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Biblioteka Uniwersytecka

Ancient Greek ideas on speech, language, and civilization

Obrazy
Autor
Deborah Levine Gera
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2003
Table of Contents

Abbreviations . . xiii

1. Polyphemus the Linguist . . 1
1. Languages in Homer . . 1
2. The Cyclopes' Society . . 4
3. Language, Diet, and Laws . . 8
4. Communicating with Animals . . 11

2. Language in the Golden Age . . 18
1. The Nature of Language in the Golden Age . . 18
2. Early Languages . . 36
3. Hesiod, Homer, and the Golden Age . . 46
4. Animals in the Golden Age . . 57

3. Psammetichus' Children . . 68
1. The Experiment and its Background . . 68
2. First Words and First Gestures . . 83
3. Later Variations on Psammetichus' Trial . . 92
4. Ancient Reactions to the Experiment . . 107

4. The Invention of Language . . 112
1. Gods as Inventors of Language . . 113
2. Culture Heroes and First Men: Palamedes, Theuth, and Phoroneus . . 122
3. The Great Myth of the Protagoras . . 127
4. Fire and Language . . 147
5. Men Invent Language Together . . 158

5. Between Language and Speech . . 182
1. Introduction: Language, Speech, and Communication . . 182
2. The Languages of Primitive Peoples . . 184
3. Gestures and Mute Voices . . 195
4. Speaking Animals . . 207

Bibliography . . 213
Index Locorum . . 227
General Index . . 243

From the Norman Conquest to the Black Death : an anthology of writings from England

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Douglas Gray
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Preface . . vii
Abbreviations . . ix
Chronology . . xi
Maps . . xvi

Introduction . . 1
1. Conquest and Conqueror . . 12
2. Early Anglo-Latin Religious Prose . . 21
3. Science, Learning, and Instructive Stories . . 38
4. Early Anglo-Latin Historians, Scholars, Encyclopedists, and Entertainers . . 54
5. 'The Matter of Britain': Geoffrey of Monmouth . . 103
6. Early Anglo-Norman Poetry: Benedeit's Voyage of St Brendan . . 129
7. Anglo-Norman Verse Chronicles . . 146
8. English in the Earlier Period . . 169
9. Science, Learning, and Instruction: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries . . 177
10. 'The Matter of Britain' in English: Layamon's Brut . . 198
11. Anglo-Latin Poetry: Songs and Satire . . 206
12. Saints' Lives and Visions . . 221
13. Anglo-Norman Romances . . 241
14. Romances and Outlaw Tales . . 262
15. Tales of Antiquity . . 276
16. Short Romances and Lais: Marie de France . . 290
17. Fables and Animal Stories: Marie de France and Others . . 313
18. Debate: The Owl and the Nightingale . . 332
19. Burlesque, Parody, Merry Tale . . 342
20. Early Middle English Religious Prose: the 'Katherine Group', the 'Wooing Group', and Ancrene Wisse . . 356
21. Moral and Religious Verse and Prose . . 374
22. English Romances . . 402
23. Lyrics: Anglo-Norman and Middle English . . 420
24. Drama . . 441
25. Later Chroniclers, Scholars, and Theologians . . 489
26. English Narrative in the Earlier Fourteenth Century: Robert Mannyng . .510
27. Earlier Fourteenth-century Alliterative Poems . . 521
28. Earlier Fourteenth-century Mystical Writing: Richard Rolle . . 541
29. Private Devotion: Henry of Lancaster's Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines . . 548
30. Wonders of the East: Mandeville's Travels . . 552

Bibliographical Notes—Further Reading . . 563
Index of headings and main sub-headings . . 583
Index of first lines of poems and verse extracts . . 587
Index of works . . 589
Index of authors . . 591

The Devil in disguise : deception, delusion, and fanaticism in the early English Enlightenment

Obrazy
Autor
Mark Knights
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of characters . . ix
Chronology . . xi
List of Figures . . xv
List of Abbreviations . . xix
Note to the Reader . . xxi

INTRODUCTION . . 1

1. THE TRIAL OF SPENCER COWPER . . 10
Dead Bodies Float . .  14
Scientific Reputations . . 18
An Anatomy of London Doctors . . 22
Dead Dogs and Public Science . . 25
False Man's Cruelty . . 30
Summing up . . 34
Zara's story . . 37

2. PARTISAN FEUDS . . 45
The Whigs . . 46
The Tories . . 54
Hertford Tories . . 59
Popular Politics and Party Rivalries . . 63

