The Legacy of Heroes: Heroic Races
Title | The Legacy of Heroes: Heroic Races PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Venturella |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 60 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1300356936 |
Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy
Title | Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Maertz |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3838215915 |
Gregory Maertz has written extensively on Romantic and Modern literature, art, and ideas. In these nine related essays, he investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. The comparative essays in Part One examine the affinity between the religious logic of Sir Thomas Browne and Søren Kierkegaard; Tolstoy’s enduring attraction to Schopenhauer’s thought; Rilke’s debts to the sculptor Rodin; the identification of an early novel by William Godwin as the chief precursor text to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and the corresponding literary projects of Osip Mandelstam, Rilke, and David Jones. In Part Two the essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America: a reconsideration of the life of William Godwin; the central role played by English radicals in the transmission of German literature; Godwin’s innovations in travel fiction; and the crystallization of authorial identity around the influence of Goethe in the work of women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.
The Bonhoeffer Legacy
Title | The Bonhoeffer Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | ATF Press |
Publisher | ATF Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1925872726 |
This collection of essays looks at a range of topics: public theology, why Chinese intlectuals are intersted in engaging with Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffers concept of the logos and public theology and Bohoeffer's approach to social analyis. Contibutors: Barry Harvey, Robert Vosloo, Jason Lam, Joel Banman and Dustin Benac.
Prometheus
Title | Prometheus PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Dougherty |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415324052 |
Carol Dougherty traces a history of the Prometheus myth from its origins in Ancient Greece to its resurgence in the works of the Romantic era and beyond. Prometheus defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind and his story continues to make an appearance in art and literature to the present day.
Promethean Legacy
Title | Promethean Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen M. Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Energy policy |
ISBN |
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost
Title | The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathon Shears |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351882430 |
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.
The legacy of John Polidori
Title | The legacy of John Polidori PDF eBook |
Author | Sam George |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2024-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526166372 |
John Polidori’s novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps ‘the most influential horror story of all time’ (Frayling). Polidori’s story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori’s Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori’s vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. The essays emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.