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of social, economic and intellectual developments. ... This book considers recipe collections from 1573 to the late eighteenth century, tracing the changes that occurred in the light of social, economic and intellectual developments.

at Cambridge. Toggle mobile menu. Toggle search field. Search for:. Category: American Literature Research Seminars. AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH SEMINAR. INSIDE THE DARK HOUSE: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! & the writing of  trauma. Richard

day that drove him to coopt the liminal mode, whether as an act of self-protection or, Faust seems more likely to believe, in order to fashion an object lesson for

the ‘lessons in subtle persuasion and ethical appeal’ that Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights could have learned from the Arcadia’s characters (vii-viii).

She also hints that Greville’s self-declared ‘purpose’ in his dramas—namely, to provide lessons from the past in order to help others avoid such mistakes in the future—may

There is a growing recognition of the value of looking at provenance evidence in early books — the lessons about the social impact of books which can be learnt by looking at

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. 11 February, 5pm, History Faculty Room 12. ... It aims to explore the social, economic and spatial factors underpinning the changing way ordinary men demonstrated their commitment to God and the church(es)

Giovanni Botero and English political thought’. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. ... Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. Thursday, 16th February, 5 PM, Room 9 of the History Faculty.

Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945, and Susan Stewart’s The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

But encountering ballads on the page highlights any poetic shortcomings, such as awkward and repetitive diction and rhymes, predictable plots or shaky narrative logic, and simplistic moral lessons.

This wasn’t hard to understand. So in that previous post I described one lesson I learned: that isolating features of a literary text as experimental variables is an interesting thing ... And in this one, the second lesson is that even if an

The magic word seems to be “contextualization.” The collection of articles edited by Stephen Hamrick presents Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes in its publication context, but also in its ideological, economic ... Instead, she insists on taking them

Carannog and the Dragon Beowulf the Warrior King […]. Laura Davies’ project ‘A Good Death’ has received £1000 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a collaborative public event with the

Both Arthur and Guyon blush to acknowledge the lessons that their soul-mates teach them, but it is Guyon, the central figure in Book Two, for whom the blush is most

The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics.

My analysis of the legal material aims to contextualize it within social, economic and historical circumstances, and also within its immediate material circumstance: the manuscript. ... My current research spans the early modern and the contemporary

artfulness? As Spenser studies is not Hui’s only intended audience, these questions naturally remain open-ended, yet the monograph bookends its efforts with a useful object lesson for Spenserians.

Historiography panel: Space, Geography and Memory’. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. ... Thursday 10 March. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar. 5pm, History Faculty, Room 12.

The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics.

cultural relations in the Caribbean, entitled 'Developing New Worlds: Property, Freedom, and the Economics of Representation in Early Modern England and the Caribbean.' 1) On Tues 23rd Feb at the Renaissance

His most recent book, Ocean, appeared in 2020 in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series.

They have often assumed that their work should 'speak back' to regimes of socio-economic privilege - regimes which are usually conflated with the regulatory systems of literary convention and genre.

Carannog and the Dragon Beowulf the Warrior King […]. Laura Davies’ project ‘A Good Death’ has received £1000 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a collaborative public event with the

of the human for polemical, economic, or experimental purposes, rendering the category productively ambiguous and malleable.

Curing Things. Tuesday, 20 Nov 2012. Simon Chaplin (Wellcome Library) and Christelle Rabier (London School of Economics).

01/12/15. G-R06/07. On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World. ... between drama and economy, drama and law: how did legal, social and economic practices of the time condition Renaissance drama?

It will do so by examining bibliography and circuits of communication, investigating the link between economic and intellectual trends, and tracing connections between transformations in media and changing perceptions of selfhood. ... the diverse

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intellectual center against the backdrop of broader socio-economic, cultural and political developments.

But both texts can easily be labelled strange or limited responses to their literary moment, and we must hear their strangenesses in concert with their lessons: here is literary criticism on

The ultimate lesson of the chapter is well taken though: early modern vets were men of both theoretical learning and practical application – they did their very best and should be regarded

Brycchan Carey (University of Northumberland). 2018. 26th April: ‘Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s Lessons: The Conversational Primer in Eighte enth-Century Britain’, Jessica Lim (University of Cambridge).

mode and reveals that not all generically or structurally conceived ‘falls’ have useful moral lessons.

and fierce resistance against economic and racial exploitation; of Black Music, which introduced and popularized for a whole generation the free jazz of such musicians as John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Albert

September 19th, 2014An early reader of a 1570 Euclid — possibly Sir Thomas Tresham — learns the hard lesson that neither number nor magnitude have any materiality.

Barrels, lutes, harps, maps, desks, and military equipment all carry their own lessons about Spenser’s involvement in English and Irish literature and history, and Herron’s prose is both accessible

For Little, pastoral’s independence from the socio-economic concerns requires a rewriting (in wholly positive terms) of the anxieties that fill contemporaneous anti-enclosure treatises. ... Book 6 of The Faerie Queene, one that is linked to the

Every Phonetic Institute publication advertised that ‘Any Person may receive lessons from the Author by post gratuitously. ... Each lesson must be enclosed in a paid letter. The pupil can write about a dozen verses from the Bible, leaving spaces

of Rory Oge’s ghost as he warns readers not to follow his path and rebel against an anointed queen, a lesson he wishes he had heeded in life rather than

lessons from this text, or even, really, to specify where this text begins and ends.

University Press, 2007), and Susan Stewart, The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)).

After telling his mother that he was required to be strict with the children in lessons, he wrote to her about the weather and the view: 'It’s not quite raining,

The Scholemaster’s Memories’ tries to tease out this dynamic transmutation between teachers and lessons, people and books, at the heart of humanist biography, situating Ascham’s manual in the tradition

Property, Freedom, and the Economics of Representation in Early Modern England and the Caribbean.' 1) On Tues 23rd Feb at the Renaissance research workshop, Dr Forman will be talking informally about

Good use is made of The Faerie Queene Book V, where Britomart’s defeat of Radigund underlines the lesson that rightful women rulers are heaven-ordained exceptions.Similar reservations are implied

It seems to me that the lessons learned from Ruth Ahnert's work can serve as inspiration for contemporary discussions about prison reform and improving conditions for prisoners.

The Scholemaster’s Memories’ tries to tease out this dynamic transmutation between teachers and lessons, people and books, at the heart of humanist biography, situating Ascham’s manual in the tradition

237). His fragility of body and his poorly-trained mind render him incapable of adapting to the ever-changing economic climate and the 'continual flux' of the novel. ... The moral asymmetry between Henry and Leonard only serves to highlight the economic

As an experiment in artistic creation, the project is brilliant. Scholars and students can learn valuable lessons about material affordances of ink, gouge, boxwood, lead type, and deckle-and-mold best

What effect has the recession, falling real and disposable incomes and economic uncertainty about the future had upon people’s book-buying habits? ... Which socio-economic groups buy Kindles the most? How many printed books does the Kindle buyer