3. QUAKERS . . 70
Persecution . . 71
Spiritual Warfare . . 77
The Lustful Quaker . . 82
The Trial Verdict and its Aftermath . . 89
Consequences . . 95

4. MORAL PANIC AND MARITAL AFFAIRS . . 98
Rethinking Religion . . 100
Rethinking Marriage . . 109
The Quakers, Marriage, and Morality . . 113
Sarah Cowper and the Slavery of Marriage . . 116
Will Bigamy . . 125
Justifying Polygamy . . 132
Manley and the New Atalantis . . 138

5. FANATICS AND FALSE BRETHREN . . 142
Sacheverell and his Sermons . . 144
The Trial . . 148
Hypocrisy . . 160
Sacheverell and Print Fever . . 166
Censorship and Censuring . . 181
Fanaticism . . 186
Sacheverell's Longer-term Legacy . . 190

6. DESPAIR AND DEMONISM . . 193
Melancholic Despair and Suicide . . 197
The Despair of the Deist and Atheist . . 202
Shifting Attitudes . . 206
Animal Spirits . . 207
A Political Witch-hunt . . 213
Jane Wenham . . 220
The Debate over the Impossibility of Witchcraft . . 228
Vindicating Jane Wenham . . 237

CONCLUSION: AN EXCEPTIONAL STORY? . . 241

Glossary . . 247
Endnotes . . 253
Further Reading . . 267
Index . . 273

Tales of Imperial Russia : the life and times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915

Obrazy
Autor
by Francis W. Wcislo
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations . . xi
Map of Russian Empire, 1912 . . xiv
Introduction. The Storyteller and His Story . . 1

1. Transcaucasia: Boyhood and Family on an Imperial Frontier, 1849—1865 . . 18
'On Ancestors [O predkakh]': Men and Masculinity . . 21
Frontier Women and Imperial Imagination . . 37
Conclusion: A Grandmother's Tale . . 48

2. Imperial Identity: Corning of Age in New Russia, 1865-1881 . . 57
The University and 'Studenthood' . . 61
Odessa and St Petersburg: The Railway Man in an Age of Empire . . 69
Conclusion: A New Russian . . 86

3. Kiev: Dreaming in the Victorian 1880s . . 90
'The Reality That Surrounds Us': Imperial Economy and Polity . . 96
Public and Private Lives . . 113
Imagining Autocracy . . 127
Conclusion: A Tale of the Counter-reforms . . 134

4. A City of Dreams: St Petersburg, the Empire of the Tsars, and Imperial Horizons in the Gilded Age (1889—1903) . . 138
Gospodin Minister: Witte as Imperial Official . . 144
The Witte System and the Empire of Gold . . 153
Fathers and Sons on the Road to War . . 170

5. From Exile: Memories of Re volutionary Russia, 1903—1912 . . 189
From Summer 1903 to October 1905: War, America, and Revolution . . 195
The Nightmare of 1905 . . 215
Conclusion: 'My Six-Month Ministry' . . 231

Conclusion: From the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, 1915 . . 241

Notes . . 254
Bibliography . . 291
Index . . 309

Scouting for boys : a handbook for instruction in good citizenship

Obrazy
Autor
Robert Baden-Powell ; ed. with an introd. and notes by Elleke Boehmer
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2005
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements . . ix
Introduction . . xi
Note on the Text . . xl
Select Bibliography . . xlv
A Chronology of Robert Baden-Powell . . l

SCOUTING FOR BOYS . . 1

Appendix: Continence . . 351
Explanatory Notes . . 353
Index . . 381

OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word

Obrazy
Autor
Allan Metcalf
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Preface . . ix
1. Introduction: The ABCs of OK . . 1
2. A Saturday Morning in Boston . . 28
3. 1840: Old Kinderhook Is OK . . 40
4. Hoax: Andrew Jackson's Misspelling . . 56
5. Aesthetics: The Look and Sound of OK . . 76
6. False Origins . . 80
7. The Business of OK . . 96
8. O.K. Clubs . . 117
9. The Literary OK .  123
10. Oklahoma Is OK . . 143
11. Okey-Dokey . . 147
12. Modern OK Literature . . 157
13. The Practical OK . . 166
14. The World—and England . . 171
15. The Lifemanship OK . . 182
16. The Psychological OK . . 185
17. The American Philosophy . . 196
Index . . 199

Structure and regional diversity of the Meadowood interaction sphere

Obrazy
Autor
by Karine Taché
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Figures . . v
List of Tables . . viii
Foreword . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi

