Baroque Personae
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Baroque Personae
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Author : Rosario Villari
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-08-15
Baroque Personae written by Rosario Villari 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 1995-08-15 with History categories.
Originally published in Italian as L'Uomo Barocco (Editori Laterza), in 1991. Several chapters are published from the authors' original English-language versions, revised; one has been translated form the author's original French-language version, revised. Contributors develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes, and social structures as they are reflected in characteristic social roles of the Baroque period, such as the statesman, the nun, the soldier, the artist, the witch, the scientist, and the bourgeois. Paper edition (85637-2), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jesuits And Fortifications
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Author : Denis De Lucca
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-02-17
Jesuits And Fortifications written by Denis De Lucca and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-17 with History categories.
This book sheds light on the role of Jesuit mathematicians in the widespread dissemination of ideas about military architecture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by means of teaching, writings and consultancy activities aimed at assisting Catholic leaders in their wars against protestants and infidels.
Cervantes
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Author : Jeremy Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Cervantes written by Jeremy Robbins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Literary Collections categories.
This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures and cultures of numerous countries throughout the world. Containing chapters written in both English and Spanish by leading scholars worldwide, this book deals with topics as fundamental and diverse as contested discourses in Don Quijote, psychology and comic characters in Golden-Age literature, the title of Cervantes' master novel, and Cervantes, Shakespeare and the birth of metatheatre. A special issue of the journal Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
Echoes And Inscriptions
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Author : Barbara Simerka
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2000
Echoes And Inscriptions written by Barbara Simerka and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays compare early modern Spanish writers to their contemporaries in other countries and to modern Spanish and Latin American literature
Reformations
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Author : Carlos M. N. Eire
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-28
Reformations written by Carlos M. N. Eire and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with History categories.
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly that this crucial turning point in history not only affected people long gone, but continues to shape our world and define who we are today. The book focuses on the vast changes that took place in Western civilization between 1450 and 1650, from Gutenberg’s printing press and the subsequent revolution in the spread of ideas to the close of the Thirty Years’ War. Eire devotes equal attention to the various Protestant traditions and churches as well as to Catholicism, skepticism, and secularism, and he takes into account the expansion of European culture and religion into other lands, particularly the Americas and Asia. He also underscores how changes in religion transformed the Western secular world. A book created with students and nonspecialists in mind, Reformations is an inspiring, provocative volume for any reader who is curious about the role of ideas and beliefs in history.
The Contempor Neos Group
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Author : Salvador A. Oropesa
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Contempor Neos Group written by Salvador A. Oropesa and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, a nationalist and masculinist image of Mexico emerged through the novels of the Revolution, the murals of Diego Rivera, and the movies of Golden Age cinema. Challenging this image were the Contemporáneos, a group of writers whose status as outsiders (sophisticated urbanites, gay men, women) gave them not just a different perspective, but a different gaze, a new way of viewing the diverse Mexicos that exist within Mexican society. In this book, Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporáneos—Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustín Lazo, Guadalupe Marín, and Jorge Cuesta—and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the realities of modern Mexico, and flexible enough to speak to the masses as well as the elites. Oropesa discusses Novo and Villaurrutia in relation to neo-baroque literature and satiric poetry, showing how these inherently subversive genres provided the means of expressing difference and otherness that they needed as gay men. He explores the theatrical works of Lazo, Villaurrutia's partner, who offered new representations of the closet and of Mexican history from an emerging middle-class viewpoint. Oropesa also looks at women's participation in the Contemporáneos through Guadalupe Marín, the sometime wife of Diego Rivera and Jorge Cuesta, whose novels present women's struggles to have a view and a voice of their own. He concludes the book with Novo's self-transformation from intellectual into celebrity, which fulfilled the Contemporáneos' desire to merge high and popular culture and create a space where those on the margins could move to the center.
Baroque As A Period Style Of Mid Late T Ang Poetry
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Author : Tak-Wai Wong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Baroque As A Period Style Of Mid Late T Ang Poetry written by Tak-Wai Wong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Chinese poetry categories.
The Matter Of Mind
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Author : Christopher Braider
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Matter Of Mind written by Christopher Braider and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between Descartes and the myth of the 'modern subject' to post-structuralist assessments. The Matter of Mind presents studies drawn from a range of disciplines and examines the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, the drama of Pierre Corneille, and the theology of Blaise Pascal. Braider argues that if early modern thought converged on a single model, then it was the experimental picture based on everyday experience proposed by Descartes' sceptical adversary, Michel de Montaigne. Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.
Transcending Mission
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Author : Michael W. Stroope
language : en
Publisher: SPCK
Release Date : 2017-03-16
Transcending Mission written by Michael W. Stroope and has been published by SPCK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Religion categories.
Today the language of mission is in disarray. Where do the language and idea of 'mission' come from? Do they truly have precedence in the early centuries of the church? Michael Stroope investigates these questions and shows how the language of mission is a modern phenomenon that shaped a 'grand narrative' of mission. He then offers a way forward. Prologue Acknowledgements Introduction: the enigma of mission Part 1: Justifying mission 1. Partisans and apologists 2. Reading Scripture as mission 3. Presenting history as mission 4. Rhetoric and trope Part 2: Innovating mission 5. Holy conquest 6. Latin occupation 7. Mission vow 8. Ignatian mission Part 3: Revising mission 9. Protestant reception 10. Missionary problems Epilogue: towards pilgrim witness Works cited
Sor Juana In S De La Cruz And The Gender Politics Of Knowledge In Colonial Mexico
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Author : Stephanie Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-23
Sor Juana In S De La Cruz And The Gender Politics Of Knowledge In Colonial Mexico written by Stephanie Kirk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical materials, the author Stephanie Kirk demonstrates how Sor Juana used her poetry and other works to inscribe herself within the discourses associated with these cultural institutions and discursive spheres and thus challenge the male exclusivity of their precepts and precincts. Kirk illustrates how Sor Juana subverted the masculine character of erudition, writing herself into an all-male community of scholars. From there, Sor Juana clearly questions the gender politics at play in her exclusion, and undermines what seems to be the inextricable link previously forged between masculinity and institutional knowledge. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico opens up new readings of her texts through the lens of cultural and intellectual history and material culture in order to shed light on the production of knowledge in the seventeenth-century colonial Mexican society of which she was both a product and an anomaly.