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Free Download Memory, History, and Autobiography in Early Modern Towns in East and West By Vanessa Harding; Kōichi Watanabe
2015 | 148 Pages | ISBN: 1443877654 | PDF | 1 MB
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, in both Western Europe and East Asia, towns and cities helped to shape the individual consciousness, against the background of a more traditional society in which collective values remained strong. Towns were centres of stimulus, challenge, and opportunity for residents and visitors, and the identity of the town itself, its character and history, became a strong theme in the formation of the individual. Writing and the circulation of texts played an important part in this process. Towns created artefacts, rituals, and memories that embodied their history and identity, but individuals positioned themselves and their families in the town histories as they wrote them. The seven essays in this volume range in focus from Renaissance Venice to nineteenth-century Edo (Tokyo), and from capital cities (Seoul, London) to provincial towns in France, England, and Japan. They explore the interaction of self, family, and social group and the construction of collective memory, examining autobiographies, letters and "exchange diaries", family narratives, and urban histories and collections. Together, they challenge the long-prevailing historiography that contrasts the emergence of the individual in European societies with the persistently traditionalist and collective character of East Asian societies in the Early Modern period.

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Free Download Memory of Trees : A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm By Gayla Marty
2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 081666689X | PDF | 1 MB
Memory of Trees is a multigenerational story of Gayla Marty's family farm near Rush City, Minnesota. Cleared from woodlands by her great-grandfather Jacob in the 1880s, the farm passed to her father, Gordon, and his brother, Gaylon. Hewing to a conservative Swedish Baptist faith, the two brothers worked the farm, raising their families in side-by-side houses. As the years go by, the families grow--and slowly grow apart. Uncle Gaylon, more doctrinaire in his faith, rails against the permissiveness of Gayla's parents. Financial tensions arise as well when the farm economy weakens and none of the children is willing or able to take over. Gayla is encouraged to leave for college, international travel, and city life, but the farm remains essential to her sense of self, even after the family decides to sell the land. When Gaylon has an accident on a tractor, Gayla becomes driven to reconnect with him and to find out why she and her uncle--once so close but now estranged--were the only two members of the family who had resisted selling the land. Guided by vivid images of the farm's many beautiful trees, she pores over sacred and classical works as well as layers of her own memory to understand the forces that have transformed the American landscape and culture in the last half of the twentieth century. Beneath the belief in land as a giver of life and blessing, she discovers a powerful anxiety born of human uprootedness and loss. Movingly written, Memory of Trees will resonate for many with attachments to small towns or farms, whether they continue to work the land or, like so many, have left for a different life.

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Free Download Memory Matters : Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections By Janice Haaken; Paula Reavey
2009 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0415444918 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual violations in their female clients, a wave of alarmed critics countered that therapists were implanting the very memories they were discovering. In looking back at this volatile and heated controversy, Memory Matters takes up disturbing questions that linger concerning memory, sexuality, and childhood. Beginning with a re-analysis of cases from the recovered memory era, the volume goes on to offer fresh perspectives on recollections of childhood sexual abuse. Informed by feminist and critical perspectives within psychology, contributing authors introduce examples from their own qualitative research on processes of remembering. They offer rich examples from a wide range of applied settings, from the courts, psychotherapy, institutions for the disabled, to self-help groups and the media. A shared set of questions is addressed by each of the authors to create a dialogue with the reader on recurring motifs. Memory Matters is an ideal resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences and legal studies, as well as practitioners in the fields of mental health, crisis services, and the law. Scholarly and accessible in tone, the book also offers helpful insights for professionals working with childhood memory.

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Free Download Memoirs of a Leavisite : The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English By David Ellis
2013 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 1846318890 | EPUB | 1 MB
In the second half of the last century, the teaching of English literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis. What was it like to be taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part study of Leavis, David Ellis takes himself as representative of that pool of lower middle class grammar school pupils from which Leavisites were largely recruited, and explores the beliefs of both the Leavises, their lasting impact on him and why ultimately they were doomed to failure. At the heart of this book are questions about what English should and can be that are by no means finally settled.

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English | ISBN: 1035037467 | PDF | 2.00 Mb
In a world where your hiding places are suddenly exposed, where do you put your skeletons? This is more than the story of Credit Suisse, a bank that failed; it's an investigation into greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.

