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The Literary Guide and Companion to Middle England

Book by Robert M. Cooper; Ohio University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Authors, English--Homes And Haunts--England, English Literature--History And Criticism, Literary Landmarks--England--Guidebooks

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Ironically, that play won him literary immortality in a work greater...brilliant satirical poem, Absalom and Achitophel 1681...Biblical story of David and Absalom to attack a plan to force...becomes David, Monmouth is Absalom, and Buckingham is Zimri...
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The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form

Book by Frans De Bruyn; Oxford University, 1996

Subjects:

Burke, Edmund--1729-1797--Contributions In Political Science, Burke, Edmund--1729-1797--Technique, Literary Form, Political Science--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This study brings a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke's political writings. De Bruyn recontextualizes Burke's writings by exploring what the eighteenth century understood by the term `literature' and by demonstrating how thoroughly he relies on the dominant literary discourses of his ...
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This study brings a literary perspective to bear upon Edmund Burke's political writings. De Bruyn recontextualizes Burke's writings by exploring what the eighteenth century understood by the term `literature' and by demonstrating how thoroughly he relies on the dominant literary discourses of his time, especially the satire and georgic/didactic modes, in composing his speeches and polemics.
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The Literary Guide & Companion to Southern England

Book by Robert M. Cooper; Ohio University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Authors, English--Homes And Haunts--England, Southern, England, Southern--In Literature, England, Southern--Intellectual Life, English Literature--England, Southern--History And Criticism, Literary Landmarks--England, Southern--Guidebooks

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This newly revised and updated edition of Robert Cooper's acclaimed handbook combines the utility of current travel information with the appeal of literary history, biography, and anecdote in a leisurely and flavorful guide to the broad sweep of southern England outside of London. A rich and ...
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This newly revised and updated edition of Robert Cooper's acclaimed handbook combines the utility of current travel information with the appeal of literary history, biography, and anecdote in a leisurely and flavorful guide to the broad sweep of southern England outside of London. A rich and reliable guide to the landscape that fostered one of our most cherished cultures, The Literary Guide and Companion to Southern England is an indispensable resource for those who wish to experience literature firsthand.
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The Third Earl of Shaftesbury: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

Book by R. L. Brett; Hutchinsons University Library, 1951

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Creation (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper--Earl Of--1671-1713

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...a shapeless lump, like anarchy." Absalom and Achitophel , 169-172. Whatever...asthma. At Rotterdam he joined the literary and philosophical circle which ten years...in his day. To combine clarity with literary style is always a most difficult task...
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The American Imagination: A Critical Survey of the Arts from the Times Literary Supplement

Book by Alan Pryce-Jones; Atheneum, 1960

Subjects:

Creation (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), United States--Intellectual Life

Collections: History, Entire Library

...removed from the powerful, intricate fiction of Absalom, Absalom! The story of Bayard Sartoris is told in a straight...Compson's discovery of the meaning of the past in Absalom is effected through the interweaving of three different...

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Women, Landscape and the Legacy of Gilgamesh in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Go Down, Moses.'

Journal article by Louise Westling; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995

Subjects:

Absalom, Absalom! (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Faulkner, William--Works, Feminist criticism--Literature, Feminist literary criticism--Analysis, Go Down, Moses (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...earth. Such associations have their earliest known literary form in Sumerian hymns to Inanna, who is seen as a...he and his protagonists are trapped. Earlier, with Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner had moved into a deeper exploration of the...
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'Absalom, Absalom!' and Faulkner's Erroneous Dating of the Haitian Revolution

Journal article by Richard Godden; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994

Subjects:

Absalom, Absalom! (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plantation life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Slaveholders--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Slavery--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...since they indicate that Faulkner has the hero of Absalom, Absalom! (1936) "earn" the properties upon which he will eventually...American history, in what looks suspiciously like an act of literary counterrevolution. Those Faulkner scholars who notice urge...
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The Hidden Caribbean "Other" in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Ideological Ancestry of U.S. Imperialism

Journal article by Maritza Stanchich; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996

Subjects:

Absalom, Absalom! (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Caribbean Area--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Faulkner, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Haiti--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Imperialism in literature--Analysis, Race relations in literature--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (New York: Vintage, 1993). (3) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text...Richard Godden, "Absalom, Absalom!, Haiti and Labor History...Unreadable Revolutions," English Literary History, 61 (Fall 1994), 689...
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The Marks of Character: Physiology and Physiognomy in 'Absalom and Achitophel

Journal article by K.J.H. Berland; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997

Subjects:

Absalom and Achitophel (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Technique, Dryden, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Physiognomy--Usage

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and physiognomy in Absalom and Achitophel...forebears. In his literary criticism, Dryden...characterization the essence of literary art in the representation...and appetite. In Absalom and Achitophel...between visual and literary images. Dryden...three levels. First, Absalom and Achitophel contains...
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Jim Bond's America: Denaturalizing the Logic of Slavery in Absalom, Absalom!

