Literary Sources of Shelley's The Witch of Atlas

PMLA ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-494
Author(s):  
Carlos Baker ◽  
David Lee Clark
Keyword(s):  
Recent Article ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Source Materials

Mary Shelley, in the note she supplied to the poem, properly characterizes The Witch of Atlas as “wildly fanciful, full of brilliant imagery,” and burgeoning with “fantastic ideas.” Rather misleading is her further statement that its source materials were borrowed “from sunrise or sunset, from the yellow moonshine, or paly twilight,” a kind of emotional garner from Shelley's rambles “in the sunny land he so much loved.” For The Witch is as literary a poem in its origins as Shelley ever wrote. It teems with images which suggest Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare, as well as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Herodotus, and Pliny. A recent article by Professor Lowes indicates that Keats's Endymion should be added to the list of sources, with what justification Professor Clark's ensuing article makes clear.

Literary Evidences of a Fivefold Structure in the Gospel of Matthew

1997 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 540-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Redaction Criticism ◽  
Current Shift ◽  
Source Materials

The current shift in emphasis in gospel studies from redaction criticism to literary criticism has called into question a longstanding belief about the structure of Matthew's gospel. Mark Allan Powell has described this shift and its effects succinctly in a recent article. Redaction criticism, he writes, has operated with premises which imply that ‘the changes an evangelist makes in the organization of source materials are especially significant for the determination of structure’. Redaction critics, therefore, having observed that ‘Matthew has added a large quantity of discourse material to what was taken over from Mark and has organized this material into five great blocks’, have favoured structural outlines that ‘organize the Gospel around these five prominent blocks of discourse’.1

scholarly journals Cunning-Folk in England and Wales during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Rural History ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Davies
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Witch Trials ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

In a recent article Willem de Blécourt highlighted how little we really know about cunning-folk in the context of European witchcraft, and stressed the need for further substantial research. The study of English cunning-folk in the early modern period has been well served by the work of Keith Thomas and Alan Macfarlane, but their respective chapters are, nevertheless, tantalising rather than conclusive. Although in the last twenty-five years early-modern historians have continued to take a strong interest in the witch-trials, and the social dynamics of witch-accusations, cunning-folk have, by and large, been neglected. De Blécourt also remarked upon the paucity of relevant research on cunning-folk in the period after the trials. This observation is particularly applicable to British historiography, and it is the purpose of this present paper to begin to redress this imbalance. Most work on cunning-folk has tended to concentrate on what they did, rather than on who they were.

scholarly journals FROM THE HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIVE BODIES IN KOSTROMA PROVINCE (PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD)

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-233
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Zaytsev
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Judicial Reform ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
Source Materials

The article discusses the initial history of the emergence and development of preliminary investigation bodies in the territory of Kostroma Province in the pre-revolutionary period of time. The published work reveals the process of the gradual emergence, development and establishment of the institution of a judicial investigator in the course of the judicial reform of Alexander II. When collecting material, the author used inaccessible literary sources on the history of the investigating authorities in Kostroma Province. In the study of sources and source materials, the author used both the universal – the dialectical-materialistic – method of cognition, and the general scientifi c methods of cognition: deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis, logic. The main fi ndings of the study include: the Russian pre-trial investigation in the territory of modern Kostroma Region has deep traditions rooted in pre-revolutionary Russia. The emergence of the institution of judicial investigators in Kostroma Region was carried out as part of the all-Russian modernisation of the judicial investigative system.

Identifying groups of airborne particles by ordination

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 856-857
Author(s):  
M. Shlepr ◽  
C. M. Vicroy
Keyword(s):  
Elemental Analysis ◽  
Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
Airborne Particles ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Microelectronics Industry ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Source Materials

The microelectronics industry is heavily tasked with minimizing contaminates at all steps of the manufacturing process. Particles are generated by physical and/or chemical fragmentation from a mothersource. The tools and macrovolumes of chemicals used for processing, the environment surrounding the process, and the circuits themselves are all potential particle sources. A first step in eliminating these contaminants is to identify their source. Elemental analysis of the particles often proves useful toward this goal, and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) is a commonly used technique. However, the large variety of source materials and process induced changes in the particles often make it difficult to discern if the particles are from a common source.Ordination is commonly used in ecology to understand community relationships. This technique usespair-wise measures of similarity. Separation of the data set is based on discrimination functions. Theend product is a spatial representation of the data with the distance between points equaling the degree of dissimilarity.

Screen Presence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Andy Warhol ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
Robert Rauschenberg ◽  
Mona Hatoum ◽  
Source Materials

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Working from a media and cultural studies perspective, Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media, and art since the 1950s through the examples of four pivotal figures – Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon. While their film-related works may appear primarily as challenges to conventional cinema, these artists draw on overlooked forms of popular film culture that have been commonplace, and even dominant, in specific social contexts. Through analysis of a range of examples and source materials, Stephen Monteiro demonstrates the dependence of contemporary artists on cinema’s shifting applications and interpretations, offering a fresh understanding of the enduring impact of everyday media on how we make and view art.

A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Geier
Keyword(s):  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Bartholomew Fair

Shows the robust nonhuman concern in Romantic works through new readings of Mary Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Clare, and Coleridge. The chapter traces these themes and forms of threatened, abject life as an expansive multispecies community of suffering. These works interrogate the weakness of expressive forms, performing the very captivity they lament. Wordsworth’s poem on the Bartholomew Fair is a fulcrum to the London studies in the book. These forms of expression are then examined in Dickens’s narratology and the narrator-object Esther in Bleak House.

Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
French New Wave ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Zealanders

This book investigates the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand’s national cinema, tracing its development from the 1970s to the present day. A preliminary chapter identifies the characteristics of the coming-of-age film as a genre, tracing its evolution and the influence of the French New Wave and European Art Cinema, and speculating on the role of the genre in the output of national cinemas. Through case studies of fifteen significant films, including The God Boy, Sleeping Dogs, The Scarecrow, Vigil, Mauri, An Angel at My Table, Heavenly Creatures, Once Were Warriors, Rain, Whale Rider, In My Father’s Den, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous, Boy, Mahana, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, subsequent chapters examine thematic preoccupations of filmmakers such as the impact of repressive belief systems and social codes, the experience of cultural dislocation, the expression of a Māori perspective through an indigenous “Fourth Cinema,” bicultural relationships, and issues of sexual identity, arguing that these films provide a unique insight into the cultural formation of New Zealanders. Given that the majority of films are adaptations of literary sources, the book also explores the dialogue each film conducts with the nation’s literature, showing how the time frame of each film is updated in a way that allows these films to be considered as a register of important cultural shifts that have occurred as New Zealanders have sought to discover their emerging national identity.

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