Metamorphoses Of The Absolute

Author : Otto Neumaier,Daina Teters
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527524842

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Metamorphoses of the Absolute by Otto Neumaier,Daina Teters Pdf

This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the “absolute”. Absolute comprises both the concepts of the Western world related to God and the verbal constructions flowing from these ideas in the spheres of law, philosophy, linguistics, politics, medicine, literature, and arts. Over time, absolute and its neologisms have undergone various modifications, assuming the associated characteristics of syntactic ambiguity and inflation. Absolute can imply an increase in the degree of a quality attached to some object or phenomenon and can be used as either an adverbial modifier or a proper noun. In its appearances as a procedural term, absolute mostly conveys a negative connotation when evaluating some action. The question posed in this book is not what absolute is, but what possibilities exist with regard to perceiving and conceptualizing it in human terms, both historically and in the present.

Author : Christine L. Albright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351967662

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Ovid's Metamorphoses by Christine L. Albright Pdf

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid’s epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods. Each chapter contains: a Latin passage adapted from the epic an accompanying vocabulary list a short commentary to help with translation a concise review of the specific grammar covered a brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem, or featured myth. Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid’s language and highly vivid descriptions, this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece, allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose, and offers opportunities for literary discussion. Christine Albright is the 2020 recipient of the CAMWS Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0806128941

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Ovid's Metamorphoses by Ovid Pdf

Ovid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5WXZ

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Stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses by Ovid Pdf

Author : José Gil
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816626839

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Metamorphoses of the Body by José Gil Pdf

Explores the relationship between power and the body. This investigation of power and the body is a brilliantly original account of the nature of force as it functions in religious rituals, sorcery, political relations, and other social domains. Laying the foundation for an "anthropology of forces", it is crucial reading for anyone interested in how bodies and power circulate in a range of human contexts and cultures. For Jose Gil the body, with its capacity to translate forces into signs, is the source of power. Analyzing the language of mime and gestures, comparing magical cures to psychiatric ones, contrasting the flayed body of Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" with the anatomical body in Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica, he develops a typology of metamorphoses of the body as they correspond to systems of signs. A major intervention that marks the first appearance of Gil's work in English, Metamorphoses of the Body gives us an entirely new way of looking at relationships between bodies, forces, politics, and people.

Author : Alessandro Barchiesi,Gianpiero Rosati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895798

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses by Alessandro Barchiesi,Gianpiero Rosati Pdf

The first complete commentary in English on Ovid's Metamorphoses, covering textual interpretation, poetics, imagination, and ideology.

Author : Alessandro Barchiesi,Gianpiero Rosati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781009197601

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6 by Alessandro Barchiesi,Gianpiero Rosati Pdf

Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).

Author : Antonio Ramírez de Verger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110731781

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Book VI of Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹ by Antonio Ramírez de Verger Pdf

The verse-by-verse commentary on the Ovidian text includes the reading of more than 300 manuscripts, including the so-called Heinsian manuscripts, and of almost 100 editions, from the two "editiones principes" of 1471 to the present day. The introduction describes the manuscripts used, and a history of the Ovidian editions is also traced. A new text of book VI is presented, accompanied by a slim and lucid critical apparatus. Futher information appears in the commentary and in the appendices, particularly readings of manuscripts and editions. The verbatim commentary offers, with reliable quotes for each term, the critical observations of all the editors and commentators of the Ovidian work throughout the centuries. This aspect of critical edition has been neglected by commentators of Ovid since Heinsius (1659) and Burman (1727). Two appendices ("Readings of manuscripts" and "Readings of editions") are added for the first time for readers of the Ovidian work. The volume closes with a "Select index of textual problems", a large "Index locorum" and an "Index nominum".

Author : Catherine Malabou
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231521666

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Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing by Catherine Malabou Pdf

A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. After defining plasticity in terms of its active embodiments, Malabou applies the notion to the work of Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and Derrida, recasting their writing as a process of change (rather than mediation) between dialectic and deconstruction. Malabou contrasts plasticity against the graphic element of Derrida's work and the notion of trace in Derrida and Levinas, arguing that plasticity refers to sculptural forms that accommodate or express a trace. She then expands this analysis to the realms of politics and religion, claiming, against Derrida, that "the event" of justice and democracy is not fixed but susceptible to human action.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402026430

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Metamorphosis by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

How do we perdure when we and everything around us are caught up in incessant change? But the course of this change does not seem to be haphazard and we may seek the modalities of its Logos in the transformations in which it occurs. The classic term 'Metamorphosis' focuses upon the proportions between the transformed and the retained, the principles of sameness and otherness. Applied to life and its becoming, metamorphosis pinpoints the proportions between the vital and the aesthetic significance of life. Where could this metaphysical in-between territory come better to light than in the Fine Arts? In this collection are investigated the various proportions between the vital significance of the constructivism of life and a specifically human contribution made by the creative imagination to the transformatory search for beauty and aesthetic values. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Mark L. Brack, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez, William Roberts, Jadwiga Smith, Victor Gerald Rivas, Max Statkiewicz, Matti Itkonen, George R. Tibbetts, Linda Stratford, Jorella Andrews, Ingeborg M. Rocker, Stephen J. Goldberg, Leah Durner, Donnalee Dox, Catherine Schear, Samantha Henriette Krukowski, Gary Maciag, Kelly Dennis, Wanda Strukus, Magda Romanska, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Ellen Burns, Tessa Morrison, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Gary Backhaus, Daniel M. Unger, Howard Pearce.

Author : Monica R. Gale,J. H. D. Scourfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107027145

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Texts and Violence in the Roman World by Monica R. Gale,J. H. D. Scourfield Pdf

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

Author : Deborah Rubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Latin language
ISBN : UOM:39015011688671

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Ovid's Metamorphoses Englished by Deborah Rubin Pdf

Author : Emanuele Coccia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509545681

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Metamorphoses by Emanuele Coccia Pdf

We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351538718

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Transformative Change in Western Thought by Ingo Gildenhard Pdf

This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history.

Author : Peter I. Barta
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9639116912

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Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism by Peter I. Barta Pdf

Examines metamorphoses in the works of prominent representatives of the divided Russian intelligentsia: the Symbolists; the most famous emigre writer, Nabokov; Olesha, the 'fellow traveller' attempting to find his place in the Soviet state; the enthusiastic poet of the Bolshevik movement, Mayakovsky; and finally, Russia's greatest film director, Sergei Eisenstein. It is futile to try to understand Russian civilisation let alone predict its future without considering the intellectual, social and emotional reasons why it is not at rest with itself. It is to this end that this volume hopes to make a contribution.