John Donne in the Nineteenth Century tracks the myriad ways in which "Donne" was lodged in literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods. The early chapters document a first revival of interest when Walton's Life was said to be "in the hands of every reader"; they explore what Wordsworth and Coleridge contributed to the conditions for the 1839 publication of the only edition ever called The Works, which reprinted the sermons of "Dr Donne". Later chapters trace a second revival, when admirers of the biography, turning to the prose letters and the poems to supplement Walton, discovered that his hero's writings entail the sorts of controversial issues that are raised by Browning, by the 'fleshly school' of poets, and by self-consciously "decadent" writers of the fin de siecle.
The nineteenth century is widely and rightly held to be the century in which the mathematical revolution in logic achieved its breakthrough. W.V. Quine once remarked that logic is an ancient discipline, but since 1879 it has been a great one. Of course, 1879 marks the publication of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift, and 1870 and 1883 the appearance of Charles Peirce’s “Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives” and “Note B: The Logic of Relatives”. Frege and Peirce are the independent co-founders of modern quantification theory. Frege (1848–1925) was a German and Peirce (1839–1914) an American (their contributions are chronicled in volume three of this Handbook, The Rise of Mathematical Logic: Leibniz to Frege). Although Frege’s work was little recognized and little appreciated by British logicians of the period — Russell was a late exception — important steps toward the mathematicization of logic were taken in Britain. Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) made significant contributions to the logic of relatives, of which Peirce took respectful heed, and also to probability theory, an interest in which he did much to revive...
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian soft science fiction novel that was first published in 1953. It is set in a society where censorship is prevalent, and moronic citizens learn only from television. Most books are banned and critical thought is suppressed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this case, means "book burner"). 451 degrees Fahrenheit is stated as "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns …". It was originally published as a shorter novella, The Fireman, in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. A film adaptation, by Franзois Truffaut, was released in 1966, and another is anticipated.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks » Grammar | 12 April 2009
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A compact grammar for the student of English taking a descriptive approach. The introduction provides a general background and indicates the kinds of evidence on which grammatical description is based.
Though one of the greatest dramatists to have written in English, Shakespeare was not entirely original. He borrowed his plots from various sources, reworked his material, and infused it with his keen perception of humanity and unusual gift of language. This book looks at four of Shakespeare's plays--As You Like It, King Lear, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale--and the primary source texts on which they are based, to show how the dramatist refashioned earlier works. Each chapter examines one play in relation to its major source and to the historical and cultural contexts in which both the play and source were written.
