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Format: 1 online resource (xxii, 499 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-78744-098-2

Content: A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. His poetry was set to music by numerous composers including Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland and Samuel Barber. Housman's painstaking vocation, to restore classical manuscripts by correcting textual errors, took up virtually the whole of his working life. A seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, he never set out to be a professional poet, yet poetry poured out of him and became his monument. His renowned A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems were born of an inner crisis, sparked by a profound but unreciprocated attachment for a fellow undergraduate. To be sexually different in the time of Oscar Wilde was to invite ostracism and disgust. This fact, allied with his secretiveness and penchant for irony, reinforced his reticence on personal matters. Until now, he has remained a hidden personality, held in the public mind as prim and grim. This biography reveals by contrast a man of many facets, one companionable in small groups, generous to a fault, and always on the lookout for humour and fun; a master of English prose; a witty and compelling after-dinner speaker; an occasional writer of nonsense verse; a frequenter of the music hall; an intrepid early traveller by air; and a connoisseur of food and wine. Drawing on Housman's published letters and on 81 significant new finds, Edgar Vincent conjures up a new Housman, created out of his reactions to the events of his life as he experienced them. It weaves together his scholarly life and the biographical elements in his poetry to examine his emotional and sexual needs with dispassion and empathy and uncover his hidden sensibilities and creative world. EDGAR VINCENT read English at St Catherine's Oxford. Following Oxford he was commissioned in the Navy, spending most of his time with the Royal Marines. Subsequently he worked for Imperial Chemical Industries for thirty years. He then fulfilled a life-long ambition to write his book Nelson: Love & Fame, published by Yale University Press in 2003. The book was shortlisted for the BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, was a New York Times Notable Book and was named one of Atlantic Monthly's Books of the Year.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jun 2018). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Credits -- , Acknowledgements -- , Preface -- , Part I Childhood -- , PART II Oxford -- , PART III The Patent Office -- , PART IV Re-entry to the academic life -- , PART V Pastures new -- , Part VI Who am I? -- , PART VII Paradoxical Housman -- , PART VIII Cambridge: The glittering prize -- , PART IX The Great War 1914–1918 -- , PART X After the war -- , PART XI Last Poems A Requiem for Moses Jackson -- , PART XII Last Things -- , PART XIII Paris 1932 -- , PART XIV Academic apotheosis and swansong -- , PART XV Last flights to France -- , Posthumous publications published -- , Epilogue -- , References -- , Bibliography -- , Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-78327-241-4

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Biografie

DOI: 10.1515/9781787440982

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Format: 46 S.

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies

Author information: Forster, Leonard 1913-1997

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Author information: Forster, Leonard 1913-1997

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781351696258 , 1351696254 , 9781315171906 , 1315171902 , 9781351696265 , 1351696262 , 9781351696241 , 1351696246

Series Statement: Analysing architecture notebooks

Content: Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Metaphor is the most powerful component of the poetry of architecture. It has been a significant factor in architecture since the earliest periods of human history, when people were finding ways to give order and meaning to the world in which we live. It is arguable that architecture began with the realisation of metaphor in physical form, and that subsequent movements - from Greek to Gothic, Renaissance to Modern, Victorian to Vernacular - have all been driven by the emergence or rediscovery of different metaphors by which architecture might be generated.

Note: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Simile, Cliché, Metaphor?; Body Metaphors; Gender Metaphors; Tree Metaphors; Doorway Metaphors; Metaphors of Personality; Temple Metaphors; Cottage Metaphors; Architecture-Related Word Metaphors; The Genetic Metaphor; Metaphors of Sense and Nonsense; Mind Metaphors; Landscape Metaphors; Machine Metaphors; The Music Metaphor; Narrative Metaphors; Endnote; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index

Additional Edition: Print version: Metaphor Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138045439

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.4324/9781315171906

URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315171906

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.) : , 12 b&w images, 5 maps

