Author : Ullrich Langer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009225251
Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.
Author : Ullrich Langer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2023
Category : European literature
ISBN : 9781009225243
"From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose activate our capacities for empathy, equity, irony, and reasoning, while educating us in pleasure and helping us comprehend death. Each chapter constitutes a fresh encounter with some of the most celebrated texts of European literary history, demonstrating how the lyrical works and what it elicits in us. Through deft rhetorical and philological analysis, the study presents the value of literary studies for both ethical purposes and aesthetic ends"--
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
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Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Hugh Chisholm
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Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
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Page : 1996 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Hugh Chisholm
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Page : 2002 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Hugh Chrisholm
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Page : 2022 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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