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Divining Nature
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Author : Tili Boon Cuillé
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Divining Nature written by Tili Boon Cuillé and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuillé examines the representation of natural phenomena—whether harmonious or discordant—in natural history, painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and Staël. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional responses to the "spectacle of nature" in eighteenth-century France included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the "sentiment of divinity." These "passions of the soul," traditionally associated with religion and considered antithetical to enlightenment, were linked to the faculties of reason, imagination, and memory that structured Diderot's Encyclopédie and to contemporary theorizations of the sublime. As Cuillé reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated but instead preserved through the establishment and reform of major French cultural institutions dedicated to science, art, religion, and folklore that were designed to inform, enchant, and persuade. This book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Divining Nature
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Author : Greater Reston Arts Center
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Divining Nature written by Greater Reston Arts Center and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with categories.
Divining The Primary Sense
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Author : Herbert L. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1978-01-01
Divining The Primary Sense written by Herbert L. Weaver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Dowsing categories.
The Divining Hand
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Author : Christopher Bird
language : en
Publisher: Red Feather
Release Date : 1993
The Divining Hand written by Christopher Bird and has been published by Red Feather this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Dowsing categories.
"To dowse," says the author of this definitive study of the divining art, "is to search with the aid of a handheld instrument such as a forked stick or a pendular bob on the end of a string - for anything: subterranean water flowing in a narrow underground fissure, a pool of oil or a vein of mineral ore, a buried sewer pipe or electrical cable, an airplane downed in a mountain wilderness, a disabled ship helplessly adrift in a gale, a lost wallet or dog, a missing person, perhaps a buried treasure." Co-author of The Secret Life of Plants, Christopher Bird has filled this book with exciting, documented stories, most of them illustrated with photographs and diagrams. It provides a complete history of the art of dowsing around the world and discusses in detail the various existing theories attempting to explain this extraordinary phenomenon.
Divining
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Author : Christopher Bird
language : en
Publisher: Raven Books
Release Date : 1979
Divining written by Christopher Bird and has been published by Raven Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Dowsing categories.
Divining Science
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Author : Warren Dym
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-09-24
Divining Science written by Warren Dym and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-24 with History categories.
The patronage of dowsers by mining administrations through the eighteenth century challenges common assumptions about the Enlightenment. Rather than decline in importance like alchemy and astrology, dowsing transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics.
The Crafting Of Chaos
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Author : Hildegard Kuester
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1994
The Crafting Of Chaos written by Hildegard Kuester and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this study of the Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence, recent narratological models provide the theoretical framework for a textual analysis that aims at complementing previous thematic critiques. The chief focus is on The Stone Angel and The Diviners, which the conclusion then presents in the context of the other novels in Laurence's Manawaka cycle. Consideration of the published works is rounded off with genetic comparison of the novelist's typescript drafts and an evaluation of the manuscript notes kept in the archives of McMaster and York Universities. The central structural principle of The Stone Angel is its dovetailing of past and present scenes. Temporal arrangement, reflecting the frequency and duration of Hagar's memories, reveals the hold of memory over the central character and her attempts to suppress her fear of mortality. Hagar-as-narrator manipulates character-presentation and description to her own advantage. In a basically oppositional structure, her need for control is reflected in the neat ordering of the narrative. The verbal texture of the novel serves to establish a value system that insists on the superiority of imported culture over Western Canadian forms. The Diviners shares a number of narrative similarities with The Stone Angel, but the latter's formal rigidity has yielded, by the time Laurence writes her last novel, to the concept of multiplicity - characters, time planes, perspectives and narrative voices (including metafictional commentaries). Textual coherence is secured via narrative strategies (including typography, generational paradigms, repetition, parallelism, intertextuality, and tropological patterning) that render the novel readable and present experience as ordered in a time of cultural flux and personal crisis.
Divining With Animal Guides
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Author : Hearth Moon Rising
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-23
Divining With Animal Guides written by Hearth Moon Rising and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-23 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A chance encounter with a shy or beautiful animal is an auspicious sign, but a sign of what? Divining with Animal Guides explores animal divination from a process perspective rather than providing generic lists of meanings. Nine animals are given in-depth treatment, many more are mentioned in passing, and all are presented with the aim of developing tools for personal insight. You will be encouraged to examine symbolic and metaphoric encounters as well as physical ones, making the material useful in both urban and wilderness settings.
The Divining Mind
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Author : T. E. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1990-12-01
The Divining Mind written by T. E. Ross and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The art of divining, or dowsing, has for years been cloaked in mystery and superstition. Recognized by some as a means of finding water and minerals, it is actually a method for anyone to develop intuitive skills. This thought-provoking book demystifies dowsing and presents this ancient science as a powerful tool for self-knowledge. Includes a brief history of dowsing, and step-by-step instructions for learning to use L-rods, Y-rods, and pendulums, as well as non-device dowsing. Shows how dowsing is used for locating water, gold and other minerals, buried artifacts, ancient ritual sites, and in police work to help find missing persons.
Divining
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Author : Christopher Bird
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Divining written by Christopher Bird and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Divination categories.