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Tribute to Kay Boyle
No full text for Ian Under a bright San Francisco starI earned my MA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State in 1968. I had the good fortune to have Kay Boyle standing in my proverbial corner. Kay is (I use the present tense because, once set down, literature is here to stay) an amazingly accomplished and well-versed author with some 40 published books to round out her long lifetime (1902-1992). Kay Boyle in Crowd, San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-1969 by Gerald Grow Throughout her writin..
Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle
No full textIn this wonderfully vivid piece, originally published in 2013 and now posted on LitHub, Marianne Goldsmith tells about marching the streets of San Francisco with Kay Boyle in the early 1970s. The author says she was inspired to revive it after the Jan 6th riot in Washington, D.C. "Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle," http://disq.us/t/3wqn7rz Marianne Goldsmith is the pen-name of Marianne Smith. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds ..
Genius eclipsed: the fate of Robert Boyle
No full textThe article focuses on 17th century British natural philosopher and scientist Robert Boyle. The author explores Boyle's relationship with contemporary scientist Sir Isaac Newton and considers why Newton, as opposed to Boyle, remained famous. The author explores the importance of Boyle's writings including "Of the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy," "Sceptical Chymist," and "Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours." The article also considers subjects including English polymath Robert Hooke, the Royal Society of London, and Boyle's Law about the relationship between the volume of a gas and its pressure
‘New rights we grant not, but the old declare’ : le Henry V de Roger Boyle (1664), ou Shakespeare ‘restauré’
No full textLa pièce héroïque de Roger Boyle, The History of Henry V (1664) est une réécriture, à la Restauration (entendue comme période historique et théâtrale), de la pièce de Shakespeare, pièce sur la restauration du roi d’Angleterre qui revendique et obtient la couronne de France. Tenant compte des dernières recherches sur les liens complexes entre les objectifs dramatiques et politique de Boyle et ceux de Charles II, roi nouvellement « restauré », le présent article analyse plusieurs des particularités structurelles, stylistiques et dramatiques de la pièce de Boyle – aspects souvent négligés, voire ignorés par la critique. On pourra ainsi mettre en lumière plusieurs avatars du concept de « restauration ».Roger Boyle’s History of Henry V (1664) is a Restoration rewriting of Shakespeare’s famous play, itself a play about the restoration of a king into his lawful rights and ancient claims. Taking into account the latest research on the theatrical and political links between Boyle’s own agenda and Charles II’s « restored » reign, this article aims at looking into some of the structural, stylistic and dramatic devices used by Boyle in this very successful play – all items more than often neglected, if not ignored, by the critics, showing restoration as a concept in its multifarious shapes and forms
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