..."I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotions. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest."
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
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French Revolution - Wikipedia
French Revolution
The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history.
Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbed to new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May. The first year of the Revolution witnessed members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October.
French Revolution timeline
The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history.
Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbed to new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May. The first year of the Revolution witnessed members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October.
French Revolution timeline
Monday, February 15, 2010
Enid Blyton - 'My love of children is the whole foundation of all my work.'
bbc.co.uk/archive/blyton/8401.shtml
- At six year old she was forced to learn piano.
- Enid Blyton [e-nad--bly-ton] used her own children as critics for her books.
Friday, February 12, 2010
A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN AS AN ARTIST
Bibliography
Clark, Rev. Timothy D. The Dedalus Factor: Einstein's Science and
Joyce's Portrait of the Artist. The Modern World. 4 April 2002
themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_paper_clark.html
Mythography. The Legend of Daedalus in Myth and Art. Mythography. 4 April 2002
loggia.com/myth/daedalus.html
Clark, Rev. Timothy D. The Dedalus Factor: Einstein's Science and
Joyce's Portrait of the Artist. The Modern World. 4 April 2002
themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_paper_clark.html
Mythography. The Legend of Daedalus in Myth and Art. Mythography. 4 April 2002
loggia.com/myth/daedalus.html
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
USEFUL LINKS FOR ENGLISH STUDENTS
I have put together a small collection of useful links, resources and other sources of glee related to English words and language. Feel free to contribute your own favorite sites.
Source: phrontistery.info
Source: phrontistery.info
Dictionaries
- OneLook Dictionaries
- An invaluable multiple dictionary search engine that enables you to find definitions for all sorts of words.
- YourDictionary.com
- A very useful dictionary site including multilingual dictionaries, dictionaries on specialized topics and various other language-related resources.
- Dictionary.com
- A searchable online dictionary site with wordplay and multilingual resources.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 1913
- The Bibliomania searchable version of a copyright-expired dictionary.
Weird Words
- Dictionary of Difficult Words
- A searchable online dictionary with definitions taken from Robert H. Hill's text dictionary of the same name. Useful but rather outdated, and thus of greatest use when looking for obsolete terms from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- SKB's Dictionary
- Not really a complete dictionary, but a very interesting collection of odd words accompanied by unusual quotes, stories, and etymological connections concerning many of them.
- Word Oddities
- Jeff Miller's list of words unique in some way, if you are interested in those sorts of things, as I am.
- Grandiloquent Dictionary
- A list of 1900 obscure words with definitions.
- Spizzerinctum
- A peculiar and very interesting quiz site where obscure words are used in context to tell a top news story each day.
- Luciferous Logolepsy
- A compilation of over 9000 obscure words with definitions.
- Funwords.com
- Martha Barnette's site of weird words, including her own published books on the subject.
- The Archive of Endangered, Special or Fun Words
- A compilation of readers' submissions of unique or interesting words.
Reference
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Ever wonder what rhymes with orange? Check it out here.
- Roget's Thesaurus
- OK, it's a 1911 version (75 year copyright limits apply), but this searchable version of the world's top thesaurus is still handy.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Once again, an older version of a classic now in the public domain.
- Poetic Terms Glossary
- A useful glossary of terms. Not pretty, but pretty complete. I think that last sentence uses syllepsis.
- Wordexplorations.com
- A finely crafted site dedicated to studying Latin and Greek etymological connections with English, but also containing other very interesting linguistic resources. Very useful and user-friendly (paid members only).
- Roots of English Dictionary
- Free etymological dictionary software to allow you to find Greek and Latin word origins.
- Lexical Freenet
- A truly unique resource that defies easy description. A mega-meta-thesaurus that reveals the links and relationships between concepts, people and words. Try it!
- Moby Project
- A lexicon project that makes available dozens of word lists, including the world's largest raw English word list (without definitions).
Newsletters, E-zines, Mailing Lists
- Word of the Day Page
- Anu Garg's page supplementing his widely acclaimed word-a-day mailing list.
- Word Detective
- The online version of the syndicated newspaper column of the same name written by Evan Morris.
- World Wide Words
- The site for Michael Quinion's renowned and respected weekly newsletter on words and language.
- Worthless Word for the Day
- A word-a-day site and mailing list that has been active since the dawn of the Internet.
- Logophilia Weekly
- A now-defunct English words newsletter, but with over 100 essays archived for your edification and entertainment.
- The Vocabula Review
- A very professional monthly journal about the English language and word usage.
Amusements
- Banished Words List
- Each year, Lake Superior State University produces a "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness". End word abuse in our time!
- Pseudodictionary
- A 'dictionary of words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries' - now over 11,000 neologisms strong.
- Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
- Dictionaries of one-letter, all-consonant and all-vowel words. An amusing site, full of informative word-facts.
- Apostrophe Protection Society
- A site, only partly facetious, dedicated to the prevention of apostrophic catastrophe and misuse in the written English language.
- Anagram Genius Server
- A free service that lets you put in any word or phrase and have its anagrams sent to you by e-mail.
- English as She is Spoke
- A 19th century English phrasebook written by a non-English spaeking Portuguese writer using a Portuguese-French dictionary and a French-English phrasebook. These are the hilarious results.
- The Dialectizer
- Convert any web page into any number of English 'dialects': Redneck, Cockney, Elmer Fudd (!), etc.
Miscellaneous
- Word Play
- Judy Wolinsky's very interesting site has just about the largest collection of English language links I have ever seen.
- Richard Lederer's Verbivore
- Renowned author of many books on English words Richard Lederer's online presence; a useful and very interesting source.
- Slanguage
- Everything you always wanted to know about English language slangs (mostly US, unfortunately).
- Phobia List
- I'm not sure why we have so many words for fears of things, but here they all are.
- Heteronyms
- A compilation of heteronyms - such as lead (LEED) and lead (LED).
- Antagonyms
- Words which have two meanings which are antonyms; you put dust down when dusting for fingerprints, but pick it up when dusting the house.
- alt.usage.english
- The homepage for the ultimate newsgroup for those seeking knowledge of the English language. Just remember to spell-check your postings, and, for God's sake, don't ask anything involving "-gry".
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
APOLLO AND DIONYSUS - CHART
| Apollonian | Dionysian |
|---|---|
APOLLO AND DIONYSUS - en.wikipedia.org
In Greek mythology, Apollo and Dionysus are both sons of Zeus. Apollo is the god of the Sun, lightness, music, and poetry, while Dionysus is the god of wine, ecstasy, and intoxication. In the modern literary usage of the concept, the contrast between Apollo and Dionysus symbolizes principles of wholeness versus individualism, light versus darkness, or civilization versus primal nature. The ancient Greeks did not consider the two gods as opposites or rivals. However, Parnassus, the mythical home of poetry and all art, was strongly associated with each of the two gods in separate legends.
NEITZCHE
nietzschesource.org
(encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Neitzche)
| Name |
Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|---|---|
| Birth | 15 October 1844 (Röcken bei Lützen, Prussian Province of Saxony) |
| Death | August 25, 1900 (aged 55) (Weimar, Germany) |
| School/tradition | Weimar Classicism; precursor to Continental philosophy, existentialism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis |
| Main interests | aesthetics, ethics, ontology, philosophy of history, psychology, value-theory |
| Notable ideas | Apollonian and Dionysian, death of God, eternal recurrence, herd-instinct, master-slave morality, Übermensch, perspectivism, will to power, ressentiment |
| Influenced by | Dostoevsky, Emerson, Goethe, Kant, Plato, La Rochefoucauld, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Wagner, Darwin, Burckhardt, Stendhal, Spinoza |
| Influenced | Mann, Bataille, Camus, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Hesse, Musil, Iqbal, Jaspers, Jung, London, Shaw, Santayana, Adorno, Sartre, Baudrillard, Williams, Wittgenstein, Mencken, Strauss, Buber, Ayn Rand, Kafka, Butler, Spengler, Stefan George, W.B. Yeats, Kesey, Gibran |
en.wikipedia.org - NATURALISM, MODERNISM & OTHER -ISMS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
I've highlighted the keywords & lines in order to minimize the time needed to go through the articles on Wikipedia. The terms given below are the key terms asked by my English literature teachers to go through when we were reading Greek dramas.
NATURALISM, MODERNISM, LITERARY REALISM, NIHILISM, APOLLONIAN AND DIONYSIAN, FATALISM, ENDEARMENT
Naturalism - MAN CONTROLLED BY NATURE - EVERYTHING ACQUIRED BY GENES - (as distinct from Naturalist, Nature and Natural) refer to various topics within philosophy and science, environmental movements, and other areas.
In the arts, naturalism may refer to:
Naturalism (arts), a style in painting and the visual arts
Naturalism (literature), a literary style
Naturalism (theatre), a movement in theatre and drama that began in the 19th century.
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1865 to 1900 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. It was depicted as a literary movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. Naturalism is the outgrowth of Realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere.
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
Literary realism most often refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life and society "as they were." In the spirit of general "realism," Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. Jorge Luis Borges, in an essay entitled "The Scandinavian Destiny", attributed the earliest discovery of Realism in literature to the Northmen in the Icelandic Sagas, although it was soon lost by them along with the continent of North America.
