Marvelous Possessions

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226525181

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Marvelous Possessions by Stephen Greenblatt Pdf

A masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, particularly in the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was manipulated by Columbus and others in the service of colonial appropriation. Much more than simply a collection of the odd and exotic, Marvelous Possessions is both a highly original extension of Greenblatt’s thinking on a subject that has permeated his career and a thrilling tale of wandering, kidnapping, and go-betweens—of daring improvisation, betrayal, and violence. Reaching back to the ancient Greeks, forward to the present, and, in his new preface, even to fantastical meetings between humans and aliens in movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Greenblatt would have us ask: How is it possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder—for tolerant recognition of cultural difference—from being poisoned?

Author : Peter G. Platt
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0874136784

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Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture by Peter G. Platt Pdf

""The marvelous follows us always" - or so the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi asserted in 1587. The essays in this book collectively make the case that this assertion could be an epigraph for the Renaissance. For Wonder was a concept absolutely central to the early modern period. Encompassing both inquiry and astonishment, "wonder" indeed followed the Renaissance everywhere - into redefinitions of the mind, the body, art, literature, the known world. Often called the age of discovery, the Renaissance should also be seen as the age of the marvelous." "However, defining just what la maraviglia would have meant for Patrizi and his age is no small task." "This volume, then, seeks to explore early modern views of wonder and the marvelous by revealing the complexity of la maraviglia in the Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Wendy Olmsted
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470777213

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Rhetoric by Wendy Olmsted Pdf

This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists Texts range from Cicero's De oratore and Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt’s Marvellous Possessions Texts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric works Engages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues.

Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415096553

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Textual Practice by Terence Hawkes Pdf

Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory.

Author : Jill Quadagno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199839735

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One Nation, Uninsured by Jill Quadagno Pdf

Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a leading role against reform that continues to this day. One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America's health care system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004249516

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Law and Empire by Anonim Pdf

Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004656444

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Literature and Travel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Ackerman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442696532

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Seeing Things by Alan Ackerman Pdf

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic history of interactions between showing and knowing in Seeing Things, a richly interdisciplinary study which illuminates changing modes of perception and modern representational media. Seeing Things demonstrates that the airy nothings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Beckett's media experiments, alongside Toy Story's digitally animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern problem of visualizing, as Hamlet put it, 'that within which passes show.' Ackerman carefully analyses such ghostly appearances and disappearances across cultural forms and contexts from the early modern period to the present, investigating the tension between our distrust of shadows and our abiding desire to believe in invisible realities. Seeing Things provides a fresh and surprising cultural history through theatrical, verbal, pictorial, and cinematic representations.

Author : Anthony B. Dawson,Paul Yachnin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521800161

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The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England by Anthony B. Dawson,Paul Yachnin Pdf

A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.

Author : N. Hermes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137081650

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The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture by N. Hermes Pdf

Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe.

Author : Margaret R. Ewalt
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0838756891

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Peripheral Wonders by Margaret R. Ewalt Pdf

This work expands traditional conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the roles of wonder and Jesuit missionary conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the century in a production of knowledge that serves both intellectual and religious functions.

Author : Geraldine Barnes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0859916081

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Viking America by Geraldine Barnes Pdf

Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.

Author : Professor Peter H Hoffenberg,Professor Richard D Fulton
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472404701

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Oceania and the Victorian Imagination by Professor Peter H Hoffenberg,Professor Richard D Fulton Pdf

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.

Author : Vanita Seth
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822392941

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Europe's Indians by Vanita Seth Pdf

Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth century through the late nineteenth, Vanita Seth demonstrates that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self–other is a product of modernity. Part historical, part philosophical, and part a history of science, her account exposes the epistemic conditions that enabled the thinking of difference at distinct historical junctures. Seth’s examination of Renaissance, Classical Age, and nineteenth-century representations of difference reveals radically diverging forms of knowing, reasoning, organizing thought, and authorizing truth. It encompasses stories of monsters, new worlds, and ancient lands; the theories of individual agency expounded by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau; and the physiological sciences of the nineteenth century. European knowledge, Seth argues, does not reflect a singular history of Reason, but rather multiple traditions of reasoning, of historically bounded and contingent forms of knowledge. Europe’s Indians shows that a history of colonialism and racism must also be an investigation into the historical production of subjectivity, agency, epistemology, and the body.

Author : Sarah Tindal Kareem
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199689101

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Eighteenth-century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder by Sarah Tindal Kareem Pdf

A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century British fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to--rather than antithetical to--the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder's chapters unfold its new account of British fiction's rise through surprising new readings of classic early novels-from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--as well as bringing to attention lesser known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.