AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
The rise & fall of the intellectual.(Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain)(Book review)
In his landmark study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1969), John Gross sketched out the lives and careers of the various writers who shaped literary opinion in England from the late eighteenth century through the Victorian era and into modern times. Gross was mainly concerned with the critics, reviewers, and editors who came into their own during the nineteenth century by bringing art and literature under the purview of critical judgment. In many ways, the vocation of critic and reviewer emerged in tandem with the rise of literature itself as a subject of public consumption, entertainment, and instruction.
The "man of letters" as Gross understands him, ...
- Wiping off the English grin: in the age of terrorism.("Absent Minds:...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coleman, Peter January 1, 2007 700+ words
...British intellectuals have always played a prominent and beneficent role, even when they had some other label such as men of letters, moralists, sages, philosophers, thinkers, or even dons. But at long last, Collini says, the British are beginning...
- Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Tambling, Jeremy April 1, 2008 700+ words
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain. By Stefan Collini. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. ix + 526 pp. 25 [pounds sterling...
- Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism,...
- Magazine article from: History Today Bevir, Mark July 1, 2006 700+ words
...Press viii + 245pp (hb) 45 [pounds sterling] (pb) 17.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN hb 0 521 84178 X pb 0 52160266 1 Absent Minds Intellectuals in Stefan Collini Oxford University Press viii + 526pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 199 29105 5 IN THE NINETEENTH...
- Absent minds keep ancient hatreds alive in Hebron
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ROBERT FISK December 20, 1995 700+ words
Hebron - It was the street of forgetfulness. First came the three Palestinians in the clothing store, sewing sleeves on to shirts with old electric machines, promising us that no portrait of Yasser Arafat would ever hang in their store until the Israelis had left King David Street. An Israeli jeep
- Meetings of absent minds.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 28, 1999 700+ words
Directors spend up to 25 hours a week in meetings but still fail to impress their boardroom colleagues, says a survey today. A poll of 200 firms found almost half of directors spend at least 16 hours a week in meetings. One in ten spends more than 25 hours. However, a third of directors said they
- Warning letters off 38% for first half of 2002: Terrorism, counsel review are...
- Newspaper article from: Warning Letter Bulletin June 17, 2002 700+ words
...analysis is based on letters released to the...published in Warning Letter Bulletin. Based...2001. With 149 letters issued, the Center...Foods' (CFSAN) letter output is only 7...of the warning letters in March. Letter output at CBER was...
- Letter, The
- Dictionary definition from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Hiltenbrand, Jean-Pierre January 1, 2005 700+ words
...Freud's first allusion to the letter and its function is found in...Freud (1918b) returns to the letter and its workings. In 1927...attached to a permutation of letters. However Freud never really formulated a theory of the letter. Jacques Lacan in 1954-1957...
- Letter of credit issuer not entitled to payment of surplus funds drawn by...
- Magazine article from: Business Credit Nathan, Bruce S. March 1, 2003 700+ words
Introduction A letter of credit can be an effective device to secure payment of an obligation. A letter of credit beneficiary obtains payment by presenting all of the documents required by the letter of credit to the letter of credit issuer...