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Free Download Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 42 : Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series By Reinhold F. Glei; Maik Goth ; Nina Tomaszewski
2016 | 137 Pages | ISBN: 1442275820 | EPUB | 1 MB
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 42 showcases the interdisciplinary nature of the series with articles on late fifteenth century travel literature (Hans von Waltheym), the fourteenth century reception of a pagan tragedy (Chaucer's Alexander the Great and the Monk's Tale), the individuality of the heroes in the Middle English romance Amis and Amiloun, and the emergence of religious language in the Reformation period (Ulrich von Hutten). Volume 42 also includes nine review notices that illustrate the journal's interdisciplinary scope.

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Free Download Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 40: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series (Volume 40) (Medievalia et Humanistica Series, 40) By Reinhold F. Glei (editor), Wolfgang Polleichtner (editor)
2014 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 1442243007 | EPUB | 1 MB
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.Volume 40 showcases the interdisciplinary nature of the series with five articles on topics such as the image of Jews in Christian medieval literature, Trojan legends in Dante, and thirteenth-century French love poetry. Volume 40 also includes eight review notices that illustrate the volume's interdisciplinary scope.

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Free Download Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 38: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series (Volume 38) (Medievalia et Humanistica Series, 38) By Reinhold F. Glei (editor), Wolfgang Polleichtner (editor)
2012 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 144222052X | EPUB | 1 MB
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.Volume 38 showcases a broad range of medieval scholarship, including five original articles that explore French, English, Italian, and Latin subjects. The volume also features one review article and seven review notices that illustrate the volume's interdisciplinary scope.

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Free Download Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Literary Appropriations (Volume 37) (Medievalia et Humanistica Series, 37) By Paul Maurice Clogan (editor)
2011 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1442214279 | EPUB | 1 MB
Volume 37- Literary Appropriations-examines medieval literature in a different light. This volume features six original articles, focusing on the art of appropriation, as well as fourteen reviews of recent scholarly publications. The first article "The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the First Life of Blessed Francis of Assisi" by Jacques Dalarun reveals the oldest known source of the writings of Francis of Assisi, until of late only found in an Italian church publication. Lisa Bansen-Harp's essay "Ironic Patterning and Numerical Composition in the Vie de saint Alexis: Form and Effect/Affect" takes an ironic look at the oppositions used throughout the work to offer a rich analysis of patterns. Reexamining genealogy as spiritual rather than biological is Nicole Leapley's essay "Rewriting Paternity: The Meaning of Renovating Westminster in La Esoire de seint Aedward le rei." David Lummus's essay "Boccaccio's Three Venuses: On the Convergence of Celestial and Transgressive Love in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri" provides a comparative look of how love-celestial and transgressive-can be seen in the Decameron. "Dante's Justinian, Cino's Corpus: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and Law" by Lorenzo Valterza compares and contrasts Dante's own view of law versus that of his friend Cino da Pistoia. Lastly, editor Paul Clogan contributes his own article "Dante's Appropriation of Lucan's Cato and Erichtho" to demonstrate the importance of Lucan's characters in Dante's own work Along with these articles, fourteen reviews, from the United States and all over the world, are included, truly making Medievalia et Humanistica an international publication.To reflect the submissions and audience for Medievalia et Humanistica, the editorial and review boards include ten members from the United States and ten international members, making this a truly international publication.For submission guidelines, please contact Jin Yu at [email protected] submit books for review consideration to:Attention: Reinhold F. GleiMedievalia et HumanisticaRuhr-University BochumSeminar fuer Klassische PhilologieD-44780 Bochum, Germany

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Free Download Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Volume 36) (Medievalia et Humanistica Series, 36) By Paul Maurice Clogan (editor)
2011 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 1442208120 | EPUB | 1 MB
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.Volume 36―Reviews―emphasizes new research in the field, with a particular focus on work from emerging scholars. Thus, this volume includes twenty-four reviews and three review articles of recent scholarly publications, along with five original articles. The first article "The Ultimate Transgression of the Courtly World" by Albrecht Classen analyzes German texts and melodies to reveal the social strife between the lower and upper classes. John Garrison's essay "One Mind, One Heart, One Purse," referencing the text Troilus and Criseyde, suggests that a medieval treatise on friendship is appropriate and engaging. Offering a solution to one of history's most vexing problems is John Bugbee's essay "Solving Dorigen Trilemma" by examining the tension between oath and law in the Franklin's and Physician's Tales. Karen Green's essay "What Were the Ladies in the City Reading? The Libraries of Christine de Pizaan's Contemporaries" provides a clearer insight into the intellect of Christine and her colleagues. Along with these articles, twenty-four reviews, from the United States and all over the world, are included, truly making Medievalia et Humanistica an international publication.To reflect the submissions and audience for Medievalia et Humanistica, the editorial and review boards have been expended to include ten members from the United States and ten international

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