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 ...


Biblical Allusions in Poe

Biblical Allusions in Poe

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  • Author: William Mentzel Forrest
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  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220


The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

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


Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

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  • Author: William Golding
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 0571290582
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 301

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.


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.


Koranic Allusions

Koranic Allusions

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  • Author: Ibn Warraq
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
  • ISBN: 1616147601
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 393

For anyone with an interest in the early history of Islam, this erudite anthology will prove to be informative and enlightening. Scholars have long known that the text of the Koran shows evidence of many influences from religious sources outside Islam. For example, stories in the Koran about Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other characters from the Bible obviously come from the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels. But there is also evidence of borrowing in the Koran from more obscure literature. In this anthology, the acclaimed critic of Islam Ibn Warraq has assembled scholarly articles that delve into these unusual, little-known sources. The contributors examine the connections between pre-Islamic poetry and the text of the Koran; and they explore similarities between various Muslim doctrines and ideas found in the writings of the Ebionites, a Jewish Christian sect that existed from the second to the fourth centuries. Also considered is the influence of Coptic Christian literature on the writing of the traditional biography of Muhammad.


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.


Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions

Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions

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  • Author: D. Venkat Rao
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811623910
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts: accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations. It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts and among different cultural formations of India over millennia? What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the lore of rivers and the epics? It explains how modern Indian languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is of interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives to European traditions of thought without an alibi.


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.