3. Wax Minds: Writing Subjectivity and Agency in Hamlet and The Atheist's Tragedy
3.1 Learning Wax Virtues
3.2 Writing Hamlet's Tables
3.3 Imprinting Charlemont
4. Wax Patterning: Cavendish and the Physics of Wax
4.1 Thinking Patterns and Impressions in Philosophical Letters
4.2 Waxing Social and Political
4.3 Patterning Worlds and Relations in The Blazing World
5.Wax Arts: Projects of Transformation in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Donne's Sappho to Philaenis
5.1 Deforming wax in The Duchess of Malfi
5.2 Inscribing wax in Sappho to Philaenis
6. Wax Hybrids: Re-Thinking Subjects and Objects in Ovid, Parй, Descartes, and Spenser
6.1 Dreaming Prosthetics
6.2 Animating Allegories
7. Epilogue: A Figure of Wax
Автор: Isabella Waldron Название: how to build a wax figure ISBN: 135035175X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350351752 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 11610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: I was the eyes and she was the bodyI mean that sounds poetic but really that’s how it worked
Girl meets anatomical wax sculptor.
Anatomical wax sculptor meets Girl.
They fall in love. Or something like that.
Bea’s older neighbour was her first love, her first cigarette, her first prosthetic eye. When Bea is invited to the Wellcome Collection to speak about her expertise making glass eyes, she finds herself unable to untie Margot from all that she does. As she tries to unpack her mentor’s effect on her work, Bea must dissect for herself what love really looks like.
Isabella Waldron’s electric new play, how to build a wax figure, brings a fresh perspective on queer love, age-gap relationships, and ocularistry.
Автор: Rebekah Mitsein Название: African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination Across the Early Enlightenment ISBN: 0813947898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813947891 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 87780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of rivers. This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts alike, and it was born not from fanciful speculation but from British interpretations of what Africans said and showed about themselves and their worlds. Investigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in the British imagination as a completely invented space with no meaningful connection to actual African worlds, or as an inert realm onto which writers projected their expansionist fantasies. With African Impressions, Rebekah Mitsein revises that narrative, demonstrating that African elites successfully projected expressions of their sovereignty, wealth, right to power, geopolitical clout, and religious exceptionalism into Europe long before Europeans entered sub-Saharan Africa. Mitsein considers the ways that African self-representation continued to drive European impressions of the continent across the early Enlightenment, fueling desires to find the sources of West Africa’s gold and the city states along the Niger, to establish a relationship with the Christian kingdom of Prester John, and to discover the source of the Nile. Through an analysis of a range of genres, including travel narratives, geography books, maps, verse, and fiction, Mitsein shows how African strategies of self-representation and European strategies for representing Africa grew increasingly inextricable, as the ideas that Africans presented about themselves and their worlds migrated from contact zones to texts and back again. The geographical narratives that arose from this cycle, which unfolded over hundreds of years, were made to fit expansionist agendas, but they remained rooted in the African worlds and worldviews that shaped them.
Автор: Rebekah Mitsein Название: African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination Across the Early Enlightenment ISBN: 0813947901 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813947907 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of rivers. This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts alike, and it was born not from fanciful speculation but from British interpretations of what Africans said and showed about themselves and their worlds. Investigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in the British imagination as a completely invented space with no meaningful connection to actual African worlds, or as an inert realm onto which writers projected their expansionist fantasies. With African Impressions, Rebekah Mitsein revises that narrative, demonstrating that African elites successfully projected expressions of their sovereignty, wealth, right to power, geopolitical clout, and religious exceptionalism into Europe long before Europeans entered sub-Saharan Africa. Mitsein considers the ways that African self-representation continued to drive European impressions of the continent across the early Enlightenment, fueling desires to find the sources of West Africa’s gold and the city states along the Niger, to establish a relationship with the Christian kingdom of Prester John, and to discover the source of the Nile. Through an analysis of a range of genres, including travel narratives, geography books, maps, verse, and fiction, Mitsein shows how African strategies of self-representation and European strategies for representing Africa grew increasingly inextricable, as the ideas that Africans presented about themselves and their worlds migrated from contact zones to texts and back again. The geographical narratives that arose from this cycle, which unfolded over hundreds of years, were made to fit expansionist agendas, but they remained rooted in the African worlds and worldviews that shaped them.
