Author: Alan Stewart File Type: pdf The Oxford History of Life-Writing Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms ofself-accounting came into existence from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities how womenfound new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesnt intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us abouthow the period understood both the concept of a life and what it mean to write a life.**About the Author Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and International Director for the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine), Philip Sidney, and James VI and I, and of Close Readers Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997) and Shakespeares Letters (2008). He is Assistant Director of the Oxford Francis Bacon, for which he edited volume 1, Bacons early writings (2012). He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.

Author: John W. Elrod File Type: pdf In this study John W. Elrod demonstrates that Kierkegaards pseudonymous writings have an ontological foundation that unites the disparate elements of these books. The descriptions of the different stages of human development are not fully understandable, the author argues, without an awareness of the role played by this ontology in Kierkegaards analysis of human existence.Kierkegaard contends that the self is a synthesis of finitude and infinitude, body and soul, reality and ideality, necessity and possibility, and time and eternity. Each of these syntheses reveals a particular and unique aspect of individual being not disclosed in the others. Part One shows that ontology is central to the discussion of the self in the pseudonyms. The author notes that spirit, as a synthesis of the expressions of the self, develops as consciousness and freedom. In Part Two he indicates the relationship between notions of being and existence. He notes that existence, in Kierkegaards thought, grows out of the life of the spirit the different stages of existence are concrete modes that develop in the spirits striving to unify the self as a synthesis. These existential expressions of spirit are dialectically related, in that each step requires the preceding stages of spiritual development.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.**

Author: Christopher Hitchens File Type: pdf Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Christopher Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter. His own lonely impunity is rank it smells to heaven. If it is allowed to persist then we shall shamefully vindicate the ancient philosopher Anacharsis, who maintained that laws were like cobwebs strong enough to detain only the weak, and too weak to hold the strong. In the name of innumerable victims known and unknown, it is time for justice to take a hand. With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. Yet, as Christopher Hitchens demonstrates in this compact, incendiary book, the West need not look far to find suitable candidates for the dock. The United States is home to an individual whose record of war crimes bears comparison with the worst dictators of recent history. Please stand, ex-Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger. Weighing the evidence with judicial care, and developing his case with scrupulous parsing of the written record, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel. He investigates, in turn, Kissingers involvement in the war in Indochina, mass murder in Bangladesh, planned assassinations in Santiago, Nicosia and Washington, D.C., and genocide in East Timor. Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation, and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, he mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.**

Author: Richard Olsson File Type: pdf If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D. Describes 3D concepts in theory and their implementation using Away3D Dives right in to show readers how to quickly create an interactive, animated 3D scene, and builds on that experience throughout the book Each chapter contains a number of tutorials that focus on one specific feature or group of features What youll learn Use Away3D to incorporate real-time 3D into your Flash productions Enable users to interact with your 3D content Import external models Use lighting and shading to make your scene look realistic Animate your 3D scene in real time Use visual effects such as filters and bump mapping Tips for optimizing performance and generating procedural content Who this book is for This book is for Flash developers wanting to learn to use 3D effects within Flash using open source tools. Table of Contents Getting Started Creating Your First 3D Project The View, Scene, and Camera Primitives, Models, and Sprites Materials, Lights, and Shading Vector Shapes and Text in 3D Procedural 3D Content Interactivity Animation Optimizing Tips and Tricks