Continental Humanist Poetics

Continental Humanist Poetics
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015017656375
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Synopsis Continental Humanist Poetics by : Arthur F. Kinney

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Cartographic Humanism

Cartographic Humanism
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780226641218
ISBN-13 : 022664121X
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Cartographic Humanism by : Katharina N. Piechocki

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries. What is “Europe,” and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term “Europe” circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.

Poetics of Imagining

Poetics of Imagining
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781474469715
ISBN-13 : 147446971X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetics of Imagining by : Kearney Richard Kearney

Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised paperback edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume offers an accessible account of the major theories of imagination in modern European thought. It analyses and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeuneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur) and post-modernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard). Richard Kearney achieves this with a coherent and committed approach which displays his own passionate concern for the claims of imagination in our post-modern world of fragmentation and fracture.

Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination

Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 0820318191
ISBN-13 : 9780820318196
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination by : O. B. Hardison

Whether O.B. Hardison Jr. (1929-1990) wrote about government's responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare's play, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design and architecture, his chosen form was the essay. Showcasing Hardison's mastery of the essay's power to instruct, persuade, and provoke, the twenty-five selections in this volume range from his earliest works to those completed but still unpublished at the time of his death. As Arthur F. Kinney notes in his preface, they all bear hallmarks of Hardison's style: his intensity and acuity of thought, his concreteness, his grounding of the present and future in the past, his easy melding of analytic and expository conventions, and his intercultural perspective.

Continental Humanist Poetics

Continental Humanist Poetics
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106008643329
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Synopsis Continental Humanist Poetics by : Arthur F. Kinney

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Continental Strangers

Continental Strangers
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9780231166799
ISBN-13 : 0231166796
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Continental Strangers by : Gerd GemŸnden

Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9780195351460
ISBN-13 : 0195351460
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity by : Jeffrey Walker

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "rhetoric" primarily as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in antiquity. In essence, Jeffrey Walker's study accomplishes what in the world of rhetoric studies amounts to a revolution: he demonstrates that in antiquity rhetoric and poetry could not be viewed separately.

Philosophy and Poetry

Philosophy and Poetry
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 9780231547246
ISBN-13 : 0231547242
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Philosophy and Poetry by : Ranjan Ghosh

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry. In wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva, and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of philosophy.

Continental Theory Buffalo

Continental Theory Buffalo
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781438486468
ISBN-13 : 1438486464
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Continental Theory Buffalo by : David R. Castillo

Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the "revolutionary" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic.

Continental England

Continental England
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Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0814214975
ISBN-13 : 9780814214978
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Continental England by : Elizaveta Strakhov

Employs Chaucer as a lens to argue that Anglo-French translation of formes fixes poetry helped rebuild cultural ties between England and Continental Europe during the Hundred Years' War.