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Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture Authors : Grant, Morag Josephine (2021) In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this iconic song, demonstrating how its association with ideas of fellowship, friendship and sociality has enabled it to become so significant for such a wide range of individuals and communities around the world. This engaging study traces different stages in the journey of Auld Lang Syne, from the precursors to the song made famous by Robert Burns&#x...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Making the Void Fruitful: Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan Lover Authors : Keane, Patrick J (2021) Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats—widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century—this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet’s long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats’s vision of life and death.

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures Authors : Orsini, Francesca; Srivastava, Neelam; Zecchini, Laetitia (2022) This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, news...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” A Life Authors : Halloran, William F (2022) William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but ...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings Authors : Ziolkowski, Jan M (2022) Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings will benefit scholars and students alike. The short introductions and numerous annotations shed light on unusual beliefs and practices of the past, making the readings accessible to anyone with an interest in the arts and an openness to the Middle Ages.

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) An Outline of Romanticism in the West Authors : Isbell, John Claiborne (2022) Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it.

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) The Poetic Edda A Dual-Language Edition Authors : Pettit, Edward (2023) This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, ...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Genetic Inroads into the Art of James Joyce Authors : Gabler, Hans Walter (2024) This book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler‘s seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, to Gabler‘s latest essays on (appropriately enough) Joyce’s sustained artistic innovation.

Ebook Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction Authors : Poel, Ibo van de (2021) Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations a...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) A Dam Good Argument: Persuasive Writing at Oregon State University Authors : Delf, Liz (-) Let’s begin by being real with each other: you’re probably in this class because you have to be. It fulfills a gen ed writing requirement you need to graduate, and you wouldn’t be here otherwise. And there is a good chance you’re not absolutely thrilled about it. That’s OK. I think I understand, but let me take a stab at some of your potential reactions to finding yourself in this writing class this term. Imagine t...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Critical Thinking Authors : Gurevich, Andrew (-) Writing the college essay is a matter of answering a series of questions, of following a sequence of steps towards creating a coherent written document that explores a topic for greater insight and understanding. Initially, we will explore the basic elements of the writing process: • Thesis driven • Primary pattern of development • Coherent, unified paragraphs • Strong, clear introductions and conclusions • Proper use of rel...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Arguments in Context Authors : Robinson, Thaddeus (-) This is what is commonly called a “Critical Thinking” textbook, and is intended to be used as a resource in a semester-long course. The goal of this text is to help students reflectively enhance their general reasoning skills. Before unpacking this goal, it is important to say something about how a course in Critical Thinking differs from the many courses students have already taken on the subject of reasoning. Our societ...

Ebooks (Sách điện tử) Six Steps To Job Search Success Authors : Levine, Caroline Ceniza- (2014) This book is a practical discussion of six actionable steps that students can take to land a job regardless of the market. Whether the estimate is 25% unemployment or single-digit unemployment, that number doesn't apply to any one student. For any individual, the unemployment rate is 0% or 100%. One either has a job or doesn't. When any one person is looking for a job and there is 10% unemployment, that person just w...