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Strange Footing
Author | : Seeta Chaganti |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226548180 |
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For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body’s regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
Author | : Ian Tattersall |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781466879430 |
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In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career—from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman—Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings in the Caucasus. The book's title refers to the 1856 discovery of a clearly very old skull cap in Germany's Neander Valley. The possessor had a brain as large as a modern human, but a heavy low braincase with a prominent brow ridge. Scientists tried hard to explain away the inconvenient possibility that this was not actually our direct relative. One extreme interpretation suggested that the preserved leg bones were curved by both rickets, and by a life on horseback. The pain of the unfortunate individual's affliction had caused him to chronically furrow his brow in agony, leading to the excessive development of bone above the eye sockets. The subsequent history of human evolutionary studies is full of similarly fanciful interpretations. With tact and humor, Tattersall concludes that we are not the perfected products of natural processes, but instead the result of substantial doses of random happenstance.
Golden friendships sketches of the lives and characters of friends
Author | : F L. Clarke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Best friends |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590237394 |
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Thomas Carlyle s Collected Works
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3311771 |
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z254032702 |
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Collected Works
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HW27R1 |
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Collected and Republished
Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCD:31175029399402 |
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Queen s Bench and Practice Court Reports 1844 1882
Author | : Upper Canada. Court of Queen's Bench,J. Hillyard Cameron,Sir James Lukin Robinson,Christopher Robinson,H. C. W. Wethey,Salter Jehosaphat Van Koughnet |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : OSU:32437011575889 |
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