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The Sculpted Word

Author : Bernard Frischer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312139
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Sculpted Word written by Bernard Frischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focusses on the Epicureans, who are of special interest because their approach was at once extremely passive and extremely successful. Unlike other philosophical schools, which depended primarioly on public lectures and books, the Epicureans avoided contract with the dominant culture and attracted members by erecting statues of Epicurus and their other master in public places. These iconologically rich, "sculpted words" appealed to teh very people most likely to be attracted to Epicureanism, those most likely to accept the philosophy of materialism, sensationalism, and the repression of feeling, and those who sought a way of life sperate from teh dominant culture. This book is an innovative application of an inter-disciplinary humanistic an social-scientific approach to ancient Greek philosophy and art. It will appeal to those interested in the history of these subjects and those interested in the sociology of knowledge and communication. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

The Sculpted Word

Author : Grant F. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sculpted Word written by Grant F. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sculpted Word not only provides the fullest treatment yet of Keats's use of ekphrasis - a trope by which writer translate visual compositions into words - but also places the poems within their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. Grant F. Scott observes that in Keats we often feel that we are wandering through a museum with a particularly eloquent and subtle guide. On one level, the guide's efforts to capture such visual images as engraved gems, landscape paintings, marbles, and urns represent an attempt to defeat the dominion of the image by writing it into language. On a deeper level, Scott suggests, ekphrasis presents Keats with psychological issues that have less to do with aesthetics than anxieties over such issues as cultural heritage, poetic tradition, and gender identity. Everywhere in ekphrasis studies, he argues, we encounter the language of subterfuge, of conspiracy; there is something taboo about moving across media, even as there is something profoundly liberating.

The Sculpted Word

Author : Bernard Frischer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520307356
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Sculpted Word written by Bernard Frischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focusses on the Epicureans, who are of special interest because their approach was at once extremely passive and extremely successful. Unlike other philosophical schools, which depended primarioly on public lectures and books, the Epicureans avoided contract with the dominant culture and attracted members by erecting statues of Epicurus and their other master in public places. These iconologically rich, "sculpted words" appealed to teh very people most likely to be attracted to Epicureanism, those most likely to accept the philosophy of materialism, sensationalism, and the repression of feeling, and those who sought a way of life sperate from teh dominant culture. This book is an innovative application of an inter-disciplinary humanistic an social-scientific approach to ancient Greek philosophy and art. It will appeal to those interested in the history of these subjects and those interested in the sociology of knowledge and communication. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

The Hand-sculpted House

Author : Ianto Evans
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1890132349
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Hand-sculpted House written by Ianto Evans and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cob, a structural composite of earth, water, straw, clay, and sand, has been used for centuries, in virtually all parts of the world, to create homes ranging from mud huts in Africa to lavish adobe haciendas in Latin America. This practical and inspiring hands-on guide teaches anyone to build a cob dwelling.

Annette Messager, Word for Word

Author : Annette Messager
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annette Messager, Word for Word written by Annette Messager and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac. Interviews with Harald Szeemann, Robert Storr, Bernard Marcade and Suzanne Page.

The Sculpted Ship

Author : K. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548475598
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Sculpted Ship written by K. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starship Repair and Society Manners She dreamed of adventuring across the stars as captain of her own sleek ship. Then Anailu Xindar grew up.She didn't lose her dream - she changed it; made it practical. She became a starship engineer; she saved her money; she earned the skills and experience a starship captain would need.She still didn't feel ready to go out on her own - but then her safe job went sour.With her newly minted Imperial Shipmaster's License in hand, Anailu just needs to find and buy a cheap, reliable freighter. Instead, she ends up making a crazy deal for an impractical, rare ship that's long on beauty - but short a few critical components.She's determined to get her crippled ship back out among the stars, but her technical skills won't be enough. Anailu will have to brave the dangers of a planet on the edge of the empire: safaris, formal dinners, rogue robots, and a fashion designer.She may even have to make a few friends - and enemies.The Sculpted Ship is set on the outskirts of a thousand-year interstellar empire, where a young woman with ambition, skill, and manners has a chance to achieve her dreams.

