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Books on: puritan writing

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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition

Book by Lincoln Konkle; University of Missouri Press, 2006

Subjects:

Christianity And Literature--United States, English Language--United States--Rhetoric, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th Century, Puritan Movements In Literature, Puritans--New England--Intellectual Life, Taylor, Edward--1642-1729--Influence, Wilder, Thornton--1897-1975--Criticism And Interpretation, Wilder, Thornton--1897-1975--Religion, Wilder, Thornton--1897-1975--Technique

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...later. Gods Determination and Puritan Narrative Aesthetics New England Puritans wrote a variety of narrative...It is quite true that the Puritans wrote no novels as such...remarkably like fic- tion. The Puritan had developed the art of story...English and American Puritan writing have described some stylistic...
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The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study

Book by Jeffrey A. Hammond; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

American Poetry--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--History And Criticism, American Poetry--New England--History And Criticism, American Poetry--Puritan Authors--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--New England--History, Death In Literature, Elegiac Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Grief In Literature, Literature And Anthropology--New England--History, Puritans--New England--Intellectual Life

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...sensitive readings of the Puritan elegy impossible. Ola Winslow...thirteen colonies xviii . Puritans could not write true poetry...the beliefs that made them Puritans in the first place. At the...Barrett Wendell stated that Puritan writing told a story of unique national...
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

Book by David E. Stannard; Oxford University Press, 1979

Subjects:

Death, Puritans--New England

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to become a great tree." 7 The Puritan faith, then--upon one tenet...ambivalence was built into the Puritan view of death. On the one hand...Abraham and his descendants. 9 Puritan writing is filled with such references...
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The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England

Book by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe; University of North Carolina Press, 1982

Subjects:

New England--Religious Life And Customs, Puritans--New England, Spiritual Life--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--17th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...between the two traditions." 7 Puritans knew and used classic Catholic...8 To a large extent the Puritan devotional writing that blossomed in the early...Songs nourished devotional writing among all parties, and the...earlier Latin editions, and Puritans commonly cited Augustine in...
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George Gifford and the Reformation of the Common Sort: Puritan Priorities in Elizabethan Religious Life

Book by Timothy Scott McGinnis; Truman State University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Gifford, George--D. 1620, Puritans--England

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...abroad. Although Cecil was not a vocal supporter of puritan causes, he often intervened with ecclesiastical...doubt familiar, was the trial of John Udall, a puritan minister accused of writing one of the Marprelate tracts and tried for treason...

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Journal Articles on: puritan writing

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Geoff Ward, the Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present

Journal article by Michael Boyden; American Studies International, Vol. 41, 2003

Subjects:

The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present. by Michael...including pulp fiction, The Writing of America also points out...America" (145). But The Writing of America is as much a reinterpretation...and the weaknesses of The Writing of America, therefore, are...political or socially committed writings tend to be slighted (e...
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Exteriority in Milton and Puritan Life Writing

Journal article by Linda Tredennick; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 51, 2011

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English literature--Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John (English poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John (English poet)--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Puritan movements--Portrayals, Puritanism--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Exteriority in Milton and Puritan Life Writing. by Linda...and in Puritan life writing, the true location...imposition to see in the writings of seventeenth-century...shown is typical of Puritan diaries. For Puritans, Todd argues, "the...in a representative Puritan diary, written by...describes his anxiety about writing a "higher Argument...
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Writing New England: an Anthology from the Puritans to the Present

Journal article by Serena L. Newman; Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 30, 2002

Collections: History, Entire Library

Writing New England: an Anthology from the Puritans to the Present by Serena L...Andrew Delbanco (Ed.), Writing New England: An Anthology...Cambridge, MA: 2001. Writing New England is a literary...through carefully selected writings of the well-known and the...
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Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans

Journal article by Michael G. Ditmore; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 58, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Puritan writing. The Puritans, of course, hardly...New England, the Puritans swiftly encountered...insists that these Puritan books are quite good...us now merely as writing; and in the way...literary of Puritan writings, but instead gives...dried up--the Puritans, somewhat like nuclear...charitable toward Puritan subject matter and...as it is to major writings by major first...associated with Puritan writing, Colacurcios prose...
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Puritans and Jews: Weber, Sombart and the Transvaluators of Modern Society (1)

Journal article by Colin Loader; Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 26, 2001

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Jews--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Puritans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Stereotype (Psychology)--Research

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...distinction between the Puritan and the entrepreneur...former appeared in Webers writings simultaneously with...did not diminish the Puritans position as transvaluating...Judaism, structurally the Puritan was not the Jew due...Weber clearly placed the Puritan in the heroic early period. His writing on America was designed...

