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Author : Michael R. Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Re-writing the Self in the French Middle Ages written by Michael R. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134764928
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Roy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the Present. The contributors analyse differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. Rewriting the Self offers a challenge to the received version of the 'ascent of western man'. Lively and controversial, the book broaches big questions in an accessible way. Rewriting the Self arises from a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The contributors include prominent academics from a range of disciplines.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134764936
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Roy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity from a variety of perspectives.
Author : Angus J. Kennedy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855661020
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Christine de Pizan written by Angus J. Kennedy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Fanger
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271072016
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Magic written by Claire Fanger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John’s book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book’s inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John’s work was the subject of intense criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John’s visionary autobiography and her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraordinary book. Fanger’s approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion.
Author : Mariken Teeuwen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503569482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)
Download or read book The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages written by Mariken Teeuwen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a 'white space' around the text is even laid out to contain extra text, pricked and ruled for the purpose. Just as footnotes are an approved and standard part of the modern academic book, so the flyleaves, margins, and interlinear spaces of many medieval manuscripts are an invitation to add extra text. This volume focuses on annotation in the early medieval period. In treating manuscripts as mirrors of the medieval minds who created them - reflecting their interests, their choices, their practices - the essays explore a number of key topics. Are there certain genres in which the making of annotations seems to be more appropriate or common than in others? Are there genres in which annotating is 'not done'? Are there certain monastic centres in which annotating practices flourish, and from which they spread? The volume thus investigates whether early medieval annotators used specific techniques, perhaps identifiable with their scribal communities or schools. It explores what annotators actually sought to accomplish with their annotations, and how the techniques of annotating developed over time and per region.
Author : Leah Tether
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110639033
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Medieval French Literature written by Leah Tether and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane H. M. Taylor is one of the world's foremost scholars of rewriting or réécriture. Her focus has been on literature in medieval and Renaissance France, but rewriting, including continuation, translation, and adaptation, lies at the heart of literary traditions in all vernaculars. This book explores both the interdisciplinarity of rewriting and Taylor's remarkable contribution to its study. The rewriting and reinterpretation of narratives across chronological, social and/or linguistic boundaries represents not only a crucial feature of text transmission, but also a locus of cultural exchange. Taylor has shown that the adaptation of material to conform to the expectations, values, or literary tastes of a different audience can reveal important information regarding the acculturation and reception of medieval texts. In recent years, numerous scholars across disciplines have thus turned to this field of enquiry. This collection of studies dedicated to the rewriting of medieval French literature from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries by Taylor’s friends, colleagues, and former students offers not only a fitting tribute to Taylor’s career, but also a timely consolidation of the very latest research in the field, which will be vital for all scholars of medieval rewriting. With contributions from Jessica Taylor, Keith Busby, Leah Tether, Logan E. Whalen, Mireille Séguy, Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Ad Putter, Anne Salamon, Patrick Moran, Nathalie Koble, Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Richard Trachsler, Carol J. Chase, Maria Colombo Timelli, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Joan Tasker-Grimbert, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, Michelle Szkilnik, Thomas Hinton, Elizabeth Archibald.
Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317379632
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Mark Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and literary theory, the book sheds light on the intricacies and dilemmas of self-interpretation in particular and interpretive psychological enquiry more generally. The author draws upon selected, mainly autobiographical, literary texts in order to examine concretely the process of rewriting the self. Among the issues addressed are the relationship of rewriting the self to the concept of development, the place of language in the construction of selfhood, the difference between living and telling about it, the problem of facts in life history narrative, the significance of the unconscious in interpreting the personal past, and the freedom of the narrative imagination. Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award winner in 1994
Author : Katherine Kong
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842319
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France written by Katherine Kong and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter focuses on a particular epistolary exchange in its intellectual and cultural context, from Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance of Angers, through Heloise and Abelard, Christine de Pizan's participation in the querelle du Roman de la rose, Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briconnet, to Michel de Montaigne and Etienne de la Boetie, emphasizing the importance of letter writing in pre-modern French culture and tracing a selective yet significant history of the letter, contributing to our understanding of the development of the epistolary genre, and the pre-modern self --Book Jacket.
Author : Helen J. Swift
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844362
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Representing the Dead written by Helen J. Swift and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.
Author : Paul Vincent Rockwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815320357
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Resemblance in Medieval French Romance written by Paul Vincent Rockwell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271042419
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel May Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813069036
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song written by Rachel May Golden and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered identities.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511013942
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Identity in Medieval France written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, Maddox considers the construction of identity in a range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread in medieval literature, in which characters are informed about fundamental aspects of their own circumstances and selfhood.
Author : Eric Jager
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226391168
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Heart written by Eric Jager and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"—these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture. Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. For instance, medieval saints' legends tell of martyrs whose hearts recorded divine inscriptions; lyrics and romances feature lovers whose hearts are inscribed with their passion; paintings depict hearts as books; and medieval scribes even produced manuscript codices shaped like hearts. "The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas."—Henry Petroski, author of The Book on the Bookshelf
Author : Larry Sommer McGrath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669996X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Making Spirit Matter written by Larry Sommer McGrath and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven’t been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath’s Making Spirit Matter studies how a particularly productive and influential group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to solve this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter. The scientific revolution taking place at this point in history across disciplines, from biology to psychology and neurology, located our mental powers in the brain and offered a radical reformulation of the meaning of society, spirit, and the self. Tracing connections among thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, and others, McGrath plots alternative intellectual movements that revived themes of creativity, time, and experience by applying the very sciences that seemed to undermine metaphysics and religion. Making Spirit Matter lays out the long legacy of this moment in the history of ideas and how it might renew our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain today.
Author : Amy Wigelsworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134862911
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Rewriting 'Les Mystères de Paris' written by Amy Wigelsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalize on their success. But what are the implications of this rewriting process? Such is the question addressed by this detailed study of several rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris (1842-43), produced in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in response to the phenomenal success of Sue’s archetypal urban mystery. Pursuing a compelling analogy between city and text, and exploring the resonance of the palimpsest trope to both, Amy Wigelsworth argues that the mystères urbains are exemplary rewritings, which shed new light on contemporary reading and writing practices, and emerge as early avatars of a genre still widely consumed and enjoyed in the 21st century.
