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The Greenblatt Reader
Stephen GreenblattTaken together, the texts collected here dispel the idea that new historicism is antithetical to literary and aesthetic value. Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism.
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding ...
Joel GreenblattFund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too.
Stephen Greenblatt
Mark RobsonStephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices.
Hamlet in Purgatory
Stephen GreenblattThus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt.
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
Stephen GreenblattStephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang.
Shakespeare's Freedom
Stephen GreenblattWith the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Greenblatt, author of the bestselling "Will in the World," shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes as scripture, monarch, and God, and constantly probed the ...
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
Sir Philip SidneySir Philip Sidney. In 1583 Sidney was knighted, and soon afterwards in the same year he married Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Sonnets written by him according to old fashion, and addressed to a lady in accordance with a ...
Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark
Sidney SheldonOnce again, author Tilly Bagshawe takes up the mantle of the late, great Sidney Sheldon—and again, she succeeds magnificently.
Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip ...
Gavin AlexanderIts last line plays with myths about Sidney's desire to burn the Arcadia (reported both by Greville and by Elizabeth Sidney's own mother, according to one epigrammatist)81 and the sense of the Arcadia as imperfect, as in need of mending or ...
Values Clarification
Dr. Sidney B. SimonDr. Sidney B. Simon, Leland W Howe, Howard Kirschenbaum ... in all aspects of your life, from picking a partner to buying a house. created by Dr. Sidney Simon, coauthor of the bestselling Getting Unstuck, and two other leading professionals, ...
The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern ...
Preview118. 33 Michael Brennan, 'The Queen's Proposed Visit to Wilton House in 1599 and the “Sidney Psalms”', Sidney Journal, 20 (2002), 27–54. 34 Sidney, Defence of Poesy, p. 6. 35 Beth Quitslund, 'Teaching Us How to Sing?: The Peculiarity of ...
Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory
Sidney SheldonAn addictive, edge-of-your-seat thriller filled with the hallmark elements that made New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon—"the master of the story-telling game" (People)—an international legend: shocking twists, money, power ...
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
Philip SidneyA fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence.
Sir Philip Sidney and Arcadia
Joan ReesThis book rejects the Calvinist and deconstructionist interpretations of Sidney and argues instead for a man of humane and generous sympathies who thought deeply about human experience and the art and function of writing.
Dazzling Images: The Masks of Sir Philip Sidney
Alan HagerA discussion of Philip Sidney as a creator of fictions, a critic, and a poet, who adopted a variety of personae to teach his readers how they could fool themselves into forgetting who they were, both in the context of the psychic inner ...
Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation
Michael Mack... of Literary Criticism: The Renaissance, ed. Glyn P. Norton (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, ), – ; and Travis Curtright, “Sidney's Defense of Poetry: Ethos and the Ideas,” Ben Jonson Journal ( ): .
The problem with Sidney
Carolyn MeyerHotline volunteer Kurt Lundquist's telephone relationship with a caller, Sidney, leads to personal involvement and heartbreak when he feels compelled to save her from making a drastic mistake and discovers the limitations of the hotline.
Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry
Sir Philip SidneyAn anthology grounded in the historic and aesthetic context of a crucial figure in 16th-century English literature
The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen
Sidney PlotkinIn this book, Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman argue that in addition to his well-known work in these fields Veblen also made important--and until now overlooked--statements about politics.
Sidney Newsletter
More editions... Burchmore (see abstracts following), will have as its commentator Professor Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College. In Session 57 at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, May 6th, Professor R.J. P. Kuin, York University, will preside over the session on Sidney ...
Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography
Sidney I. LandauThis second edition of Sidney I. Landau's landmark work offers a comprehensive and completely up-to-date description of how dictionaries are researched and written, with particular attention to the ways in which computer technology has ...
Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition
Sidney I. DobrinToward Ecocomposition Sidney I. Dobrin, Christian R. Weisser. Cooper, Marilyn, and Michael Holzman. Writingas SocialAction. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1989. Crockett, Harry. “What is Ecocriticism?
Algernon Sidney Crapsey: The Last of the Heretics
Dr. Stephen T. NeeseIt had not been my intention from the beginning to resurrect the spirit of Algernon Sidney Crapsey. I merely sought to document the details of his life and provide perspective on his famous trial for heresy in 1906. I hoped to deal with how it ...
Philip Sidney: A Double Life
Alan StewartAgainst a backdrop of Elizabethan intrigue and the battle between Protestant and Catholic for predominance in Europe, Alan Stewart tells the riveting story of Philip Sidney's struggle to suceed.
An History of the Origin and Establishment of Gothic ...
John Sidney Hawkins... of the Principles and Proportions of that Style of Architecture Called the Gothic; and an Inquiry Into the Mode of Painting Upon and Staining Glass, as Practised in the Ecclesiastical Structures of the Middle Ages John Sidney Hawkins.
The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney: For the First Time ...
Philip SidneyFor the First Time Collected and Collated with the Original and Early Editions and MSS. and in the Quarto Form a Hitherto ... might suffer from the Nash edition being printed from a transcript of the Sonnets in their earlier and less revised form .
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