Between Real and Ideal

Between Real and Ideal
Author: William H McClain
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015172630

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Ideal and Actual in the Story of the Stone

Ideal and Actual in the Story of the Stone
Author: Dore Jesse Levy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231114073

Levy explores the classic Chinese novelThe Story of the Stone(also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), illuminating the work by interpreting its four major themes: the inversion of traditional family dynamics, the function of illness and medicine in a Buddhist society, the role of poetry in a dynastic Chinese society, and the use of poetry as a vehicle for spiritual retribution.

Democracy, Real and Ideal

Democracy, Real and Ideal
Author: Ricardo Blaug
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1999-03-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0791496880

By focusing the various difficulties encountered in applying theory to practical concerns, this book explores the reasons for the absence of a radical politics in Habermas's work. In doing so, it shows that certain political implications of the theory remain unexplored. The book articulates a unique application of Habermasian theory, the actual functioning of decision-making groups, the nature of deliberative interaction, and the kinds of judgments participants must make if they are to preserve their democratic process.

Between the Real and the Ideal

Between the Real and the Ideal
Author: Susan M. Dixon
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874139372

This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating within a papal-court society, it eschewed extant patronage systems and social hierarchies and introduced enlightened ideas to its members. By about 1730, the Arcadi was on the wane, the reform largely unmet. It was an easy target for critics, both its proponents and opponents, in part because of the visible role it assigned to women. By attending to the institution's policies, this book provides a rich understanding of the Arcadi's goals. It locates the organization's interest in theater, including the physical environment of the theatrical drama, as central to its operations. It is argued that, like a stage set, the Bosco Parrasio, the garden that the Arcadi built for its literary presentations, is a visual manifestation of Arcadian goals.

The Ideal Real

The Ideal Real
Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838635179

In The Ideal Real, Paul Davies argues that Beckett saw this potential self emerging in the world of imagination and symbol, especially in this age where language alone has come to be seen as the vehicle of education and the determiner of identity.

All-American Girl

All-American Girl
Author: Frances B. Cogan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820337943

Our image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model for women of the nineteenth century. In All-American Girl, however, Frances B. Cogan identifies amid these extremes a third ideal of femininity: the “Real Woman.” Cogan's Real Woman exists in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories whose characters did not dedicate their lives to passivity or demand the vote. Appearing in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880, these women embodied qualities that neither the “True Women”—conventional ladies of leisure—nor the early feminists fully advocated, such as intelligence, physical fitness, self sufficiency, economic self-reliance, judicious marriage, and a balance between self and family. Cogan's All-American Girl reveals a system of feminine values that demanded women be neither idle nor militant.

Ideal Code, Real World

Ideal Code, Real World
Author: Brad Hooker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780198250692

Begins by explaining and arguing for certain criteria for assessing normative moral theories. Then argues that these criteria lead to a rule-consequentialist moral theory.

The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel

The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel
Author: Michael Paschalis
Publisher: Barkhuis
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2013-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9491431250

The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ‘The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel,’ allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelistic ekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus’ Aethiopika (Doody); myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and the Greek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the light of historical events and Aristotle’s Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); entrapment and insufficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapes in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the gendered aesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh).

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense
Author: Caroline Levine
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780813922171

Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".