Thomas More et l’ouverture humaniste

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Fiction Writer

This article is to be understood as a general introduction to Thomas More, the humanist. Confronted with the new ideas coming from the rest of Europe, More is influenced by the rediscovery of Greek texts. With his humanist friends, William Lily and Erasmus, he becomes a translator, a poet, a polemicist and a fiction writer. The article starts by defining the terms Renaissance and Humanism, laying the stress of the secularization of thought, and continues by recalling Thomas More’s action against the rigidity of Oxford University in the battle about Greek. The humanist’s portrait then continues with the evocation of More’s qualities as a pedagogue, a poet and a dialogue writer to finish with More’s role as a reformer and an Epicurean in his major work Utopia. The conclusion insists on the re-affirmation of man in the Renaissance world.

Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A practical introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 285. Pb. $19.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-599
Author(s):  
Chienjer Charles Lin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Oxford University Press

This is the first textbook on metaphor to appear after the cognitive linguistic revolution of metaphorical research launched two decades ago by Lakoff & Johnson with their pioneering work, Metaphors we live by. Much scholarship has since been devoted to this paradigm of research. Twenty years have passed, and Kövecses takes this as a good time to summarize the development of the field. Writing a textbook on metaphor certainly reflects the maturation of the study of metaphor within the cognitive linguistic tradition. Targeted readers are undergraduate and graduate students with interests in metaphor and cognitive linguistics. Experienced researchers may also find this book helpful in motivating new ideas.

Tariq Rahman, Language, education and culture. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press and Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 1999. Pp. xvi, 318. Hb $26.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Schiffman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Language Education ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Single Argument ◽  
Policy Institute ◽  
Oxford University Press

This is a compendium of articles, originally published elsewhere, that focus on language, education, and culture in Pakistan, where the author has spent most of his career. As he admits in the general introduction, the articles were not initially written as chapters for a book, so they do not each focus on a single argument; but since they have these three themes as they relate to Pakistan as their organizing idea, with few other sources to guide us, we can get some general ideas about these issues as they play out in Pakistan.

Thomas More in Two Almanacs of Oxford University

Moreana ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (Number 111- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack R. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Oxford University

THE BEGINNING, THE MIDDLE AND THE END OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-534
Author(s):  
ANYA SUSCHITZKY
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas

Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, 6 vols. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)Until recently, serious students of music did not read sweeping histories of music. In a time of increasing specialization, we do not expect to find new ideas in such work. This has changed with the publication of Richard Taruskin's History of Western Music. Monumental in its scope and original in its approach but informal in its prose and always engagingly direct, it offers a provocative perspective on the whole of music's history and sets fresh agendas for anyone interested in music and its relation to the history of ideas, politics and culture. Taruskin's History differs from all previous projects of its kind in that it does not principally survey famous works by famous composers. Focusing instead on particular issues within a chronological framework (his chapter titles refer, amongst other things, to feudalism, humanism, enlightenment, virtuosos, transcendentalism and totalitarianism), and selecting composers whose music contributes to the consideration of those issues (sometimes omitting well-known figures or placing familiar works in radically new contexts), he sets out quite simply to explain why music has been composed as it has, and to show how its existence has relied not on composers in isolation but on a whole musical culture of composers, patrons, performers, critics and many others. Rather than relegating historical events and ideas to the status of context or calling them extra-musical, he places them at the centre of his narrative and in intricate dialogue with music; so while his close analyses of music will mean most to those with musical training, they are part of an argument about history that will be suggestive and illuminating to any reader.

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