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Book Synopsis The Pale Cast of Thought by : James Lawrence Shulman
Download or read book The Pale Cast of Thought written by James Lawrence Shulman and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on specific moments of decision-making in the epic poems of Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. In each of the poems, the hero must ultimately confront the choice of Aeneas at the end of the Aeneid - either to kill or to stay his hand. These later epic poems contain reflective heroes who resist the impulses of traditional martial heroism. As they deliberate, the progress of the narrative is suspended, and elements of comedy, lyric, picaresque, and romance threaten to fragment authority of the epic genre. Each of these moments reveals a particularly rich locus for observing the movement of the epic toward the novel.
Book Synopsis The Pale Cast of Thought by : Marion Flanigan
Download or read book The Pale Cast of Thought written by Marion Flanigan and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pale Cast of Thought, reflecting on the uncertainties of life often leads to moments of vision. This lifelong collection of verse shows how poetry can be used to come to terms with it all. There is a great variety in both form and content: Love poems, terse, radiant lyrics, narratives, fresh religious insights and meditations on nature. An elegy for a friend who died young captures a bygone era (the optimistic period following World War II) like a mini-novel. Not only sorrow and anxiety but joy, praise, gratitude, and always the beauty and awe of nature are lovingly evoked. The author was persistent through the years in gathering up and preserving the diverse epiphanies of her inner experience.
Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Name of Action by : Graham Greene
Download or read book The Name of Action written by Graham Greene and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chaucer's 'Book of Fame' by : Jack Arthur Walter Bennett
Download or read book Chaucer's 'Book of Fame' written by Jack Arthur Walter Bennett and published by Oxford : Clarendon P.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1374 and 1385, making it one of his earlier works. It was most likely written after The Book of the Duchess, but its chronological relation to Chaucer's other early poems is uncertain. The House of Fame is over 2,005 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets. Upon falling asleep the poet finds himself in a glass temple adorned with images of the famous and their deeds. With an eagle as a guide, he meditates on the nature of fame and the trustworthiness of recorded renown. This allows Chaucer to contemplate the role of the poet in reporting the lives of the famous and how much truth there is in what can be told.
Book Synopsis Hamlet and the Rethinking of Man by : Eric P. Levy
Download or read book Hamlet and the Rethinking of Man written by Eric P. Levy and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolating the conceptual apparatus dominant in the world of the play, this book traces the play's origins, including those pertaining to Christian Humanism and the Aristotelian-Thomist synthesis with its assumption of 'the sovereignty of reason'.
Book Synopsis Julius Caesar by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare and published by Akasha Classics. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What actions are justified when the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and who can see the best path ahead? Julius Caesar has led Rome successfully in the war against Pompey and returns celebrated and beloved by the people. Yet in the senate fears intensify that his power may become supreme and threaten the welfare of the republic. A plot for his murder is hatched by Caius Cassius who persuades Marcus Brutus to support him. Though Brutus has doubts, he joins Cassius and helps organize a group of conspirators that assassinate Caesar on the Ides of March. But, what is the cost to a nation now erupting into civil war? A fascinating study of political power, the consequences of actions, the meaning of loyalty and the false motives that guide the actions of men, Julius Caesar is action packed theater at its finest.
Download or read book Deadly Thought written by Jan H. Blits and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work.
Book Synopsis Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity by : James Harmer
Download or read book Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity written by James Harmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how linguistic meaning is created in their work. The book achieves this consideration by placing its Renaissance authors in the context of the dominant conceptualisation of the thought-language relationship in the Western tradition: namely, that of 'introspection'. In taking this route, author James Harmer undertakes to provide a comprehensive overview of the notion of 'introspection' from classical times to the Renaissance, and demonstrates how complex and even strange this notion is often seen to be by thinkers and writers. Harmer also shows how poetry and literary discourse in general stands at the centre of the conceptual consideration of what linguistic thinking is. He then argues, through a range of close readings of Renaissance texts, that writers of the Shakespearean period increase the fragility of the notion of 'introspection' in such a way as to make the prospect of any systematic theory of meaning seem extremely remote. Embracing and exploring the possibility that thinking about meaning can only occur in the context of extreme cognitive and psychological limitation, these texts emerge as proponents of a human mind which is remarkably free in its linguistic nature; an irresistible mode of life unto itself. The final argumentative stratum of the book explores the implications of this approach for understanding the relationship between literary criticism, philosophy, and other kinds of critical activity. Texts discussed at length include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies.
