Reinventing the Sublime
Title | Reinventing the Sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Vine |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 178284001X |
Examines the return of the sublime in post-modernity, and at intimations of a 'post-Romantic' sublime in Romanticism itself. This work looks at 18th-century, Romantic, modernist and post-modern 'inventions' of the sublime alongside contemporary critical accounts of the relationship of sublimity to subjectivity, aesthetics, politics and history.
Reinventing Eden
Title | Reinventing Eden PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Merchant |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2013-03-12 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1136161244 |
This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body
Title | Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body PDF eBook |
Author | Jelena Novak |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-03-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317077202 |
Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson), and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms 'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and how it constitutes opera’s meanings.
Reinventing the Sacred
Title | Reinventing the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart A. Kauffman |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 2010-11-29 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1458722066 |
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the c...
The Sublime
Title | The Sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Shaw |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2017-04-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317508866 |
Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at: Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chapters The legacy of the earliest classical theories, through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde conceptions of the sublime Critical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus, Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan and Žižek The significance of the concept through a range of literary readings, including the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the Romantic period to the present day How the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir The influence of the sublime on recent debates in the fields of politics, theology and psychoanalysis. Offering historical overviews and explanations, this remarkably clear study is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.
The challenge of the sublime
Title | The challenge of the sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Hélène Ibata |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 2018-02-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1526117428 |
This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and book illustrations, by arguing that the sublime was beyond the reach of painting. More significantly, it began to call into question mimetic representational models, causing artists to reflect about the presentation of the unpresentable and drawing attention to the process of artistic production itself, rather than the finished artwork.
English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
Title | English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018-03-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107049628 |
Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.