Empty Vision

Author : David McMahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136857265
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Vision written by David McMahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition to language and conceptual thinking, which are construed as obscuring reality. In addition to its philosophical manifestations, the tension between vision and language also functioned as a strategy of legitimation in the struggle of the early heterodox Mahayana movement for authority and legitimacy. This emphasis on vision also served as a resource for the abundant mythical imagery in Mahayana sutras, imagery that is ritualized in Vajrayana visualization practices. McMahan brings a wide range of literature to bear on this issue, Including a rare analysis of the lavish imagery of the Gandavyuha Sutra in its Indian context. He concludes with a discussion of Indian approaches to visuality in the light of some recent discussions of "ocularcentrism" in the west, inviting scholars to expand the current discussion of vision and its roles in constructing epistemic systems and cultural practices beyond its exclusively European and American focus.

Author : David Kurnick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691153167
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Houses written by David Kurnick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly--the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin--writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies--this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, David Kurnick reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Exploring neglected texts in order to reread canonical ones, Kurnick shows that the theatrical ambitions of major novelists had crucial formal and ideological effects on their masterworks. Investigating a key stretch of each of these novelistic careers, he establishes the theatrical genealogy of some of the signal techniques of narrative interiority. In the process he illustrates how the novel is marked by a hunger for palpable collectivity, and argues that the genre's discontents have been a shaping force in its evolution. A groundbreaking rereading of the novel, Empty Houses provides new ways to consider the novelistic imagination.

Author : David McMahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136857192
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Vision written by David McMahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition to language and conceptual thinking, which are construed as obscuring reality. In addition to its philosophical manifestations, the tension between vision and language also functioned as a strategy of legitimation in the struggle of the early heterodox Mahayana movement for authority and legitimacy. This emphasis on vision also served as a resource for the abundant mythical imagery in Mahayana sutras, imagery that is ritualized in Vajrayana visualization practices. McMahan brings a wide range of literature to bear on this issue, Including a rare analysis of the lavish imagery of the Gandavyuha Sutra in its Indian context. He concludes with a discussion of Indian approaches to visuality in the light of some recent discussions of "ocularcentrism" in the west, inviting scholars to expand the current discussion of vision and its roles in constructing epistemic systems and cultural practices beyond its exclusively European and American focus.

Author : John Bonner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
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Author : Timothy Dwight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Thoughts of and for the Inner Life written by Timothy Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 762 pages
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Total Pages : 842 pages
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Author : Phillips Brooks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Visions and Tasks, and Other Sermons written by Phillips Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillips Brooks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Author : Walter Ewart Bristow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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