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Book Illinois Classical Studies

Download or read book Illinois Classical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Aeneas

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  • Author : P. J. Loseby
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-20
  • ISBN : 110742142X
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Roman Aeneas written by P. J. Loseby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles Latin selections from the first six books of Virgil's Aeneid.

Book Aeneas  Sicily  and Rome

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  • Author : Karl Galinsky
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-12-08
  • ISBN : 140087663X
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Aeneas Sicily and Rome written by Karl Galinsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Aeneas as preserved in the art and artifacts of antiquity is the focus of this study. Gallant warrior, accomplice in the abduction of Helen, fugitive from burning Troy, founder of Rome-in all his roles, Aeneas appears in ancient sculpture and wall painting, on vases, coins, lamps, mirrors, and gems, as richly illustrated here. To what extent he was known to the Greeks and Romans, for what qualities he was admired, and how his legend served the propaganda of empire building are examined in this survey of the visual data, and these are correlated with what is known of the legend in the literary, historical, and religious traditions of the ancient Mediterranean world. Originally published in 1969. 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.

Book Metaformations

Download or read book Metaformations written by Frederick Ahl and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing and Filming the Painting

Download or read book Writing and Filming the Painting written by Laura M. Sager Eidt and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative interdisciplinary study compares the uses of painting in literary texts and films. In developing a framework of four types of ekphrasis, the author argues for the expansion of the concept of ekphrasis by demonstrating its applicability as interpretive tool to films about the visual arts and artists. Analyzing selected works of art by Goya, Rembrandt, and Vermeer and their ekphrastic treatment in various texts and films, this book examines how the medium of ekphrasis affects the representation of the visual arts in order to show what the differences imply about issues such as gender roles and the function of art for the construction of a personal or social identity. Because of its highly cross-disciplinary nature, this book is of interest not only to scholars of literature and aesthetics, but also for scholars of film studies. By providing an innovative approach to discussing non-documentary films about artists, the author shows that ekphrasis is a useful tool for exploring both aesthetic concerns and ideological issues in film. This study also addresses art historians as it deals with the reception of major artists in European literature and film throughout the 20th century.

Book Dreaming by the Book

Download or read book Dreaming by the Book written by Elaine Scarry and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination. We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry argues, instruct us in the art of mental composition even as their poems progress: just as painters understand paint, composers musical sounds, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand and deploy the only material in which their creations will get made - the backlit tissue of the human imagination. In her brilliant synthesis of cognitive psychology, literary criticism, and philosophy, she explores the five principal formal practices by which writers bring things to life for their readers; she calls them radiant ignition, rarity, dyadic addition and subtraction, stretching, and floral supposition. The transforming power of these mental practices can be seen in their appearance in great literature, of course, but also in applying them to - and watching how they revise - our own daydreams. Dreaming by the Book is not only an utterly original work of literary analysis but a sequence of on-the-spot mental experiments.

Book Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition

Download or read book Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition written by Mack Smith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories in the philosophies of language contemporaneous with them. Beginning with Adamicism, Mack Smith looks at the way humanist, rationalist, empiricist, Kantian, positivist, and poststructuralist theories of language are textually dramatized. He considers the cultural and personal influences that affect historical notions of realism and reality. He also demonstrates the rhetorical basis of realism by considering a mimetic device used by novelists in rendering a faithful version of reality&—ekphrasis, the narrative description of a work of art. Smith seeks a middle ground between the extremes of theory and interpretation, discourse and reality, and textualism and history, thus making an important contribution to the revaluation of literary studies.

Book Domestic Interiors

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  • Author : Georgina Downey
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-08-15
  • ISBN : 1472539419
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Domestic Interiors written by Georgina Downey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities. Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values, and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves 'at home'. Scholars from the US, UK and Australasia re-visit and re-think interiors by Bonnard, Matisse, Degas and Vuillard, as well as the great spaces of early modernity; the drawing room in Rossetti's house, hallways in Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Paris attic of the Brothers Goncourt; Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen, to explore how interior making has changed from the Victorian to the modern period. From the smallest room - the bathroom - to the spacious verandas of Singapore Deco, Domestic Interiors focuses on modern rooms 'imaged' and imagined, it builds a distinct body of knowledge around the interior, interiority, representation and modernity, and creates a rich resource for students and scholars in art, architecture and design history.

Book Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum  1881 1914

Download or read book Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum 1881 1914 written by Elizabeth Emery and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum is the first book to emphasize the house museum as a modern construct, and to trace the history of ideas and images leading to its institutionalization in twentieth-century France. This study analyzes newspaper and magazine representations of the homes of Corneille, Hugo, Balzac, Dumas, Sand, Zola, Loti, Montesquiou, Mallarmé, and Proust, among others, arguing that the writer's home became an important part of the French patrimony in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Book Modern Ekphrasis

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  • Author : Emily Bilman
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9783034313636
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Modern Ekphrasis written by Emily Bilman and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relations between poetry and painting in ekphrastic poems by tracing the development of literary ekphrasis and the evolving ekphrastic relation between painting and poetry. The self-reflexivity of the poems is analysed after critical writings and in the light of the latest neuroscientific discoveries.

Book The Writer of Modern Life

Download or read book The Writer of Modern Life written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Interart Poetics

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  • Author : Ulla Britta Lagerroth
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9789042002029
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Interart Poetics written by Ulla Britta Lagerroth and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology containing 28 essays devoted to the interrelations between the arts and media. Contributions promote interdisciplinary strategies in the study of such traditional arts as dance, literature, music, and theater, as well as more modern media such as film, television, and computer-generated art. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Body  Place  and Self in Nineteenth century Painting

Download or read book Body Place and Self in Nineteenth century Painting written by Susan Sidlauskas and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals why the domestic interior figured prominently in visual culture from the 1850s to 1920s.

Book Odd Man Out

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  • Author : Carol M. Armstrong
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780892367283
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Odd Man Out written by Carol M. Armstrong and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Odd Man Out, Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon: he was a realist whom realists rejected; a storyteller in pictures who did not satisfy novelist-critics; a painter of modern life who was not a modernist; a member of the impressionist group who was no impressionist. Armstrong confronts these and other paradoxes by analyzing the critical vocabularies used to describe Degas's work. By reading several groups of the artist's images through the lens of a sequence of critical texts, Armstrong shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted. This is a reprint of the book first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1991.

Book Roman Epic

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  • Author : M. von Albrecht
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 9004351418
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Roman Epic written by M. von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's approach to Roman epic is interpretative; the reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of Antiquity. Famous poets are given the attention they deserve, but also some minor authors are discovered as precious 'missing links' between the ages. Special heed is paid to intertextual relationships between different epochs, cultures, literary genres, linguistic and literary patterns. The book is meant for students and teachers of classical and modern literatures, but also for all those interested in the history of literary genres and cultural ideas.

Book Translation and the Arts in Modern France

Download or read book Translation and the Arts in Modern France written by Sonya Stephens and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries, and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes—the very process of translation and transposition—is a defining aspect of creativity across time, space, and disciplines.

Book Les Fleurs Du Mal 1861

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  • Author : Charles Baudelaire
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 9781530033416
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Les Fleurs Du Mal 1861 written by Charles Baudelaire and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by some critics to be the definitive translation to date of Baudelaire's seminal work of world poetry, this dual language book contains all of the poems that were published in the second edition of 1861. The censored pieces from the first edition of 1857 are also included. "I should like to congratulate John Tidball on his most erudite translations of Baudelaire's poetry." - Dan Kelly, Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. "The translations here come closer to the original feel of the texts than any other versions I have read." - Annie Burnside, M.A. (Classical French Literature), Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques."