Early Modern Visions of Space
Title | Early Modern Visions of Space PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothea Heitsch |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2021-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 146966741X |
How writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations. The volume's first section features the early modern exploration and codification of urban and rural spaces as well as maritime and industrial expanses: "Space and Territory: Geographies in Texts" thus contributes to a history of spatial consciousness. The construction of local, national, political, public, and private places is highlighted in "Space and Politics: Literary Geographies"; the contributors in this segment show how built forms as architectural or literary constructions and spatial orientation are intertwined. "Space and Gender: Geopoetical Approaches" traces the experience of gender as political, territorial, and communicative exploration; the essays in this division deal with social organization and its symbolic analysis, resulting in literary texts featuring what could be called psychological production theories. The development of ethical approaches adapted to or critical of colonial expansion is analyzed in "Space and Ethics: Geocritical Ventures"; here we encounter early modern globalization where locals, explorers, immigrants, adventurers, and intellectuals remake themselves in new places, engage in or meet with resistance, or attempt to rework local sociopolitical systems while reassessing those they are familiar with. "The Space of the Book, the Book as Space: Printing, Reading, Publishing" analyzes the tactile object of the book as an arena for commerce, politics, and authorial experimentation.
Self-presentation and Social Identification
Title | Self-presentation and Social Identification PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Letters |
ISBN | 9789058672124 |
Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance
Title | Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Federico Botana |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2020-07-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108853099 |
For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read by the Florentine youth facilitated understanding and memorisation of basic principles and knowledge. They were an important means of acquiring skills then considered necessary to gain the respect of others, to prosper as merchants, and to participate in civic life. Botana focuses on illustrated texts that were widely read in Quattrocento Florence: the Fior di virtù (a moral treatise including a bestiary), the Esopo volgarizzato (Aesop's Fables in Tuscan), the Sfera by Goro Dati (a poem on cosmology and geography), and mathematical manuals known as libri d'abbaco. He elucidates, in light of original sources and medieval and modern cognitive theory, the mechanisms that empowered illustrations to transmit knowledge in the Italian Renaissance.
Landscape and Philosophy in the Art of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)
Title | Landscape and Philosophy in the Art of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) PDF eBook |
Author | Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780754660903 |
In this first comprehensive full length study in English on the art of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Leopoldine Prosperetti discloses the nature of the philosophical culture of Antwerp at the time, show its importance in the lives of cultivated citizens, and reveals the patterns of thought and visual stratagems by which his landscapes underwrite the pursuit of wisdom. The book presents a new model for the interpretation of a range of visual genres, including various types of landscape, that were popular in the Antwerp picture trade.
Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne
Title | Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Schmeling |
Publisher | Königshausen & Neumann |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter |
ISBN | 9783826033827 |
L'âge d'or du mythe de Babel, 1480-1600
Title | L'âge d'or du mythe de Babel, 1480-1600 PDF eBook |
Author | Myriam Martin-Jacquemier |
Publisher | Euredit |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Babel, Tower of |
ISBN |
Self-presentation and Social Identification
Title | Self-presentation and Social Identification PDF eBook |
Author | Toon Houdt |
Publisher | Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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