Word by Word

Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197026X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Word by Word written by Kory Stamper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

Museum of Words

Author : James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226323145
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Museum of Words written by James A. W. Heffernan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. Over the ages its practitioners have created a museum of words about real and imaginary paintings and sculptures. In the first book ever to explore this museum, James Heffernan argues that ekphrasis stages a battle for mastery between the image and the word. Moving from the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Dante to contemporary American poetry, this book treats the history of struggle between rival systems of representation. Readable and well illustrated, this study of how poets have represented painting and sculpture is a major contribution to our understanding of the relation between the arts.

In the Frame

Author : Jane Hedley
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874130468
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book In the Frame written by Jane Hedley and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of In the Frame is poetic ekphrasis: poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. The authors of these sixteen essays, several of whom are poets as well as critics, have a twofold purpose: calling attention to the contribution women poets have made to this important genre of poetic writing and re-thinking ekphrastic poetry's motives and purposes. From Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop to Mary Jo Salter, C. D. Wright, and Susan Wheeler, many of our best women poets have done important work in this genre, and when they describe, confront, or speak for an image that is itself wordless, their motives are not only formal but aesthetic. Their poems also raise important questions, from a perspective that is often, but not always, gender-inflected about how art is made and displayed, experienced and valued, celebrated and commodified. Jane Hedley is K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, and editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review. Nick Halpem is an associate professor in the English Department at North Carolina State University.

The Sculpted Ear

Author : Ryan McCormack
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271087498
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Sculpted Ear written by Ryan McCormack and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue—a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue might make—The Sculpted Ear rethinks this relationship in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of sound studies. Ryan McCormack argues that the sounding statue is best thought of not as an aesthetic object but as an event heard by people and subsequently conceptualized into being through acts of writing and performance. Constructing a history in which hearing plays an integral role in ideas about anthropocentric statuary, McCormack begins with the ancient sculpture of Laocoön before moving to a discussion of the early modern automaton known as Tipu’s Tiger and the statue of the Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Finally, he examines statues of people from the present and the past, including the singer Josephine Baker, the violinist Aleksandar Nikolov, and the actor Bob Newhart—with each case touching on some of the issues that have historically plagued the aesthetic viability of the sounding statue. McCormack convincingly demonstrates how sounding statues have served as important precursors and continuing contributors to modern ideas about the ontology of sound, technologies of sound reproduction, and performance practices blurring traditional divides between music, sculpture, and the other arts. A compelling narrative that illuminates the stories of individual sculptural objects and the audiences that hear them, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the connections between aurality and statues in the Western world, in particular scholars and students of sound studies and sensory history.

The Secret, Book & Scone Society

Author : Ellery Adams
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
ISBN 13 : 1496712390
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Secret, Book & Scone Society written by Ellery Adams and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the mystery series from the New York Times-bestselling author: “Anyone who loves novels that revolve around books will savor this tasty treat.”—Library Journal (starred review) A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—all to be found within the pages of the right book… Strangers flock to Miracle Springs hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That’s Nora’s special talent—prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person’s deepest pain. So when a visiting businessman reaches out for guidance, Nora knows exactly how to help. But before he can keep their appointment, he’s found dead on the train tracks. Stunned, Nora forms the Secret, Book, and Scone Society, a group of damaged souls yearning to earn redemption by helping others. To join, members must divulge their darkest secret—the terrible truth that brought each of them to Miracle Springs in the first place. Now, determined to uncover the truth behind the businessman’s demise, the women meet in Nora’s cozy bookstore. And as they untangle a web of corruption, they also discover their own courage, purpose, and a sisterhood that will carry them through every challenge—proving it’s never too late to turn the page and start over… “Adams kicks off a new series featuring strong women, a touch of romance and mysticism, and both the cunning present-day mystery and the slowly revealed secrets of the intriguing heroines’ pasts.”—Kirkus Reviews

"The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca 1095-1130 "

