Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gary Westfahl, George Slusser

Автор: Sider Jost Jacob
Название: Prose Immortality, 1711-1819
ISBN: 0813936802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813936802
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a new kind of lastingness that responded to the challenges and opportunities of Enlightenment philosophy and evolving religious thought.Prose Immortality, 1711–1819 documents this transformation of British literary culture, spanning the eighteenth century and linking journalism, literature, theology, and philosophy. In recovering the centrality of the afterlife to eighteenth-century culture, this prizewinning book offers a versatile and wide-ranging argument that will speak not only to literary scholars but also to historians, scholars of religion, and all readers interested in the power of literature to preserve human experience through time.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Автор: A. Jacob
Название: Henry More. The Immortality of the Soul
ISBN: 9401081123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401081122
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The significance of Henry More`s vitalist philosophy in the history of ideas has been realized relatively recently, as the bibliography will reveal.

Название: Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood
ISBN: 9004364293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004364295
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 175330.00 T
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Описание: In Great Immortality , twenty scholars from considerably different cultural backgrounds explore the ways in which certain poets, writers, and artists in Europe have become major figures of cultural memory. Through individual case studies, many of the contributors expand and challenge the concepts of cultural sainthood and canonization as developed by Marijan Dovic and Jon Karl Helgason in National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (Brill, 2017). Even though the major focus of the book is the nineteenth-century cults of national poets, the volume examines a wide variety of cases in a very broad temporal and geographical framework – from Dante and Petrarch to the most recent attempts to sanctify artists by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and from the rise of a medieval Icelandic author of sagas to the veneration of a poet and national leader in Georgia. Contributors are: Bojan Baskar, Marijan Dovic, Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, David Fishelov, Jernej Habjan, Simon Halink, Jon Karl Helgason, Harald Hendrix, Andraz Jez, Marko Juvan, Alenka Koron, Roman Koropeckyj, Joep Leerssen, Christian Noack, Jaume Subirana, Magi Sunyer, Andreas Stynen, Andrei Terian, Bela Tsipuria, and Luka Vidmar.