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Superfluous Things
Author | : Craig Clunas |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-05-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824828208 |
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Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
The Promise and Peril of Things
Author | : Wai-yee Li |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231553896 |
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Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the world of things define us? In Ming and Qing China, inquiry into things and their contradictions flourished, and its depth and complexity belie the notion that material culture simply reflects status anxiety or class conflict. Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She explores how aesthetic claims and political power intersect, probes the objective and subjective dimensions of value, and questions what determines authenticity and aesthetic appeal. Li considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture. With examples spanning the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, she shows how relations with things can both encode and resist social change, political crisis, and personal loss. The Promise and Peril of Things reconsiders major works such as The Plum in the Golden Vase, The Story of the Stone, Li Yu’s writings, and Wu Weiye’s poetry and drama, as well as a host of less familiar texts. It offers new insights into Ming and Qing literary and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as the intersections of material culture with literature, intellectual history, and art history.
A Library of the World s Best Literature
Author | : Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Charles Henry Warner,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : SRLF:D0007616006 |
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Library of the World s Best Literature A Z
Author | : Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner,Edward Cornelius Towne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Anthologies |
ISBN | : UOM:39076000776208 |
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Yale Required Reading Collected Works Vol 2
Author | : Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Julius Caesar,Boethius,Horace,Plutarch,Apuleius,Virgil,Persius,Terence,Ammianus Marcellinus,Sallust,Juvenal,Lucan,Suetonius,Tibullus,Tacitus,Petronius,Cornelius Nepos,Lucretius,Martial,Catullus,Cicero,Claudian,Pliny the Younger,Saint Augustine of Hippo,Plautus,Ennius,Propertius,The Metamorphoses,Augustus,Quintilian |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 5587 |
Release | : 2023-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547734574 |
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This collection is based on the required reading list of Yale Department of Classics. Originally designed for students, this anthology is meant for everyone eager to know more about the history and literature of this period, interested in poetry, philosophy and rhetoric of Ancient Rome. Latin literature is a natural successor of Ancient Greek literature. The beginning of Classic Roman literature dates to 240 BC. From that point on, Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Consequently, Latin Literature outlived the Roman Empire and it included European writers who followed the fall of the Empire, from religious writers like Aquinas, to secular writers like Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, and Isaac Newton. This collection presents all the major Classic Roman authors, including Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Horace whose work intrigues and fascinates readers until this day. Content: Plautus: Aulularia Amphitryon Terence: Adelphoe Ennius: Annales Catullus: Poems and Fragments Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Julius Caesar: The Civil War Sallust: History of Catiline's Conspiracy Cicero: De Oratore Brutus Horace: The Odes The Epodes The Satires The Epistles The Art of Poetry Virgil: The Aeneid The Georgics Tibullus: Elegies Propertius: Elegies Cornelius Nepos: Lives of Eminent Commanders Ovid: The Metamorphoses Augustus: Res Gestae Divi Augusti Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Moral Letters to Lucilius Lucan: On the Civil War Persius: Satires Petronius: Satyricon Martial: Epigrams Pliny the Younger: Letters Tacitus: The Annals Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria Juvenal: Satires Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars Apuleius: The Metamorphoses Ammianus Marcellinus: The Roman History Saint Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions Claudian: Against Eutropius Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy Plutarch: The Rise and Fall of Roman Supremacy: Romulus Poplicola Camillus Marcus Cato Lucullus Fabius Crassus Coriolanus Cato the Younger Cicero
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers Together With A History of the Language and an English Grammar
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1016 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z178873006 |
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Handbook to Life in the Medieval World 3 Volume Set
Author | : Madeleine Pelner Cosman,Linda Gale Jones |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 987 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781438109077 |
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Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the
A Select Library of the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church
Author | : Philip Schaff |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Christian literature, Early |
ISBN | : UVA:X001836683 |
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