The Art Of Allusion

Author : Margaret S. Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190695927

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Arts of Allusion by Margaret S. Graves Pdf

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, perhaps most strikingly, architecture. Lanterns fashioned after miniature shrines, incense burners in the form of domed monuments, earthenware jars articulated with arches and windows, inkwells that allude to tents: through close studies of objects from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, this book reveals that allusions to architecture abound across media in the portable arts of the medieval Islamic world. Arts of Allusion draws upon a broad range of material evidence as well as medieval texts to locate its subjects in a cultural landscape where the material, visual, and verbal realms were intertwined. Moving far beyond the initial identification of architectural types with their miniature counterparts in the plastic arts, Margaret Graves develops a series of new frameworks for exploring the intelligent art of the allusive object. These address materiality, representation, and perception, and examine contemporary literary and poetic paradigms of metaphor, description, and indirect reference as tools for approaching the plastic arts. Arguing for the role of the intellect in the applied arts and for the communicative potential of ornament, Arts of Allusion asserts the reinstatement of craftsmanship into Islamic intellectual history.

Author : Sonja Drimmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812224841

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The Art of Allusion by Sonja Drimmer Pdf

Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, 27 of them in color, The Art of Allusion amply exhibits the critical role book artists played in the formation of the English literary canon.

Author : Bruce Redford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Allusions
ISBN : 030021930X

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John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion by Bruce Redford Pdf

A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. In this innovative study, Bruce Redford reveals the web of visual quotations and references that informed Sargent's most ambitious paintings. Throughout his career, Sargent was recognized and rewarded as a "Young Master" whose bravura portraits inspired comparison with the likes of Vel zquez, Van Dyck, and Reynolds. At the same time, his paintings responded to the stylistic experiments and cultural preoccupations of a world on the cusp of modernity. Sargent achieved this complex synthesis through a pictorial language composed of witty acts of allusion. John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion offers the first sustained inquiry into the painter's practice of quotation--one that created a complex visual code. Through comparative analysis among thematic groupings of portraits and analogous literary texts, Redford shows how Sargent devised and transmitted that code. The result is an enhanced awareness of Sargent's daring gamesmanship, his place in the history of portraiture, and the dynamics of allusion in both art and literature.

Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317694717

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From Homer to Tragedy by Richard Garner Pdf

The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies. Focussing on the dramatic masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and how these writers imitated and alluded to other poetry, the author reveals the immense dependence on Homer which can be seen throughout the corpus of Attic tragedy. It is argued that the practice of the art of allusion indicates certain conventions in fifth-century Athenian education, and perhaps also suggests something in the way of public, political, and historical self-awareness. Invaluable to anyone interested in the reception of Homer in the classical age, and to students of comparative literature and linguistic theory.

Author : Helen Killoran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015031865721

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Edith Wharton by Helen Killoran Pdf

Despite the popularity of Edith Wharton's novels and stories, her artistic genius has never been fully appreciated. Accordingly, this book provides new readings of such familiar favourites as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence as well as neglected works such as Twilight Sleep and The Glimpses of the Moon. The effect of this study is to require reassessment not only of the critical possibilities of Edith Wharton's work and the private life about which she was so reticent, but also of her position in American literature. The book concludes that as a bridge between the Victorian and modern periods, Edith Wharton should stand independently as an American writer of the first rank.

Author : Jasper Johns,Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014082567

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Foirades/Fizzles by Jasper Johns,Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery Pdf

Author : Sonja Drimmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812295382

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The Art of Allusion by Sonja Drimmer Pdf

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture. The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated a problem: namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting answers regarding both literary and cultural authority. Sonja Drimmer traces how, just as the poets embraced intertexuality as a means of invention, so did illuminators devise new images through referential techniques—assembling, adapting, and combining images from a range of sources in order to answer the need for a new body of pictorial matter. Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, twenty-seven of them in color, The Art of Allusion is the first book devoted to the emergence of England's literary canon as a visual as well as a linguistic event.

