Muses Of One Mind

Author : Wesley Trimpi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725227125

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Muses of One Mind by Wesley Trimpi Pdf

Describing how ancient discussions of literature borrowed their descriptive terms from mathematical, philosophical, and rhetorical disciplines, Wesley Trimpi shows that when any one of these three types of discourse was sacrificed to one or both of the other two, the resulting imbalance proved destructive to literary discourse. Preoccupation with exhortatory (rhetorical) intention reduced literary works to displays of eloquence or ideology; preoccupation with cognitive (philosophical) intention led to didacticism; and preoccupation with formal (mathematical) excellence resulted in "aesthetic" expression for its own sake. In tracing the relationship of the three disciplines to literary discourse through the Middle Ages, this work diagnosis the increase of such reductive preoccupations after the Neoplatoic reconstruction of classical literary theory. Since 1600 these imbalances have continued to exist, obscured by proliferating and competing "theories" and "methods" of literary interpretation. Taking theoria in the ancient sense of "inclusive observation," Professor Trimpi points to an alternative to contemporary critical orthodoxies.

Author : Wesley Trimpi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608991556

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Muses of One Mind by Wesley Trimpi Pdf

Describing how ancient discussions of literature borrowed their descriptive terms from mathematical, philosophical, and rhetorical disciplines, Wesley Trimpi shows that when any one of these three types of discourse was sacrificed to one or both of the other two, the resulting imbalance proved destructive to literary discourse. Preoccupation with exhortatory (rhetorical) intention reduced literary works to displays of eloquence or ideology; preoccupation with cognitive (philosophical) intention led to didacticism; and preoccupation with formal (mathematical) excellence resulted in "aesthetic" expression for its own sake. In tracing the relationship of the three disciplines to literary discourse through the Middle Ages, this work diagnosis the increase of such reductive preoccupations after the Neoplatoic reconstruction of classical literary theory. Since 1600 these imbalances have continued to exist, obscured by proliferating and competing "theories" and "methods" of literary interpretation. Taking theoria in the ancient sense of "inclusive observation," Professor Trimpi points to an alternative to contemporary critical orthodoxies.

Author : Wesley Trimpi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608029068

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Author : William P. Weaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192679130

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Homer in Wittenberg by William P. Weaver Pdf

Homer in Wittenberg draws on manuscript and printed materials to demonstrate Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Reformation in Wittenberg. In the first study of Melanchthon's Homer annotations from three different periods spanning his career, and the first book-length study of his reading of a classical author, William Weaver offers a new perspective on the liberal arts and textual authority in the Renaissance and Reformation. Melanchthon's significance in the teaching of the liberal arts has long been recognized, but Homer's prominent place in his educational reforms is not widely known. Homer was instrumental in Melanchthon's attempt to transform the university curriculum, and his reforms of the liberal arts are clarified by his engagements with Homeric speech, a subject of interest in recent Homer scholarship. Beginning with his Greek grammar published just as he arrived in Wittenberg in 1518, and proceeding through his 1547 work on dialectic, Homer in Wittenberg shows that teaching Homer decisively shaped Melanchthon's redesign of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Melanchthon embarked on reforming the liberal arts with the ultimate objective of reforming theological education. His teaching of Homer illustrates the philosophical principles behind his use of well-known theological terms including sola scriptura, law and gospel, and loci communes. Homer's significance extended even to a practical theology of prayer, and Wittenberg scholia on Homer from the 1550s illustrate how the Homeric poem could be used to exercise faith as well as literary judgment and eloquence.

Author : Mary J. Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521429730

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The Book of Memory by Mary J. Carruthers Pdf

The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.

Author : Kathy Eden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300111355

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Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition by Kathy Eden Pdf

This book poses an eloquent challenge to the common conception of the hermeneutical tradition as a purely modern German specialty. Kathy Eden traces a continuous tradition of interpretation from Republican Rome to Reformation Europe, arguing that the historical grounding of modern hermeneutics is in the ancient tradition of rhetoric.

