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Author : Charles J. Lumsden,Edward Osborne Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674714466
Argues that a mutual change in genetics and culture brought about the development of human mental capacity
Author : Ihab Hassan
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000086966
Author : Jared Hickman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190272586
The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.
Author : Carol Dougherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134347520
With no recent publications discussing Prometheus at length, this book provides a much-needed introduction to the Promethean myth of this rebellious god who defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind. Seeking to locate the nature of this compelling tale’s continuing relevance throughout history, Carol Dougherty traces a history of the myth of Prometheus from its origins in ancient Greece, to its resurgence in the works of the Romantic era and beyond. Offering a comparative approach that includes visual material and film, the book reveals a Prometheus who was a rebel against Zeus’ tyranny to Aeschylus, a defender of political and artistic integrity to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a symbol of technological innovation during the industrial revolution; his resilience and adaptability illuminating his power and importance in Western culture. Prometheus is an essential introduction to the Promethean myth for all readers of classics, the arts and literature alike.
Author : Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191609213
Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, from working-class poets to those educated in public schools, and for a wide variety of political positions and viewpoints. Poets used references to classics both to support and to oppose the war from its beginning all the way to the Armistice and after. By exploring the importance of classics in the poetry of the First World War, Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Author : Corvis Nocturnum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 061524257X
A tome that delves deep into our nearly forgotten ancient past, examining the links between philosophy, metaphysical and esoteric orders. Corvis investigates the dark secret connections in occult histories. Dare to seek the truths hidden long ago.
Author : Caroline Corbeau-Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351192132
"On Zeus' order, Prometheus was chained to Mount Caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver being devoured by a bird of prey - his punishment for bringing fire to mankind. Through the impulse of Goethe, his fortune went through radical changes: the Titan, originally perceived as a trickster, was established both as a creator and a rebel freed from guilt, and he became a mask for the Romantic artist. This cross-disciplinary study, encompassing literature, the history of art, and music, examines the constitution of the Prometheus myth and the revolution it underwent in 19th-century Europe. It leads to the Symbolist period - which witnessed the coronation of the Titan as a prism for the total work of art - and aims to re-establish the importance of Prometheus amongst other major Symbolist figures such as Orpheus."
Author : Karl Kerényi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 069101907X
Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Allusions
ISBN : PSU:000072256411
Author : Luigi Zoja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134818617
The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin? The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was implacably punished by nemesis, yet the Greeks themselves were to pioneer an unprecedented level of ambition that began to reverse that tabu. If it is true that no culture can truly repudiate its origins, and that gods who are no longer potent can vanish but still leave behind a body of myth which coninues to live and assert itself in modernized garb, then our concern with the limits of growth reflects something more than an awareness of new technological problems - it also brings to light a psychic wound a a feeling of guilt which are infinitely more ancient.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781135923747
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
Author : Charles J. Lumsden,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015001541633
Author : Paul Bertagnolli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351553032
The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, the primordial Titan who defied the Olympian gods by stealing fire from the heavens as a gift for humanity, enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Romantic era. An international coterie of writers such as Goethe, Monti, Byron, the Shelleys, Sainte-Hne, Coleridge, Browning, and Bridges engaged with the legend, while composers such as Beethoven, Reichardt, Schubert, Wolf, Liszt, Hal, Saint-Sa, Holm FaurParry, Goldmark, and Bargiel based works of diverse genres on the fable. Romantic authors and composers developed a unique perspective on the myth, emphasizing its themes of rebellion, punishment for transgression and creative autonomy, in great contrast to artists of the preceding era, who more characteristically ignored the tribulations of Prometheus and depicted him as the animator of a na, Arcadian mankind who, when awakened from their spiritual dormancy, expressed astonishment at the wonders of nature and paid homage to the Titan as a new god. Paul Bertagnolli charts the progress of the myth during the nineteenth century, as it articulates an extraordinary variety of issues pertaining to culture, society, aesthetics, and philosophy. Drawing on archival research, dance history, sketch studies, literary theory, linear analysis, topos theory, and reception history, individual chapters demonstrate that the legend served as a vehicle to express opinions on subjects as diverse as aristocratic patronage, movements of the body on the public stage, rebellion against political and religious authority, outright atheism, humanitarianism of the German Enlightenment, interest in the music of Greek antiquity, industrialization, nationalism inflamed by war, populism, and the aesthetics of musical form. Composers often resorted to varied and unorthodox musical techniques in order to reflect such remarkable subjects: Beethoven outraged critics by implying a key other than the tonic at the outset of the overture to
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1470 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Allusions
ISBN : UOM:39015024220140
Author : J.S. Morin
Publisher : Magical Scrivener Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643550114
The jig is up. The news is out. They finally found her. As Esper has tried to save the galaxy’s wayward children, she’s done it with the looming threat of the Convocation dogging her steps. She knows why they’re after her, even if she can’t remember the events. She’s shaken them across a dozen star systems. She’s bested their hunters the few times they’ve caught up. Now, Esper is about to face her greatest fear: the truth about what she’s done. This latest pair of Convocation bounty hunters is a cut above the previous failures who tried to catch her. They’re more resourceful, closer on her trail, and have one advantage that NONE of the others could boast. The help of an old associate who sold Esper out. Break the Chain is the fourth mission of Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire. Set in the Black OceanUniverse, it continues the saga of the galaxy's sweetest bounty hunter and her loyal sidekick (who is NOT a dog!) and introduces a colorful cast for new and returning readers alike. Fans of vigilante justice and heroes who exemplify the word will love this series. Grab yours and contribute to the Esper Defense Fund!