Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Fortune's Wheel
Author: Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082141514X
Category : Cycles in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume explores the ways that Charles Dickens appropriated and made central to his novels the dominant symbol of his age. The author argues that Dickens' contribution to the iconographic and narrative traditions was to fuse the classical image of the wheel - fortune - with the industrial one.
Fortune's Wheel
The Fortunes of King Arthur
Author: Norris J. Lacy
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Offer an overview and a number of examinations of Arthur's fortunes. This work reveals the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. It traces the trajectory of the Arthurian legend, and follows the turning of Fortune's wheel, emphasizing the flourishing of the legend.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Offer an overview and a number of examinations of Arthur's fortunes. This work reveals the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. It traces the trajectory of the Arthurian legend, and follows the turning of Fortune's wheel, emphasizing the flourishing of the legend.
The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel
Author: Sophia Andres
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209742
Category : Aesthetics, British
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century readers' desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209742
Category : Aesthetics, British
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century readers' desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.
I am Pandarus
Author: Michiel Heyns
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868427765
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In a London gay bar, a charismatic stranger accosts an editor still raw from his lover's abandonment. The stranger insists he is the modern avatar of Pandarus, intent on getting his version of events published to country the unflattering portrait of him that Shakespeare has given to the world. And so begins Michiel Heyns's eighth novel, a modern retelling of the story of Troilus and Criseyde, set during the tenth year of the Trojan War, with both sides of the conflict exhausted and the supreme warrior Achilles sulking in his tent. This urbane and sparking rendition of the classical tale is interspersed with meetings between the editor and Pandarus, as the latter supplies instalments of his tale. I am Pandarus combines shrewd domestic comedy with high heroic tragedy in an original exploration of the nature of love, friendship, warfare and loss.
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868427765
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In a London gay bar, a charismatic stranger accosts an editor still raw from his lover's abandonment. The stranger insists he is the modern avatar of Pandarus, intent on getting his version of events published to country the unflattering portrait of him that Shakespeare has given to the world. And so begins Michiel Heyns's eighth novel, a modern retelling of the story of Troilus and Criseyde, set during the tenth year of the Trojan War, with both sides of the conflict exhausted and the supreme warrior Achilles sulking in his tent. This urbane and sparking rendition of the classical tale is interspersed with meetings between the editor and Pandarus, as the latter supplies instalments of his tale. I am Pandarus combines shrewd domestic comedy with high heroic tragedy in an original exploration of the nature of love, friendship, warfare and loss.
Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Author: Simona Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004267867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Although studies of specific time concepts, expressed in Renaissance philosophy and literature, have not been lacking, few art-historians have endeavored to meet the challenge in the visual arts. This book presents a multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality in medieval and Renaissance art, adopted in speculative, ecclesiastical, socio-political, propagandist, moralistic, and poetic contexts. It has been assumed that time was conceived in a different way by those living in the Renaissance as compared to their medieval predecessors. Changing perceptions of time, an increasingly secular approach, the sense of self-determination rooted in the practical use and control of time, and the perception of time as a threat to human existence and achievements are demonstrated through artistic media. Chapters dealing with time in classical and medieval philosophy and art are followed by studies that focus on innovative aspects of Renaissance iconography.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004267867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Although studies of specific time concepts, expressed in Renaissance philosophy and literature, have not been lacking, few art-historians have endeavored to meet the challenge in the visual arts. This book presents a multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality in medieval and Renaissance art, adopted in speculative, ecclesiastical, socio-political, propagandist, moralistic, and poetic contexts. It has been assumed that time was conceived in a different way by those living in the Renaissance as compared to their medieval predecessors. Changing perceptions of time, an increasingly secular approach, the sense of self-determination rooted in the practical use and control of time, and the perception of time as a threat to human existence and achievements are demonstrated through artistic media. Chapters dealing with time in classical and medieval philosophy and art are followed by studies that focus on innovative aspects of Renaissance iconography.
Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy
Author: Leo Salingar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521291132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521291132
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.
Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616
Author: R. W. Dent
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
How to Amuse Yourself and Others
Author: Lina Beard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
These descriptions of leisure-time activities for Victorian girls were designed to cultivate their curiosity and inventiveness, and to help them gain self-confidence regarding their competence and talents.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
These descriptions of leisure-time activities for Victorian girls were designed to cultivate their curiosity and inventiveness, and to help them gain self-confidence regarding their competence and talents.
How to Tell Fortunes: Containing Napoleon's Oraculum and the Key to Work It
Author: Aaron A. Warford
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Since the beginning of time, human beings have endeavored to understand the forces of fate through many imaginative and mystical means. Presenting an exciting guide to help comprehend the future for anyone curious about what fate has in store for them. Contents include: How to Tell Fortunes by Cards. Good and Bad Omens. Weather Omens. Hymen's Lottery. List of Unlucky Days (Males) List of Unlucky Days (Females) List of Days Usually Considered Fortunate. St. Agnes' Day Napoleon's Oraculum; or, Book of Fate. Oraculum.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Since the beginning of time, human beings have endeavored to understand the forces of fate through many imaginative and mystical means. Presenting an exciting guide to help comprehend the future for anyone curious about what fate has in store for them. Contents include: How to Tell Fortunes by Cards. Good and Bad Omens. Weather Omens. Hymen's Lottery. List of Unlucky Days (Males) List of Unlucky Days (Females) List of Days Usually Considered Fortunate. St. Agnes' Day Napoleon's Oraculum; or, Book of Fate. Oraculum.