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Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter

The Malcolm Letter was written by Melville in 1849 on the birth of his son. This letter is one of thirty-six to be retrieved since the publication of The Letters of Herman Melville (1960) and has earned a place in the New York Public Library's Gansevoort-Lansing Collection. Addressed to Melville's brother, the letter entices critics to read it on several levels. It reveals Melville's serious consideration of his own father's influence on his upbringing as he anticipates undertaking the role of father himself. It is not a literary work, but a deeply personal outpouring distinguished by dark underpinnings barely hidden by his light-hearted tone. In a bit of dramatic irony, Melville reflects on the responsibility looming ahead of him as the reader notes the tragedy that Melville cannot possibly foresee - his son Malcolm's suicide eighteen years later. Cohen's and Yannella's careful study relives for the reader this and other events which shaped the clannish Melville family history. They also show how the author's struggle with these pressures are manifested in his writing. This volume is published in cooperation with the New York Public Library.

Birefringence and Bragg grating control in femtosecond laser written optical circuits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Birefringence and Bragg grating control in femtosecond laser written optical circuits

In this thesis, femtosecond lasers are explored for the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in suspended core fibers (SCFs) as well as direct writing of integrated optical devices in bulk fused silica glass. The FBGs fabricated in suspended core fibers with different core geometries were demonstrated with femtosecond laser exposure through a Talbot interferometer. In this case, the use of a femtosecond laser system was crucial as it eliminates the need for the use of photosensitive fibers, which is the case for SCFs, while the Talbot interferometry setup provided flexibility in the definition of the grating periodicity, while simultaneously protecting the optical components used in th...

Destabilizing Milton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Destabilizing Milton

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In Paradise Lost , Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem that refuses to grant the reader any interpretive stability or certainty. Doubts can no longer be contained and concepts once marked by a 'fundamental immobility' now seem unstable at best. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes equally reflect Milton's deep ambivalences after the collapse of the Republic. Far from confirming his earlier ideals, in his later poetry, Milton subjects his culture's most cherished beliefs, such as the goodness of God, to withering scrutiny, while refusing the comfort of orthodox answers.

If the S in Moose Comes Loose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

If the S in Moose Comes Loose

Spelling has never been so zany! When the S in MOOSE comes loose, Cow must find the missing letters and glue MOOSE back together! Perfect for fans of Michael Hall and Sandra Boynton. Rollicking, clever, and a great way to have fun with letters, If the S in Moose Comes Loose is a seriously wild ride from start to finish. When two of Moose’s letters come loose, he vanishes. Poof! But his best friend, Cow, has an idea: she’ll find a G, an L, a U, and an E and glue M-O-O-S-E back together, better than ever! But it’s not as easy as it sounds.... Author Peter Hermann is not only a debut picture book author, he also plays publisher Charles Brooks on TV Land’s hit show Younger. Matthew Cordell is the acclaimed author and illustrator of the 2018 Caldecott winner Wolf in the Snow and has written and/or illustrated dozens of other books for children. If the S in MOOSE comes loose and the E breaks free . . . what’s left? M-O-O!

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382
OPERATION IVY - A MARYLEBONE TALE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

OPERATION IVY - A MARYLEBONE TALE

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-06
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Operation Ivy - A Marylebone Tale' is a unique story, unveiling the opportunity and destruction of war, and how both villains and hero's are made. Through the main characters and friendships the back-story of war is told, a tale that spans murder, deals in oil gold and blood. A thought provoking, adventurous and untold narrative.

Herman Heijermans and His Dramas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Herman Heijermans and His Dramas

During the last two decades of the nineteenth century the Dutch drama, which had lapsed into astate of somnolence since the glorious days of VondeI, suddenly awoke to vigorous life. Not only did gifted dramatists appear, but talented directors, actors, and actresses brought new splendor to the theatre. Yet this brilliant flame did not burst forth in a vacuum, and to appre ciate the quality of its light, it must be viewed against the back ground of its origins in the European drama. After the middle of the century the emphasis in literary creation had shifted from a subjective, emotional point of view to a more objective and rationalistic attitude. If this seems only a roundabout way of sayin...

Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Arkansas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 724
Royal Poetrie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Royal Poetrie

Royal Poetrie is the first book to address the significance of a distinctive body of verse from the English Renaissance—poems produced by the Tudor-Stuart monarchs Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Not surprisingly, Henry VIII is no John Donne, but the unique political and poetic complications raised by royal endeavors at authorship imbue this literature with special interest. Peter C. Herman is particularly intrigued by how the monarchs' poems express and extend their power and control. Monarchs turned to verse especially at moments when they considered their positions insecure or when they were seeking to aggregate more power to themselves. Far from reflectin...

Unspeakable
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Unspeakable

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Steven Spielberg refer to terrorist acts as beyond comprehension, “a deed without a name,” but they do not stop there. Instead of creating works that respond to terrorism by providing comforting narratives reassuring audiences and readers of their moral superiority and the perfidy of the terrorists, these writers and filmmakers confront the unspeakable by attempting to see the world from the terrorist’s perspective and by examining the roots of terrorist violence.