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Old Masters New Subjects
Author | : Dolora A. Wojciehowski |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0804723869 |
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The encounter - sometimes conflict - between traditional Renaissance studies and poststructuralism occasions this book. In it, the author analyzes "old masteries," certain notions of freedom, individualism, and control long associated with the Renaissance, in relation to the ideologies of non-mastery that recur in theory today. This book has a dual purpose. First, it recontextualizes the debates on freedom and determinism presented by five "masters" - Petrarch, Luther, Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and Galileo - by showing that their paradigmatic discourses on will share a distinct rhetorical strategy. Second, it argues that the dominant critical paradigms of the late twentieth century, while ostensibly rejecting and transcending early modern ideas of subjecthood, actually recast Renaissance debates on freedom and power. In many ways, the early modern functions as the unconscious of critical theory.
Old Masters New World
Author | : Cynthia Saltzman |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008-08-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781440633959 |
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A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters, New World is a backstage look at the cutthroat competition, financial maneuvering, intrigue, and double-dealing often involved in these purchases, not to mention the seductive power of the ravishing paintings that drove these collectors-including financier J. Pierpont Morgan, sugar king H. O. Havemeyer, Boston aesthete Isabella Stewart Gardner, and industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Packed with stunning reproductions, this is an ideal gift book for art lovers and history buffs alike.
Old Masters
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226074344 |
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In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger's plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."—Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction."—George Steiner
The Old Masters and Their Pictures
Author | : Sarah Tytler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Painters |
ISBN | : HARVARD:FL3FE8 |
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Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth Century Literature
Author | : C. Harol |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2006-09-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781403983657 |
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Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Author | : Miranda Anderson |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474438155 |
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This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture to bring recent insights from cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition was seen as distributed across brain, body and world between the 9th and 17th centuries.
Favola fui
Author | : Albert Russell Ascoli |
Publsiher | : Global Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781438438061 |
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Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante. Building upon his 2008 book Dante and the Making of a Modern Author, Albert Russell Ascoli here reflects on the extent to which Petrarchs addresses to and figurations of his relationship to his readers intersect with the oft-asserted modernity of his authorial stances. In particular, Ascoli argues that following in the wake of Dantes double staging of himself as reader of his own works (especially in the Vita Nuova), Petrarch shows a keen and probing awareness of how the process of poetic signification involves a continual interchange between author and reader, as well as a strong desire to control the nature of that interchange as much as he can. Ascoli asserts that between Dante and Petrarch two primaryand contradictoryfeatures of literary modernity can be identified: the affirmation of the preeminence of authorial intention and the foregrounding of readerly freedom of interpretation. The Aldo S. Bernardo Lecture Series in the Humanities honors Professor Emeritus Aldo S. Bernardo, his scholarship in medieval Italian literature, and his service to Binghamton University as Professor of Romance Languages and University Distinguished Service Professor. The Bernardo Lecture Series is endowed by the Bernardo Fund and administered by Binghamton Universitys Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), which Professor Bernardo cofounded and codirected with Professor Bernard Huppé from 1966 to 1973. The series offers annual lectures by distinguished scholars on topics related to Professor Bernardos primary fields of interestmedieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on Dante Studies, and intellectual history.
The History of Modern Painting
Author | : Richard Muther |
Publsiher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : HARVARD:FL167N |
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