The Bow and the Lyre
Title | The Bow and the Lyre PDF eBook |
Author | Octavio Paz |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2009-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292707649 |
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
The Bow and the Lyre
Title | The Bow and the Lyre PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Benardete |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0742565963 |
In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.
With Lyre and Bow
Title | With Lyre and Bow PDF eBook |
Author | Bibliotheca Alexandrina |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2016-07-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781535388207 |
Far-Shooter. Foreseer. Wolf. Raven. Rat. Swan. Bringer of Health and Plague. Master of Song and Poetry. Lord of Truth and Enlightenment. Olympian God of prophecy and healing, archery and light and music, Apollo was honored throughout the ancient Mediterranean and across the Roman Empire. A paradoxical God, he is associated with both wisdom and virility, with compassion and cruelty, with fatherhood and youth. Twin to the virginal Artemis, he took many mortal lovers, male and female, and sired numerous children - at least one of whom, the healer Asklepios, ascended to godhood himself. Despite the deliberate destruction of His temples, Apollo was never forgotten. Renaissance artists and philosophers found in Him a worthy and willing patron, and in the centuries since his devotees have only grown in number. Among them are the contributors to this anthology, whose poems, essays, artwork, rites, and short fiction celebrate the God in all his wondrous complexity. And so we sing, as they did in ancient days: hail to you, Son of Thunder and Lightning. Io Paean!
Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche
Title | Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew P. Meyer |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2019-10-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1498560458 |
Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Lacan, Nietzsche, and Awa Kenzo. The book weaves together a psychoanalytic account of infant development, the obstacles faced by Greek heroes, and virtue theory to explore the tension between the forces inside and outside of the human that subject the human beingit to conditions beyond its control. Meyer develops this side of the tension through Jacques Lacan’s theory of human drive, illustrating the three parts of drive theory through application to three works in Greek literature and philosophy. He The second part of the text describes the other side of this fundamental tension--the ability to control drive impulses—through Aristotle’s use of the archer as a metaphor in his virtue theory. The book illustrates the productive nature of this tension through an analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas about drives and sublimation, especially his contention that the “highest” types are like “the bow with the greatest tension.”
Old Greek Stories
Title | Old Greek Stories PDF eBook |
Author | James Baldwin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Mythology, Greek |
ISBN |
Paradise Lost, Book 3
Title | Paradise Lost, Book 3 PDF eBook |
Author | John Milton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sound Knowledge
Title | Sound Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | J. Q. Davies |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022640207X |
What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways. Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles Burney’s ambitious General History of Music, a four-volume study of music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the contributions show, both the power of science and the power of music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of aural and visual knowledge.