The English Miniature
Title | The English Miniature PDF eBook |
Author | John Murdoch |
Publisher | New Haven : Yale University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1981-01-01 |
Genre | Portrait miniatures, English |
ISBN | 9780300027785 |
Miniature and the English Imagination
Title | Miniature and the English Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Melinda Alliker Rabb |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2019-02-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110857050X |
Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small-scale during the period from 1650 to 1765. Drawing on three interconnected areas of scholarship, Melinda Alliker Rabb analyzes the human capacity to supplement direct experience of the world through representation, in order to gain knowledge of that world and to attempt control over it. Assessing two kinds of miniature - the real and the imagined - allows rethinking of works by Swift, Pope, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and others, and shows how the fictional miniature can correspond meaningfully to the world of things. The phenomenon of scaling down objects as various as teapots, bureaus, globes, buckets, spoons, battlefields, and diving bells, has a relationship to large-scale events as various as financial revolution, globalization, scientific discovery, war and other events that challenge old modes of representation and demand new ones.
Miniature and the English Imagination
Title | Miniature and the English Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Melinda Alliker Rabb |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2019-02-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108425836 |
Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.
My First Bilingual Little Reader: Level A
Title | My First Bilingual Little Reader: Level A PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Schecter |
Publisher | Teaching Resources |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2005-09-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780439700696 |
Presents a collection of stories to help beginning readers and second language learners.
On Longing
Title | On Longing PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Stewart |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780822313663 |
An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.
Malice in Miniature
Title | Malice in Miniature PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne M. Dams |
Publisher | Severn House Publishers Ltd |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1448300754 |
When Dorothy Martin gets a call from her friend Ada Finch, whose gardener son has been arrested for the attempted theft of an antique dolls’ tea set from the Miniatures Museum at the imposing Brocklesby Hall, she doesn’t hesitate to offer her services to clear his name. But when theft leads to murder, Dorothy discovers there are big secrets hidden in the rooms filled with miniatures.
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature
Title | Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1822 |
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