The Theater Of Nature

Author : Ann Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140088750X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Nature written by Ann Blair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience,'' fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Susan Elizabeth Schreiner
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780801020049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of His Glory written by Susan Elizabeth Schreiner and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive study of Calvin's theology of the natural order exploring five key themes: providence, angels, the image of God, societal life, and the redemption of creation.

Author : Anat Pick
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382275
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Nature written by Anat Pick and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

Author : Angela Lorenz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Nature written by Angela Lorenz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer A. Kokai
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336006
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swim Pretty written by Jennifer A. Kokai and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century.

Author : Kilian Heck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science; by Ann Blair. - [Rezension] written by Kilian Heck and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Dear
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571277225
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley written by Nick Dear and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, adapted for the stage by Nick Dear, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in February 2011.

Author : Florence Ducatteau
Publisher : Want to Know
ISBN 13 : 9781605372532
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going to the Theater written by Florence Ducatteau and published by Want to Know. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information about theater, including the different cultural expressions of theater, what the director's job is, and why dress rehearsal is so important.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628974087
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Story that Happens written by Dan O'Brien and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens—first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the US Air Force Academy—offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350129003
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Uses Of The Knife written by David Mamet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife is an enthralling read for anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human.