Journal article by Sean Latham; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998

Subjects:

Absalom, Absalom! (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Faulkner, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Imperialism in literature--Analysis, Race relations in literature--Analysis, Slavery and slaves in literature--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...recreated with an important difference by Faulkner in Absalom, Absalom!. At the conclusion of this novel, we hear once again the voice...somewhat claustrophobic Euro-American tradition of nation-centered literary criticism. Yet it may be possible to grasp this attentiveness...

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Flash Backs Looking Back on Literary History (Backstory)

Magazine article; Book, November 2002

Subjects:

Attorneys as authors, Authors, Blacklisting of authors, Conrad, Joseph, Dumas, Alexandre, Faulkner, William, Inspiration--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Physicians as authors, Prisoners as authors, Tolkien, J. R.R.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Flash Backs Looking Back on Literary History (Backstory). 1830...Faulkner was working on the novel Absalom, Absalom! when his brother Dean died crashing...me"), and by the time he finished Absalom, Absalom! a brother-on-brother murder...
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Dryden in His Time & Ours

Magazine article by R.J. Stove; New Criterion, Vol. 25, October 2006

Subjects:

Dryden, John--Criticism and interpretation, Dryden, John--Influence, Literary themes, Literature--Themes, motives, Poetic techniques, Poetics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...among the longer Dryden satires, usually Absalom and Achitophel or MacFlecknoe, often turned...about Charless reliability. The man who in Absalom and Achitophel growled of an unscrupulous...unmolested, to his boisterous satire. Absalom and Achitophel, The Medal, and MacFlecknoe...
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The Character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.'

Magazine article by James W. Tuttleton; World and I, Vol. 13, February 1998

Subjects:

Captain Ahab--Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...bottom of his nature."(16) Melville evidently shared in the romantic notion about greatness that we find John Dryden voicing in "Absalom and Achitophel": Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. For we find...
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Machers and Mourners

Magazine article by Melvin Jules Bukiet; Tikkun, Vol. 12, November 1997

Subjects:

Jews, Literature, Writers

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...individual death (`Absalom! Absalom! "-the Jewish, paternal Pieta...what the literal rather than literary minded Roskies doesnt realize...Rosenbaum (disclosure: hes the literary editor of this magazine) whose...liberated 1960s with the twin (no literary equivalence intended) voices...
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Speaking of Snails and Scales

Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 104, May 1995

Subjects:

Biology, Languages, Mollusks

Collections: Entire Library

...King David, for he did slay the giant, and he did pay grievously for dubious actions in losing his friend Jonathan and his son Absalom. But isnt David falling into the same trap by wondering why God should bother with little humanity when he made the stars and...

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How to Read Faulkner

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 6, 2005

Subjects:

Faulkner, William, Parini, Jay

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Sound and the Fury" or "Absalom, Absalom!" is likely in for a shock, for...in this novel? At the same time, literary historians assure us that Faulkner...1942: "The Sound and the Fury," "Absalom, Absalom!," "Sanctuary," and "Go Down, Moses...
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Bloody Battles Leave Soil Rich for Literature

Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, May 26, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...constitutes a historical novel of literary merit. Both of those elusive matters...William Faulkners incomparable "Absalom, Absalom," by Lewis P. Simpson. Not included...De Forest "was Americas first literary realist," according to Mr. Becker...
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Slayers and Players New Shows for All Include Battling Former 'Slayers' and the Usual Cops and Robbers - or Do They? Play Pilot Error and Find Out

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 1, 2008

Subjects:

Television programs--Television program reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...based on the adventures of King David. The title "Absalom, Absalom!" was apparently taken. 8) "The Bleeding Heart Files": Former...Long Island single mom by night in a new drama for CBS. 15) "Literary Superstar": Jenna Elfman is an ambitious book publicist who...
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The Good Book, or Just a Good Book? Some Educators Say to Understand Literature, High School Students Should Know Scripture

Newspaper article by Tara Malone; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of a different ideological bent dismiss studying the Bibles literary significance as an attempt to shoehorn scripture into publicly...tone are bound by narrative threads of scripture. Faulkners "Absalom, Absalom!" names the man who killed his half-brother who raped...

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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...His greatest works are satirical narrative poems, notably Absalom and Achitophel (1681), in which prominent contemporary figures...Dissenting tradition, remained vital. The most important Dissenting literary work was John Bunyan s Pilgrims Progress (1675), an allegorical...
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Dryden, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...His great political satire on Monmouth and Shaftesbury, Absalom and Achitophel, appeared in two parts (1681, 1682). It was...prologues, and discourses, dealing with the principles of literary excellence. The best example is his Essay of Dramatic Poesy...
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Faulkner, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...highly symbolic style, Faulkner was also a brilliant literary technician, making frequent use of convoluted time...1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), The Unvanquished (1938), The Hamlet...

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