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Unwritten Poetry

Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England

By: Scott A. Trudell

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Unwritten Poetry

Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England

By: Scott A. Trudell

Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his peers. Composers including William Byrd and Henry Lawes shaped the transmission of Renaissance lyric verse. Poets from Philip Sidney to John Milton were fascinated by the disorienting influx of musical performance into their works. Musical performance was a driving force behind the period's theatrical and poetic movements, yet its importance to literary history has long been ignored or effaced. This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which—and by whom—its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. Scott Trudell argues that the media of Renaissance poetry can be conceived as any node of transmission from singer's larynx to actor's body. Through his study of song, Trudell outlines a new approach to Renaissance poetry and drama that is grounded not simply in performance history or book history but in a more synthetic media history.

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Oxford University Press

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0192571699

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9780192571694

Accused of Witchcraft in New York

By: Scott R. Ferrara

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Accused of Witchcraft in New York

By: Scott R. Ferrara

The history of infamous witch trials and witchcraft accusations is deeper than just those most often discussed at Salem. The Empire State has had numerous moments of pandemonium over the potential existence of witches. From Native Americans viewing European colonists as witches in the Mohawk Valley to witchcraft hysteria among early Long Island colonial settlements, the history of New York state's witchcraft accusations encompases all regions and communities in the state. Join author Scott R. Ferrara as he presents harrowing narratives of those who were accused of witchcraft, the feverish community dramas that resulted and the lives of those who faced their community as an outsider.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439677204

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9781439677209

Two Sides to Everything

The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky

By: Shaunna L. Scott

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The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky

By: Shaunna L. Scott

This is an ethnography and oral history of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness.

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SUNY Press

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0791423433

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9780791423431

The Trinity and Creation in Augustine

An Ecological Analysis

By: Scott A. Dunham

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The Trinity and Creation in Augustine

An Ecological Analysis

By: Scott A. Dunham

The first English-language book on Augustine's Trinitarian doctrine of creation, The Trinity and Creation in Augustine explores Augustine's relevance for contemporary environmental issues. Modern, environmentally conscious thinkers often see Augustine's doctrines in a negative light, feeling they have been used to justify humankind's domination of nature. Considering Augustine's thought in his own time and in ours, Scott A. Dunham offers a more nuanced view. He begins with a consideration of the major themes that have characterized ecologically sensitive theologies and Augustine's place in those discussions. The primary examination considers how Augustine's doctrine of the Trinity informed his interpretation of the opening chapters of Genesis, especially his conceptions of divine creation, providence, and dominion. This analysis of Augustine's Trinitarian interpretation of Genesis stands in contrast to recent characterizations of classical conceptions of creation. The book concludes with a discussion of Augustine's relevance for modern theological thought by appraising Augustine's Trinitarian doctrine of creation in relation to ecological themes in theological ethics.

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State University of New York Press

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0791477940

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9780791477946

Lion of Hollywood

The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

By: Scott Eyman

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Lion of Hollywood

The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

By: Scott Eyman

Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age. An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio into MGM, where he became the most powerful man in Hollywood, bending the film business to his will. He made great films, including the fabulous MGM musicals, and he made great stars: Garbo, Gable, Garland, and dozens of others. Through the enormously successful Andy Hardy series, Mayer purveyed family values to America. At the same time, he used his influence to place a federal judge on the bench, pay off local officials, cover up his stars’ indiscretions and, on occasion, arrange marriages for gay stars. Mayer rose from his impoverished childhood to become at one time the highest-paid executive in America. Despite his power and money, Mayer suffered some significant losses. He had two daughters: Irene, who married David O. Selznick, and Edie, who married producer William Goetz. He would eventually fall out with Edie and divorce his wife, Margaret, ending his life alienated from most of his family. His chief assistant, Irving Thalberg, was his closest business partner, but they quarreled frequently, and Thalberg’s early death left Mayer without his most trusted associate. As Mayer grew older, his politics became increasingly reactionary, and he found himself politically isolated within Hollywood’s small conservative community. Lion of Hollywood is a three-dimensional biography of a figure often caricatured and vilified as the paragon of the studio system. Mayer could be arrogant and tyrannical, but under his leadership MGM made such unforgettable films as The Big Parade, Ninotchka, The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, and An American in Paris. Film historian Scott Eyman interviewed more than 150 people and researched some previously unavailable archives to write this major new biography of a man who defined an industry and an era.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439107912

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9781439107911

Tales of a Grandfather - History of Scotland

Vol. II

By: Walter Scott

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Tales of a Grandfather - History of Scotland

Vol. II

By: Walter Scott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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318

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375067526

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Retrieving Eternal Generation

By: Fred Sanders,Scott R. Swain

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Retrieving Eternal Generation

By: Fred Sanders,Scott R. Swain

Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generation represents a great loss for constructive evangelical Trinitarian theology. Retrieving the doctrine of eternal generation for contemporary evangelical theology calls for a multifaceted approach. Retrieving Eternal Generation addresses (1) the hermeneutical logic and biblical bases of the doctrine of eternal generation; (2) key historical figures and moments in the development of the doctrine of eternal generation; and (3) the broad dogmatic significance of the doctrine of eternal generation for theology. The book addresses both the common modern objections to the doctrine of eternal generation and presents the productive import of the doctrine for twenty-first century evangelical theology. Contributors include Michael Allen, Lewis Ayres, D. A. Carson, Oliver Crisp, and more.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310537886

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Book's by Scott Ayres

Unwritten Poetry

Unwritten Poetry

Accused of Witchcraft in New York

Accused of Witchcraft in New York

Two Sides to Everything

Two Sides to Everything

The Trinity and Creation in Augustine

The Trinity and Creation in Augustine

Lion of Hollywood

Lion of Hollywood

Tales of a Grandfather - History of Scotland

Tales of a Grandfather - History of Scotland

Retrieving Eternal Generation

Retrieving Eternal Generation

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