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Author : B.S. Nayler
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : B.S. Nayler
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Benjamin Suggitt Nayler
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Page : 411 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : sir John Scott Keltie
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Paul Robert Lieder
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780666984692
Excerpt from British Drama: Ten Plays From the Middle of the Fourteenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth This collection of plays has been prepared as a companion volume to the editors' British Poetry and Prose. In that anthology they deliberately excluded plays, be lieving that the development of British drama could not be illustrated even sketchily by a few examples, and that the inclusion of selected scenes was at best only a make shift. The plays here presented have been carefully chosen to provide the student in a survey course, or in a course in types, with an adequate introduction to the history of British drama. Supplemented by the plays of Shakespeare that are ordinarily read in an introductory course, this collection will supply the student with worthy and interesting specimens of the chief types of British drama chosen from the most out standing periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816612439
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In his foreword to this reprint of Erich Auerbach's major essays, Paolo Valesio pays tribute to the author with an old saying that he feels is still the best metaphor for the genesis of a literary critic: the critic is born of the marriage of Mercury and Philology. The German-born Auerbach was a scholar who specialized in Romance philology, a tradition rooted in German historicism—the conviction that works of art must be judged as products of variable places and times, not from the eye of eternity, nor by a single unchanging aesthetic standard. The mercurial element in Auerbach's work is significant, for in a life of motion—of exile from Hitler's Germany—he came to believe that literary history was evolutionary, ever-changing—a view reflected in the title of his book, which suggests life and literature are historical drama. Auerbach is best known for his magisterial study Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written during the war, in Istanbul, when he was far from his own culture and from the books that he normally relied on. In 1957, just before his death, he arranged for the publication in English of his six most important essays, in a volume called Scenes from the Drama of European Literature.As in Mimesis,Auerbach's fresh insights bring to the disparate subjects of the essays a coherence that reflects the unity of Western, humanistic tradition, even while they hint at the deepening pessimism of his later years. In the first essay, "Figura," Auerbach develops his concept of the figural interpretation of reality; applied here to Dante's Divine Comedy,it also served as groundwork for his treatment of realism in Mimesis. A second essay on Dante's examines the poet's depiction of St. Francis of Assisi. The next three essays deal with the paradoxical nature of Pascal's political thought; the merging of la cour and la ville—the king's entourage and the bourgeoisie—chiefly in relation to the seventeenth-century French theater; and Vico's formulation concepts by the German Romantics. In the final essay Auerbach confers upon Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal the designation "aesthetic dignity" because, not in spite of, the hideous reality of the peoms. "A major collection of important essays on European literature, almost all classics, and almost all required reading for their various centuries—thus the book is indispensable for the medieval period,the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries; in addition, the 'Figura' and the Vico essays are very significant theoretical statements. The book is lucid and far more accessible for undergraduates than, say, current high theory. Nor has Auerbach's own work aged . . . All of his varied strengths are evidence in this collection, which is a better way into his work than Mimesis." –Fredric Jameson, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Author : Paul Robert Lieder
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1929
Category : English drama
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Author : Birmingham Free Libraries. Reference Department
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Page : 1638 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Christopher Marlowe
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : David Swinney
Publisher : Hodder Gibson
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1510419527
Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: Summer 2018 This book contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your National 5 exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from a top expert on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best chance of success. - Refresh your knowledge with complete course notes - Prepare for the exam with top tips and hints on revision technique - Get your best grade with advice on how to gain those vital extra marks