Author: Joseph a DanePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900462533X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Res/Verba
Author: Joseph a DanePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900462533X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Reading by Design
Author: Pauline ReidPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487500696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manuscript and oral rhetoric, the relationship between vision and perception was fundamentally called into question. Investigating this crisis of perception, Pauline Reid argues that the visual crisis that suffuses early modern English thought also imbricates sixteenth- and seventeenth-century print materials. These vision troubles in turn influenced how early modern books and readers interacted. Platonic, Aristotelian, and empirical models of sight vied with one another in a culture where vision had a tenuous relationship to external reality. Through situating early modern books' design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text, Reading by Design articulates how the early modern book responded to epistemological crises of perception and competing theories of sight.
Philodemus and Poetry
Author: Dirk ObbinkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical importance of his work. Philodemus presents us with a poetic theory of interest in itself, and several of his treatises provide us with instances of how poetry was seen as providing moral paradigms and guidance. These essays explore the many facets of Philodemus's work and the relationship between them, offering a critical survey of recent trends and developments in scholarship on Philodemus in particular and Hellenistic literary theory in general.
The Continuity of Poetic Language
Author: Josephine MilesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Studies in English Poetry from the 1540's to the 1940'sDonated by Frank Mattson.
Baroque Latinity
Author: Jacqueline GlomskiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350323454
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across Europe, the volume offers case studies to deepen scholarly understanding of this important literary phenomenon and inspire future research. A key aim of the volume is to address the distinctiveness of these texts by interrogating the usefulness and specificity of the term 'Baroque', especially in relation to the classical rules it transgresses to produce effects of grandeur, richness, and exuberance in a range of secular and sacred arts (e.g. music, architecture, painting), as well as various forms of literature (e.g. prose, poetry, drama). The contributors consider how and why Latin writing mutated from earlier humanist paradigms, thus exploring how ideas of 'early modern' and 'Baroque' are related, and examine the interplay of the theory and practice of the 'Baroque', including its debts to and deviations from ancient models, and its limits and limitations.
The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres ... Tenth Edition, Corrected
Author: Charles RollinThe Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres
Author: Charles RollinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres ... Translated from the French ... The Tenth Edition
Author: Charles RollinThe Ideology and Language of Translation in Renaissance France and Their Humanist Antecedents
Author: Glyn P. NortonPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600031127
Category : Humanism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Stylus and the Scalpel
Author: Tommaso GazzarriPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110673711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Seneca’s developed metaphors draw on what is known to describe the unknown. They put hard ethical in highly accessible, and often quite entertaining, terms. The present book provides a functional description of Seneca’s dialectical relation between metaphorical language and philosophy. It shows how Stoic philosophy finds a new means of expression in Seneca’s highly elaborated rhetorical discourse, and how this relates to the social and cultural demands of Neronian culture. Metaphors are purposely utilized to work "collectively" rather than by category or type and that, therefore, the analysis of what metaphors do when Seneca chooses to combine them in clusters, demonstrates the existence of a "metanarrative of rhetoric". This approach is fundamentally innovative and has the advantage of gauging the functioning of Senecan style as a whole, rather than focusing on single features of its rhetorical functioning. The main target is to show how philosophical preaching materially contributes to the healing of human soul because it shapes the individual’s cognitive faculty in a way that is physical and not simply figurative. The stylus and the scalpel blend in their functions. This kind of therapy is not just the simulacrum of a more "real" one, it is in itself medical in nature.