Mysteriously Meant
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Author |
: Don Cameron Allen |
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: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2020-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421435282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421435284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mysteriously Meant by : Don Cameron Allen
Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
Author |
: Don Cameron Allen |
Publisher |
: Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2020-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1421435276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781421435275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mysteriously Meant by : Don Cameron Allen
His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
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: Robert Hunter |
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Total Pages |
: 400 |
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: 1885 |
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: HARVARD:32044100036797 |
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: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Encyclopædic Dictionary by : Robert Hunter
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: Robert Hunter |
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Total Pages |
: 400 |
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: 1886 |
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: NYPL:33433081987806 |
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: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Encyclopaedic Dictionary by : Robert Hunter
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Total Pages |
: 1166 |
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: 1894 |
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: UOM:39015050663213 |
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: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary by :
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Total Pages |
: 786 |
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: 1896 |
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: NYPL:33433070243203 |
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: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary by :
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: Ida Fasel |
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: Author House |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2011-07-13 |
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: 9781463410476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1463410476 |
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: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Milton on My Mind by : Ida Fasel
MILTON ON MY MIND is a series of reflections on PARADISE LOST by poet and Milton specialist Dr. Ida Fasel, compiled over the last fifty years of her life. At age 100, Dr. Fasel began this labor of love, assembling her many essays and poems on the themes in PARADISE LOST, hoping to shed a brighter light on a magnificent but sometimes difficult epic poem for students of English literature. It is her ardent desire that future readers of PARADISE LOST will find this book to be a helpful and inspiring companion to Milton's exquisite literary account of Creation and the Fall of Adam and Eve.
Author |
: Daniel Stolzenberg |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2013-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226924151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226924157 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Egyptian Oedipus by : Daniel Stolzenberg
An examination of the unique, baroque-era, German Jesuit scholar, Egyptologist, polymath, and prolific author and his studies. A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2–80), was one of Europe’s most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology, numerology, geology, and music. But Kircher is most famous—or infamous—for his quixotic attempt to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs and reconstruct the ancient traditions they encoded. In 1655, after more than two decades of toil, Kircher published his solution to the hieroglyphs, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, a work that has been called “one of the most learned monstrosities of all times.” Here Daniel Stolzenberg presents a new interpretation of Kircher’s hieroglyphic studies, placing them in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship on paganism and Oriental languages. Situating Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome, with its scholars, artists, patrons, and censors, Stolzenberg shows how Kircher’s study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts, artifacts, and people between Christian and Islamic civilizations. Along with other participants in the rise of Oriental studies, Kircher aimed to revolutionize the study of the past by mastering Near Eastern languages and recovering ancient manuscripts hidden away in the legendary libraries of Cairo and Damascus. The spectacular flaws of his scholarship have fostered an image of Kircher as an eccentric anachronism, a throwback to the Renaissance hermetic tradition. Stolzenberg argues against this view, showing how Kircher embodied essential tensions of a pivotal phase in European intellectual history, when pre-Enlightenment scholars pioneered modern empirical methods of studying the past while still working within traditional frameworks, such as biblical history and beliefs about magic and esoteric wisdom. Praise for Egyptian Oedipus “Stolzenberg not only provides the first serious study of Athanasius Kircher’s investigations into the history and culture of ancient Egypt, but he also furnishes a perceptive critical evaluation of Kircher’s scholarship and persona, warts and all. Stolzenberg goes beyond Kircher’s programmatic statements to unveil his actual scholarly practices. In doing so, Stolzenberg has produced an exemplary case study of a polymath at work and has provided us with a more nuanced understanding of Kircher’s influence.” —Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology “If you don’t already know about Athanasius Kircher, you should take a long trip through his extraordinary and weird fields of research: a Jesuit priest who tinkered with everything from early cinematic projectors to talking statues, and wrote about impossibly tall skyscrapers inspired by the Tower of Babel and developed his own unique twist on a volcanic theory of a Hollow Earth. . . . Stolzenberg’s book is an excellent biography of the man and his ideas.” —Gizmodo, Notable Books of 2013
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: LLMC:NYAE77PLJ50X |
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: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Rose Acker agaunst the Town of New Castle by :
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: Nicholas Halmi |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2007-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191526442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191526444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol by : Nicholas Halmi
Despite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F. W. J. Schelling in Germany and S. T. Coleridge in England has defied adequate historical explanation. In contrast to previous scholarship, Nicholas Halmi's study provides such an explanation by relating the content of Romantic symbolist theory - often criticized as irrationalist - to the cultural needs of its time. Because its genealogical method eschews a single disciplinary perspective, this study is able to examine the Romantic concept of the symbol in a broader intellectual context than previous scholarship, a context ranging chronologically from classical antiquity to the present and encompassing literary criticism and theory, aesthetics, semiotics, theology, metaphysics, natural philosophy, astronomy, poetry, and the origins of landscape painting. The concept is thus revealed to be a specifically modern response to modern discontents, neither reverting to pre-modern modes of thought nor secularizing Christian theology, but countering Enlightenment dualisms with means bequeathed by the Enlightenment itself. This book seeks, in short, to do for the Romantic symbol what Percy Bysshe Shelley called on poets to do for the world: to lift from it its veil of familiarity.