Book Description
Traces the reception of Swedenborg's doctrine of "correspondences" in French literature and culture from the late 1700s to 1870.
Author : Lynn Rosellen Wilkinson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791429259
Traces the reception of Swedenborg's doctrine of "correspondences" in French literature and culture from the late 1700s to 1870.
Author : Lynn R. Wilkinson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438424078
Taking as its point of departure the two poems, "Correspondances" by Baudelaire and "Les correspondances" by Alphonse-Louis Constant, The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture traces the reception and popularization of several key Swedenborgian doctrines in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature and popular culture, notably the doctrine of correspondences. Contrary to what Michel Foucault argued in his early Les mots et les choses, in nineteenth-century France, the word "correspondences" does not denote a break with "representation," at least as it was used by nineteenth-century French writers: rather it is intimately bound up with the taxonomic structures of natural history—and also with the desire to understand the social world in terms of an ordered and controllable totality. Because it crops up in texts we now classify as canonical and also those outside the canon, and because it is so clearly related to notions of literary structure and effect, the word "correspondences" and its transformations in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France offers a vantage point for discerning how artists and writers defined their work both within and against a context of cultures defined as elite, "popular," and even ideological.
Author : David J. Fuller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666704245
The McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry is an electronic and print journal that seeks to provide pastors, educators, and interested lay persons with the fruits of theological, biblical, and professional studies in an accessible form. Published by McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, it continues the heritage of scholarly inquiry and theological dialogue represented by the College’s previous print publications: the Theological Bulletin, Theodolite, and the McMaster Journal of Theology.
Author : Kaja Silverman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 080477336X
What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized uniqueness and self-sufficiency. The theoreticians who loom so large within contemporary thought also privilege difference over similarity. Silverman reminds us that this is but half the story, and a dangerous half at that, for if we are all individuals, we are doomed to be rivals and enemies. A much older story, one that prevailed through the early modern era, held that likeness or resemblance was what organized the universe, and that everything emerges out of the same flesh. Silverman shows that analogy, so discredited by much of twentieth-century thought, offers a much more promising view of human relations. In the West, the emblematic story of turning away is that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and the heroes of Silverman's sweeping new reading of nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, the modern heirs to the old, analogical view of the world, also gravitate to this myth. They embrace the correspondences that bind Orpheus to Eurydice and acknowledge their kinship with others past and present. The first half of this book assembles a cast of characters not usually brought together: Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Lou-Andréas Salomé, Romain Rolland, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wilhelm Jensen, and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The second half is devoted to three contemporary artists, whose works we see in a moving new light:Terrence Malick, James Coleman, and Gerhard Richter.
Author : Ryan, Briceida
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1571747052
Presents an alphabetical listing of more than twenty-five thousand of the most common dream interpretations and symbols, explaining how dreams convey messages about the past, present, and future.
Author : Gustaf E. Karsten
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : English philology
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language and languages
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Author : Matthew Tiews
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 3088 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : American literature
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Author : Katherine Barnes
Publisher : Aries Book
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the first major study of Australian poet Christopher Brennan's 1914 work Poems, a very deliberate livre composé inspired by Western esoteric, Romantic, and Symbolist currents of thought. This book argues that Brennan's primary focus was the notion of a higher self.