Historicizing The Embodied Imagination In Early Modern English Literature

Author : Grant Williams
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031550638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature written by Grant Williams and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection reconnects the literary imagination to the early modern cognitive environment. Under the spell of post-romantic aesthetics, modernist criticism regarded the imagination as an autonomous driver of artistic production and severed its dense ties to the image, reducing the latter to a formalistic category emptied of psychological significance. But early modern writers and thinkers did not hold such views. They understood the literary image to issue from the embodied mental faculties of the author and, through its rhetorical inscription, to influence, in turn, the interiority of the reader. For both authors and readers, then, engaging with images was not a detached aesthetic experience; it was a psycho-physiological struggle fraught with ethical peril insofar as the imagination was known for its volatility and unruliness, susceptible to the dysfunction brought on by disease and bearing, at times, in Protestant England the taint of superstition and idolatry. This volume accordingly investigates the imagination’s alliances, altercations, and betrayals with rival cognitive operations based upon premodern faculty psychology.

Author : Mark Kaethler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031550641
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature written by Mark Kaethler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deanna Smid
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344047
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature written by Deanna Smid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, particularly imagination’s effects on the body and on women, its restraint by reason, and its ability to create novelty.

Author : Richard T. Gray
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801654
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventions of the Imagination written by Richard T. Gray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics. By the end of the eighteenth century, reason as the predominant human faculty had run its course, and imagination emerged as another force whose contributions to human intellectual existence and productivity had to be newly calculated and constantly recalibrated. The attempt to establish a universal form of reason alongside a plurality of imaginative capacities describes the ideological program of modernism from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. This collection chronicles some of the vicissitudes in the conceptualization and evaluation of the imagination across time and in various disciplines.

Author : Diane J. Austin-Broos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226032655
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past written by Diane J. Austin-Broos and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte’s contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.

Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317589688
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination written by Robert Rix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral origins, showing how an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend can be found in works by several familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, ‘Fredegar’, Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and Æthelweard. The book investigates how legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ tale was exploited to promote a legacy of ‘barbarian’ vigor that could withstand the negative cultural effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of ‘the North’ will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval studies.

Author : Andrew Mousley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629971
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Humanising Shakespeare written by Andrew Mousley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? Re-Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare himself contributed to the uncertainties of modern living, his work can still serve as a source of existential wisdom and guidance.The book examines through a wide range of Shakespeare's plays the conditions under which human beings flourish or perish. Love, ethics, emotion, vulnerability and humility are amongst the topics discussed as part of the book's argument that Shakespeare is continually at pains to reclaim the human from its complete liquefaction. Given the range and originality of its approach, Re-Humanising Shakespeare will make provocative reading for all those interested in Shakespeare, ethics and questions of literary value.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047909
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bradley J. Irish
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810136392
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotion in the Tudor Court written by Bradley J. Irish and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion in the Tudor Court is a transdisciplinary work that uses Renaissance and modern scientific models of emotion to analyze the literary cultures of Tudor-era English court society, providing a robust new analysis of the emotional dynamics of sixteenth-century England.

Author : David Marshall Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108420303
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution written by David Marshall Miller and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.