A Discourse Of Wonders
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A Discourse Of Wonders
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Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1999-05-13
A Discourse Of Wonders written by Stephen M. Wheeler and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-13 with History categories.
Wheeler proposes instead that Ovid represents himself in the poem as an epic storyteller moved to tell a universal history of metamorphosis in the presence of a fictional audience.
Wonders Marvels And Monsters In Early Modern Culture
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Author : Peter G. Platt
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1999
Wonders Marvels And Monsters In Early Modern Culture written by Peter G. Platt and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
""The marvelous follows us always" - or so the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi asserted in 1587. The essays in this book collectively make the case that this assertion could be an epigraph for the Renaissance. For Wonder was a concept absolutely central to the early modern period. Encompassing both inquiry and astonishment, "wonder" indeed followed the Renaissance everywhere - into redefinitions of the mind, the body, art, literature, the known world. Often called the age of discovery, the Renaissance should also be seen as the age of the marvelous." "However, defining just what la maraviglia would have meant for Patrizi and his age is no small task." "This volume, then, seeks to explore early modern views of wonder and the marvelous by revealing the complexity of la maraviglia in the Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Prefaces And Writing Sampler
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Author : Robert L. Perkins
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2006
Prefaces And Writing Sampler written by Robert L. Perkins and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.
The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in English the world community of scholars systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian. This is volume 9 & 10 in a series of commentaries based upon the definitive translations of Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press, 1980ff.
Lyric Wonder
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Author : James Biester
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Lyric Wonder written by James Biester and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Poetry categories.
James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style—metaphysical wit and strong lines—as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.
International Kierkegaard Commentary Prefaces And Writing Sampler Three Discourses On Imagined Occasions
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Author : Robert L. Perkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
International Kierkegaard Commentary Prefaces And Writing Sampler Three Discourses On Imagined Occasions written by Robert L. Perkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Surprise
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Author : Christopher R. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Surprise written by Christopher R. Miller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Electronic books categories.
Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth century: from violent attack to pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling. In Surprise, Christopher R. Miller studies that change as it took shape in literature ranging from Paradise Lost through the novels of Jane Austen. Miller argues that writers of the period exploited and arbitrated the dual nature of surprise in its sinister and benign forms. Even as surprise came to be associated with pleasure, it continued to be perceived as a problem: a sign of ignorance or naïveté, an uncontrollable reflex, a paralysis of rationality, and an experience of mere novelty or diversion for its own sake. In close readings of exemplary scenes--particularly those involving astonished or petrified characters--Miller shows how novelists sought to harness the energies of surprise toward edifying or comic ends, while registering its underpinnings in violence and mortal danger. In the Roman poet Horace's famous axiom, poetry should instruct and delight, but in the early eighteenth century, Joseph Addison signally amended that formula to suggest that the imaginative arts should surprise and delight. Investigating the significance of that substitution, Miller traces an intellectual history of surprise, involving Aristotelian poetics, Cartesian philosophy, Enlightenment concepts of the passions, eighteenth-century literary criticism and aesthetics, and modern emotion theory. Miller goes on to offer a fresh reading of what it means to be "surprised by sin" in Paradise Lost, showing how Milton's epic both harks back to the symbolic functions of violence in allegory and looks ahead to the moral contours of the novel. Subsequent chapters study the Miltonic ramifications of surprise in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the poems of Wordsworth and Keats. By focusing on surprise in its inflections as emotion, cognition, and event, Miller's book illuminates connections between allegory and formal realism, between aesthetic discourse and prose fiction, and between novel and lyric; and it offers new ways of thinking about the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the novel as the genre emerged in the eighteenth century.
The Complete Concordance To Shakspere
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Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
The Complete Concordance To Shakspere written by Mary Cowden Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
Engaging The World
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Author : Mary C. Rawlinson
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2016-05-01
Engaging The World written by Mary C. Rawlinson and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigarays thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues. Engaging the World explores Luce Irigarays writings on sexual difference, deploying the resources of her work to rethink philosophical concepts and commitments and expose new possibilities of vitality in relationship to nature, others, and to ones self. The contributors present a range of perspectives from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, literature, education, evolutionary theory, sound technology, science and technology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. They place Irigaray in conversation with thinkers as diverse as Charles Darwin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilles Deleuze, René Decartes, and Avital Ronell. While every essay challenges Irigarays thought in some way, each one also reveals the transformative effects of her thought across multiple domains of contemporary life.
Marvelous Possessions
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Author : Stephen Greenblatt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-11-26
Marvelous Possessions written by Stephen Greenblatt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-26 with History categories.
Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to the breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Léry, and Montaigne—and notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of the Middle Ages—wonder is a sign of a remarkably tolerant recognition of cultural difference. Marvelous Possession is not only a collection of the odd and exotic through which Stephen Greenblatt powerfully conveys a sense of the marvelous, but also a highly original extension of his thinking on a subject that has occupied him throughout his career. The book reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned? "A marvellous book. It is also a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'The wonder of the New World.'"—Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement "By far the most intellectually gripping and penetrating discussion of the relationship between intruders and natives is provided by Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions."—Simon Schama, The New Republic "For the most engaging and illuminating perspective of all, read Marvelous Possessions."—Laura Shapiro, Newsweek
An Index To The Remarkable Passages And Words Made Use Of By Shakspeare
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Author : Samuel Ayscough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1827
An Index To The Remarkable Passages And Words Made Use Of By Shakspeare written by Samuel Ayscough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1827 with categories.