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349039036

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The Art of Allusion in Victorian Fiction by Michael Wheeler Pdf

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106009689362

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Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic by Joseph Farrell Pdf

In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls "analytic" allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from Hesiod (and perhaps Alexandrian poetics) toward Homer and heroic epic, helps to clarify the development of Vergil's poetic career, which moves from the Callimacheanism of the Eclogues to the full-fledged epic of the Aeneid. Applying to the Georgics the full range of recent scholarly methodology, Farrell's pathbreaking book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Vergil, classical literature, and literary allusion.

Author : Edwin Stein
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005581809

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Wordsworth's Art of Allusion by Edwin Stein Pdf

Wordsworth's poetry incorporated the English poetic tradition to a greater degree and in more ways than that of any poet before him. This book explores the range and uses of quotations, echoes, and allusions drawn from some 1,300 intertextual instances that the author has recognized in his work. The principal interest of the echoes examined here lies in the revaluation of the poet and the theoretical issues his varied use of them suggests. Through echoing, Wordsworth embodies and explicates his assertions of continuity in human development, his vision of interchange between the mind and nature, and his intention to revitalize English poetry by at once mediating and revolutionizing the tradition. Further, through echoic devices he accomplishes his three main poetic goals--the normative one of bringing poetry back in touch with oral discourse, the Miltonic one of giving it a prophetic role, and the peculiarly Wordsworthian one of substantiating his ideas about the relation between subject and object. This book will be of value to Wordsworth scholars for the actual borrowings it records and for the enriched understanding of the poet its original approach offers. Further, it possesses a truly wide-based cultural interest, not only in its general theory of echoing as a process central to discourse but specifically in such matters as the turn to native tradition vs. classic tradition, the difference between weak emulation and fierce wrestling with precursors, and, above all, the extraordinary classification of allusions. The categories are helpful fare beyond the Wordsworth subject matter that gave rise to their perception. Important also is the major theoretical challenge posed by this work to the intensely focused influence study of Harold Bloom.

Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9004115609

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The Conspiracy of Allusion by Douglas Kelly Pdf

A reference to Macrobius by Chretien de Troyes links his own writing and, by implication, medieval writing in general, to the larger late antique and medieval Latin conception of rewriting as original imitation.

Author : Andrew Delahunty,Sheila Dignen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199567461

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Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion by Andrew Delahunty,Sheila Dignen Pdf

Allusions are a marvelous literary shorthand. A miser is a Scrooge, a strong man a Samson, a beautiful woman a modern-day Helen of Troy. From classical mythology to modern movies and TV shows, this revised and updated third edition explains the meanings of more than 2,000 allusions in use in modern English, from Abaddon to Zorro, Tartarus to Tarzan, and Rambo to Rubens. Based on an extensive reading program that has identified the most commonly used allusions, this fascinating volume includes numerous quotations to illustrate usage, drawn from sources ranging from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens to Bridget Jones's Diary. In addition, the dictionary includes a useful thematic index, so that readers not only can look up Medea to find out how her name is used as an allusion, but also can look up the theme of "Revenge" and find, alongside Medea, entries for other figures used to allude to revenge, such as The Furies or The Count of Monte Cristo. Hailed by Library Journal as "wonderfully conceived and extraordinarily useful," this superb reference--now available in paperback--will appeal to anyone who enjoys language in all its variety. It is especially useful for students and writers.

Author : Allan H. Pasco
Publisher : Rookwood Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1886365210

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Allusion by Allan H. Pasco Pdf

Originally published in 1994, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet.

Author : Stephen Hinds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521576776

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Allusion and Intertext by Stephen Hinds Pdf

The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an attempt to find (or recover) some space for the study of allusion - as a project of continuing vitality - within an excitingly enlarged universe of intertexts. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking, and offers attentive close readings, innovative perspectives on literary history, and theoretical sophistication of argument. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.

Author : Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253033161

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Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music by Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes Pdf

Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, among others, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement of a work seems to resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized. She highlights Brahms's ability to weave such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives, arguing that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated, sometimes conflicted, attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms's music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to emerge with his own artistic voice and to define and secure his unique position in music history.