Contes De H Ros Cossais Rob Roy Ivanho Waverley
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Contes De H Ros Cossais Rob Roy Ivanho Waverley PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Contes De H Ros Cossais Rob Roy Ivanho Waverley book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Chaos And Cosmos
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Heidi C. M. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-01-14
Chaos And Cosmos written by Heidi C. M. Scott and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-14 with Nature categories.
In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology.
The Chevalier D Eon And His Worlds
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Simon Burrows
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-20
The Chevalier D Eon And His Worlds written by Simon Burrows and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with History categories.
Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. Until the second half of the twentieth century the terms 'Eonist' and 'Eonism' were the standard English words for transvestites and transvestism respectively, but 'Eonism' was also, thanks to Havelock Ellis, widely regarded as a psychological condition or compulsion. However, in the mid-twentieth century, new ideas about gender-identity disorders led to d'Eon being redefined not as a transvestite, but a transsexual - a person who considers their sex to have been 'misassigned'. The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches. Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.
Theophobos
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Evander Luther
language : en
Publisher: Acu Publishing
Release Date : 2012-02
Theophobos written by Evander Luther and has been published by Acu Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with History categories.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Theophobos or Theophobus, originally Nasr, was a Persian or Kurdish commander in Byzantine service under Emperor Theophilos (r. 829-843). Originally, Theophobos was a member of the Khurramite sect in western Iran, which was being persecuted by the Abbasid Caliphate. In 833, they were defeated by Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833-842). Thus, in 834, Nasr with some fourteen thousand other Khurramites, crossed Armenia and fled to the Byzantine Empire.