Samuel Butler and the Meaning of Chiasmus

Samuel Butler and the Meaning of Chiasmus
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781349180677
ISBN-13 : 134918067X
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Butler and the Meaning of Chiasmus by : Ralf Norrman

Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain

Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9781442692305
ISBN-13 : 1442692308
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain by : James G. Paradis

Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of his time. He was an innovative travel writer and art historian who used the creative insights of his own painting, photography, and local knowledge to invent, in works like Alps and Sanctuaries (1881), a vibrant Italian culture that contrasted with the spiritually frigid experience of his High Church upbringing. Despite his range and achievement, there remains surprisingly little contemporary analytical commentary on Butler's work. Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age. The essays, taken together, discuss the formation of Victorian England's ultimate polymath, an artistic and intellectual ventriloquist who assumed an extraordinary range of roles - as satirist, novelist, evolutionist, natural theologian, travel writer, art historian, biographer, classicist, painter, and photographer.

Samuel Butler against the Professionals

Samuel Butler against the Professionals
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781351550185
ISBN-13 : 1351550187
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Butler against the Professionals by : David Gillott

In the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, he argues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermine professional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against the Professionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades following publication of the Origin of Species.

The Varieties of Temporal Experience

The Varieties of Temporal Experience
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9780231546447
ISBN-13 : 0231546440
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Varieties of Temporal Experience by : Michael D. Jackson

What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in-time. Jackson explores temporality in a subjective mode as a form of literary anthropology. The first part of the book tells the story of John Joseph Pawelka, whose 1910 escape from prison and subsequent disappearance became one of New Zealand’s great unsolved mysteries, discussing what it reveals about the interplay of popular stories, hidden histories, and media narratives in constructing allegories of national and moral identity. In the second, Jackson reflects on journeys up and down the islands of New Zealand, touching on the ways that personal stories are interwoven with social and historical events. Throughout this groundbreaking book, Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the extraordinary variety of temporal experience, at the same time exploring the ethical and existential quandaries that arise from the complexity of lived time.

Chiasmus and Culture

Chiasmus and Culture
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780857459619
ISBN-13 : 0857459619
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Chiasmus and Culture by : Boris Wiseman

Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is concerned with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiastic inversion and its place in social interactions, cultural creation, and more generally human thought and experience.They explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus (from the Greek meaning “cross-wise”), has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation.

The Fourth Discontinuity

The Fourth Discontinuity
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 0300065124
ISBN-13 : 9780300065121
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fourth Discontinuity by : Bruce Mazlish

Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.

Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781108844840
ISBN-13 : 1108844847
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by : Hosanna Krienke

This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.

Form Miming Meaning

Form Miming Meaning
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 9027221790
ISBN-13 : 9789027221797
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Form Miming Meaning by : Max Nänny

Annotation Presents selected papers from a March 1997 symposium held in Zurich, in sections on general topics, sound and rhythm, typography and graphic design, word-formation, and syntax and discourse. Studies explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of scholars is especially interested in how far the primary code, the code of grammar, is influenced by iconic motivation and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code. Specific subjects include imagination by ideophones, the visual poetry of e. e. cummings, and iconic use of syntax in fiction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The British Critical Tradition

The British Critical Tradition
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781349224241
ISBN-13 : 1349224243
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The British Critical Tradition by : Gary Day

This collection offers a reinterpretation of the history of British criticism by exploring the work of neglected as well as celebrated critics. It contextualizes the current crisis and shows how traditional criticism anticipates and to some extent parallels the concerns of postmodern critical theory. The issue of value is also addressed as is the question of the future direction of criticism making this volume an important contribution to contemporary critical debate.

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9780230604353
ISBN-13 : 0230604358
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nineteenth-Century English Novel by : J. Kilroy

Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.