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Otherworldly John Dryden
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Author : Jack M. Armistead
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Otherworldly John Dryden written by Jack M. Armistead and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Rather, it manifests throughout his career in occult materials drawn from many traditions, including but going well beyond the standard classical and Christian ones. As Armistead shows, Dryden’s practice of juxtaposing pre- and post-scientific treatments of such occult topics as alchemy, astrology, and demonology pervades many of his poems and plays. In its engagement with works such as The Indian Queen, Annus Mirabilis, All for Love, and Absalom and Achitophel, among many others, Otherworldly John Dryden not only enhances our understanding of Dryden’s works, but also tracks the writer’s attitudes about Providence and the ability of the poet to perceive a hidden design in earthly events.
Otherworldly John Dryden
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Author : Jack M. Armistead
language : en
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
Release Date : 2014
Otherworldly John Dryden written by Jack M. Armistead and has been published by Lund Humphries Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
Reminding readers of John Dryden's persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden's otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Otherworldly John Dryden engages with a wide range of the writer's poetry and plays, enhancing our understanding of Dryden's works and tracing the writer's attitudes about Providence and the ability of the poet to perceive a hidden design in earthly events.
Otherworldly John Dryden
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Author : Jack M. Armistead
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Otherworldly John Dryden written by Jack M. Armistead and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Rather, it manifests throughout his career in occult materials drawn from many traditions, including but going well beyond the standard classical and Christian ones. As Armistead shows, Dryden’s practice of juxtaposing pre- and post-scientific treatments of such occult topics as alchemy, astrology, and demonology pervades many of his poems and plays. In its engagement with works such as The Indian Queen, Annus Mirabilis, All for Love, and Absalom and Achitophel, among many others, Otherworldly John Dryden not only enhances our understanding of Dryden’s works, but also tracks the writer’s attitudes about Providence and the ability of the poet to perceive a hidden design in earthly events.
Dryden And Enthusiasm
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Author : John West
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Dryden And Enthusiasm written by John West and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority. It signals divinely inspired literary creativity. It is central to Dryden's theoretical defences of the relationship between literature and the passions. It is also crucial to his poetic practice in a variety of genres, from odes to religious poems to translations. Enthusiasm, for Dryden, ultimately enables literature to break into regions of knowledge beyond rational human comprehension. Yet after the rise of radical sectarianism in the 1640s and 1650s, where claims of inspiration legitimised challenges to established political authority, enthusiasm also carried dangerous theological and political connotations. In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is thus also a pejorative term. It is used to attack political radicals and religious dissenters. In the aftermath of the Civil Wars, it is at the root of many perceived threats to the stability of the Restoration state. This book explores the paradoxical place of enthusiasm in Dryden's writing and the role he conceived for it in art and society after the violent upheavals of the mid seventeenth century. Works from across his oeuvre are explored, from his early essays and heroic plays to his translations, via new readings of his famous political and religious poems. These are read alongside other major writers of the period, like Milton, and less well-known authors, such as John Dennis. The book suggests new ways of conceptualising the relationship between literary practice and ideological allegiance in Restoration England. It reveals Dryden to be a writer who was consistently interested in the limits of what literature could express, what feelings it could provoke, and what it could make people believe at a time when such questions were of uncertain political importance.
1650 1850
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Author : Kevin L. Cope
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-01
1650 1850 written by Kevin L. Cope and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
With issue twenty-four of 1650–1850, this annual enters its second quarter-century with a new publisher, a new look, a new editorial board, and a new commitment to intellectual and artistic exploration. As the diversely inventive essays in this first issue from the Bucknell University Press demonstrate, the energy and open-mindedness that made 1650–1850 a success continue to intensify. This first Bucknell issue includes a special feature that explores the use of sacred space in what was once incautiously called “the age of reason.” A suite of book reviews renews the 1650–1850 legacy of full-length and unbridled evaluation of the best in contemporary Enlightenment scholarship. These lively and informative reviews celebrate the many years that book review editor Baerbel Czennia has served 1650–1850 and also make for an able handoff to Samara Anne Cahill of Nanyang Technological University, who will edit the book review section beginning with our next volume. Most important of all, this issue serves as an invitation to scholars to offer their most creative and thoughtful work for consideration for publication in 1650–1850. About the annual journal 1650-1850 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for “special features” that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 24th volume. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Tracing The Heroic Through Gender
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Author : Carolin Hauck
language : en
Publisher: Ergon Verlag
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Tracing The Heroic Through Gender written by Carolin Hauck and has been published by Ergon Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with History categories.
In nahezu allen Gesellschaften und Epochen ist das Heroische vielfach gegendert. Die soziale und kulturelle Produktion des Heroischen ist jedoch nicht ausschließlich mit dem Instrumentarium der Männlichkeitsforschung zu fassen, und ebenso wenig scheint es sinnvoll, Frauen bzw. Weiblichkeit in diesem Zusammenhang lediglich als Ausnahmen zu verstehen. Vielmehr gilt es, den relationalen Charakter ernst zu nehmen. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt erstmals den Versuch, Geschlecht als analytische Kategorie für die Heroismusforschung fruchtbar zu machen. Auf der Basis vielfältiger geisteswissenschaftlicher Ansätze dient diese Kategorie als 'Spurensucherin' (tracer) des Heroischen und als Instrument zur Untersuchung der historischen Bedingungen, medialen und performativen Erscheinungsformen sowie zeiträumlichen Konjunkturen und Transformationen. Diese gilt es, mit Hilfe der Kategorie Geschlecht und unter Nutzung der zugehörigen Eigenschaften neu auszumessen.
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love
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Author : Marcus Nordlund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love written by Marcus Nordlund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Drama categories.
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy.
Holding Up A Mirror
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Author : Anne Glyn-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Release Date : 1996
Holding Up A Mirror written by Anne Glyn-Jones and has been published by Random House (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
An account of the way in which a decline in personal morality caused the fall of the great civilizations of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, medieval Christendom, and England since the Reformation.
Musical America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Musical America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Music categories.
Aureng Zebe
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Author : John Dryden
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-03-26
Aureng Zebe written by John Dryden and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Fiction categories.
"Aureng-Zebe" by John Dryden is a gripping tragedy that unfolds against the backdrop of the Mughal Empire in India. Set in a world of political intrigue, power struggles, and forbidden love, Dryden's play follows the tragic tale of Aureng-Zebe, a prince torn between his duty to his father and his love for the beautiful Indamora. As the plot unfolds, alliances are formed, loyalties are tested, and betrayals abound, leading to a devastating climax that leaves no one unscathed. With its richly drawn characters, poetic language, and complex themes of ambition, honor, and revenge, "Aureng-Zebe" is a masterful exploration of the human condition and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Dryden's expert storytelling and keen insight into the dynamics of power ensure that the play remains a timeless classic, celebrated for its dramatic intensity and emotional depth.