10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCIAMACHIES»
Discover the use of
sciamachies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sciamachies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments
We suspect that the psychomachies of Faustus, Richard, Hamlet, and Macbeth
are sciamachies because we sense that the outcome of each man's battle may
have been predetermined by the will of God. What Coleridge called the civil war
in ...
SHADOW FIGHT Most observers of the South Carolina and Virginia cases
regarded them as sciamachies preparatory to the inevitable argument before the
Supreme Court, which is disposed to hear what it may not be disposed to settle.
The antics of the two Goliadkins may well be viewed as a travesty of the frenzied
sciamachies of Hoffmannesque Doppelgangers.27 Another formal element, also
pointed out by Vinogradov, fits in with the ironic narrative and the grotesquerie ...
4
Extremities: A Play in Two Acts
Drama / Characters: 1 male, 3 female Scenery: Interior The Associated Press described Extremities as "a searing play about rape.
William Mastrosimone, 1984
5
William King: Tory and Jacobite
Thus the reader learns about such matters as John Pratt's forge, colliery, and
glass factory; Myra's influence in the composition and signing of Sir Thomas
Smyth's will; and, on page 65, Sir Thomas's sciamachies with his chair: It was a
Custom ...
David Charles Greenwood, 1969
6
The controversy over the theology of Saumur, 1635-1650: ...
In his letter to Rivet Morus wrote about the "logomachies et sciamachies de
Saumur et Leyden", see Rivet's letter dated Sept. 25, 1645, ibid., pp. 225ff. 134.
Sarrau wrote Saumaise: "Quod ais, disputationem de Gratia Universali meram
esse ...
SHADOW FIGHT Most observers of the South Carolina and Virginia cases
regarded them as sciamachies preparatory to the inevitable argument before the
Supreme Court, which is disposed to hear what it may not be disposed to settle.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1951
Because performers go away and die, they are neither fully countable nor
accountable except by dealing in shadows — sciamachies over images, not real
objects, only "good counterfeits." The surfaces of such art and dance works,
intangibly ...
9
Survey of modern fantasy literature
... be drawn back to the Land, and Linden Avery is drawn along with him. Unlike
Hile Troy, she is a figure of incontrovertible reality. The Land is no longer
definable as an objective correlative of the sciamachies within Covenant's
tortured mind.
Frank Northen Magill, 1983
10
The young Dostoevsky (1846-1849): A critical study
Their grotesque antics can well be viewed as a travesty of the frenzied
sciamachies of Hoffman- nesque Doppelgdngers. I have used the word 'travesty'
here (rather than 'parody') in order to emphasize that the very content of the
original is ...
