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Author : Daisy Delogu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442641878
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Allegorical Bodies written by Daisy Delogu and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daisy Delogu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442622814
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Allegorical Bodies written by Daisy Delogu and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380–1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu’s book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.
Author : Masha Raskolnikov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814256794
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Body Against Soul written by Masha Raskolnikov and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval allegory, Body and Soul were often pitted against one another in debate. In Body Against Soul: Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory, Masha Raskolnikov argues that such debates function as a mode of thinking about psychology, gender, and power in the Middle Ages. Neither theological nor medical in nature, works of sowlehele ("soul-heal") described the self to itself in everyday language--moderns might call this kind of writing "self-help." Bringing together contemporary feminist and queer theory along with medieval psychological thought, Body Against Soul examines Piers Plowman, the "Katherine Group," and the history of psychological allegory and debate. In so doing, it rewrites the history of the Body to include its recently neglected fellow, the Soul. The topic of this book is one that runs through all of Western history and remains of primary interest to modern theorists--how "my" body relates to "me." In the allegorical tradition traced by this study, a male person could imagine himself as a being populated by female personifications, because Latin and Romance languages tended to gender abstract nouns as female. However, since Middle English had ceased to inflect abstract nouns as male or female, writers were free to gender abstractions like "Will" or "Reason" any way they liked. This permitted some psychological allegories to avoid the representational tension caused by placing a female soul inside a male body, instead creating surprisingly queer same-sex inner worlds. The didactic intent driving sowlehele is, it turns out, complicated by the erotics of the struggle to establish a hierarchy of the self's inner powers.
Author : Elise Lawton Smith
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638835
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body written by Elise Lawton Smith and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of her work confirms that the idea of progress toward the afterlife is a recurrent motif, arising from a personal involvement in the movement of Spiritualism and paralleling the automatic writing passages in The Result of an Experiment (1909), anonymously published by Evelyn and her husband William De Morgan.".
Author : Janet L. Beizer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481420
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Ventriloquized Bodies written by Janet L. Beizer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Bardzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135865922
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative written by Jeffrey Bardzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae), Alan of Lille bases much of his argument against sin in general and homosexuality in particular on the claim that both amount to bad grammar. The book explores the philosophical uses of grammar that were so formative of Alan’s thinking in major writers of the preceding generations, including Garland the Computist, St. Anselm, and Peter Abelard. Many of the linguistic theories on which these thinkers rely come from Priscian, an influential sixth-century grammarian, who relied more on the ancient tradition of Stoic linguistic theory than the Aristotelian one in elaborating his grammatical theory. Against this backdrop, the book provides a reading of Prudentius’ Psychomachia and presents an analysis of allegory in light of Stoic linguistic theory that contrasts other modern theories of allegorical signification and readings of Prudentius. The book establishes that Stoic linguistic theory is compatible with and likely partially formative of both the allegorical medium itself and the ideas expressed within it, in particular as they appeared in the allegories of Prudentius, Boethius, and Alan.
Author : Gordon Teskey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801429958
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Allegory and Violence written by Gordon Teskey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in the European tradition, Gordon Teskey provides both a literary history of allegory and a theoretical account of the genre which confronts fundamental questions about the violence inherent in cultural forms. Approaching allegory as the site of intense ideological struggle, Teskey argues that the desire to raise temporal experience to ever higher levels of abstraction cannot be realized fully but rather creates a "rift" that allegory attempts to conceal. After examining the emergence of allegorical violence from the gendered metaphors of classical idealism, Teskey describes its amplification when an essentially theological form of expression was politicized in the Renaissance by the introduction of the classical gods, a process leading to the replacement of allegory by political satire and cartoons. He explores the relationship between rhetorical voice and forms of indirect speech (such as irony) and investigates the corporeal emblematics of violence in authors as different as Machiavelli and Yeats. He considers the large organizing theories of culture, particularly those of Eliot and Frye, which take the place in the modern world of earlier allegorical visions. Concluding with a discussion of the Mutabilitie Cantos, Teskey describes Spenser's metaphysical allegory, which is deconstructed by its own invocation of genealogical struggle, as a prophetic vision and a form of warning.
Author : Charis Charalampous
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317584201
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine written by Charis Charalampous and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent cognitive agent, with desires, appetites, and understandings independent of the mind. It considers the works of early modern physicians, thinkers, and literary writers who explored the phenomenon of the independent and intelligent body. Charalampous rethinks the origin of dualism that is commonly associated with Descartes, uncovering hitherto unknown lines of reception regarding a form of dualism that understands the body as capable of performing complicated forms of cognition independently of the mind. The study examines the consequences of this way of thinking about the body for contemporary philosophy, theology, and medicine, opening up new vistas of thought against which to reassess perceptions of what literature can be thought and felt to do. Sifting and assessing this evidence sheds new light on a range of historical and literary issues relating to the treatment, perception, and representation of the human body. This book examines the notion of the thinking body across a wide range of genres, topics, and authors, including Montaigne’s Essays, Spenser’s allegorical poetry, Donne’s metaphysical poetry, tragic dramaturgy, Shakespeare, and Milton’s epic poetry and shorter poems. It will be essential for those studying early modern literature, cognition, and the body.
Author : Cristelle Baskins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351568957
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Early Modern Visual Allegory written by Cristelle Baskins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in over twenty-five years devoted solely to allegory and personification in art history, this anthology complements current literary and cultural studies of allegory. The volume re-examines early modern allegorical imagery in light of crucial material, contextual and methodological questions: how are allegories conceived; for whom; and for what purposes? Contributors consider a wide range of allegorical representations in the visual arts and material culture, of both early modern Europe and the colonial "New World" 1400-1800. Essays included here examine paintings, sculpture, prints, architecture and the spaces of public ritual while discussing the process and theory of interpretation, formation of audiences, reception history, appropriation and censorship. A special focus on the medium of the body in visual allegory unites the volume's diverse materials and methods.
Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000257959
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an interdisciplinary perspective by means of textual study and ideological analysis, anthropological analysis, and phenomenological analysis, the book explores both insider- and outsider perspectives and issues related to the body from the 2nd century CE up to the present-day. Chapters assess various aspects of the body including processes of embodiment and questions of mythologizing the divine body and othering the human body, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. The book analyses notions of mythologizing and "othering" of the body as a powerful ideological discourse, which empowers or marginalizes at all levels of the human condition. Offering a deep insight into the study of religion and issues of the body in South Asian literature, religion and culture, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures, cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature.
Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520227336
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Monuments and Maidens written by Marina Warner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant examination of the allegorical uses of the female form to be found in the sculpture ornamenting public buildings as well as throughout the history of western art.
Author : Sharon Cameron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231075695
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (756 download)
Download or read book The Corporeal Self written by Sharon Cameron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corporeal Self argues that questions about identity, conceived in bodily terms, are not only relevant for Melville and Hawthorne, the two nineteenth-century authors whose works are positioned at opposite extremes of the consideration of human identity, but lie at the heart of the American literary tradition, and have, in that tradition, their own revisionary status.
Author : M. M. Adjarian
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Allegories of Desire written by M. M. Adjarian and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between famous and fictional Caribbean female bodies to literary and historical writing. Through her concentration on the perspectives of women writers, her scrupulous attention to the specific histories of the different islands, her interest in diasporic as well as local writing, her embrace of texts in English, French, and Spanish, her insightful exploration of the poetics of allegory, Maude Adjarian invites us to undertake a fundamental rethinking of the concept of national allegory. This criticism is serious and substantial, scholarly and responsible, but also shrewd, engaging and very refreshing.Ross Chambers, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, The University of Michigan Caribbean writers and literary-cultural theorists have traditionally associated the Caribbean archipelago and Caribbeanness with the female body. In so doing, however, they have erased not only the bodies but the social, historical and national experiences of real Caribbean women. Allegories of Desire explores the relationship between famous and fictional Caribbean female bodies to literary and historical writing. By looking at the works of six post-1980 Caribbean women writer—Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, J. J. Dominique, Julia Alvarez and Rosario Ferre—M. M. Adjarian uncovers patterns of female bodily resistance to subordination and oppression. These patterns in turn identify the Caribbean and Caribbeanness with ungendered longings for freedom from the imperial twins of patriarchy and North Atlantic colonialism rather than with an imagined, and ultimately exploited, feminine. This compelling study will shed new light on Caribbean literature.
Author : Laura Ashe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846233
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book New Medieval Literatures 22 written by Laura Ashe and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Book jacket.
Author : Xing Ruan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861388
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Allegorical Architecture written by Xing Ruan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular. It argues that Dong architecture symbolically resembles its inhabitants in many ways. The built world is an extension of their body and mind; their experience of architecture is figurative and their understanding of it allegorical. Unlike the symbolism of historical architecture, which must be decoded through a speculative reconstruction of the past, the Dong tell stories about inhabitants in their living state in the recurrent process of ritualistic making and inhabiting of their built world. This book thus offers architectural analysis of both spatial dispositions (building types) and social life (the workings of buildings). Xing Ruan likens the built world to allegory to develop an alternative to textual understanding. The allegorical analogy enables him to decipher minority architecture less as a didactic "text" and more as a "shell," the inhabitation of which enables the Dong to renew and reinvent continually the myths and stories that provide them with an assurance of home and authenticity. Attention is focused less on the supposed meanings (symbolic, practical) of the architecture and more on how it is used, inhabited, and hence understood by people. Throughout, Ruan artfully avoids the temptation to textualize the built world and read from it all sorts of significance and symbolism that may or may not be shared by the inhabitants themselves. By likening architecture to allegory, he also subtlety avoids the well-worn path of accounting for rich traditions via a "salvage ethnography"; on the contrary, he argues that cultural reinvention is an ongoing process and architecture is one of the fundamental ingredients to understanding that process. Ruan offers "thick description" of Dong architecture in an attempt to understand the workings of architecture in the social world. Paying attention to Dong architecture within a regional as well as a global context makes it possible to combine detailed formal analysis of settlement patterns and building types and their spatial dispositions with their effects in a social context. Architecture, in a broad sense, is assumed to be an art form in which the feelings and lives of its makers and inhabitants are embodied. The artifice of architecture—its physical laws—is therefore analyzed and contested in terms of its instrumental capacity. Allegorical Architecture is a work of refreshing originality and compelling significance. It will provide timely lessons for those concerned with the meaning and social sustainability of the built world and will appeal to architects, planners, cultural geographers, anthropologists, historians, and students of these disciplines.
Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426241
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Allegories of Writing written by Bruce Clarke and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-08-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a theoretical study of human metamorphosis in Western literature.
Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827611749
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Terrible Things written by Eve Bunting and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came, capturing all creatures with feathers. Little Rabbit wondered what was wrong with feathers, but his fellow animals silenced him. "Just mind your own business, Little Rabbit. We don't want them to get mad at us." A recommended text in Holocaust education programs across the United States, this unique introduction to the Holocaust encourages young children to stand up for what they think is right, without waiting for others to join them. Ages 6 and up