Автор: Rosenfeld Colleen Ruth Название: Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics ISBN: 0823277925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823277926 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 32610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of decorum described the absence of visible art as a precondition for rhetoric, civics, and beauty: speaking well meant speaking as if off-the-cuff. Against this ideal, Rosenfeld argues that one of early modern literature's richest contributions to poetics is the idea that indecorous art—artifice that rings out with the bells and whistles of ornamentation—celebrates the craft of poetry even as it expands poetry’s range of activities. Rosenfeld details a lost legacy of humanism that contributes to contemporary debates over literary studies’ singular but deeply ambivalent commitment to form. Form, she argues, must be reexamined through the legacy of figure. Reading poetry by Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth alongside pedagogical debates of the period and the emergence of empiricism, with its signature commitment to the plain style, Rosenfeld offers a robust account of the triumphs and embarrassments that attended the conspicuous display of artifice. Drawing widely across the arts of rhetoric, dialectic, and poetics, Indecorous Thinking offers a defense of the epistemological value of form: not as a sign of the aesthetic but as the source of a particular kind of knowledge we might call poetic.
Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired into the cultural imaginations of the educated.
This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy's Southern territories. Spanning the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the author considers what these travellers discovered, not in the form of a survey, but as a series of unfolding impressions disclosing multiple Southern Italies. Of the numerous travellers analysed within this volume, the central figures are Henry Swinburne, Craufurd Tait Ramage and Norman Douglas, whose Old Calabria (1915) remains in print. Their appeal is that they take the region seriously: Southern Italy wasn't simply a testing ground for their superior sensibilities, it was a vibrant curiosity, unknown but within reach. Was the South simply behind on the road to European integration; or was it beyond a fault line, representing a viable alternative to Northern neuroses? The travelogues analysed in this book address a wide variety of themes which continue to shape discussions about European identity today.
Автор: Ouditt, Sharon Название: Impressions of Southern Italy ISBN: 0367868776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367868772 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder. This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy`s Southern territories. Spanning the late 18th to the mid-20th century, the author considers what these travellers discovered as a series of unfolding impressions disclos
Автор: Penhallurick R. Название: Studying the English Language, 2E ISBN: 023020015X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230200159 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16470.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Elizabeth Gaskell`s Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bronte`s letters, offering fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.
Автор: MacDonald, Katherine Название: Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630 ISBN: 1905981112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905981113 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 91860.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: MacDonald, Katherine Название: Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630 ISBN: 0367603780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367603786 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Debapriya Sarkar Название: Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science ISBN: 151282335X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781512823356 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 54340.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early moderns termed poesie—in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing how problems of epistemology are inextricable from questions of literary form, Sarkar offers a defense of poiesis, or literary making, as a vital philosophical endeavor. Working across a range of genres, Sarkar theorizes “possible knowledge” as an intellectual paradigm crafted in and through literary form. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers such as Spenser, Bacon, Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Milton marshalled the capacious concept of the “possible,” defined by Philip Sidney as what “may be and should be,” to construct new theories of physical and metaphysical reality. These early modern thinkers mobilized the imaginative habits of thought constitutive to major genres of literary writing—including epic, tragedy, romance, lyric, and utopia—in order to produce knowledge divorced from historical truth and empirical fact by envisioning states of being untethered from “nature” or reality. Approaching imaginative modes such as hypothesis, conjecture, prediction, and counterfactuals as instruments of possible knowledge, Sarkar exposes how the speculative allure of the “possible” lurks within scientific experiment, induction, and theories of probability. In showing how early modern literary writing sought to grapple with the challenge of forging knowledge in an uncertain, perhaps even incomprehensible world, Possible Knowledge also highlights its most audacious intellectual ambition: its claim that while natural philosophy, or what we today term science, might explain the physical world, literature could remake reality. Enacting a history of ideas that centers literary studies, Possible Knowledge suggests that what we have termed a history of science might ultimately be a history of the imagination.
Автор: Matthew Hunter Название: The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage ISBN: 1316517462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316517468 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Pursuit of Style in English Drama embraces and expands the concept of style to offer new readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Matthew Hunter`s brilliant dissection of diverse forms of talk helps us think anew about early modern English drama and social life.
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