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The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman' in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Jonson's Sejanus often carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this ideal of conduct, that very few Romans are worthy of the name. In this book Chernaik demonstrates how, in these plays, Roman values are held up to critical scrutiny. The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Massinger and Chapman often present a much darker image of Rome, as exemplifying barbarism rather than civility. Through a comparative analysis of the Roman plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and including detailed discussion of the classical historians Livy, Tacitus and Plutarch, this study examines the uses of Roman history - 'the myth of Rome' - in Shakespeare's age.
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The Embodied Word
In The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested
Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700 , Nancy
Bradley Warren expands on the topic of female spirituality, first
explored in her book Women of God and Arms , to encompass
broad issues of religion, gender, and historical periodization.
Through her analyses of the variety of ways in which medieval
spirituality was deliberately and actively carried forward to the
early modern period, Warren underscores both continuities and
revisions that challenge conventional distinctions between medieval
and early modern culture.
The early modern writings of Julian of Norwich are an
illustrative starting point for Warren's challenge to established
views of English religious cultures. In a single chapter, Warren
follows the textual and devotional practices of Julian as they
influence two English Benedictine nuns in exile, and then Grace
Mildmay, a seventeenth-century Protestant gentry woman, \"to shed
light on the ways in which individual encounters of the divine,
especially gendered bodily encounters expressed textually, signify
for others both personally and socio-historically.\" In subsequent
chapters, Warren discusses St. Birgitta of Sweden's Imitatio
Christi in the context of the importance of Spain and Spanish
women in shaping a distinctive form of early modern Englishness
strongly aligned with medieval religious culture; juxtaposes the
fifteenth-century mystic Margery Kempe with the life and writings
of Anna Trapnel, a seventeenth-century Baptist; and treats
Catherine of Siena together with the Protestant Anne Askew and
Lollard and Recusant women. In the final chapters she focuses on
the interplay of gender and textuality in women's textual
representations of themselves and in works written by men who used
the traditions of female spirituality in the service of competing
orthodoxies.
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A match on dry grass
A Match on Dry Grass argues that community organizing represents a fresh and promising approach to school reform as part of a broader agenda to build power for low-income communities and address the profound social inequalities that affect the education of children. Based on a comprehensive national study, the book presents rich and compelling case studies of prominent organizing efforts in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Denver, San Jose, and the Mississippi Delta. Identifying the key processes that create strong connections between schools and communities, Warren, Mapp, and their collaborators show how community organizing builds powerful relationships that lead to the transformational change necessary to advance educational equity and a robust democracy.
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Allen Tate and His Work
The thirty-five essays and memoirs about Allen Tate which are collected in this volume along with the introduction by Radcliffe Squires provide a perceptive, many-windowed view of Tate’s work and his life. Poet, critic, novelist -- Tate is all of these, and the selections, reflecting these various aspects of his career, are arranged in sections entitled “The Man,” “The Essayist,” “The Novelist,” and “The Poet.” As Professor Squires points out, the last three divisions take cognizance of the astounding diversity of Tate’s achievement. “But in a last analysis,” he continues, “the divisions are an Aristotelian nicety, an arbitrary convenience. His work is really all of a piece. It has all derived from the same energy, the same insights. It has all had a single aim.” What is that aim? Squires compares it to a simple physics experiment in which students are taught the principles of pressure, and he goes on to explain: “The synergy of Allen Tate’s poetry, fiction, and essays has had the aim of applying pressure -- think of the embossed, bitterly stressed lines, his textured metaphors -- until it brings up before our eyes a blanched parody of the human figure, which is our evil, the world’s evil, so that we begin to long for God. That has seemed to him a worthwhile task to perform for modern man threatened by such fatal narcissism, such autotelic pride that he is in danger of disappearing into a glassy fantasy of his own concoction. We shall need his help for a long time to come.” The selections were first published in a variety of periodicals and books over the years. The volume includes a substantial bibliography.
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