Literary Illumination

Author : Richard Leahy
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786832696

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Literary Illumination by Richard Leahy Pdf

Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively altered the treatment of light as symbol, metaphor and textual motif. Correspondingly, the book also engages with the changing nature of darkness, and how the influence of artificial light altered both public perceptions of, and behaviour within, darkness, as well as examining literary chiaroscuros. Within each of four main chapters dedicated to the analysis of a single dominant light source in the long nineteenth-century – firelight, candlelight, gaslight, and electric light – the author considers the phenomenological properties of the light sources, and where their presence would be felt most strongly in the nineteenth century, before collating a corpus of texts for each light source and environment.

Author : S. D. Chrostowska
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781950192212

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Matches by S. D. Chrostowska Pdf

It takes any number of forms. Epigrams. Aphorisms. Fragments. Sayings. Dicta. Sententiae. Facetiae. Pearls of wisdom. Fractions of truth. Maxims. Definitions. Jottings. Miscellaneous musings. Meditations. Ricordi. Pensées. Ephemera. Miniatures. Sketches. Vignettes. Denkbilder. Capriccios. Tiny 'fires without flames' ... In returning to these genres, Matches goes back to the drawing board of modern critique. It sets out to rekindle short-form literary-philosophical reflection, with roots in the Antiquity of Heraclitus and Hippocrates, apogee in the French moralistes (La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Chamfort ...), and late splendour in German letters (Nietzsche, Kraus, Jünger ...). Moving from art and aesthetics to philosophies past and present, through natural and technological landscapes, beneath the constellations of politics, history and ethics, along the byways of contemporary literary culture--the slow reader with a little spare time will not fail to be struck. Here are pages to peruse and mistrust, texts to think with, a book to put down and ponder, to ponder and put down. A tome to keep handy, handle often, and strike repeatedly against the rough patches of the mind.

Author : Robert Henry Vickers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Books
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCPMP

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Martyrdoms of Literature by Robert Henry Vickers Pdf

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Publishers and publishing
ISBN : PSU:000020202507

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Critic and Literary World by Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder Pdf

Author : Henry Hallam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : HARVARD:HWET5I

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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries by Henry Hallam Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNXXBM

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Critic and Literary World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Random House
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446468586

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The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier Pdf

Something strange is going on. All over the world, pain is manifesting itself as light. Cuts and bruises blaze and flash. Arthritic joints glow. Injured troops emit radiant white shards into the desert night. On the news, they're calling it 'The Illumination'. As this breathtaking phenomenon takes holds, a private journal of love notes passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, a lonely hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other people. Each of them will find their lives changed forever over a story which spans decades and continents, a story that shines a spectacular light on the wounds we all bear...

Author : William C. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433000995989

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The World's Progress by William C. King Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Unitarianism
ISBN : WISC:89069644185

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The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Hallam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : UVA:X002521118

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Works by Henry Hallam Pdf

Author : William Conant Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : American literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101064074915

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The Galaxy by William Conant Church Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015012372887

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Critic and Good Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547540658

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Illuminations by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode; and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.​

Author : Susanne Bach,Folkert Degenring
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110415292

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Dark Nights, Bright Lights by Susanne Bach,Folkert Degenring Pdf

Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance and evil. A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian rhythms, and a lack of periodical darkness appears to be as contrary to health as a lack of exposure to sunlight. On a cultural level, too, night and darkness are far from being universally condemnable: in fiction, drama and poetry the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows criminals to ply their trade and allows lovers to meet, it allows the pursuit of pleasure as well as deep thought, it allows metamorphoses, transformations and transgressions unthinkable in the light of day. But night is not merely darkness. The night gains significance as an alternative space, as an ‘other of the day’, only when it is at least partially illuminated. The volume examines the interconnection of night, darkness and nocturnal illumination across a broad range of literary texts. The individual essays examine historically specific light conditions in literature, tracing the symbolic and metaphoric content of darkness and illumination and the attitudes towards them.

Author : Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000121027910

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Papers and Transactions by Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt Pdf