oogamy
oogamy Fertilization by the fusion of a large, non-motile, female
gamete with a small, usually
motile, male gamete. It is an extreme form of
anisogamy. Compare
ISOGAMY.
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Land of Cockaigne.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 6/22/2009; ; 594 words
; ...through a mountain of gruel, you will arrive at the Land of Cockaigne where geese fly, already roasted, into your mouth...trying to select a brand. Bruegel had it right in his Land of Cockaigne . Scribe, peasant and knight, arranged like three...
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The Land of Cockaigne.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...studied the language they butcher, who has spent years of her life in a country they think of, if they think of it at all, as a land of leaning towers, volcanoes, and mafiosi, not Barbara's paradiso of Pieros and Peruginos and Bellinis, the paintings as...
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Herman Pleij. Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and meanings of the idea of Cockaigne during the transition from...The ages-old concept of Cockaigne gave way to the similar looking...Luilekkerland--"lazy-luscious-land"--a cautionary tale which...the meanings and functions of Cockaigne at this historical juncture...
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A strange & marvelous land: Peruvian crossroads in my fiction.(Essay)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Spanish, terre de Cocaigne to the French, Cockaigne to the English, or Cuccagna to the Italians...middle class, owners of a few plots of land, which we cultivated with some sharecropping...which in and of itself made one think of a land marked by a primordial force. On the...
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Gardar Eide Einarsson: he may be the most unpopular young artist in Norway, but he's one of the sharpest critics of macho American youth culture is this the land of liberty or what?(ART)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...GEE: It was based on this German fairy tale about Schlaraffenland, which I think in English is called Cockaigne. In this fairy-tale land, nobody has to work, and if you do, you're punished for it. Laziness is rewarded, and they have...
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THE ESSAY: A taste of paradise
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/6/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...create for ourselves now with Cockaigne (pronounced "cockain"), the fantasy land that, above all others...physical architecture of Cockaigne was edible. A staple of...themselves are made of beer. Cockaigne was a product of its straitened...
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Moving Beyond Place: Aging in Community
Magazine article from: Generations; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...World, calling it "a veritable Cockaigne," or land of plenty. Such observations...They dreamed of a utopia called Cockaigne, in which there was no need to...course, the fanciful legends of Cockaigne can seem juvenile and might make...
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Allegories of painting: in large-scale, elaborately worked canvases, Vincent Desiderio presents ambiguous narratives that refer to his life, our times and the history of Western art.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...by the elder Pieter Brueghel, Land of Cockaigne (1567), which pictures a locale...to the construction of his own Cockaigne (1993-2003), a commanding...that were included along with Cockaigne in an exhibition of 10 new paintings...
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The Faber Book of Utopias.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...cover reproduction of Brueghel's Land of the Cockaigne. The purpose of The Faber Book...interested in utopia will appreciate Cockaigne. These paragraphs will (1...both those of the appetite like Cockaigne and those of the constitution...
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The Utopia Reader.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...cover reproduction of Brueghel's Land of the Cockaigne. The purpose of The Faber Book...interested in utopia will appreciate Cockaigne. These paragraphs will (1...both those of the appetite like Cockaigne and those of the constitution...
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Land of Cockaigne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Land of Cockaigne , legendary country described in medieval tales, where delicacies of food and drink were to be had for the taking. The Land of Cockaygne is a 13th-century English poem satirizing monastic life.
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Cockaigne (In London Town)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Cockaigne (In London Town). Concert-ov., Op.40, by Elgar, comp. 1900...the members of British orchestras’. Title refers to imaginary land of idleness and luxury from which word ‘Cockney’ is...
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Cockaigne
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Cockaigne an imaginary land of idleness and luxury. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes from Old French cocaigne , as in pais de cocaigne ‘...
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Luxury
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Western Folklore: Jobes, 350] Cockaigne fabled land of luxury and idleness. [Medieval...Western Cult.: Misc.] fat of the land Pharaoh offers Joseph ’...x201D; [O.T.: Exodus 16:3] land flowing with milk and honey promised...
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Heinrich Mann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...phase, 1900-1914, began with a realistic, even naturalistic novel entitled Im Schlaraffenland (1900; In the Land of Cockaigne, 1929). This was followed by two more novels, Die Göttinnen (1903; vol. 1 trans. as Diana, 1929...
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