Lisa Wingate, bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Too Soon the Night is "a gorgeous tapestry of impeccable research and intricate world-building. A must-have for any fan of ancient-world historical fiction." ~Kate Quinn, bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye "Readers will be enchanted with the inimitableTheodora in this elegant second novel." Eileen Stephenson, bestselling author of Tales of Byzantium Chaucer Grand Prize Winner, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Winner of an IPPI Bronze Medal
Fortune's Bastard
Author: Robert Chalmers
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802141609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
After a series of disastrous events leaves his life in ruins, a tabloid newspaper editor winds up in a small-town in Florida, which is populated by ex-circus freaks, criminals and misfits who teach him how to love, and how to stand up for something he truly believes in.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802141609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
After a series of disastrous events leaves his life in ruins, a tabloid newspaper editor winds up in a small-town in Florida, which is populated by ex-circus freaks, criminals and misfits who teach him how to love, and how to stand up for something he truly believes in.
Fortune’s Fountain
Author: Gabriella Bradley
Publisher: eXtasy Books
ISBN: 1487441401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Silver Viper comes across a small, badly damaged vessel with one life sign. Captain Amber Raine brings the small spaceship aboard The Silver Viper to rescue the single occupant. Kael Yarrow was on his way into a dangerous nebula to seek a fabled treasure when he was attacked by space pirates and left for dead… Until The Silver Viper comes to his aid.
Publisher: eXtasy Books
ISBN: 1487441401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Silver Viper comes across a small, badly damaged vessel with one life sign. Captain Amber Raine brings the small spaceship aboard The Silver Viper to rescue the single occupant. Kael Yarrow was on his way into a dangerous nebula to seek a fabled treasure when he was attacked by space pirates and left for dead… Until The Silver Viper comes to his aid.
Fortune's Blight
Author: Evie Manieri
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765332353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
King Daryan struggles to maintain stability in his kingdom, while his comrades go home to fight for Shadar independence and the key to peace in Norland may lie with an elderly prisoner in Ravindal castle.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765332353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
King Daryan struggles to maintain stability in his kingdom, while his comrades go home to fight for Shadar independence and the key to peace in Norland may lie with an elderly prisoner in Ravindal castle.