Author : Robert Francis Brissenden
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release :
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9780708100929
Author : R.F. Brissenden
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1968-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1442650818
The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of the contributions should be concerned primarily with literature. History, art, and philosophy, however, are also dealt with; and the collection as a whole offers a widely ranging and illuminating survey of the period.
Author : R.F. Brissenden
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1973-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1442650826
This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will of God.’ One group is concerned with the works and ideas of Bayle, Alexander Gerard, Diderot, Fuseli, Hawkesworth and Swift among others. The essays are the work of leading scholars for many disciplines and were presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Seminar; together they reflect some of the liveliest and most up-to-date trends in the present reexamination of the period. The book will be invaluable to all students of the literature, thought, and civilisation of the eighteenth century.
Author : R.F. Brissenden
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1976-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1442650834
This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes. The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy and literature, literary criticism and traditions, the poetry and prose of the giants of the age. For all students of eighteenth-century studies this book will be vital reading.
Author : Glen St. John Barclay
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0975122983
A history of the HRC at the ANU, but also an examination of the role and predicament of the humanities within universities and the wider community, and contributes substantially to the ongoing debate on an Australian identity.
Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134460708
This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions of the human senses including taste, touch, smell and vision in all sorts of performances in Western and non-Western traditions, from ritual to theatre, from dance to interactive architecture, from performance art to historical opera. With eighteen original essays brought together by an international ensemble of leading scholars and artists including Richard Schechner and Philip Zarrilli. This covers a variety of disciplinary fields from critical studies to performance studies, from food studies to ethnography from drama to architecture. Written in an accessible way this volume will appeal to scholars and non-scholars interested in Performance/Theatre Studies and Cultural Studies.
Author : Ian Wedde
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780864735034
Passionate, witty, and erudite, these essays by a radical curator describe how museums approach their sometimes conflicting missions to sponsor scholarship, generate popular appeal, and claim social significance. This analysis includes discussions of art and ethnology, the failure of late-Modernist art history, the construction of official culture, the intellectual history of European exploration in the Pacific, problems with cultural studies of the Pakeha Maori, and the conservation of archives and narratives.
Author : Paul-Gabriel Boucé
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874139884
Takes a look at issues raised not only in Smollett's novels, for which he is usually remembered, but also in other works of this prolific Scottish author.
Author : Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368778
The critical history of wax is fraught with gaps and controversies. These eight essays explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts throughout history, and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of western art.
Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521522083
This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.
