Scientific Discourse In John Donne S Eschatological Poetry

Author : Ludmila Makuchowska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443869751

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Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry by Ludmila Makuchowska Pdf

Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s religious and erotic poetry, focusing on the intersection of two seemingly antithetical discourses: the language of the scientific revolution and of Christian eschatology. Throughout its three chapters, which correspond to three scientific disciplines – cartography, physics and alchemy – the volume examines the ways in which the references to early modern and medieval science in Donne’s poetry contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.

Author : Sheila J. Nayar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319968995

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Renaissance Responses to Technological Change by Sheila J. Nayar Pdf

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

Author : Abe Davies
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030663339

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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature by Abe Davies Pdf

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ‘constantly beleeve’ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there is nothing ‘so well established as constrains us to beleeve, both that the soul is immortall, and that every particular man hath such a soul’. In understanding the question of man's disembodied part as at once fundamental and fundamentally uncertain he was entirely of his time, and Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature considers this fraught, shifting, yet uniquely compelling entity in the context of the literary forms and effects involved in its representation. Gruesome medieval dialogues between damned souls and worm-eaten bodies; verse and prose works by Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell; a profusion of sonnet sequences, sermons, manuals of instruction and travelogues; Hamlet and its natural philosophical thinking about the apparently disembodied soul haunting Elsinore: these chapters range across all this and more, offering a rigorous yet accessible account of an essential aspect of premodern literature that will be of interest to scholars, students and the general reader alike.

Author : Manuel Lima
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616895846

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The Book of Circles by Manuel Lima Pdf

In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects—architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy, and physics, all based on the circle, the universal symbol of unity, wholeness, infinity, enlightenment, and perfection. Clay tokens used by ancient Sumerians as a system of recording trade are juxtaposed with logos of modern retailers like Target; Venn diagrams are discussed alongside the trefoil biohazard symbol, symbols of the Christian trinity, and the Olympic rings; and a diagram revealing the characteristics of ten thousand porn stars displays structural similarities to early celestial charts placing the earth at the center of the universe. Lima's introduction provides an authoritative history of the circle, and a preface describes his unique taxonomy of the many varieties of circle diagrams, rounding out this visual feast for infographics enthusiasts.

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119046301

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Re-Imagining Nature by Alister E. McGrath Pdf

Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present. This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and how this relates to alternative interpretations of our experience of the natural world Alister McGrath is ideally placed to write the book as one of the world’s best known theologians and a chief proponent of natural theology This new work offers an account of the development of natural theology throughout history and informs of its likely contribution in the present This feeds in current debates about the relationship between science and religion, and religion and the humanities Engages in serious theological dialogue, primarily with Augustine, Aquinas, Barth and Brunner, and includes the work of natural scientists, philosophers of science, and poets

Author : John Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118458785

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A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies by John Lee Pdf

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading international scholars, it provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the period. This book represents an important first step in bridging the divide between the abundance of titles which explore applications of theory in Shakespeare studies, and the relative lack of such texts concerning English Literary Renaissance studies as a whole, which includes major figures such as Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. The tripartite structure offers a map of the critical landscape so that students can appreciate the breadth of the work being done, along with an exploration of the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time. Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is must-reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern and Renaissance English literature, as well as their instructors and advisors. Divided into three main sections, “Conditions of Subjectivity,” “Spaces, Places, and Forms,” and “Practices and Theories,” A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies: Provides an overview of theoretical work and the theoretical-informed competencies which are central to the teaching of English Renaissance literary studies beyond Shakespeare Provides a map of the critical landscape of the field to provide students with an opportunity to appreciate the breadth of the work done Features newly-commissioned essays in representative subject areas to offer a clear picture of the contemporary theoretically-engaged work in the field Explores the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time Offers examples of the ways in which the practice of a theoretically-engaged criticism may enrich the personal and professional lives of critics, and the culture in which such critical practice takes place

Author : John Polkinghorne,Michael Welker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563383128

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The End of the World and the Ends of God by John Polkinghorne,Michael Welker Pdf

In this provocative collection of essays, scientists, theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars look at eschatology through their various lenses.

