Author: Bruce Ross
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433102875
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This book assembles lectures and essays on literature (William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, Chinese mountain poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Tao Te Ching), art (Paleolithic cave art, Vincent Van Gogh, American landscape painting), and Japanese poetry forms (haiku, haibun, tanka) that were originally presented and published between 2000 and 2007. The essays identify strategies to counter the so-called postmodern condition. Matters of will, ethics, and consciousness are examined in comparative contexts with the aim of formulizing models of enlightened states of being and their aesthetic expressions. This study focuses on Wordsworth's rainbow epiphany; Walter Benjamin's «aura» and «monad»; Chinese mountain poetry's cosmic emptiness; Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Paleolithic cave art's transpersonal expression; Van Gogh's «dizzy heights» of natural beauty; American landscape painters' depiction of the sublime; haiku's absolute metaphor epiphany; and tanka's connection between natural beauty and erotic feeling. The collection is a re-examination of Ralph Waldo Emerson's «fundamental unity» between humanity and nature, as well as an examination of often-unmediated affective experience and its expression in this context through literature and art.
Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights
Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights
Author: Bruce Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781453903629
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781453903629
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life
Author: Patricia Trutty Coohill
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048191602
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. But at the same time art’s inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048191602
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. But at the same time art’s inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.
The Railroad Trainman
Idyls of El Dorado
Author: Charles Augustus Keeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Under the Crust
Author: B. L. Winchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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NOTHING BUT!
Author: Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 148281787X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
This is the Sixth and Final Part of the epic book and saga titled "NOTHING BUT!" and subtitled 'FAREWELL MY LOVE.'This part covers the period 1994-2002 and tells the story of the rise of terrorism, the advent of Bin Laden and his Al Qaida. The rise of Talibanism in Pakistan and the subcontinent and also that of communal and caste based politics in India. The rise of corruption in the political heirarchy of the countries in the subcontinent. The war in Kargil. The Al Qaida attack on the United States. Rise of India and Pakistan as nuclear powers and which could have led to catastrophic holocaust at the turn of the century and it ends up with the tragic love story of A Muslim Officer and a Bengali Hindu girl. .
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 148281787X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
This is the Sixth and Final Part of the epic book and saga titled "NOTHING BUT!" and subtitled 'FAREWELL MY LOVE.'This part covers the period 1994-2002 and tells the story of the rise of terrorism, the advent of Bin Laden and his Al Qaida. The rise of Talibanism in Pakistan and the subcontinent and also that of communal and caste based politics in India. The rise of corruption in the political heirarchy of the countries in the subcontinent. The war in Kargil. The Al Qaida attack on the United States. Rise of India and Pakistan as nuclear powers and which could have led to catastrophic holocaust at the turn of the century and it ends up with the tragic love story of A Muslim Officer and a Bengali Hindu girl. .
What Ails the World
Author: James Ervin Mahaffey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Poetical Works
Author: James Brunton Stephens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description