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Magazine Articles on: puritan writing

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Bearing the Burden? Puritan Wives

Magazine article by Martha Saxton; History Today, Vol. 44, October 1994

Subjects:

Puritans--Social aspects, Sex discrimination against women--History, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Women and religion--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the experience of Puritans of both sexes in the...that subordination that Puritan men insisted upon as...influential to them. In the Puritan world then, women could...let us look at how Puritan men elaborated beliefs...three submissive women, writing in the mid-seventeenth...While not all American Puritans saw female obedience...
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Performance Art? Puritans in the Pulpit

Magazine article by Francis Bremer, Ellen Rydell; History Today, Vol. 45, September 1995

Subjects:

Preaching--History, Puritans--History, Sermons--History, Theology, Puritan--Practice

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the stories of the Bible. Puritan preachers drew upon this common...Bible was not simply heard in Puritan sermons; it was reanimated...goriest details. In this manner Puritans sought to move their listeners...recapture the drama of the Puritan pulpit performance. While...in handsome rousing lively writing (such as Mr. Thomas Hooker...
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Cromwell's 'Gay Attire': Puritan Souls May Hide a Cavalier Approach to Clothes, According to Patrick Little as He Explores Fashion at the Court of Oliver Cromwell

Magazine article by Patrick Little; History Today, Vol. 58, September 2008

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Cromwell, Oliver--Clothing, Cromwell, Oliver--Social aspects, Fashion--Social aspects, Puritans--Clothing

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Roundhead, the quintessential Puritan, Oliver Cromwell. The traditional image of the Puritan is so pervasive that it comes...is it possible to see a "Puritan" or even a "Republican...mind, should our view of the Puritans and their sombre garments...disaffected Colonel Matthew Alured, writing in 1659, there was no apparel...
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A Puritan Takes on Cyber Society

Magazine article by Lane Jennings; The Futurist, Vol. 37, January 2003

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A Puritan takes on cyber society by Lane Jennings Habits of the High-Tech Heart...asks us to pay closer attention to what messages we send, and why. Writing in the Puritan tradition of Protestant Christian social reformers, Schultze assails...
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36 Assumptions about Writing Plays: A Noted Playwright Nails Down Three Dozen Creative Principles

Magazine article by Jose Rivera; American Theatre, Vol. 20, February 2003

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Playwriting

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36 Assumptions about writing plays: a noted playwright nails down...YEARS IVE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO TEACH WRITING IN a number of schools, from second...survey of the assumptions I have about writing plays, in no particular order of importance...

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Newspaper Articles on: puritan writing

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How a Puritan and the Sex Lives of His Daughters Shocked the World; for the First Time, the Daughter of Alfred Kinsey Talks about Her Father's Notorious Report

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 23, 1996

Subjects:

Kinsey, Alfred C.

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

How a Puritan and the Sex Lives of His Daughters Shocked...or known. Meanwhile, in the staunchly puritan atmosphere of small-town America, opposition...wanted sexually and - unlike anyone else writing at that time - did not adopt a moral standpoint...
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Genius among Puritans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 16, 2004

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Mencken, H.L.

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

Genius among Puritans. Byline: John C. "Chuck...seemingly impossible - that is, writing a review about Mencken without...Americans were invariably Puritans at heart. Proving that point...is to say formerly anti-Puritan San Franciscans, masquerading as born-again Puritans by demanding to be married...
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Tenacious' Music No Laughing Matter; Comics Black, Gass Two Fat Guys with Talent for Writing 'Tasty Jams'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 14, 2006

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Epic Records, Recording industry, Sound recording industry

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

...Black, Gass Two Fat Guys with Talent for Writing Tasty Jams. Byline: Adam Mazmanian...men of Tenacious D escape confining, puritan upbringings and defeat various mostly...commitment to attaining rock glory and writing "tasty jams." They parlayed a few gigs...
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Two Plays Based on a Web of Lies

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), November 12, 2010

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Proctor, John

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

...The infamous Salem Witch Trials were caused by human greed, injustice and the credulity of the Puritan prosecutors. Millers powerful writing and the Everyman cast sweep the audience along in an unrelenting tide of powerful emotion, as the...
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Marilyn Longstaff's Rich Poetry Embraces Faith and Failure

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 9, 2011

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Poetry, Poets

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

...with local references. Her writing career began in a class at...publishing a first pamphlet, Puritan Games, through the Vane Women writing collective. In 2003, she...Northern Promise Award by New Writing North, helping towards her...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: puritan writing

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Descended from a prominent Puritan family, Hawthorne was the...25), he devoted himself to writing. His first novel, Fanshawe...Unable to support himself by writing and editing, he took a job...1850). Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, the novel delves...
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Mather, Cotton

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...math r, 1663 1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b...principally by his indefatigable writing that he became one of the most celebrated of all New England Puritan ministers. He was a scholar...Gods will. His theological writings, now largely forgotten...narrow, intolerant, severe Puritan, and his part in the Salem...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm...critics maintain that the best writing of the colonial period is...literature not only through his own writing but also by founding and promoting...American as the broadly humorous writing that became popular early...expanding popularity, as writings of regional origin began to...
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Canadian Literature, English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...language. Early Canadian Writing Although Canadian writing began as an imitative colonial...immigrations, first of New England Puritans from 1760 on and later of...pioneering left little time for the writing or the appreciation of literature...developing. In the 18th cent. Puritan hymnists, such as Henry Alline...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...reign. Caxtons achievement encouraged writing of all kinds and also influenced the standardization...literary tastes widened. The lifting of Puritan restrictions and the reassembling of the...mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the name Lewis Carroll , produced...

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