Author : Audrey Taschini
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788869771637

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From vanitas to veritas by Audrey Taschini Pdf

An overview of the complex world of John Donne’s poetry and specifically of his reflections on the theme of the journey of the soul. Donne’s Metempsychosis and his Anniversaries are analysed from both a literary and philosophical/ theological perspective, in the context of the rising new science.

Author : Somaya Bahji
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656588726

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John Donne's Poem "Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness" by Somaya Bahji Pdf

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 17/20, , language: English, abstract: This paper analyses one of the most influential poems by John Donne, Hymn to God, My God in My Sickness. Its aim is to foreground the significance of the metaphysical conceit at the stylistic and thematic levels. One of the pivotal keywords used in this paper is the metaphysical conceit.

Author : Todd T. W. Daly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532698002

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Chasing Methuselah by Todd T. W. Daly Pdf

The quest to live much longer has moved from legend to the laboratory. Recent breakthroughs in genetics and pharmacology have put humanity on the precipice of slowing down human aging to extend the healthy life span. The promise of longer, healthier life is enormously attractive, and poses several challenging questions for Christians. Who wouldn’t want to live 120 years or more before dying quickly? How do we make sense of human aging in light of Jesus’ invitation to daily take up our crosses with the promise of the resurrection to come? Is there anything wrong with manipulating our bodies technologically to live longer? If so, how long is too long? Should aging itself be treated as a disease? In Chasing Methuselah, Todd Daly examines the modern biomedical anti-aging project from a Christian perspective, drawing on the ancient wisdom of the Desert Fathers, who believed that the incarnation opened a way for human life to regain the longevity of Adam and the biblical patriarchs through prayer and fasting. Daly balances these insights with the christological anthropology of Karl Barth, discussing the implications for human finitude, fear of death, and the use of anti-aging technology, weaving a path between outright condemnation and uncritical enthusiasm.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : UOM:39015068426868

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Social Science Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Danijela Kambaskovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401790727

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Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment by Danijela Kambaskovic Pdf

This book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Authors from different fields examine not only the question of the body and soul (or body and mind) but also how this question fits into a broader framework in the medieval and early modern period. Concepts such as gender and society, morality, sexuality, theological precepts and medical knowledge are a part of this broader framework. This discussion of ideas draws from over two thousand years of Western thought: from Plato in the fifth century BC and the fourth century Byzantine dialogues on the soul, to the philosophical and medical writings of the early 1700s. There are four sections to this book: each section is based on where the authors have found a conjunction between the body and mind/soul. The work begins with a section on text and self-perception, which focuses on creative output from the period. The second conjunction is human emotions which are described in their social contexts. The third is sex, where the human body and mind are traditionally believed to meet. The fourth section, Material Souls, engages with bodies and other material aspects of existence perceived, studied or utilised as material signs of emotional and spiritual activity.

Author : Cyril L. Caspar
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839442548

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The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity by Cyril L. Caspar Pdf

With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular early modern metaphor that has received little critical commentary. In a rigorous historical and theological reading, Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets - John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton - to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UVA:X001751188

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Religious and Theological Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : David B. Morris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813163796

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The Religious Sublime by David B. Morris Pdf

This perceptive, carefully documented study challenges the traditional assumption that the supernatural virtually disappeared from eighteenth-century poetry as a result of the growing rationalistic temper of the late seventeenth century. Mr. Morris shows that the religious poetry of eighteenth-century England, while not equaling the brilliant work of seventeenth-century and Romantic writers, does reveal a vital and serious effort to create a new kind of sacred poetry which would rival the sublimity of Milton and of the Bible itself. Tracing the major varieties of religious poetry written throughout the century -- by major figures and by their now vanished contemporaries -- the author explains how later poets and critics made significant departures from the established norms. These changes in religious poetry thus become a valuable means of understanding the shift from a neoclassical to a Romantic theory of literature.