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  • Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

    par Gavin Alexander ...
    Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for ... En savoir plus

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  • Cliffside

    par Gavin Alexander ...
    Katie Petherick is young, beautiful and successful, but not content. For three years she has been earning a good living as an upmarket live-in maternity nurse, working closely with wealthy couples and gaining their trust. It is not enough. Now it is decision time. Katie has a devious plan to make some serious cash, but there is considerable risk. She knows she is playing with fire, and she ... En savoir plus

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  • The Places of Early Modern Criticism

    What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places - in treatises, apologies, and paragoni; in prefaces, letters, and essays; in commentaries, editions, reading notes, and commonplace books; in images, sculptures, and built spaces; within or on the thresholds of works of poetry and visual art. It is situated between different ... En savoir plus

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  • Renaissance Figures of Speech

    The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a ... En savoir plus

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  • Spenser in the Moment

    Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599).The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness with the canonical Spenser, and a sense that attention especially to Spenser’s musical qualities, and the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Model of Poesy

    par William Scott ...
    The Model of Poesy is one of the most exciting literary discoveries of recent years. A manuscript treatise on poetics written by William Scott in 1599, at the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary history, it includes rich discussions of the works of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and their contemporaries. Scott's work presents a powerful and coherent theoretical account of all ... En savoir plus

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  • Writing after Sidney

    The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640

    par Gavin Alexander ...
    Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best ... En savoir plus

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    Adam Bede

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    20 heure 10 min

    Adam Bede is the first novel by English author George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novel is set in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community—in 1799. It revolves around a love "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah ... En savoir plus

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    The Mill on the Floss

    par George Eliot ...
    Lu par Wanda McCaddon ...

    Version Longue

    19 heure 38 min

    Set in nineteenth-century England, this great novel of domestic realism sympathetically portrays a young woman’s vain efforts to adapt to her provincial world.Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is intelligent and imaginative beyond the understanding of her community, her relatives, and particularly her brother, Tom. Despite their opposite ... En savoir plus

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    Daniel Deronda

    par George Eliot ...
    Lu par Eleanor Bron ...
    Collections series The Penguin English Library

    Version Abrégée

    2 heure 51 min

    Penguin Classics presents George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Eleanor Bron.'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance set beforehand. I seem to see all that can be - and I am tired and sick of it. And the world is all ... En savoir plus

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  • Gotta Love This Country!

    Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest

    A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being ... En savoir plus

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  • The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

    par T. S. Eliot ...
    The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy.While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as ... En savoir plus

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