Author : Bradin Cormack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226116259

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A Power to Do Justice by Bradin Cormack Pdf

English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common law engaged with other court systems in England, when it encountered territories like Ireland and France, or when it confronted the ocean as a juridical space, the law revealed its qualities of ingenuity and improvisation. In other words, as Bradin Cormack argues, jurisdictional crisis made visible the law’s resemblance to the literary arts. A Power to Do Justice shows how Renaissance writers engaged the practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature’s sense of itself. Reassessing the relation between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare, Cormack argues that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law’s power, even as they clarify the forms of intensification that make literary space a reality. Tracking cultural responses to Renaissance jurisdictional thinking and legal centralization, A Power to Do Justice makes theoretical, literary-historical, and methodological contributions that set a new standard for law and the humanities and for the cultural history of early modern law and literature.

Author : Michael Mack
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813213880

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Sidney's Poetics by Michael Mack Pdf

Sidney's Poetics is essential reading not only for students and scholars of Renaissance literature and literary theory but also for all who want to understand how human beings write and read creatively.

Author : Z J GALOS
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783758329746

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MUSES IV by Z J GALOS Pdf

In MUSES IV, 'Magic Unisons', as the title indicates, the word magic explains best those moments, when during the process of composing word sequences that gradually become verses and stanzas, and could lead to a whole cycle of compositions, like in the 'Chants of a Traveling Bard'. For love, in 'Magic Unisons', transferred into many shades of enjoyment and happy feelings, one's Muses certainly stimulate the poet with their sensual impulses: This cannot be stored like goods, but the traces of those happy moments are still embedded in the poet's soul and the souls of all people engaged in creative work. Fascinating are the times one spends looking through one's creative output of one year that usually happens at the end of it when the mood is influenced by dark ominous cloud formations, snowfall that reflects the dusky light, fine stringing rain, unexpected storms, and foggy mystical mornings. Indeed, magical unisons are unique.

Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442643710

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Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics by Anthony J. Cascardi Pdf

What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed through indirect forms including comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes's political theory to Plato's, much as the writer's literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle's. He also shows how Cervantes's view of literature provided a compelling alternative to the modern, scientific politics of Machiavelli and Hobbes, highlighting the potential interplay of literature and politics in an ideal state.

Author : Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199240043

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Cultivating the Muse by Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου,Don Fowler Pdf

Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vitalforms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fatesand explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Warren Ginsberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0472109715

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Dante's Aesthetics of Being by Warren Ginsberg Pdf

Explores the domain of the aesthetic in Dante

Author : Elliott Visconsi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801459610

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Lines of Equity by Elliott Visconsi Pdf

In England, the late seventeenth century was a period of major crises in science, politics, and economics. Confronted by a public that seemed to be sunk in barbarism and violence, English writers including John Milton, John Dryden, and Aphra Behn imagined serious literature as an instrument for change. In Lines of Equity, Elliott Visconsi reveals how these writers fictionalized the original utterance of laws, the foundation of states, and the many vivid contemporary transitions from archaic savagery to civil modernity. In doing so, they considered the nature of government, the extent of the rule of law, and the duties of sovereign and subject. They asked their audience to think like kings and judges: through the literary education of the individual conscience, the barbarous tendencies of the English people might be effectively banished. Visconsi calls this fictionalizing program "imaginative originalism," and demonstrates the often unintended consequences of this literary enterprise. By inviting the English people to practice equity as a habit of thought, a work such as Milton's Paradise Lost helped bring into being a mode of individual conduct—the rights-bearing deliberative subject—at the heart of political liberalism. Visconsi offers an original view of this transitional moment that will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of law and citizenship, the idea of legal origins in the early modern period, and the literary history of later Stuart England.

Author : Steven Shankman,Stephen Durrant
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847141842

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The Siren and the Sage by Steven Shankman,Stephen Durrant Pdf

A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer's "Odyssey", the ancient Chinese "Classic of Poetry", Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", Sima Qian's "Records of the Historian", Plato's "Symposium", and Laozi's "Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi". The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce the foundational texts of each tradition which continue to influence the majority of the world's population.

Author : Paul W Stansby
Publisher : Paul Warren Stansby
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Muses on the Move by Paul W Stansby Pdf

A writer surmises on the occurrence of multiple muses who have now started to add to the the presence of his main one he's had for forty years, these new muses who he now regards them as are making inroads into his thoughts and dreams, prior to this they were associations, passions and flings he's had through his life.