Author : Dorothy F. Glass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351540572
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca 1095-1130 " written by Dorothy F. Glass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entirely original in its methodology, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of Romanesque fa?e sculpture. Declining to revisit questions of artistic personalities, artistic style and connoisseurship, Dorothy F. Glass delves instead into the historical and historiographical context for a group of significant monuments erected in Italy between the last decade of the eleventh century and the first third of the twelfth century. In her reading, local culture takes precedence over names, context over connoisseurship; she argues that it was the cultural, intellectual and religious life of the abbeys of San Benedetto Po and Nonantola that provided the framework for the Reformist ethos of much of the sculpture adorning the cathedral of Modena. Glass argues that the monuments are deeply rooted in the concerns of the reform of the church, more commonly known as the Gregorian Reform, that these reform ideas and ideals were first fomented in monastic communities and then adopted by the new cathedrals built in cities that, freed of submission to imperial German rule, had recently rejoined the papal fold. The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca 1095-1130: History and Patronage of Romanesque Fa?es moves scholarship beyond continuously reiterated opinions concerning style, attribution, chronology, origins and influence, instead opening new and fruitful lines of inquiry into the patronage and historical significance of these extraordinary monuments.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Author : R. J. Tarrant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674379404
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by R. J. Tarrant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of twenty-two articles includes: Charles F. Ahern, Jr., "Daedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoria"; T. D. Barnes, "Structure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14"; Daniel R. Blickman, "Lucretius, Epicurus, and Prehistory"; John Bodel, "Missing Links: Thymatulum or Tomaculum?"; Alan Cameron, "Biondo's Ammianus: Constantius and Hormisdas at Rome"; James J. Clauss, "The Episode of the Lycian Farmers in Ovid's Metamorphoses"; Gregory Crane, "Creon and the "Ode to Man" in Sophocles' Antigone"; Thomas N. Habinek, "Science and Tradition in Aeneid 6"; Edward M. Harris, "Demosthenes' Speech against Meidias"; J. M. Hunt, "Apolloniana"; Peter E. Knox, "Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus"; Christina S. Kraus, "Liviana Minima"; Robert Mondi, "Χαοσ and the Hesiodic Cosmogony"; Charles E. Murgia, "Propertius 4.1.87-88 and the Division of 4.1"; Hayden Pelliccia, "Pindar, Nemean 7.31-36 and the Syntax of Aetiology"; William H. Race, "Climactic Elements in Pindar's Verse"; Eckart Schütrumpf, "Traditional Elements in the Concept of Hamartia in Aristotle's Poetics"; Charles Segal, "Poetic Immortality and the Fear of Death: The Second Proem of the De Rerum Natura"; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "Albanius or Albinius? A Palinode Resung" and "More on Quintilian's (?) Shorter Declamations"; W. S. Watt, "Notes on Seneca, Tragedies"; and Clifford Weber, "Egeria's Norman Homeland."

The Soft Underbelly of Reason

Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134698151
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Soft Underbelly of Reason written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century.

Epicurus in Rome

Author : Sergio Yona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009281402
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Epicurus in Rome written by Sergio Yona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the day, and Lucretius, foremost among the representatives and supporters of Epicureanism at the time. Throughout the volume, the impact of such disparate reception on the part of these leading authors is explored in a way that illuminates the popularity as well as the controversy attached to the followers of Epicurus in Italy, ranging from ethical and political concerns to the understanding of scientific and celestial phenomena. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Forms of Astonishment

Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191554162
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Forms of Astonishment written by Richard Buxton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated study Richard Buxton analyses Greek literary narratives and visual representations of the metamorphosis of humans and gods, as evidenced from Homer to Nonnos. Such tales have become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the best-selling translation by Ted Hughes; Buxton explores their Greek antecedents. He investigates such issues as: How do different contexts shape the way in which metamorphosis is narrated? How do the assumptions of commentators about 'strangeness' affect how metamorphosis is interpreted? How far should an interpreter allow 'contextual charity' to render more acceptable a belief such as that in metamorphosis? What are the implications of the notions of 'astonishment' (Greek: thambos) in a range of narratives about transformation? Throughout Forms of Astonishment Buxton draws comparisons between the Greek evidence and data from other religious traditions, ancient and modern; he also introduces comparative material from the sciences, from modern painting and literature, and from the cinema and computer graphics. In investigating metamorphoses of gods Buxton revisits the concept of anthropomorphism, arguing that the fact that Greek divinities were believed to change shape does not undermine the fundamentally humanlike form of Greek divinity. He also examines certain strands of Greek tradition, particularly among the philosophers, which called metamorphosis into question, whether in relation to the gods or to humans. Individual chapters deal with transformations into the landscape and into plants or trees—in the latter case transformation stories are set against a background of cultural beliefs about 'seminal' substances such as blood and tears. Overall, Forms of Astonishment raises issues relevant to an understanding of broad aspects of Greek culture, and illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.

The Romantic Poets

Author : Uttara Natarajan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631229310
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Poets written by Uttara Natarajan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints