Proteus Bound

Author : Ryan Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1736656120

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Proteus Bound by Ryan Wilson Pdf

The translations - or ""conversions"" - in this book make available to contemporary readers of English-language poetry a wealth of poems that belong to what T.S. Eliot called ""the tradition."" From Homer, Sappho, and Archilochus to Catullus, Horace, and Virgil; from Dante, Villon, and Lope de Vega to Baudelaire, Rilke, and Pessoa; this book presents fresh versions of many of the best-loved poems in the Western European tradition in strikingly new versions, allowing readers without access to the originals the opportunity to possess, in some measure, both the sense and style of these monumental works. Ryan Wilson's first book of poems, The Stranger World - winner of the prestigious Donald Justice Poetry Prize - explored the ways in which human beings may discover themselves in life's unforseen and unpredictable phenomena. That book, described by poet and professor James Matthew Wilson as ""a most astonishing debut"" and ""maybe the best first book by a poet I've ever read,"" lays the groundwork for Proteus Bound, in which the author's practice of xenia, or ""hospitality,"" welcomes poems from more than a half dozen languages, spanning nearly three millennia, into English.

Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226575247

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Promethean Ambitions by William R. Newman Pdf

In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned—and often negative—responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts—a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being—the homunculus—led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.

Author : Jenny C. Mann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691219233

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The Trials of Orpheus by Jenny C. Mann Pdf

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge. Mann explores how Ovid’s version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language’s ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age. Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.

Author : Canada. Dept. of Marine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Shipping
ISBN : CHI:095958175

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Annual Report by Canada. Dept. of Marine Pdf

Author : Canada. Department of Marine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Shipping
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHHFD

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Annual report by Canada. Department of Marine Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : College students' writings, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HXUW4B

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The Harvard Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780691656014

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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pdf

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes to themselves, among them his "Theory of Life," "Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism," "Treatise on Method," "Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit," "On the Passions," and "On the Prometheus of Aeschylus." To these are added more than four hundred other pieces, some of them fragementary, many of them previously unpublished, ranging in date from school essays of the early 1790s to a discussion of the bullion controversy in 1834. As might be expected, the subject matter includes literature and language, theology, philosophy, politics, and science, but in many less predictable topics (such as child labor laws, marriage, suicide, church history, the abolition of slavery, the state of the colonies) also appear. By gathering this material and presenting it in chronological order, Shorter Works and Fragments reveals the development and major characteristics of Coleridge's seemingly inexhaustible variety. H.J. Jackson and J.R. de J. Jackson, Professors of English at the University of Toronto, are the editors of Coleridge's Marginalia and Logic, respectively, in the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Bollingen Series LXXV Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Pierre de Lancre
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015069114141

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On the Inconstancy of Witches by Pierre de Lancre Pdf

Author : John F. Miller,Carole E. Newlands
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118876183

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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid by John F. Miller,Carole E. Newlands Pdf

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30original essays written by leading scholars revealing the richdiversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry thatspans the Western tradition from antiquity to the presentday. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and itsreception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars inthe Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history ofOvidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power ofOvid’s poetry into modern times.

Author : Edwin Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Christianity
ISBN : BSB:BSB11614247

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Antiqua Mater by Edwin Johnson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520415454

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nagaraja P. Rao,Glenn M. Preminger,John P. Kavanagh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781848003620

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Urinary Tract Stone Disease by Nagaraja P. Rao,Glenn M. Preminger,John P. Kavanagh Pdf

Urinary stone disease constitutes more than a quarter of urologists’ workload in the Western countries and is more than half in the Middle-East and Central Asian countries. The surgical management of stone disease has changed considerably in the last five years and our understanding of mechanism of stone disease has improved with some old concepts discarded and newer theories gaining ground. Covering the entire spectrum of urinary stone disease and with contributions of more than fifty internationally recognised experts, this exhaustive and complex reference work will be invaluable to all urologists, nephrologists and non-medical scientists.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1684
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025173268

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The Works of P. V. M. Translated [in Verse] by J. Ogilby&adorn'd with Sculptur. J. Drapentier Sculpt. (The Life of P. V. M.). by Virgil Pdf

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1668
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character)
ISBN : OSU:32435018033399

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The Works of Publius Vergilius Maro by Virgil Pdf

Author : A. Mateo Cruz
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595916864

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Helix Bound by A. Mateo Cruz Pdf

Born into servitude, Jenna Riggs never knew what it was like to live a life of her choosing. When she is given the opportunity to do so, she learns a life of one's choosing is often a life paid for in blood. A soldier in the Great United Republic's space corps and trained to fight its most deadly adversaries, Riggs is now an ex-convict and wants nothing more than to put the past behind her. She finally, it seems, has the opportunity to do that; to live the life she only previously dreamed of living. There isn't much she wants, but for her, a woman created and raised to do the bidding of her government, that little bit is everything. Unfortunately, factions in the government believing she and her kind are a threat to their plans seek to rectify the situation and Riggs is forced to choose between a life lost and a life unwanted. Working for corporations in the de facto Commerce War, Riggs discovers that whatever decisions she makes only pulls her farther into an intergalactic intrigue where she is forced to question the very nature of her being while fighting for the survival of everything she cherishes.