Duels And Duets
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Author | : John L. Locke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139498746 |
Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to these and other questions, John Locke takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from human evolution through ancient history to the present, revealing why men speak as they do when attempting to impress or seduce women, and why women adopt a very different way of talking when bonding with each other, or discussing rivals. When men talk to men, Locke argues, they frequently engage in a type of 'dueling', locking verbal horns with their rivals in a way that enables them to compete for the things they need, mainly status and sex. By contrast, much of women's talk sounds more like a verbal 'duet', a harmonious way of achieving their goals by sharing intimate thoughts and feelings in private.
Author | : Edmund Skellings |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Edmund Skellings |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Stephen Banks |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0747812683 |
A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. At a prearranged time, two men at odds would meet, armed either with swords or pistols, to engage in a formal and sometimes fatal exchange. Gentlemen considered it their prerogative to fight, despite the illegality of duelling, and figures as prominent as the Duke of Wellington and Georges Clemenceau defended their honour in this way. Why did participants flout the law, what codes were followed, what were the changing roles of the seconds, and what were the consequences for victims and victors? Stephen Banks answers these questions and examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.
Author | : John Leigh |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674287002 |
The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant numbers deep into the nineteenth century. In 1883 Maupassant called dueling “the last of our unreasonable customs.” As a dramatic and forbidden ritual from another age, the duel retained a powerful hold on the public mind and, in particular, the literary imagination. Many of the greatest names in Western literature wrote about or even fought in duels, among them Corneille, Molière, Richardson, Rousseau, Pushkin, Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Twain, Conrad, Chekhov, and Mann. As John Leigh explains, the duel was a gift as a plot device. But writers also sought to discover in duels something more fundamental about human conflict and how we face our fears of humiliation, pain, and death. The duel was, for some, a social cause, a scourge to be mocked or lamented; yet even its critics could be seduced by its risk and glamour. Some conservatives defended dueling by arguing that the man of noble bearing who cared less about living than living with honor was everything that the contemporary bourgeois was not. The literary history of the duel, as Touché makes clear, illuminates the tensions that attended the birth of the modern world.
Author | : Lorenzo SABINE |
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Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1360 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
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Total Pages | : 1688 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : Andrew Steinmetz |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Dueling |
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Author | : Lorenzo Sabine |
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Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Dueling |
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