1 Introduction . . 1
Theoretical Background: The Study of Interactions in Anthropology and Archaeology . . 2
History of the Early Woodland and Meadowood Concepts . . 7
Contrasting Interpretations of the Meadowood Interaction Sphere . . 8
Methodology: Evaluating Interaction Sphere Models in Archaeology . . 10
Description of Sites Analyzed . . 13

2 The Material Manifestations of the Meadowood Interaction Sphere . . 17
Flaked Stone Artifacts . . 17
Polished Stone Artifacts . . 39
Ground Stone Artifacts . . 49
Unmodified Stones and Minerals . . 53
Antler and Bone Artifacts . . 55
Shell and Native Copper Artifacts . . 67
Ceramic Artifacts . . 67
Discussion . . 69

3 Distribution of Meadowood Sites and Diagnostics in the Northeast . . 73
Lakes Ontario/Erie Lowlands and Northern Glaciated Allegheny Plateau . . 74
St. Lawrence/Champlain Lowlands and Eastern Townships . . 78
Hudson/Mohawk/Susquehanna Lowlands . . 82
Atlantic Coastal Plain . . 84
Maine-Maritime Province . . 86
Western Great Lakes . . 89
Canadian Shield . . 91
Discussion . . 91

4 Environmental and Cultural Contexts of Meadowood Material Manifestations . . 103
Finished Products . . 104
Raw Materials . . 112
Discussion . . 124

5 Environmental Productivity and Meadowood Communities . . 127
Subsistence Strategies . . 128
Caches and the Question of Specialization . . 147
Meadowood Settlement Patterns and Population Density . . 148
Burial Practices and Funerary Rituals . . 152
Discussion . . 164

6 Discussion and Conclusions . . 169
Material Manifestations . . 170
Spatial Distribution of Sites and Exotic Items . . 172
Meadowood Subsistence and Social Organization . . 173
Conclusion . . 175

Appendix A: Inventory of Meadowood Components/Diagnostics . . 177
References Cited . . 189

Series
(Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology ; No. 48)

Finland mellan öst och väst

Obrazy
Autor
red. av Paul Fogelberg
Place of publication
Helsingfors
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Förord . . 5
Redaktörens förord . . 7

Tvåhundraårsminnet och geostrategin . . 9
Ett långt farväl: Finland mellan Sverige och Ryssland efter 1809 . . 21
I stormakternas grepp: Finland under andra världskriget . . 43
Språk, litteratur och nationell identitet i Finland . . 81
Om nationella drag i finsk musik . . 101

BILAGA I
Program for konferensen Finland mellan öst och väst i Göteborg den 23 oktober 2009, anordnad av Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg (KWS) i samarbete med Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten (FVS) . . 116

BILAGA II
Presentation av Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg, som var värd för konferensen Finland mellan öst och väst i Göteborg 2009, och av samarbetspartnern Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten . . 118

Series
(Bidrag Till Kännedom av Finlands Natur och Folk ; 187. Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis. Interdisciplinaria ; 11)

Etica e narrazione : il contributo del narrativismo contemporaneo

Obrazy
Autor
Francesca Cattaneo
Place of publication
Milano
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Introduzione . . XIII

I. Narrazione e ricerca morale: Alasdair MacIntyre . . 3
1. Narrazione e ricerca morale in MacIntyre: un percorso tematico di analisi testuale . . 3
2. Narrazione e ricerca morale in MacIntyre: osservazioni e spunti per una valutazione critica . . 38

II. «Molto particolare e molto universale»: l'arte di narrare come «traccia» verso la morale nella riflessione di Iris Murdoch . . 51
1. L'arte di narrare come «traccia» verso la morale: un percorso tematico di analisi testuale . . 52
2. L'arte di narrare come «traccia» verso la morale: osservazioni e spunti per una valutazione critica . . 110

III. Fenomenologica, critico-trascendentale, ermeneutica: quale giustificazione per un 'etica narrativa? . . 121
L'incontro di Ottawa e la 'posta in gioco' dell'approccio narrativo . . 122
1. David Carr: struttura dell'esperienza e narrazione . . 123
2. Charles Taylor: identità umana, significato e articolazione . . 132
3. Paul Ricoeur: immaginazione, narrazione e 'vita compiuta' . . 163

Etica e narrazione: considerazioni conclusive . . 193

Bibliografìa dei testi citati . . 237
Indice elei nomi . . 251

Series
(Filosofia Morale ; 40)