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Ireland's love poems. Wonder and a Wild Desire. — JEFFARES, Norman A. (edited and with an introduction by)

Ireland's love poems. Wonder and a Wild Desire.

JEFFARES, Norman A. (edited and with an introduction by)
Kyle Cathie
2000, xxvii,260pp. Paperback. In very good condition.
"The vast complexity of Ireland's history and culture - from the pre-Christian pagan period and the powerful bardic schools, through the tragic nineteenth century potato famine and the emergence of today's Irish nation - has always been intricately linked to and determined the nature of its poetry. Ireland has an extraordinary wealth of love poetry, both in the Irish and English languages. Emotions and experiences of every kind are expressed in this celebration of love's pleasures and pains, ranging from the complex bardic forms through to forthright contemporary feminist poetry. In his selection A. Norman Jeffares illustrates this variety, choosing love poems from every period of Irish history. Some of the poets will be well known to readers Swift, Wilde and Kennelly as well as the Nobel Prize winners, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney. Others will be lesser known but their contribution provides an opportunity to hear the authentic and intensely passionate voice of Irish love poems across the ages."
€ 9,00
ISBN: 9781856263580
N° livre 59544
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Worlds of Reference. Lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer. — McARTHUR, Tom

Worlds of Reference. Lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer.

McARTHUR, Tom
Cambridge University Press
1988, ix, 230pp. Paperback. In good condition.
Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture - and particularly how the human race learned to store information beyond the brain. It looks at how our species moved from being able to communicate only orally and to store information only in the head (rote memorisation) to the evolution of technologies for external reference clay- and cunieform, reed-and-hieroglyph, bamboo-and-ideogram, parchment-and-alphabet, codices, books, pages, columns and so forth through the print revolution to the current electronic revolution. Along the way it looks at how this has affected languages like Latin, french, and English and people's attitudes to those languages - and to words and the listing of information about words. This intensely human subject is as compelling and important today as any account of kings, queens, wars and social upheaval.
€ 10,00
ISBN: 9780521314039
N° livre 59526
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An Imperial Collection. Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum. — Pomeroy, Jordana / Blakesley, Rosalind P. / Matveyev, Vladimir Yu / Renne, Elizaveta P.

An Imperial Collection. Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum.

Pomeroy, Jordana / Blakesley, Rosalind P. / Matveyev, Vladimir Yu / Renne, Elizaveta P.
National Museum of Women in the Arts / Merrell
2003, 224pp, Illustrated. Hardcover with dustjacket. In very good condition.
Drawn from the unrivalled collection of the world-famous State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and published as part of the international celebrations to mark the city's 300th anniversary in 2003, this stunning book presents an extraordinary selection of nearly fifty paintings by fifteen western European women artists An Imperial Collection explores how women as patrons, painters and subjects contributed to the cultural history of Russia. Eminent families formed collection and created artistic commissions that brought women artists such as Elisabeth Vig$ee-Lebrun and Angelica Kauffman to Russia and extended the influence of western European art to the royal court of the tsars. Some women artists were allowed into the inner circles of the aristocracy, providing an 'insider' view into the private, intimate side of court life. The book will appeal to anyone interested in women artists, the history of Russian patronage of the arts, and Russian imperial history and culture.
€ 15,00
ISBN: 9781858941981
N° livre 59510
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