Allusions and Reflections

Allusions and Reflections

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  • Author: Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 144387891X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 498

In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world. W ...


The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

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  • Category : British periodicals
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 696


Proclus and his Legacy

Proclus and his Legacy

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  • Author: Danielle Layne
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110470373
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 522

This volume investigates Proclus' own thought and his wide-ranging influence within late Neoplatonic, Alexandrine and Byzantinian philosophy and theology. It further explores how Procline metaphysics and doctrines of causality influence and transition into Arabic and Islamic thought, up until Richard Hooker in England, Spinoza in Holland and Pico in Italy. John Dillon provides a helpful overview of Proclus' thought, Harold Tarrant discusses Proclus' influence within Alexandrian philosophy and Tzvi Langermann presents ground breaking work on the Jewish reception of Proclus, focusing on the work of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591-1655), while Stephen Gersh presents a comprehensive synopsis of Proclus' reception throughout Christendom. The volume also presents works from notable scholars like Helen Lang, Sarah Wear and Crystal Addey and has a considerable strength in its presentation of Pseudo-Dionysius, Proclus' transmission and development in Arabic philosophy and the problem of the eternity of the world. It will be important for anyone interested in the development and transition of ideas from the late ancient world onwards.


Telos

Telos

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  • Category : Dialectical materialism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 792


Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

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  • Author: Robert James Merrett
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 1442646101
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 433

A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove highly fluid. In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness. Examining more than ninety of Defoe's works, Merrett contends that this author's literariness exploits a conscious dialogue that fosters the reciprocity of traditional and progressive authorial procedures. Along the way, he discusses Defoe's lexical and semantic sensibility, his rhetorical and aesthetic theories, his contrarian theology, and more. Merrett proposes that Defoe's contrarian outlook celebrates a view of consciousness that acknowledges the brain's bipartite structure, and in so doing illustrates how cognitive science may be applied to further explorations of narrative art.


Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare

Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare

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  • Author: Alexa Alice Joubin
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030937836
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. Shakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms onstage and onscreen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring together an international group of scholars to explore Shakespearean appropriations in unexpected contexts in lesser-known films and television shows in India, Brazil, Russia, France, Australia, South Africa, East-Central Europe and Italy, with reference to some filmed stage works.


Allusions in the Press

Allusions in the Press

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  • Author: Paul Lennon
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110197332
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

This corpus-based study of allusions in the British press shows the range of targets journalists allude to - from Shakespeare to TV soaps, from Jane Austen to Hillary Clinton, from hymns to nursery rhymes, proverbs and riddles. It analyzes the linguistic forms allusions take and demonstrates how allusions function meaningfully in discourse. It explores the nature of the background cultural and intertextual knowledge allusions demand of readers and sets out the processing stages involved in understanding an allusion. Allusion is integrated into existing theories of indirect language and linked to idioms, word-play and metaphor.


The Facts On File Dictionary of Classical and Biblical Allusions

The Facts On File Dictionary of Classical and Biblical Allusions

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  • Author: Martin H. Manser
  • Publisher: Infobase Publishing
  • ISBN: 0816048681
  • Category : Allusions
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 465

This indispensable work is a comprehensive resource offering abundant information that students and general readers of all ages will find clear and to the point. A useful companion to The Facts On File Dictionary of Cultural and Historical Allusions explains the meanings and origins of allusions from the Bible and classical mythology, including Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, and Egyptian. It features approximately 2,000 entries, from Abelard and Heloise to Zeus. It covers biblical and mythological figures (Narcissus, Athena, Daniel), places (Mount Olympus, Gesthemane, Elysian Fields), key concepts (doomsday, utopia), and other references with biblical and mythological origins (judgment of Solomon, salt of the earth, patience of Job, labors of Hercules). It also includes a pronunciation key for difficult words or terms; examples of usage; and extensive cross-references.


Reflection and Refraction

Reflection and Refraction

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  • Author: Robert Rezetko
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004145125
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 610

This volume of thirty articles covering a wide range of subjects related to Old Testament study is written by colleagues, friends and students of A. Graeme Auld to honour the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.


Pandemic Reflections

Pandemic Reflections

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  • Author: Geoffrey Karabin
  • Publisher: Ethics International Press
  • ISBN: 1804410497
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 414

St Francis of Assisi, one of the most acclaimed and enduring of saints, is particularly significant when reflecting upon the COVID pandemic. Francis lived, and ministered, amid a leprosy pandemic. How he lived in relation to that pandemic makes him a source of insight to as well as a potential critic of contemporary responses to COVID. In turn, one can use COVID to question Francis. Did he exhibit a harmful form of religious devotion, perhaps fanaticism, by exposing himself and others to a lethal pathogen? This edited collection examines a highly visible and impactful religious figure with the intent of bringing him into conversation with one of the defining issues of the early 21st Century.