Science fiction and fantasy reference index, 1992-1995: an by Hal W. Hall

By Hal W. Hall

This formidable paintings offers single-point, unified entry to a few of the main major books, articles, and information stories within the technological know-how fiction, myth, and horror genres. Entries are prepared in sections-author (subarranged by way of name) and subject-and can have as much as 50 topic phrases assigned. No different reference software addresses the secondary literature of this fast-growing and dynamic box with such in-depth topic insurance as this paintings, nor techniques its breadth of insurance. aimed toward educational libraries, huge public libraries, a few tuition and medium-sized public libraries, and person students, this index supplementations technological know-how Fiction and myth Reference Index: 1985-1991 (Libraries limitless, 1993) and technological know-how Fiction and myth Reference Index: 1878-1984 (Gale study, 1987).

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By Hal W. Hall

This formidable paintings offers single-point, unified entry to a few of the main major books, articles, and information stories within the technological know-how fiction, myth, and horror genres. Entries are prepared in sections-author (subarranged by way of name) and subject-and can have as much as 50 topic phrases assigned. No different reference software addresses the secondary literature of this fast-growing and dynamic box with such in-depth topic insurance as this paintings, nor techniques its breadth of insurance. aimed toward educational libraries, huge public libraries, a few tuition and medium-sized public libraries, and person students, this index supplementations technological know-how Fiction and myth Reference Index: 1985-1991 (Libraries limitless, 1993) and technological know-how Fiction and myth Reference Index: 1878-1984 (Gale study, 1987).

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Formal Approaches to Poetry: Recent Developments in Metrics by B. Elan Dresher, Nila Friedberg

By B. Elan Dresher, Nila Friedberg

This ebook will create better public understanding of a few fresh intriguing findings within the formal research of poetry. The final influential quantity at the topic, Rhythm and Meter , edited by way of Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, seemed fifteen years in the past. because that point, a few vital theoretical advancements have taken position, that have ended in new ways to the research of meter. This quantity represents probably the most fascinating present pondering at the concept of meter. when it comes to empirical insurance, the papers specialize in a wide selection of languages, together with English, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, jap, Somali, outdated Norse, Latin, and Greek. hence, the gathering is really foreign in its scope. the quantity additionally comprises diversified theoretical techniques which are introduced jointly for the 1st time, together with Optimality concept (Kiparsky, Hammond), different constraint-based techniques (Friedberg, corridor, Scherr), the Quantitative method of verse (Tarlinskaja, Friedberg, corridor, Scherr, Youmans) linked to the Russian tuition of metrics, a mora-based technique (Cole and Miyashita, Fitzgerald), a semantic-pragmatic procedure (Fabb), and an alternate generative technique built in Estonia (M. Lotman and M. ok. Lotman). The e-book should be of curiosity to either linguists attracted to tension and speech rhythm, constraint structures, phraseology, and phonology-syntax interplay and poetry, in addition to to scholars of poetry attracted to the relationship among language and literature.

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By B. Elan Dresher, Nila Friedberg

This ebook will create better public understanding of a few fresh intriguing findings within the formal research of poetry. The final influential quantity at the topic, Rhythm and Meter , edited by way of Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, seemed fifteen years in the past. because that point, a few vital theoretical advancements have taken position, that have ended in new ways to the research of meter. This quantity represents probably the most fascinating present pondering at the concept of meter. when it comes to empirical insurance, the papers specialize in a wide selection of languages, together with English, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, jap, Somali, outdated Norse, Latin, and Greek. hence, the gathering is really foreign in its scope. the quantity additionally comprises diversified theoretical techniques which are introduced jointly for the 1st time, together with Optimality concept (Kiparsky, Hammond), different constraint-based techniques (Friedberg, corridor, Scherr), the Quantitative method of verse (Tarlinskaja, Friedberg, corridor, Scherr, Youmans) linked to the Russian tuition of metrics, a mora-based technique (Cole and Miyashita, Fitzgerald), a semantic-pragmatic procedure (Fabb), and an alternate generative technique built in Estonia (M. Lotman and M. ok. Lotman). The e-book should be of curiosity to either linguists attracted to tension and speech rhythm, constraint structures, phraseology, and phonology-syntax interplay and poetry, in addition to to scholars of poetry attracted to the relationship among language and literature.