Nietzsche saw nihilism as the outcome of repeated frustrations in the search for meaning. He diagnosed nihilism as a latent presence within the very foundations of European culture, and saw it as a necessary and approaching destiny. The religious worldview had already suffered a number of challenges from contrary perspectives grounded in philosophical skepticism, and in modern science's evolutionary and heliocentric theory. Nietzsche saw this intellectual condition as a new challenge to European culture, which had extended itself beyond a sort of point-of-no-return. Nietzsche conceptualizes this with the famous statement "God is dead", which first appeared in his work in section 108 of The Gay Science, again in section 125 with the parable of "The Madman", and even more famously in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The statement, typically placed in quotation marks,[1] accentuated the crisis that Nietzsche argued that Western culture must face and transcend in the wake of the irreparable dissolution of its traditional foundations, moored largely in classical Greek philosophy and Christianity.
The Apollonian and Dionysian is a philosophical and literary concept, or dichotomy, based on certain features of ancient Greek mythology. Several Western philosophical and literary figures have invoked this dichotomy in critical and creative works, including Plutarch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Robert A. Heinlein, Ruth Benedict, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, singer Jim Morrison, literary critic G. Wilson Knight, Ayn Rand, Stephen King, Diane Wakoski and cultural critic Camille Paglia.
Fatalism generally refers to several of the following ideas:
1. A flawed perception of the consequences of exercised free will, ignorance, and forgetfulness.
2. That free will does not exist, meaning therefore that history has progressed in the only manner possible. [1] This belief is very similar to determinism.
3. That actions are free, but nevertheless work toward an inevitable end. [2] This belief is very similar to compatibilist predestination.
4. That acceptance is appropriate, rather than resistance against inevitability. This belief is very similar to defeatism.
A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address and/or describe a person or animal for which the speaker feels love or affection.
If you've web resources on the topics listed dabove, do share them by posting a comment. Thank you.
NATURALISM, MODERNISM, LITERARY REALISM, NIHILISM, APOLLONIAN AND DIONYSIAN, FATALISM, ENDEARMENT
Naturalism - MAN CONTROLLED BY NATURE - EVERYTHING ACQUIRED BY GENES - (as distinct from Naturalist, Nature and Natural) refer to various topics within philosophy and science, environmental movements, and other areas.
In the arts, naturalism may refer to:
Naturalism (arts), a style in painting and the visual arts
Naturalism (literature), a literary style
Naturalism (theatre), a movement in theatre and drama that began in the 19th century.
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1865 to 1900 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. It was depicted as a literary movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. Naturalism is the outgrowth of Realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere.
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
Literary realism most often refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life and society "as they were." In the spirit of general "realism," Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. Jorge Luis Borges, in an essay entitled "The Scandinavian Destiny", attributed the earliest discovery of Realism in literature to the Northmen in the Icelandic Sagas, although it was soon lost by them along with the continent of North America.
Nietzsche saw nihilism as the outcome of repeated frustrations in the search for meaning. He diagnosed nihilism as a latent presence within the very foundations of European culture, and saw it as a necessary and approaching destiny. The religious worldview had already suffered a number of challenges from contrary perspectives grounded in philosophical skepticism, and in modern science's evolutionary and heliocentric theory. Nietzsche saw this intellectual condition as a new challenge to European culture, which had extended itself beyond a sort of point-of-no-return. Nietzsche conceptualizes this with the famous statement "God is dead", which first appeared in his work in section 108 of The Gay Science, again in section 125 with the parable of "The Madman", and even more famously in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The statement, typically placed in quotation marks,[1] accentuated the crisis that Nietzsche argued that Western culture must face and transcend in the wake of the irreparable dissolution of its traditional foundations, moored largely in classical Greek philosophy and Christianity.
The Apollonian and Dionysian is a philosophical and literary concept, or dichotomy, based on certain features of ancient Greek mythology. Several Western philosophical and literary figures have invoked this dichotomy in critical and creative works, including Plutarch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Robert A. Heinlein, Ruth Benedict, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, singer Jim Morrison, literary critic G. Wilson Knight, Ayn Rand, Stephen King, Diane Wakoski and cultural critic Camille Paglia.
Fatalism generally refers to several of the following ideas:
1. A flawed perception of the consequences of exercised free will, ignorance, and forgetfulness.
2. That free will does not exist, meaning therefore that history has progressed in the only manner possible. [1] This belief is very similar to determinism.
3. That actions are free, but nevertheless work toward an inevitable end. [2] This belief is very similar to compatibilist predestination.
4. That acceptance is appropriate, rather than resistance against inevitability. This belief is very similar to defeatism.
A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address and/or describe a person or animal for which the speaker feels love or affection.
If you've web resources on the topics listed dabove, do share them by posting a comment. Thank you.
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