Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 167, 2009 Lectures

Klappentext This volume contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008-10. From romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa to the British industrial revolution, from John Donne to Arthur Miller, from surrealism to Chinese flower imagery, these lectures demonstrate unparalleled breadth and depth of scholarship. Zusammenfassung This volume contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008-10. From romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa to the British industrial revolution! from John Donne to Arthur Miller! from surrealism to Chinese flower imagery! these lectures demonstrate unparalleled breadth and depth of scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis The History of Romantic Love in Sub-Saharan African: Between Interest and Emotion Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: Advent and Expansion Leon Battista Alberti and the Redirection of Renaissance Humanism Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows Surrealism and its Legacies in Latin America Donne, by Hand T.S. Eliot's Daughter Arthur Miller: Realism, Language, Poetry The British Industrial Revolution in a Global Perspective Shitao and the Traditional Chinese Conception of Ruins Anthropology in the Territory of Rights - Human or Otherwise Our Unwritten Constitution Timely Images: Chinese Art for Festival Display Buddhist Archaeology in Republican China: A New Relationship to the Past Many Legal Orders, One Law The Reason of this Preference": Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope's Dunciad

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• Authors: FBA Johnston, Prof. Ron Johnston, Ron Johnston, Ron Johnston FBA, Johnston Ron
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9780197264775
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726477-5
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca; Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, HISTORY / World, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, General & world history, Literary studies: general, General and world history, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean