Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Biographia Epistolaries
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Framing Paul
Author: Douglas A. CampbellPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467442038
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
All historical work on Paul presupposes a story concerning the composition of his letters -- which ones he actually wrote, how many pieces they might originally have consisted of, when he wrote them, where from, and why. But the answers given to these questions are often derived in dubious ways. In Framing Paul Douglas Campbell reappraises all these issues in rigorous fashion, appealing only to Paul’s own epistolary data in order to derive a basic “frame” for the letters on which all subsequent interpretation can be built. Though figuring out the authorship and order of Paul’s letters has been thought to be impossible, Campbell’s Framing Paul presents a cogent solution to the puzzle.
Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address
Author: Shira BrismanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635489X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated the work of art as an agent for communication. In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened to expose intimate exchanges and blur the line between public and private life. Exploring the complex travel patterns of sixteenth-century missives, Brisman explains how these issues of sending and receiving informed Dürer’s artistic practices. His success, she contends, was due in large part to his development of pictorial strategies—an epistolary mode of address—marked by a direct, intimate appeal to the viewer, an appeal that also acknowledged the distance and delay that defers the message before it can reach its recipient. As images, often in the form of prints, coursed through an open market, and artists lost direct control over the sale and reception of their work, Germany’s chief printmaker navigated the new terrain by creating in his images a balance between legibility and concealment, intimacy and public address.
Biographia Epistolaris
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The American Library Annual
Author: So Long a Letter
Author: Mariama BâPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478611235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Bâ and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences —some wistful, some bitter—recounted by recently widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of educated and articulate Muslim women. Angered by the traditions that allow polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu dominated by attitudes and values that deny them status equal to men. Ramatoulaye hopes for a world where the best of old customs and new freedom can be combined. Considered a classic of contemporary African women’s literature, So Long a Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country. Winner of the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
Biographia Literaria
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The American Library Annual 1911/12-1917/18
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description