Book Synopsis A Midsummer-night's Dream by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book A Midsummer-night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hamlet's Dresser written by Bob Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith gracefully weaves the stories of his bittersweet childhood and his life's work with illuminating passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. A brilliant reminder of the redemptive power of literature, it will make readers fall in love with Shakespeare again or for the first time.
Book Synopsis Thought in Action by : Barbara Gail Montero
Download or read book Thought in Action written by Barbara Gail Montero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view—both in academia and in the popular press—that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. Once you have acquired the ability to putt a golf ball, play an arpeggio on the piano, or parallel-park, reflecting on your actions leads to inaccuracies, blunders, and sometimes even utter paralysis—that's what is widely believed. Experts, according to this view, don't need to try to do it; they just do it. But is this true? After exploring some of the contemporary and historical manifestations of the idea that highly accomplished skills are automatic and effortless, Barbara Gail Montero develops a theory of expertise which emphasizes the role of the conscious mind in expert action. She aims to dispel various myths about experts who proceed without any understanding of what guides their action. (For example, that proverbial chicken sexer who can't explain why he makes his judgments? He simply doesn't exist.) Montero's critical task also involves analyzing research in both philosophy and psychology that is taken to show that conscious control and explicit monitoring of one's movements impedes well practiced skills. She explores a wide range of real-life examples of optimal performance-culled from sports, the performing arts, chess, nursing, medicine, the military and elsewhere-and draws from psychology, neuroscience, and literature to offer a refreshing and persuasive view of expertise, according to which expert action generally is and ought to be thoughtful, effortful, and reflective.
Book Synopsis The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals) by : Meg Harris Williams
Download or read book The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals) written by Meg Harris Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally published in 1991 The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Keats's metaphor for 'the awakening of the thinking principle') is an original and revealing exploration of the seminal role of literature in forming the modern psychoanalytic model of the mind. The crux of the 'post-Kleinian' psychoanalytic view of personality development lies in the internal relations between the self and the mind's 'objects'. Meg Harris Williams and Margot Waddell show that these relations have their origins in the drama of identifications which we can see played out metaphorically and figuratively in literature, which presents the self-creative process in aesthetic terms. They argue that psychoanalysis is a true child of literature rather than merely the interpreter or explainer of literature, illustrating this with some examples from clinical experience, but drawing above all on close scrutiny of the dynamic mental processes presented in the work of Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantic poets, Emily Bronte and George Eliot. The Chamber of Maiden Thought will encourage psychoanalytic workers to respond to the influence of literature in exploring symbolic mental processes. By bringing psychoanalysis into creative conjunction with the arts, it enables practitioners to tap a cultural potential whose insights into the human mind are of immense value.
Download or read book The North American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performance & Consciousness by : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Download or read book Performance & Consciousness written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 1, part 4 of the Performing Arts International forum. This collection of essays covers a breadth of topics on the theme of consciousness; addressing the trend of studies trying to put human experience into more concrete, cogent, less poetic and metaphorical terms. Major issues raised by the essays are summarised, and a hypothesis serving as a stimulus for further research and debate is suggested by the volume's conclusion.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare in Theory and Practice by : Catherine Belsey
Download or read book Shakespeare in Theory and Practice written by Catherine Belsey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, she demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for this book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these essays trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications. Written with verve and conviction, this book shows how texts can offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Early Tragedies by : Nicholas Brooke
Download or read book Shakespeare's Early Tragedies written by Nicholas Brooke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet.