ISBN: 9780824853891

Content: The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self-described "base-born nobody" who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806–1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, oracle, and political activist. In 1859 she embraced the xenophobic loyalist faction (known for the motto "revere the emperor, expel the barbarians") and traveled to Kyoto to denounce the shogun's policies before the emperor. She was arrested, taken to Edo's infamous Tenmachō prison, and sentenced to banishment. In her later years, having crossed the Tokugawa-Meiji divide, Tokiko became an elementary school teacher and experienced firsthand the modernizing policies of the new government. After her death she was honored with court rank for her devotion to the loyalist cause.Tokiko's story reflects not only some of the key moments in Japan's transition to the modern era, but also some of its lesser-known aspects, thereby providing us with a fresh narrative of the late-Tokugawa crisis, the collapse of the shogunate, and the rise of the Meiji state. The peculiar combination of no-nonsense single-mindedness and visionary flights of imagination evinced in her numerous diaries and poetry collections nuances our understanding of activism and political consciousness among rural nonelites by blurring the lines between the rational and the irrational, focus and folly. Tokiko's use of prognostication and her appeals to cosmic forces point to the creative paths some women constructed to take part in political debates and epitomize the resourcefulness required to preserve one's identity in the face of changing times. In the early twentieth century, Tokiko was reimagined in the popular press and her story was rewritten to offset fears about female autonomy and to boost local and national agendas. These distorted and romanticized renditions offer compelling examples of the politicization of the past and of the extent to which present anxieties shape historical memory. That Tokiko was unimportant and her loyalist mission a failure is irrelevant. What is significant is that through her life story we are able to discern the ordinary individual in the midst of history. By putting an extra in the spotlight, The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko offers a new script for the drama that unfolded on the stage of late-Tokugawa and early Meiji history.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: The Flight of a Sparrow -- , Part I Tokiko’s World -- , 1. A Nest and a Nexus -- , 2. Circles and Circumstances -- , Part II The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko -- , 3. Glimpses of History (The Script) -- , 4. From Script to Stage -- , 5. Caged Bird -- , 6. The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko -- , 7. Transitions -- , Part III Memory, Manipulation, and Amnesia -- , 8. Rescuing The Past from the Present -- , 9. The Many Reincarnations of Kurosawa Tokiko -- , 10. Circles Redrawn: The View from 1930s Mito -- , 11. Encores: New Scripts -- , Conclusion The Doing That Matters -- , Appendix -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824853891

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824853891

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824853891

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ISBN: 9781685890254

Content: " sorrowful, tender...beautiful. &ndash,The New York Times Book Review &ldquo,..arresting and memorable&hellip,Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a significant chronicler of personal and national experience.&rdquo,&ndash, Financial Times Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud thinks with places, seeking as she does to find a way back into, and then out of, the traumas of her early life. - Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey A surprising and lyrical journey&mdash,art memoir, part nature book&mdash,editating on the meaning of flatness and its literary tradition to find ways to understand ourselves and our trauma in one of nature&rsquo, most undervalued wonders. For readers of Dr. Gabor Maté,s The Myth of Normal, Robert Macfarlane, G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn , Amy Liptrot's The Outrun , and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure Does the concept of flat have an undeservedly bad rap? There are centuries&rsquo,worth of adoration for rolling hills and dramatic, mountainous landscapes. In contrast, flat landscapes are forgettable and seemingly unworthy of poetic or artistic attention.160 Noreen Masud suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life. Masud's British-Pakistani heritage makes her a partial outsider in these landscapes: both coloniser and colonised, inheritor and dispossessed. Here violence lies beneath the fantasy of pastoral innocence, and histories of harm are interwoven with nature's power to heal. Here, as in her own family history, are many stories that resist the telling. She pursues these paradoxes fearlessly across the flat, haunted spaces she loves, offering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of the land beneath her feet. Masud combines memoir, nature writing, and literary reflection to explore what can be drawn from these powerful places, and to understand her own experience of complex trauma and post-traumatic stress, as well as grief and loss. A Flat Place is a book that drives to the heart of what it means to experience place &mdash,bodily and psychologically &mdash,and the healing properties of literature and landscape."

Content: Biographisches: " Noreen Masud is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 2020. Her work focuses on the twentieth century, writing about things which, in one way or another, present variously as absurd, unrevealing, embarrassing or useless. These include aphorisms, flatness, puppets, nonsense, leftovers, earworms, footnotes, rhymes, hymns, surprises, folk songs, colors and superstition."

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