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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century by Claudia T. Kairoff

By Claudia T. Kairoff

Anna Seward and her profession defy effortless placement into the normal sessions of British literature. Raised to emulate the good poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing within the Age of Sensibility, and publishing in the course of the early Romantic period, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition from classical to Romantic. Claudia Thomas Kairoff’s first-class serious examine bargains clean readings of Anna Seward’s most crucial writings and firmly establishes the poet as a pivotal determine between late-century British writers.

Reading Seward’s writing along fresh scholarship on gendered conceptions of the poetic occupation, patriotism, provincial tradition, sensibility, and the sonnet revival, Kairoff rigorously reconsiders Seward’s poetry and significant prose. Written because it was once within the final a long time of the eighteenth century, Seward’s paintings doesn't conveniently healthy into the dominant versions of Enlightenment-era verse or the tropes that signify Romantic poetry. instead of seeing this as a disadvantage for figuring out Seward’s writing inside a specific literary variety, Kairoff argues that this enables readers to work out in Seward’s works the eighteenth-century roots of Romantic-era poetry.

Arguably the main fashionable girl poet of her lifetime, Seward’s writings disappeared from renowned and scholarly view almost immediately after her loss of life. After approximately 2 hundred years of severe forget, Seward is attracting renewed realization, and with this ebook Kairoff makes a robust and convincing case for together with Anna Seward's notable literary achievements one of the most vital of the overdue eighteenth century.

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By Claudia T. Kairoff

Anna Seward and her profession defy effortless placement into the normal sessions of British literature. Raised to emulate the good poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing within the Age of Sensibility, and publishing in the course of the early Romantic period, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition from classical to Romantic. Claudia Thomas Kairoff’s first-class serious examine bargains clean readings of Anna Seward’s most crucial writings and firmly establishes the poet as a pivotal determine between late-century British writers.

Reading Seward’s writing along fresh scholarship on gendered conceptions of the poetic occupation, patriotism, provincial tradition, sensibility, and the sonnet revival, Kairoff rigorously reconsiders Seward’s poetry and significant prose. Written because it was once within the final a long time of the eighteenth century, Seward’s paintings doesn't conveniently healthy into the dominant versions of Enlightenment-era verse or the tropes that signify Romantic poetry. instead of seeing this as a disadvantage for figuring out Seward’s writing inside a specific literary variety, Kairoff argues that this enables readers to work out in Seward’s works the eighteenth-century roots of Romantic-era poetry.

Arguably the main fashionable girl poet of her lifetime, Seward’s writings disappeared from renowned and scholarly view almost immediately after her loss of life. After approximately 2 hundred years of severe forget, Seward is attracting renewed realization, and with this ebook Kairoff makes a robust and convincing case for together with Anna Seward's notable literary achievements one of the most vital of the overdue eighteenth century.

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Anatomy of a robot : literature, cinema, and the cultural by Despina Kakoudaki

By Despina Kakoudaki

Why will we locate man made humans attention-grabbing? Drawing from a wealthy fictional and cinematic culture, Anatomy of a robotic explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures corresponding to robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an attractive, refined, and available presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, of their narrative and cultural deployment, synthetic humans demarcate what it capability to be human. They practice this functionality by means of supplying us a non-human model of ourselves as a website of research. man made humans educate us that being human, being someone or a self, is a continuing technique and sometimes a question of criminal, philosophical, and political struggle.

By reading quite a lot of literary texts and flicks (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip okay. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never permit Me move, city, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron guy, Blade Runner, and that i, Robot), and going again to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks 4 foundational narrative parts during this centuries-old discourse— the myth of the synthetic delivery, the delusion of the mechanical physique, the tendency to symbolize man made humans as slaves, and the translation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies those investigations is the go back of all 4 parts to the query of what constitutes the human.

This concentrated method of the subject of the substitute, developed, or mechanical individual permits us to think again the construction of man-made life.  by way of concentrating on their ancient provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates synthetic people’s major cultural functionality, that's the political and existential negotiation of what it capability to be a person.

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By Despina Kakoudaki

Why will we locate man made humans attention-grabbing? Drawing from a wealthy fictional and cinematic culture, Anatomy of a robotic explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures corresponding to robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an attractive, refined, and available presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, of their narrative and cultural deployment, synthetic humans demarcate what it capability to be human. They practice this functionality by means of supplying us a non-human model of ourselves as a website of research. man made humans educate us that being human, being someone or a self, is a continuing technique and sometimes a question of criminal, philosophical, and political struggle.

