Castiglione S Allegory

Author : W.R. Albury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317169482

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Castiglione's Allegory by W.R. Albury Pdf

Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing what is often characterized as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to detect inconsistencies which are interpreted as signs of anxiety or bad faith in its presentation. In contrast to these postmodern readings, the present study conducts an experiment. What understanding does one gain of Castiglione’s book if one attempts an early modern reading? The author approaches The Book of the Courtier as a text in which some of its most important aspects are intentionally concealed and veiled in allegory. W.R. Albury argues that this early modern reading of The Book of the Courtier enables us to recover a serious political message which has a great deal of contemporary relevance and which is lost from sight when the work is approached primarily as a courtly etiquette book, or as a lament for the lost influence of the aristocracy in an age when autocratic nation-states were coming into being, or as an impersonal textual field upon which a free play of transformations and deconstructions may be performed.

Author : W. R. Albury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Courtesy
ISBN : OCLC:880877847

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Castiglione's Allegory by W. R. Albury Pdf

Author : V. Coelho
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 079232028X

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Music and Science in the Age of Galileo by V. Coelho Pdf

A collection of essays exploring the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. It takes a broad historical approach towards understanding such topics as the role of music in Galileo's experiments and in the scientific revolution

Author : John Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000167962

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Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck by John Peacock Pdf

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which, following Castiglione, model the conduct of the ideal courtier or elite social conduct more generally; and those belonging to the established tradition of debates about the condition of nobility –how far it is genetically inherited and how far a function of excelling moral and social behaviour. Van Dyck is seen as contributing to these discussions through the language of pictorial art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, early modern history and Renaissance studies.

Author : Cristelle Baskins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351568951

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Early Modern Visual Allegory by Cristelle Baskins Pdf

The first book in over twenty-five years devoted solely to allegory and personification in art history, this anthology complements current literary and cultural studies of allegory. The volume re-examines early modern allegorical imagery in light of crucial material, contextual and methodological questions: how are allegories conceived; for whom; and for what purposes? Contributors consider a wide range of allegorical representations in the visual arts and material culture, of both early modern Europe and the colonial "New World" 1400-1800. Essays included here examine paintings, sculpture, prints, architecture and the spaces of public ritual while discussing the process and theory of interpretation, formation of audiences, reception history, appropriation and censorship. A special focus on the medium of the body in visual allegory unites the volume's diverse materials and methods.

Author : Elena Penskaya,Joachim Küpper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110622102

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Theater as Metaphor by Elena Penskaya,Joachim Küpper Pdf

The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.

Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248927606

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The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X002585539

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Gazette des beaux-arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joanne Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490177

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Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought by Joanne Paul Pdf

The first comprehensive study of early modern English political counsel and its association with the discourse of sovereignty.

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1267 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405187626

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A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michael Hattaway Pdf

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’ texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Art Institute of Chicago,Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017069256

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Leonardo to Van Gogh--master Drawings from Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest by National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Art Institute of Chicago,Los Angeles County Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998724

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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michael Hattaway Pdf

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

Author : Sarah Buxton,Laura Campbell,Tracey Dawe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527563216

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Reflections by Sarah Buxton,Laura Campbell,Tracey Dawe Pdf

Mirroring, doubling, imitation, parody, intertextuality. The contributors to this volume — all postgraduate researchers at the time of writing — engage with some of these familiar words to produce articles that deal with the concept of “reflections” in literary and visual culture. Ranging from Italian Golden Age theatre to contemporary French literature and from Cuban film to German fiction, the twelve essays in this volume provide a fresh look at Modern Language Studies, highlighting in particular, the interdisciplinary nature of this field. On one level, the volume speaks to those exploring Modern Language Studies for the first time, for example, undergraduate students, who seek a greater understanding of the dialogue between language and culture. However, the individual essays also have the potential to attract experienced scholars either looking for new knowledge on specialist subjects, or ways of approaching research in Modern Languages. Through its central theme, Reflections: New Perspectives in Modern Languages and Cultures makes some suggestions about the way forward for Modern Language Studies.

Author : David Lloyd
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0822313448

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Anomalous States by David Lloyd Pdf

Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of nineteenth-century culture in which those questions of identity were first formed. In five linked essays, he explores modern Irish literature and its political contexts through the work of four Irish writers--Heaney, Beckett, Yeats, and Joyce. Beginning with Heaney and Beckett, Lloyd shows how in these authors the question of identity connects with the dominance of conservative cultural nationalism and argues for the need to understand Irish culture in relation to the wider experience of colonized societies. A central essay reads Yeats's later works as a profound questioning of the founding of the state. Final essays examine the gradual formation of the state and nation as one element in a cultural process that involves conflict between popular cultural forms and emerging political economies of nationalism and the colonial state. Modern Ireland is thus seen as the product of a continuing process in which, Lloyd argues, the passage to national independence that defines Ireland's post-colonial status is no more than a moment in its continuing history. Anomalous States makes an important contribution to the growing body of work that connects cultural theory with post-colonial historiography, literary analysis, and issues in contemporary politics. It will interest a wide readership in literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and history.

Author : A. C. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317865643

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Spenser: The Faerie Queene by A. C. Hamilton Pdf

The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.