Familiar Letters on Important Occasions
Author : Samuel Richardson
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1741
Category : England
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Author : Samuel Richardson
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1741
Category : England
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Author : Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781588111869
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
Author : Francesco Petrarca
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
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THIS TRANSLATION makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Petrarch's earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose letters. They were written for the most part between 1325 and 1366, and were organized into the present collection of twenty-four books between 1345 and 1366. THE COLLECTION represents a portrait of the artist as a young man seen through the eyes of the mature artist. Whether in the writing of poetry, or being crowned poet laureate, or in confessing his faults, describing the dissolution of the kingdom of Naples, summoning up the grandeur of ancient Rome, or in writing to pope or emperor, Petrarch was always the consummate artist, deeply concerned with creating a desired effect by means of a dignified gracefulness, and always conscious that his private life and thoughts could be the object of high art and public interest. AS EARLY AS 1436 Leonardo Bruni wrote in his Life of Petrarch: "Petrarch was the first man to have had a sufficiently fine mind to recognize the gracefulness of the lost ancient style and to bring it back to life." It was indeed the very style or manner in which Petrarch consciously sought to create the impression of continuity with the past that was responsible for the enormous impact he made on subsequent generations. THIS COMPLETE TRANSLATION by Aldo S. Bernardo has long been out of print and is reproduced here in its entirety in three volumes. Vol. 3, Books XVII-XXIV. Introduction, notes, bibliography.
Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 1790
Category : Dissenters
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Author : Mary Davys
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813147751
The Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions. Mary Davys (1674?-1732) was one of the earliest female novelists in Britain, and after the death of her husband she supported herself by writing and running a coffeehouse. Her writing sparkles, especially in its witty dialogue. Although these three short epistolary novels are framed in a clear moral universe in which virtue is rewarded and transgressions is punished, her works are not overtly religious and punishment is as likely to come from society as from providence.
Author : William Sullivan
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1834
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Author : John Hall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375103247
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Author : Jonathan Dickinson (President of New Jersey College.)
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1835
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Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 1790
Category : Dissenters, Religious
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Author : Justus Freiherr von Liebig
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1843
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