Interpreting The Renaissance

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300111584

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Interpreting the Renaissance by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

"Tafuri studies the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture, offering new and compelling readings of its various social, intellectual, and cultural contexts while providing a broad understanding of uses of representation that shaped the entire era. He synthesizes the history of architectural ideas and projects through discussions of the great centers of architectural innovation in Italy (Florence, Rome, and Venice), key patrons from the middle of the fifteenth century (Pope Nicholas V) to the early sixteenth century (Pope Leo X), and crucial figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo de'Medici, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, and Giulio Romano. Interpreting the Renaissance is an essential book for anyone interested in the architecture and culture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317945239

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Reading the Renaissance by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Approaching the Renaissance from many perspectives-historicism, genre studies, close reading, anthropology, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and postmodernism-these original essays explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, the early modern and the post-modern, world and theater. They offer a new way of looking at the Renaissance and at literature and history generally-through the lens of cultural pluralism, which reflects the changing nature of Western society. The collection reveals that the study of literature should take into account its cultural context and that it is enriched by an examination of other literatures.

Author : Professor Lisa M Rafanelli,Professor Erin E Benay
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472444738

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Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art by Professor Lisa M Rafanelli,Professor Erin E Benay Pdf

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief.

Author : Wallace Klippert Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OCLC:464218671

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The Interpretation of the Renaissance by Wallace Klippert Ferguson Pdf

Author : Wallace Klippert Ferguson
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025762381

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The Renaissance in Historical Thought by Wallace Klippert Ferguson Pdf

Author : E. Natalie Rothman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Dragomen
ISBN : 1501758497

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The Dragoman Renaissance by E. Natalie Rothman Pdf

"This book studies the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating ethno-linguistic, political, and religious relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbors from ca. 1550 to ca. 1730. It considers both their Istanbul-centered social lives, and how the dictionaries, reports, and visual representations they created were central to the production of Europeanist knowledge about the Ottoman world"--

Author : Stephen Gersh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521198493

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Interpreting Proclus by Stephen Gersh Pdf

Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500-1600 CE).

Author : André Chastel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 041631130X

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The Renaissance by André Chastel Pdf

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349256440

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Virginia Woolf's Renaissance by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

Dusinberre's book explores Woolf's search, in The Common Reader and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women. Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women. Questions about printing, the body and the relation between amateurs and professionals create fascinating connections between the early modern period and Virginia Woolf.

Author : CristleCollins Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351556842

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Musical Theory in the Renaissance by CristleCollins Judd Pdf

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor‘s introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.

Author : Pramod K Nayar
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8175966262

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A Short History of English Literature by Pramod K Nayar Pdf

A Short History of English Literature is a comprehensive survey, in chronological fashion, of the major periods, authors and movements from Chaucer to the present. Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in South Asian universities, this History locates authors, genres and developments within their social, political and historical contexts. Informed by contemporary literary and cultural theory, this account also prepares the student for further explorations in particular genres and periods in English literature. Key Features • A timeline and backgrounds chapter in each section to locate texts and writers in their social and political contexts • Additional information in boxes to draw attention to crucial 'moments' in the story of English literature • A revisionist reading of each period from new perspectives including feminism, new historicism and postcolonialism • An up-to-date bibliography and webliography to guide students to further specialized readings and introduce them to indispensable online resources • A detailed index of writers and their writings for easy reference and accessibility

Author : Marshall Grossman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134134717

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Reading Renaissance Ethics by Marshall Grossman Pdf

Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours. Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular reform are questioned and revised. Taking seriously the question of what to read requires us to consider exactly what it is that we do when we read and when we write about our reading. Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sorts of events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how this differs from the way we read and teach them now.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317539797

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Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about 1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural Renaissance and explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the medieval, the early modern and the postmodern, world and theatre. There is also a plurality of methods that is fitting for the variety of topics and the richness of the Renaissance. This book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies.

Author : Elizabeth Spiller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139451987

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Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature by Elizabeth Spiller Pdf

Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies and the history of academic disciplines.

Author : Thomas V. Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226112602

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Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Thomas V. Cohen Pdf

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.