Literary Illumination
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Literary Illumination
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Author : Richard Leahy
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2018-08-15
Literary Illumination written by Richard Leahy and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with History categories.
Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively altered the treatment of light as symbol, metaphor and textual motif. Correspondingly, the book also engages with the changing nature of darkness, and how the influence of artificial light altered both public perceptions of, and behaviour within, darkness, as well as examining literary chiaroscuros. Within each of four main chapters dedicated to the analysis of a single dominant light source in the long nineteenth-century – firelight, candlelight, gaslight, and electric light – the author considers the phenomenological properties of the light sources, and where their presence would be felt most strongly in the nineteenth century, before collating a corpus of texts for each light source and environment.
Dark Nights Bright Lights
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Author : Susanne Bach
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-10-16
Dark Nights Bright Lights written by Susanne Bach and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance and evil. A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian rhythms, and a lack of periodical darkness appears to be as contrary to health as a lack of exposure to sunlight. On a cultural level, too, night and darkness are far from being universally condemnable: in fiction, drama and poetry the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows criminals to ply their trade and allows lovers to meet, it allows the pursuit of pleasure as well as deep thought, it allows metamorphoses, transformations and transgressions unthinkable in the light of day. But night is not merely darkness. The night gains significance as an alternative space, as an ‘other of the day’, only when it is at least partially illuminated. The volume examines the interconnection of night, darkness and nocturnal illumination across a broad range of literary texts. The individual essays examine historically specific light conditions in literature, tracing the symbolic and metaphoric content of darkness and illumination and the attitudes towards them.
Little Literary Lights
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Author : Augustin S. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-08
Little Literary Lights written by Augustin S. MacDonald and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08 with categories.
Excerpt from Little Literary Lights: Personal Preferences in Art, Literature, Flowers, Music It is the sense of imagery, the elevating instinct of light, the romance of symbolism expressed in shading, outlines and resplendent color of the sensitive dreamers that awaken delicious thoughts of interpretation, whose transition is felt rather than known or seen, and arouse the better feelings of the inner self. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
New York Literary Lights
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Author : William Corbett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-04
New York Literary Lights written by William Corbett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An armchair travel guide to the literary capital of the world. Poet William Corbett takes an expansive prose look at the ghosts, the landmarks, and the current denizens who make New York so popular with the literary crowd. His entertaining romp provides plenty of street addresses for the determined tourist, and plenty of gossip for the armchair traveler.
The Light Of The Star
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Author : Hamlin Garland
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Light Of The Star written by Hamlin Garland and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
"The Light of the Star" is a fascinating work by American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, Hamlin Garland. His brilliant storyline and life-like characters entertain the readers throughout the novel.
Martyrdoms Of Literature
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Author : Robert Henry Vickers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Martyrdoms Of Literature written by Robert Henry Vickers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Books categories.
The Fields Of Light
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Author : Reuben Arthur Brower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Fields Of Light written by Reuben Arthur Brower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Literature categories.
Matches
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Author : S. D. Chrostowska
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2019-04-10
Matches written by S. D. Chrostowska and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-10 with Literary Collections categories.
It takes any number of forms. Epigrams. Aphorisms. Fragments. Sayings. Dicta. Sententiae. Facetiae. Pearls of wisdom. Fractions of truth. Maxims. Definitions. Jottings. Miscellaneous musings. Meditations. Ricordi. Pensées. Ephemera. Miniatures. Sketches. Vignettes. Denkbilder. Capriccios. Tiny 'fires without flames' ... In returning to these genres, Matches goes back to the drawing board of modern critique. It sets out to rekindle short-form literary-philosophical reflection, with roots in the Antiquity of Heraclitus and Hippocrates, apogee in the French moralistes (La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Chamfort ...), and late splendour in German letters (Nietzsche, Kraus, Jünger ...). Moving from art and aesthetics to philosophies past and present, through natural and technological landscapes, beneath the constellations of politics, history and ethics, along the byways of contemporary literary culture--the slow reader with a little spare time will not fail to be struck. Here are pages to peruse and mistrust, texts to think with, a book to put down and ponder, to ponder and put down. A tome to keep handy, handle often, and strike repeatedly against the rough patches of the mind.
Critic And Literary World
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Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Critic And Literary World written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Publishers and publishing categories.
Thank You For The Light
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Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Thank You For The Light written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Fiction categories.
This newly discovered short story by one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald, will surprise and delight. Thank You for the Light is a masterfully crafted story—spare, strange, and wonderful, albeit a departure from Fitzgerald’s usual style. A widowed, corset saleswoman, Mrs. Hanson, whose chief pleasure in life is cigarettes, discovers that social disapproval of smoking is widespread in her new sales territory. Deprived of this simple comfort, she receives solace, and a light, from an unexpected source. Fitzgerald originally submitted the story to The New Yorker in 1936, four years before his death, but it was rejected. The editors said that it was “altogether out of the question” and added, “It seems to us so curious and so unlike the kind of thing we associate with him and really too fantastic.” Almost eighty years later, Fitzgerald’s grandchildren found the story among his papers and the Fitzgerald scholar James West encouraged them to send the story to the magazine once again. This time around the magazine decided to publish it, and now it is available in this special eBook edition.