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The Miracle of Language
by LedererMaster verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.
‘A Miracle of Learning’: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan
by Dáibhí Ó CróinínThis volume celebrates the work of William O’Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland, the place of the learned and literate in that world, and its relations with Britain, Europe and America. Some of these essays clarify technical problems in the making of famous manuscripts, and bring out for the first time their indebtedness to or influence over other manuscripts. Others provide unexpected new information about the reigns of Edward I and James I, Irish provincial society, the process and progress of religious change and the links between settlements in Ireland and North American colonization.
Miracles
by C. S. LewisIn the classic Miracles, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, argues that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation.
La mirada inconformista: 40 años de periodismo, placer, revuelta y humor
by Manuel Vázquez MontalbánLa mirada inconformista ofrece una selección de los artículos más representativos de la carrera periodística del poliédrico Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Plagados de humor y crítica, los textos han sido seleccionados y prologados por Francesc Salgado. Esta antología recoge la prolífica trayectoria periodística de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, cronista lúcido e implacable de la historia reciente de España y referente intelectual de la izquierda. A cargo de Francesc Salgado, esta selección muestra la mirada inconformista y crítica que mantuvo a lo largo de cuatro décadas de trabajo en la prensa, siempre en defensa de la racionalidad, la justicia y la memoria. La sagacidad y la capacidad de renovar el lenguaje caracterizaron a un intelectual que fue testigo excepcional de la segunda mitad del siglo XX sin renunciar nunca al sentido del humor. Profundizó en los cambios geopolíticos y enla lucha global por las ideas contra el neoliberalismo para cumplir con uno de los deberes esenciales del periodismo: ponernos ante nuestros fantasmas, incluso los que llevamos dentro. Este volumen permite ver cómo una de las plumas más agudas del periodismo español divisó hace tiempo las señales de humo de los incendios que arden hoy. Pervive en estos textos el periodista que tanto echamos en falta, así como el pionero de la novela negra, el gourmet, el poeta y el culé racional y doliente. «No hay verdades únicas, ni luchas finales, pero aún es posible orientarnos mediante las verdades posibles contra las no verdades evidentes y luchar contra ellas.» Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Reseñas:«Era un grande de este oficio.»Juan Cruz «Para el lector es una fiesta.»Sergi Pàmies «Me enseñó que en el columnismo, en la literatura y en la vida, las preguntas son mucho más importantes que las respuestas.»AlmudenaGrandes «En el artículo largo o corto, analítico o esperpéntico, Vázquez Montalbán es siempre el citado hombre de letras que acerca la cultura a la calle y la malicia política a la vida pública.»Francisco Umbral «Era un escritor total que empalmaba la acción con la didáctica y ésta con la escritura y todas amamantándose de la ética y de viejas lealtades de las que él no podía prescindir porque le producía demasiado asco la insoportable pervivencia de los infames y no quería proporcionarles munición extra.»Maruja Torres «Sus artículos son a menudo extraordinarios ejercicios de estilo, así mantienen toda su vigencia y continúan siendo puntos de referencia.»Vicenç Villatoro «Asombra leer hoy los artículos que Manolo publicó hace medio siglo porque están más vivos y tienen más frescura que tantos que padecemos hoy.»Luis Lagorri
La mirada quieta: (de Pérez Galdós)
by Mario Vargas LlosaBENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS POR MARIO VARGAS LLOSA El autor de los Episodios Nacionales, su obra y su tiempo a través de los ojos del Premio Nobel de Literatura «¿Fue un gran escritor? Lo fue. En el siglo xix y comienzos del xx, no hay ninguno de sus compatriotas que tenga semejante dedicación, inventiva, empeño y la soltura literaria de Pérez Galdós». Benito Pérez Galdós es un autor esencial en la literatura española contemporánea. En este ensayo, a partir del análisis de sus novelas, de sus obras teatrales y de los Episodios nacionales, Mario Vargas Llosa crea un perfil completo, personal y sugerente del escritor español. Nadie como el Nobel peruano es capaz de leer de manera tan sagaz y con tanta libertad y pasión la obra de un creador. Como el propio autor afirma en la introducción a La mirada quieta, «Galdós hizo lo que Balzac, Dickens y Zola hicieron en sus respectivas naciones: contar la historia y la realidad social de su país. Con sus Episodios estuvo en la línea de aquéllos, convirtiendo en materia literaria el pasado vivido, poniendo al alcance del gran público una versión quieta pero amena, bien escrita, con personajes vivos y documentación solvente, de un siglo decisivo en la historia española». La crítica ha dicho:«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado forma a nuestra imagen de Sudamérica y tiene su propio capítulo en la historia de la literatura contemporánea. En sus primeros años, fue un renovador de la novela, hoy, un poeta épico.»Per Wästberg, presidente del Comité Nobel «Entre nuestros contemporáneos, nadie mejor que el Premio Nobel de 2010 ha sido capaz de seducir amablemente a una gran masa de lectores contándoles historias llenas de sentido con una prosa tan bella como eficaz. Y con un dominio de las estrategias narrativas que la evolución de la literatura del siglo XX instrumentó para superar la manera de hacer novela en el siglo anterior.»Darío Villanueva «Sus libros contienen la más compleja, apasionada y persuasiva visión de la novela y del oficio de novelista de la que tengo noticia; también contienen el mejor estímulo que un novelista puede encontrar para escribir, un estímulo solo inferior al que contienen las propias novelas de Vargas Llosa.»Javier Cercas, El País
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film
by Barbara AlfanoThe Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works - and the intellectuals who created them - confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As Alfano demonstrates, this myth is an integral part of Italians' discourse to define themselves culturally - in essence, Italian intellectuals talk about America often for the purpose of talking about Italy.The book draws attention to the importance of Italian literature and film as explorations of an individual's ethics, and to how these productions allow for functioning across cultures. It thus differentiates itself from other studies on the subject that aim at establishing the relevance and influence of American culture on Italian twentieth-century artistic representations.
