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Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442667176 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 365
Book Description
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision and knowledge was a crucial element in late medieval religious devotion. In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision. After a survey on the genre of allegory and an overview of medieval optical theories, Akbari delves into more detailed studies of several medieval literary works, including the Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita Nuova, Convivio, and Commedia, and Chaucer's dream visions and Canterbury Tales. The final chapter, 'Division and Darkness,' centres on the legacy of allegory in the fifteenth century. Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history and to major works within the medieval literary canon, Seeing through the Veil will be an essential resource to the study of medieval literature and culture, as well as philosophy, history of art, and history of science.
Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442667176 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 365
Book Description
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision and knowledge was a crucial element in late medieval religious devotion. In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision. After a survey on the genre of allegory and an overview of medieval optical theories, Akbari delves into more detailed studies of several medieval literary works, including the Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita Nuova, Convivio, and Commedia, and Chaucer's dream visions and Canterbury Tales. The final chapter, 'Division and Darkness,' centres on the legacy of allegory in the fifteenth century. Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history and to major works within the medieval literary canon, Seeing through the Veil will be an essential resource to the study of medieval literature and culture, as well as philosophy, history of art, and history of science.
Author: Ranjan Kumar Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1685382835 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Kedar Awasthi, a qualified professional, works as the head of exports in a fairly large manufacturing company. His wife, Shalini, and son, Adarsh, are everything for him, and he wants to give the best of life to them. Knowing the limitations in his present job, he tries hard for better job prospects. He receives interview calls from big companies in India and also one from Dubai. Which one does he choose? Is his next job really a better one, offering all that he aspired for? Here starts a long journey of challenges, ups and downs, uncertainties, travels, meeting various characters on and off the job. Finally, does he achieve what he dreamt of? It is a story of making choices, facing challenges, conquering adversities, experiencing truth stranger than fiction, unexpected pleasures and burdens, human weaknesses and strengths, rewards and punishments and so on. It showcases inside stories of corporates, facades and realities inside the four walls of different workplaces.
Author: Theo Dhaen Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027278342 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 458
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This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: (1) the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and (2) systems theory. The merits of both approaches are discussed and an attempt is made to combine them and to regard systems of literary communication primarily as systems of conventions. Specific cases of changing conventions and innovation are illustrated with examples from the field of versification (Rimbaud), reception studies (Puskin, Goethe, George Eliot), the dichotomy of forgetting/remembering (Nietzsche, Proust), avant-garde, the American dream, and popular genres assimilated in Postmodernism.
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