By reading quite a lot of literary texts and flicks (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip okay. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never permit Me move, city, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron guy, Blade Runner, and that i, Robot), and going again to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks 4 foundational narrative parts during this centuries-old discourse— the myth of the synthetic delivery, the delusion of the mechanical physique, the tendency to symbolize man made humans as slaves, and the translation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies those investigations is the go back of all 4 parts to the query of what constitutes the human.

This concentrated method of the subject of the substitute, developed, or mechanical individual permits us to think again the construction of man-made life.  by way of concentrating on their ancient provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates synthetic people’s major cultural functionality, that's the political and existential negotiation of what it capability to be a person.

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T.S. Eliot : the Poet as Christian by Atkins, George Douglas

By Atkins, George Douglas

"This is the second one in a sequence of 3 books starting with a examine of the poet's bills to Lancelot Andrewes and culminating with a imminent statement on 4 Quartets. the following, G. Douglas Atkins unearths particular alterations among Eliot's pre-1927 poems and people he wrote following conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, transformations reflective of inchoate realizing built, purified, and fulfilled. 'Stunning' Read more...

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by way of evaluating and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this publication elucidates the duties and possibilities for a poet who's also Read more...

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By Atkins, George Douglas

"This is the second one in a sequence of 3 books starting with a examine of the poet's bills to Lancelot Andrewes and culminating with a imminent statement on 4 Quartets. the following, G. Douglas Atkins unearths particular alterations among Eliot's pre-1927 poems and people he wrote following conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, transformations reflective of inchoate realizing built, purified, and fulfilled. 'Stunning' Read more...

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by way of evaluating and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this publication elucidates the duties and possibilities for a poet who's also Read more...

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing by Laurie Rozakis

By Laurie Rozakis

The total Idiot's consultant to inventive Writing takes the terror out of writing interesting performs, articles, scripts and extra. believe convinced approximately getting what you need to say down on paper and getting paid for it. This consultant comprises important counsel for locating the fashion of writing that is right for you, confirmed recommendations for structuring plot and personality and development dramatic stress, and specialist recommendation on what an agent can do in your profession.

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By Laurie Rozakis

The total Idiot's consultant to inventive Writing takes the terror out of writing interesting performs, articles, scripts and extra. believe convinced approximately getting what you need to say down on paper and getting paid for it. This consultant comprises important counsel for locating the fashion of writing that is right for you, confirmed recommendations for structuring plot and personality and development dramatic stress, and specialist recommendation on what an agent can do in your profession.

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Ted Hughes : from Cambridge to Collected by M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford

By M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford

Together with a formerly unpublished poem through Ted Hughes, in addition to new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to accrued deals clean readings and newly to be had archival examine, difficult confirmed perspectives approximately Hughes's talking voice, learn at Cambridge and the impression of alternative poets on Hughes's paintings.

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By M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford

Together with a formerly unpublished poem through Ted Hughes, in addition to new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to accrued deals clean readings and newly to be had archival examine, difficult confirmed perspectives approximately Hughes's talking voice, learn at Cambridge and the impression of alternative poets on Hughes's paintings.

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A Mirror for Magistrates and the De Casibus Tradition by Paul Budra

By Paul Budra

The number of English Renaissance narrative poems .A reflect for Magistrates. has lengthy been considered as a trifling repository of stories, major mostly since it was once mined as a resource of rules via poets and dramatists, together with Shakespeare. Paul Budra invitations us to seem back and spot this article as a huge literary record in its personal right.

.A replicate for Magistrates. brings jointly the voices of many authors whose stories surround a number of characters, from Brute, the legendary founding father of Britain, to Elizabeth I. Budra situates the paintings within the cultural context of its construction, finding it now not as a primitive kind of tragedy, yet because the epitome of the de casibus literary culture all started by means of Boccaccio as a sort of heritage writing. Deploying theories of rhetoric and narrative, cultural construction, and feminism, he argues that the rfile makes use of associated biographies to illustrate a objective at paintings during human occasions. Budra's research finds .A reflect for Magistrates. to be an evolving historiographic innovation - a fancy expression of the values and ideology of its time.

This research provides an cutting edge remedy of an incredible yet overlooked topic. it is going to be of detailed curiosity to Renaissance students, fairly these eager about literary idea, English and Italian literary background, historiography, and Shakespearean studies.

