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Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:59122777
Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : UVA:X000309725
Author : David Summers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386314
With the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art which helped to explain, justify and shape its new aims. In this book, David Summers provides an investigation of the philosophical and psychological notions invoked in this new theory and criticism. From a thorough examination of the sources, he shows how the medieval language of mental discourse derived from an understanding of classical thought.
Author : Jane Stabler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139434355
Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron's poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English reading public. Drawing on extensive new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work. For example, Stabler analyses Don Juan alongside Galignani's Messenger - Byron's principal source of news about British politics while in Italy - and refers to hitherto unpublished letters between Byron's publishers and his friends to reveal a powerful impulse among his contemporaries to direct his controversial poetic style to their own conflicting political ends. This fascinating study will be of interest to Byronists and, more broadly, to scholars of Romanticism in general.
Author : Sean Redmond,Leon Marvell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317646525
Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre. The collection argues that science fiction's cinematic power rests in its ability to imagine ‘Other’ worlds that challenge and disturb the lived conditions of the ‘real’ world, as it is presently known to us. From classic films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris to modern blockbusters including World War Z and Gravity, and directors from David Cronenberg to Alfonso Cuarón, contributors comment on the way science fiction film engages with dangerous encounters, liminal experiences, sublime aesthetics, and untethers space and time to question the very nature of human existence. With the analysis of a diverse range of films from Europe, Asia, North and South America, Endangering Science Fiction Film offers a uniquely interdisciplinary view of the evolving and dangerous sentiments and sensibility of this genre.
Author : Fiona Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474274005
Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to life. It shines a spotlight on the relationship between actors and audiences and explores the interplay that makes each performance unique. We know much about theatre in Shakespeare's time but very little about the audiences who attended his plays. Even today the audience's voice remains largely ignored. This volume places the role of the audience at the centre of how we understand Shakespeare in performance. Part One offers an overview of the best current audience research and provides a critical framework for the interviews and testimony of leading actors, theatre makers and audience members that follow in Part Two, including Juliet Stevenson and Emma Rice. Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences offers a fascinating insight into the world of theatre production and of the relationship between actor and audience that lies at the heart of theatre-making.
Author : Jo Carruthers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441142757
By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society.
Author : Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : CHI:090683767
Author : Linda L. Revie
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587735
What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when the first Europeans discovered Niagara, to the early twentieth century. Linda Revie’s study considers how three centuries of representations are shaped by the earliest encounters with the waterfall and notes shifts in the construction of landscape features and in human figures, both Native and European, in the long history of fine art depictions. Travel narratives, both literary and scientific, also come under her scrutiny, and reveal how these chronicles were influenced by previous pictures coming out of Niagara, particularly some of the first from the seventeenth century. In all of these portraits and texts, she notes a common pattern of response from the observers — moving from anticipation, to disappointment, to a kind of recovery. But in the end, there is fear. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness — a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevails. Those who want a deeper understanding of why Niagara Falls continues to fascinate us, even today, will find Linda Revie’s book an excellent companion.
Author : Maryrose Casey
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781922235886
The essays in this collection explore transcultural events to reveal deeper understandings of the dynamic nature, power and affect of performance as it is created and witnessed across national and cultural boundaries. Focusing on historical and contemporary public events in multiple contexts, contributors offer readings of transcultural exchanges between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, between colonisers and the colonised and back again. In the process the authors explore questions of aesthetics, cultural anxiety, cultural control and how to realise intentions in performance practice.
Author : Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Libraries
ISBN : NYPL:33433057516993
Author : Howell, Edward, firm, booksellers, Liverpool
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033641542
Author : Lamartine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00138083
Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421413266
How was Darwin’s work discussed and debated among the same religious denomination in different locations? Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford Lectures, transform our understandings of the relationship between science and religion. The particulars of place—whether in Edinburgh, Belfast, Toronto, Princeton, or Columbia, South Carolina—shaped the response to Darwin’s theories. Were they tolerated, repudiated, or welcomed? Livingstone shows how Darwin was read in different ways, with meaning distilled from Darwin's texts depending on readers' own histories—their literary genealogies and cultural preoccupations. That the theory of evolution fared differently in different places, Livingstone writes, is "exactly what Darwin might have predicted. As the theory diffused, it diverged." Dealing with Darwin shows the profound extent to which theological debates about evolution were rooted in such matters as anxieties over control of education, the politics of race relations, the nature of local scientific traditions, and challenges to traditional cultural identity. In some settings, conciliation with the new theory, even endorsement, was possible—demonstrating that attending to the specific nature of individual communities subverts an inclination to assume a single relationship between science and religion in general, evolution and Christianity in particular. Livingstone concludes with contemporary examples to remind us that what scientists can say and what others can hear in different venues differ today just as much as they did in the past.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3393 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780199591152
The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.This single illustrated volume is expertly edited to frame the surviving original versions of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and early musical scores around the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship to date.
