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A Life for Language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield

A Life for Language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield

Robert A. Hall, Jr.

At Ohio State, Bloomfield had two colleagues who were of major importance in his later development: George Melville Bolling (1871-1963) of Classics, and Albert Paul Weiss (1879-1931), of Psychology. Bolling was a specialist in Greek,  ...
Language

Language

George Melville Bolling

By Karen Ann Daley. (Publication 125.) Arlington, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics & The University of Texas at Arlington, 1998. Pp. xii, 209. Daley's work is a valuable contribution to the small but one hopes growing tradition of studying the ...
Kleine Schriften

Kleine Schriften

Jacob Wackernagel

Zwar forderte George Melville Bolling gleich nach Wackernagels Tod ebenfalls eine vollständige Ausgabe (Language 14, 1938, p. 231), aber die Zeitumstände vereitelten zunächst alle derartigen Pläne. Als dann die Verhältnisse sich wieder  ...
Iris: A Reading List of Articles Selected from Classical ...

Iris: A Reading List of Articles Selected from Classical ...

William Robert Hennes

A. Shewan. [Nothing "supernatural about Scheria or the Phaeacians"] CP 13.301- 334; 14.97-107 842. Some teata of the relative antiquity of Romeric books. John A. Scott. CP 14.136-146 843. Abstract nouns in Romer. George Melville Bolling.
White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

John Samson

John Seelye, Melville, and Axel Carl Bredahl, Melville's Angles of Vision ( Gainesville, Fla., 1972), see Redburn learning relativism. Edgar Dryden, Melville's Thema- tics, says that Redburn gains a new level of awareness by accepting guilt.
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Robert Milder

31. Quoted in Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951), 2:605. 32. Miller 321. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Melville: A Biography ( New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996), 509; Garner, Civil War World of Herman Melville ...
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

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1 Every scholar of Melville is greatly indebted to his principal modern biographers, Hershel Parker and Laurie Robertson—Lorant, and to the editors of the Northwestern—Newberry editions of Melville's collected works, which provide standard ...
Pocahontas to Benjamin Bolling

Pocahontas to Benjamin Bolling

Oakley Dean Baldwin

So far no documents have been found that state definitely just who Benjamin’s parents were. Family folklore is that Major John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair are the parents of Benjamin, they descend from Pocahontas.
Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation ...

Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation ...

Eric Bolling

A celebration of America that is informed by Eric Bolling's personal story, Wake Up America is an urgent call to arms for America's citizens to preserve what makes us great.
Housing Development and Urban Planning: The Policies and ...

Housing Development and Urban Planning: The Policies and ...

Richard Walker Bolling

The Policies and Programs of Four Countries : Report of the Subcommittee on Urban Affairs to the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States Richard Walker Bolling, Martha Wright Griffiths, Douglas Carleton Frechtling.
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Michael Paul Rogin

See Melville, Herman Moredock, Colonel, 245-7 Morewood, Sarah, 111, 183-4, 186 Morgan, Edmund, 127 Murray, Henry, 168 Nationalism, 20, 22, 39-40, 71, 73 -4, 102-3, 106, ... See Melville, Herman Pierce, Franklin, 148, 219-20, 255 Pierre.
Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Douglas Robillard

Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels.
The Poems of Herman Melville

The Poems of Herman Melville

Herman Melville

In this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes.
Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Lauren Becker

Many scholars have broached the subject of Melville's relation to pragmatism, but in most cases, they have merely grazed it.
The Great Western Railway in the First World War

The Great Western Railway in the First World War

Sandra Gittins

Harley James Henry Harman Charles Harper John Francis Harper William Arthur Harper William T. Harpin John Harries T. Harris A. Harris B.A. Harris D. Harris Ernest Herbert Harris George Harris George Alwyn Harris Melville George Harris  ...
Melville: A Biography

Melville: A Biography

Laurie Robertson-Lorant

Drawing on more than five hundred newly discovered letters, this book immerses the reader in the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his seafaring days, to his often frustrating career as a writer.
A Companion to Melville studies

A Companion to Melville studies

John Bryant

"An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known about Melville's life, works, and culture. . . . consistently informative and frequently provocative." Choice
cases decided in the court of session teind court, &c. and ...

cases decided in the court of session teind court, &c. and ...

middleton rettie, archd. c. lawrie, j. b. l. birnie, william guthrie, george f. melville

middleton rettie, archd. c. lawrie, j. b. l. birnie, william guthrie, george f. melville. DECIDED IN THE COURT OF SESSION, TEIND COURT, &c. AND HOUSE OF LORDS. COURT of SESSION, from JULY 20, 1872, to JULY 20, 1873. HOUSE of  ...
The Cambridge History of the American Novel

The Cambridge History of the American Novel

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Hester Blum's emphasis in this volume on the fluid nature of Melville's use of the sea narrative, allowing for metaphysical and cultural as well as geographical explorations, identifies an important aspect of Melville's struggles with “issues such ...
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622

Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622

Ernest R. Holloway

11 James Doelman, King James I and the Religious Culture of England ( Cambridge, 2000), 57; James Doelman, “The Contexts of George Herbert's Musae Responsoriae,” George Herbert Journal, 2 (1992), 44. Doelman has also identified ...
Melville’s Anatomies

Melville’s Anatomies

Samuel Otter

See, for example, John Sullivan Dwight's review from the Brook Farm Harbinger and the anonymous review in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, both reprinted in Milton Stern, Critical Essays on Herman Melville's “Typee,” 22–27 and 35–37 ...
Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response

Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response

Richard Clutterbuck

They then took him back to his car and left him handcuffed to the steering wheel. They escaped with £50 000. STUART MELVILLE On 11 March 1984, Stuart Melville, manager of the American Express office in Dublin, was kidnapped from his ...
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

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2. HESTER BLUM ... royal ship, rather than his original continental one. In an attempt to assimilate to the man-of-war's crew, Israel calls himself “Peter Perkins,” maintopman, and jumps from mess (a 22 Melville and Oceanic Studies Hester Blum.
Proceedings of the Heritage Conservation-now!: Seminar and ...

Proceedings of the Heritage Conservation-now!: Seminar and ...

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... the University of Lyon in 1972 and qualified in the Examination of Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques in 1981. Paper: Conservation For What and For Whom Rodney Stuart Melville Speaker Rodney Stuart Melville is an architect.
Cruel and unusual: punishment and US culture

Cruel and unusual: punishment and US culture

Brian Jarvis

Cited in Michael Paul Rogin, Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1985), p. 265. 5. Herman Melville, White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics: ...

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