Mirage Of Power Pt1 V3
by Lowe & DockrillPublished in 2001, Mirage Of Power Pt1 V3 is a valuable contribution to the field of History.
Mirage Of Power Pt2 V4 (Foreign Policies Of The Great Powers Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Lowe and DockrilFirst Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mirage Of Power Pt3 V5 (Foreign Policies Of The Great Powers Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Lowe and DockrillFirst Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic
by Christopher PrendergastMarcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was prey to self-doubt and found numerous, if indirect, ways of letting us know. Prendergast traces in detail the locations and forms of a quietly nondogmatic yet insistently skeptical voice that questions the redemptive aesthetic the novel is so often taken to celebrate, bringing the reader to wonder whether that aesthetic is but another instance of the mirage or the mad belief that, in other guises, figures prominently in In Search of Lost Time. In tracing the modalities of this self-pressuring voice, Prendergast ranges far and wide, across a multiplicity of ideas, themes, sources, and stylistic registers in Proust's literary thought and writing practice, attentive at every point to inflections of detail, in a sustained account of Proust the skeptic for the contemporary reader.
Miramientos
by Javier MaríasJavier Marías realiza retratos breves de sus escritores preferidos en lengua española. El origen de Miramientos se encuentra en el Apéndice «Artistas perfectos», que cierra el libro Vidas escritas. En él, Javier Marías comentaba los retratos fotográficos de treinta y siete autores, todos extranjeros y todos muertos. La exclusión de autores en español, llevó al autor a escribir para la revista Campus Cervantes el comentario a los retratos de Valle-Inclán, Borges, Aleixandre, Benet, Bioy Casares, García Lorca, Victoria Ocampo, Fernando Savater, Cabrera Infante, Neruda, Mendoza, Martínez Sarrión, Cernuda y Quiroga, y a recogerlos, junto a otros retratos, en este volumen que completa con un «Autorretrato farsante» dedicado a sí mismo, una tentación que, como el propio Javier Marías reconoce, no pudo evitar, pero a la que intentó enfrentarse con el mismo «miramiento». Reseña:«Breve, muy bien escrito, elegante con inteligencia y pasión.»Carlos Pujol, ABC
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
by M. H. AbramsThis highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.
Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene
by Michael O'ConnellSpenser not only dedicated The FAerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth but asserted that his romantic epic was in some sense about her rule and her realm. The informed attention that O'Connell gives to the relationship between Spenser's reflections on contemporary history and his moral design makes this volume a convincing reading of the great poem. The author shows how Spenser used Vergil as his model in celebrating and judging his own age.Originally published in 1977.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Mirror and Windows: Connecting with Literature
by Brenda OwensMirrors & Windows - Connecting with Literature - Grade 10
The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays
by Garrett HongoA volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. The Mirror Diary tracks the emergence of an original poetic voice and a learned consciousness amid multiple and sometimes competing influences of complex literary traditions and regional and ethnic histories. Beginning with a literary inquiry into the history of Japanese Americans in Hawai`i and California, Garrett Hongo draws on his own history to consider the mosaic of American identities—personal, cultural, and poetic—in the context of a postmodern diaspora. Hongo’s essays attest to the breadth of what he considers his cultural inheritance and literary antecedents, ranging from the poets of China’s T’ang Dynasty to American poets such as Walt Whitman and Charles Olson. He explains free-verse prosody by way of John Coltrane’s jazz; praises his contemporaries, poets David Mura, Edward Hirsch, and Mark Jarman; and acknowledges his mentors, Bert Meyers and Charles Wright. In other pieces he engages with controversies and contestations in contemporary Asian American literature, confronts the politics of race and the legacy of Japanese American internment during World War II, offers paeans to the Hawaiian landscape, and addresses immigrants newly arrived in America with a warm welcome. The Mirror Diary is the work of a poet fully engaged with contemporary politics and poetics and committed to the study and celebration of diverse traditions.
