Eloquent Bodies

Author : Jacqueline E. Jung
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300214017

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Eloquent Bodies by Jacqueline E. Jung Pdf

A radical reassessment of the role of movement, emotion, and the viewing experience in Gothic sculpture Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe dazzle visitors with arrays of sculpted saints, angels, and noble patrons adorning their portals and interiors. In this highly original and erudite volume, Jacqueline E. Jung explores how medieval sculptors used a form of bodily poetics—involving facial expression, gesture, stance, and torsion—to create meanings beyond conventional iconography and to subtly manipulate spatial dynamics, forging connections between the sculptures and beholders. Filled with more than 500 images that capture the suppleness and dynamism of cathedral sculpture, often through multiple angles, Eloquent Bodies demonstrates how viewers confronted and, in turn, were addressed by sculptures at major cathedrals in France and Germany, from Chartres and Reims to Strasbourg, Bamberg, Magdeburg, and Naumburg. Shedding new light on the charismatic and kinetic qualities of Gothic sculpture, this book also illuminates the ways artistic ingenuity and technical skill converged to enliven sacred spaces.

Author : Dawn Garisch
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781920397395

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Eloquent Body by Dawn Garisch Pdf

Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view. Dawn Garisch works as a medical doctor and a writer in equal measure and advocates dialogue between our bodies and our creative selves. Her novel Trespass was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa.

Author : Jennifer Nevile
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253111142

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The Eloquent Body by Jennifer Nevile Pdf

"This book adds an entirely new dimension to the consideration of Humanism and Italian culture. It will make a welcome addition to the field of cultural studies by broadening the subject to consider an important source of information that has been previously overlooked." -- Timothy McGee The Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the 15th century. Some topics include issues of economic class, education, and power; relating dance treatises to the ideals of Humanism and the meaning of the arts; ideas of the body as they relate to elegance, nobility, and ethics; the intellectual history of dance based on contemporaneous readings of Pythagoras and Plato; and a comparison of geometric dance structures to geometric order in Humanist architecture.

Author : Dorothy Leona Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2926978

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The Eloquent Body by Dorothy Leona Johnson Pdf

Author : M. McInerney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137064516

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Eloquent Virgins by M. McInerney Pdf

The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader, these popular texts seem like exercises in sadism, but while they could be made to function as vehicles for active misogyny, they also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc with role models who helped them to shape their own extraordinary destinies. This book explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.

Author : Nicole Marafioti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442668706

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The King's Body by Nicole Marafioti Pdf

The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings’ burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next generation. In most cases, new rulers celebrated their predecessor’s memory and honored his corpse to emphasize continuity and strengthen their claims to the throne. Those who rose by conquest or regicide, in contrast, often desecrated the bodies of deposed royalty or relegated them to anonymous graves in attempts to brand their predecessors as tyrants unworthy of ruling a Christian nation. By delegitimizing the previous ruler, they justified their own accession. At a time when hereditary succession was not guaranteed and few accessions went unchallenged, the king’s body was a commodity that royal candidates fought to control.

Author : Paul Goring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139456760

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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Paul Goring Pdf

The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas - particularly oratory, the theatre and the novel - and charts the efforts of projectors and reformers who sought to exploit the textual potential of the body for the public assertion of modern politeness. Paul Goring shows how diverse writers and performers including David Garrick, James Fordyce, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding and Laurence Sterne were involved in the construction of new ideals of physical eloquence - bourgeois, sentimental ideals which stood in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Through innovative readings of fiction and contemporary manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the human body was treated as an instrument for the display of sensibility and polite values.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN46SA

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stefan Huygebaert,Angela Condello,Sarah Marusek,Mark Antaki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319754970

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Sensing the Nation's Law by Stefan Huygebaert,Angela Condello,Sarah Marusek,Mark Antaki Pdf

This book examines how the nation – and its (fundamental) law – are ‘sensed’ by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured. This book expands the ways in which we can understand and appreciate democratic legitimacy. If (democratic) communities are “imagined” this book suggests that their “rightfulness” must be “sensed” – analogously to the need for justice not only to be done, but to be seen to be done. This book brings together legal, historical and philosophical perspectives on the representation and iconography of the nation in the European, North American and Australian contexts from contributors in law, political science, history, art history and philosophy.

Author : Nirmala Rao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317581512

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Reshaping City Governance by Nirmala Rao Pdf

India’s cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of its urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained by gathering urban crisis. This book addresses some key issues of governance and management for India’s principal urban areas of Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. As three of the greatest Indian cities, they have evolved in recent decades into large metropolitan regions with complex, overlapping and often haphazard governance arrangements. All three cities exemplify the challenges of urbanisation and serve here as case studies to explore the five dimensions of urban governance in terms of devolution, planning, structures of delivery, urban leadership and civic participation. London, with its recent establishment of a directly elected Mayor, provides a reference point for this analysis, and signifies the extent to which urban leadership has moved to the top of the urban governance agenda. In arguing the case for reform of metropolitan governance, the book demonstrates that it would be too simplistic to imagine that London’s institutional structure can be readily transposed on to the very different political and cultural fabric of India’s urban life. Confronting India’s urban crisis with a comparative analysis that identifies the limits of policy transfer, the book will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of Politics, Governance, and Urban studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : England
ISBN : UCSD:31822043961028

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helena Faucit Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012395617

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On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters by Helena Faucit Martin Pdf

Author : Helena Faucit Martin (lady)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B27167

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On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters by Helena Faucit Martin (lady) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433068283385

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De La Salle Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lady Helena Saville Faucit Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106001903969

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On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters by Lady Helena Saville Faucit Martin Pdf