Diana at Her Bath ; The Women of Rome
Author : Pierre Klossowski
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Diana (Roman deity).
ISBN :
Author : Pierre Klossowski
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Diana (Roman deity).
ISBN :
Author : Daniel W Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748655379
Brings together 18 key essays, plus two completely new essays, by one of the world's leading commentators on the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691153388
Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and much more.
Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 1588392228
A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.
Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317168046
Paying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly shopworn conventions such as memento mori conceits, echo poems, and the staging of deus ex machina. The study, grounded in the philosophy of symbolic forms (following Ernst Cassirer), will be a valuable resource for readers interested in intellectual history and symbol theory, classical mythology and Renaissance iconography. Chiastic Designs affords a glimpse into the transformative power of allegory during the English Renaissance by addressing patterns that were part and parcel of early modern "mnemonic culture."
Author : William S. Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501358928
In dark or desperate times, the artwork is placed in a difficult position. Optimism seems naïve, while pessimism is no better. During some of the most demanding years of the 20th century two distinctive bodies of work sought to respond to this problem: the writings of Maurice Blanchot and American film noir. Both were seeking not only to respond to the times but also to critically reflect them, but both were often criticised for their own darkness. Understanding how this darkness became the means of responding to the darkness of the times is the focus of Noir and Blanchot, which examines key films from the period (including Double Indemnity and Vertigo) alongside Blanchot's writings (particularly his 1948 narrative Death Sentence). What emerges from this investigation is the complex manner in which these works disrupt the experience of time and the event and in doing so expose an entirely different mode of material expression.
Author : Fabio A. Camilletti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351191497
"How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject's most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment's pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written in 1828-29 between Pisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turn disillusion into a powerful source of inspiration, through an unprecedented balance between poetic lightness and philosophical density. The addressees of these cantos are two prematurely dead maidens bearing names of nymphs, and thus obliquely metamorphosed into the charmingly disquieting deities that in Greek lore brought knowledge and poetic speech through possession. The nymph, Camilletti argues, can be seen as the inspirational power allowing the utterance of a new kind of poetry, bridging antiquity and modernity, illusion and disenchantment, life and death. By reading Leopardi's poems in the light of Freudian psychoanalysis and of Aby Warburg's and Walter Benjamin's thought, Camilletti gives a groundbreaking interpretation of the way Leopardi negotiates the original fracture between poetry and philosophy that characterises Western culture. Fabio Camilletti is Assistant Professor in Italian at the University of Warwick."
Author : Gruppo di Nun
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1913029832
An anthology of occult resistance: unpredictable and fascinating, at times hallucinatory, sullying politics, philosophy, cybertheory, religion, and music. The End Times are here. The Digital Middle Ages approaches, the plague reaps its deadly harvest, climate apocalypse is around the corner, and fanaticism, fascism, and madness are rampant. The idea that we might gain the upper hand over the dark abyss into which the planet is tumbling is a form of magical thinking, laboring under the delusion that we can subdue eternity with relentless bloodlust, brutish exploitation, abuse of power, and violence. Revolutionary Demonology responds to this ritual of control, typical of what esoteric tradition calls the “Dogma of the Right Hand,” by reactivating the occult forces of a Left Hand Path that strives for the entropic disintegration of all creation, so as to make peace with the darkness and nourish the Great Beast that will finally break the seals of Cosmic Love. Unpredictable and fascinating, genuinely bizarre, at times hallucinatory, sullying politics, philosophy, cybertheory, religion, and music alike with its fevered touch, this “anthology of occult resistance” collects together the communiqués of an arcane group who are already being hailed as the first morbid blossoming of “Italian Weird Theory”: a rogue contingent of theorists, witches, and sorcerers who heretically remix gothic accelerationism with satanic occultism and insurrectional necromancy.
Author : Margaret Beissinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 1999-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520210387
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781890482848
Describes the revival of interest in the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance, the influence on the arts of imagery based on classical mythology, and the troubled co-existence of this pagan culture with official Christianity.