A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
by Morris DicksteinIn a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy representation of history and society.In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, Günter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel García Márquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Writers refract the world through their forms and sensibilities. He shows how the work of these writers recaptures--yet also transforms--the life around them, the world inside them, and the universe of language and feeling they share with their readers.Through lively and incisive essays directed to general readers as well as students of literature, Dickstein redefines the literary landscape--a landscape in which reading has for decades been devalued by society and distorted by theory. Having begun with a reconsideration of realism, the book concludes with several essays probing the strengths and limitations of a historical approach to literature and criticism.
Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Share
by Jane Yolen Heidi E. Y. StempleJane Yolen and Heidi Stemple have selected forty folk and fairy stories from all over the world that pay tribute to mothers (good and bad) and their relations (for better or worse) with their daughters.
The Mirror of Confusion: The Representation of French History in English Renaissance Drama (Garland Studies in the Renaissance #6)
by Andrew M. KirkFirst published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England
by James Dougal FlemingThis book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J. D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information--what has been called the infosphere.
Mirror of Minds: Psychological Beliefs in English Poetry
by Geoffrey BulloughThe aim of the author, who has long been interested in the history of ideas, has been to give some illustrations of the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with the body, the connections between sense, passions, and reason, the problem of soul and its possible survival after death. The subject matter is important, for many of the more self-conscious writers have been profoundly affected by their assumptions about the senses and passions, the reason and the imagination.The author traces four main historical phases in each of which different aspects and potentialities of the mind have been stressed. Chapter I discusses the microcosmic conception of man inherited from the Middle Ages and traces its influence in some allegorical and didactic verse, lyric and epic. Chapter II considers the development of Shakespeare's attitude to the mind and human character. Chapter III turns to some effects (between Dryden and Wordsworth) of the seventeenth-century revolution in philosophy and science, including the search for clarity and order, the Augustan interest in reason and the passions, and the rise of the association of psychology. Chapter IV shows how the Romantic poets made use of associations and intuitions, and discusses the Victorian poets' hopes and fears about immortality in relation to the advance of science. The last chapter traces the influence of the philosophy of the "moment" from the aesthetes to T.S. Eliot, and distinguishes the effects of some twentieth-century psychologies in modern poetry.Poets, of course, have rarely been systematic philosophers or psychologists; they have usually picked out and applied imaginatively only a few notions from contemporary thought. Consequently this study does not attempt to set the history of English poetry squarely against the history of philosophy. Rather, characteristic topics and writers have been selected and the discussion of them will be seen to throw light on some major imaginative preoccupations of each age. The student of English poetry and the history of ideas will find valuable comments on the major writers from Chaucer and Spenser down through Shakespeare and Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and on a variety of modern poets such as Bridges, Eliot, Sitwell, Auden, and Graces.Alexander Lecture Series.
The Mirror of the Medieval: An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination (Making Sense of History #29)
by K. Patrick FazioliSince its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the "Middle Ages" has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects-from nationalism to the discipline of anthropology-have appropriated the Middle Ages for their own ends. Deploying an interdisciplinary toolkit, author K. Patrick Fazioli grounds his analysis in contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps, while also considering the broader implications for scholarly research and public memory.
The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
by Shadi BartschPeople in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self. Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato’s Greece to Seneca’s Rome. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher’s body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Culminating in a profoundly original reading of Medea, The Mirror of the Self illustrates how Seneca, in his Stoic quest for self-knowledge, embodies the Roman view, marking a new point in human thought about self-perception. Bartsch leads readers on a journey that unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics—and offers fresh insights about seminal works. At once sexy and philosophical, The Mirror of the Self will be required reading for classicists, philosophers, and anthropologists alike.
Mirror on America: Essays and Images from Popular Culture
by Joan T. Mims Elizabeth M. NollenMirror on America meets students where they are right now. Whether they have lived in America all their lives or have only just arrived, they can consider themselves experts in pop culture. After all, they participate in it every day. Brief, current essays and images on topics like hip-hop, our online lives, and, of course, vampires and zombies spark discussion and critical thinking. And because critical thinking should lead to solid writing, the book’s editorial apparatus gives students clear instruction and support for every step of the reading and writing process. Always engaging and always accessible, Mirror on America reflects the interests of students and the instructors who want them to become confident writers.
Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard
by Jack Cooper GrayGeorge Hibbard has always endorsed T.S. Eliot's idea that 'we must know all of Shakespeare's work in order to know any of it,' and this idea, implicit in the first essay in this volume, informs the whole collection, written in honour of one of Canada's leading Shakespearian editors and scholars. The two essays which begin the collection present broad overviews of Elizabethan drama and discuss Shakespeare's first great editor, Theobald. Together with the final essay – on publication and performance in early Stuart drama – these form the frame of the mirror held up to Shakespeare in the other eighteen essays, whether they of general themes running through some or all of Shakespeare's plays or the plays his contemporaries, or whether they treat of specific plays. There is an especially rich concentration on Macbeth and Coriolanus.