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Hellish Imaginations from Augustine to Dante
Author | : Alastair Minnis |
Publsiher | : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780907570516 |
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Medieval literature and art abounds in descriptions of grotesque torments (punitive in hell, redemptive in purgatory) being meted out to the unhappy dead. But how can pain be experienced in the absence of the body? Can the main agents of suffering specified in Old Testament prophecies, fire and the worm, actually trouble a disembodied soul? The relative merits of material and metaphorical understandings of the economy of pain were debated throughout the Middle Ages, and extended far beyond, surviving the abolition of purgatory within Protestantism. This book brings to life many of the intellectual clashes, beginning with Augustine’s foundational yet troubling doctrines, proceeding to the problems caused by Aristotle’s insistence that death kills off all sense and sensation, and culminating in a fresh reading of Dante’s Purgatorio, Canto XXV. Wide-ranging, lucid and bristling with ideas on every page, it illustrates superbly well the variety, liveliness and continuous creativity of scholastic thought, particularly in respect of the contribution it made to literary theory.
In the Footsteps of Dante
Author | : Teresa Bartolomei,João R. Figueiredo |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2023-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110796049 |
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Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.
Literature and the Senses
Author | : Annette Kern-Stähler,Professor and Chair of Medieval English Studies Annette Kern-Stähler,Elizabeth Robertson,Professor Emerita and Honorary Research Fellow Elizabeth Robertson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2023-07-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192843777 |
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the 'Great Stink' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages
Author | : Ardis Butterfield,Ian Johnson,Andrew Kraebel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108492393 |
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Reasserts the central importance of medieval scholastic literary theory through a collection of newly-commissioned expert essays.
Anagnorisis Scenes and Themes of Recognition and Revelation in Western Literature
Author | : Piero Boitani |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004453678 |
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The spirited narration of the scenes and the themes of recognition and revelation from Homer and Genesis to the major classical, Medieval, and modern writers: anagnorisis as the living, moving encounter between two human beings.
New Medieval Literatures 22
Author | : Laura Ashe,Philip Knox,Kellie Robertson,Wendy Scase |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-03-11 |
Genre | : Literature, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9781843846239 |
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New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Book jacket.
The Revelation of Imagination
Author | : William Franke |
Publsiher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810131200 |
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In The Revelation of Imagination, William Franke attempts to focus on what is enduring and perennial rather than on what is accommodated to the agenda of the moment. Franke’s book offers re-actualized readings of representative texts from the Bible, Homer, and Virgil to Augustine and Dante. The selections are linked together in such a way as to propose a general interpretation of knowledge. They emphasize, moreover, a way of articulating the connection of humanities knowledge with what may, in various senses, be called divine revelation. This includes the sort of inspiration to which poets since Homer have typically laid claim, as well as that proper to the biblical tradition of revealed religion. The Revelation of Imagination invigorates the ongoing discussion about the value of humanities as a source of enduring knowledge.
Screening the Afterlife
Author | : Christopher Deacy |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781136597503 |
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Screening the Afterlife is a unique and fascinating exploration of the ‘last things’ as envisaged by modern filmmakers. Drawing on a range of films from Flatliners and What Dreams May Come to Working Girl and The Shawshank Redemption, it offers the first comprehensive examination of death and the afterlife within the growing field of religion and film. Topics addressed include: the survival of personhood after death the language of resurrection and immortality Near-Death Experiences and Mind-Dependent Worlds the portrayal of ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’. Students taking courses on eschatology will find this a stimulating and thought provoking resource, while scholars will relish Deacy’s theological insight and understanding.