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By Paul Budra

The number of English Renaissance narrative poems .A reflect for Magistrates. has lengthy been considered as a trifling repository of stories, major mostly since it was once mined as a resource of rules via poets and dramatists, together with Shakespeare. Paul Budra invitations us to seem back and spot this article as a huge literary record in its personal right.

.A replicate for Magistrates. brings jointly the voices of many authors whose stories surround a number of characters, from Brute, the legendary founding father of Britain, to Elizabeth I. Budra situates the paintings within the cultural context of its construction, finding it now not as a primitive kind of tragedy, yet because the epitome of the de casibus literary culture all started by means of Boccaccio as a sort of heritage writing. Deploying theories of rhetoric and narrative, cultural construction, and feminism, he argues that the rfile makes use of associated biographies to illustrate a objective at paintings during human occasions. Budra's research finds .A reflect for Magistrates. to be an evolving historiographic innovation - a fancy expression of the values and ideology of its time.

This research provides an cutting edge remedy of an incredible yet overlooked topic. it is going to be of detailed curiosity to Renaissance students, fairly these eager about literary idea, English and Italian literary background, historiography, and Shakespearean studies.

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The Tenth Muse: Victorian Philology and the Genesis of the by Professor Cary H. Plotkin B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

By Professor Cary H. Plotkin B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

With authority and sensitivity Plotkin lines the shut courting among Hopkins’s poetry and the theories of language instructed in his Journals and expounded via Victorian philologists resembling Max Müller and George Marsh.

Plotkin seeks to figure out what replaced Hopkins’s conception of language among the writing of such early poems as "The behavior of Perfection" and "Nondum" (1866) and his construction of The spoil of the Deutschland (1875–76). Did the language of the ode, and of Hopkins’s mature poetry in general, come up as spontaneously because it seems to have performed, or does it have a traceable genesis within the ways that language as an entire was once conceived and studied in mid-century England? In solution, Plotkin fixes the advance of Hopkins’s singular poetic language within the philological context of his time.

If one is to appreciate Hopkins’s writings and poetic language within the context within which they constructed instead of within the phrases of a present-day idea of historical past or textuality, then that circulation in all of its complexity needs to be thought of. Hopkins "translates" into the language of poetry styles and different types universal to Victorian language study.

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By Professor Cary H. Plotkin B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

With authority and sensitivity Plotkin lines the shut courting among Hopkins’s poetry and the theories of language instructed in his Journals and expounded via Victorian philologists resembling Max Müller and George Marsh.

Plotkin seeks to figure out what replaced Hopkins’s conception of language among the writing of such early poems as "The behavior of Perfection" and "Nondum" (1866) and his construction of The spoil of the Deutschland (1875–76). Did the language of the ode, and of Hopkins’s mature poetry in general, come up as spontaneously because it seems to have performed, or does it have a traceable genesis within the ways that language as an entire was once conceived and studied in mid-century England? In solution, Plotkin fixes the advance of Hopkins’s singular poetic language within the philological context of his time.

If one is to appreciate Hopkins’s writings and poetic language within the context within which they constructed instead of within the phrases of a present-day idea of historical past or textuality, then that circulation in all of its complexity needs to be thought of. Hopkins "translates" into the language of poetry styles and different types universal to Victorian language study.

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Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Heterogeneity & by Jonathan Owens

By Jonathan Owens

The Arabic grammatical culture is awesome for having geared up a large number of descriptive fabric inside of a worldly formal framework. the current research seeks to clarify the early improvement of the program from a theory-internal standpoint; it truly is in general taken with the advance of the syntactic thought as a proper item, as approach of principles. This recreation is produced from 4 sub-goals: an outline of early advancements, their periodization, their relation to the normal account by way of the Basran and Kufan colleges, and their relation to trendy linguistic idea.

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By Jonathan Owens

The Arabic grammatical culture is awesome for having geared up a large number of descriptive fabric inside of a worldly formal framework. the current research seeks to clarify the early improvement of the program from a theory-internal standpoint; it truly is in general taken with the advance of the syntactic thought as a proper item, as approach of principles. This recreation is produced from 4 sub-goals: an outline of early advancements, their periodization, their relation to the normal account by way of the Basran and Kufan colleges, and their relation to trendy linguistic idea.

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