The Sáhitya-darpaṇa Or Mirror of Composition of Viśvanátha

The Sáhitya-darpaṇa Or Mirror of Composition of Viśvanátha
Author: Viśvanātha Kavirāja
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1994
Genre: Literature
ISBN: 9788120811454

The Sahitya Darpana or` Mirror of Composition` is a renowned Sanskrit work on poetics by Visvanatha of early fourteenth century. It is divided into ten sections. The first section deals with the nature and definition of poetry. The second treats of various powers of a word. The third treats of sentiments. The fourth treats of the divisions of poetry. The present work is an english translation of the sanskrit original first published in 1875 by J.r. Ballantyne who commenced the translation but could go only as far as one quarter of the work and Paramada Dasa Mitra, completed the rest of it.

The Composition of the Qur'an

The Composition of the Qur'an
Author: Michel Cuypers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1474227473

The text of the Qur'an appears to many to be desperately muddled and lacking any coherence. The Composition of the Qur'an provides a systematic presentation of the writing processes (or rhetoric) and argues that there is indeed a coherence to the Qur'anic text. Michel Cuypers shows that the ancient Semitic texts, of which the Qur'an is a part, do not obey the Greek rhetoric and that their basic principle is therefore not progressive linearity, but symmetry which can take several forms, following precise rules. He argues that the knowledge of this rhetorical code allows for a radically new analysis of the structure and rhetoric of the Qur'an. Using copious amounts of examples from the text, The Composition of the Qur'an provides a new theoretical synthesis of Qur'anic rhetoric as well as a methodology for their application in further exegesis. A landmark publication in the field of Qur'anic Studies, this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Islamic Studies, Religious Studies and Arabic Studies.

Treatise on Biblical Rhetoric

Treatise on Biblical Rhetoric
Author: Roland Meynet
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004224181

This book is a summary of the laws Biblical and Semitic rhetoric, which includes not only the Hebrew Bible and the Deuterocanonical books, but also the New Testament.

Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture

Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Author: David J. Falls
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317087542

Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 734
Release: 1926
Genre: Commercial catalogs
ISBN:

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass
Author: Koen H. A. Janssens
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 762
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1118314204

The first scientific volume to compile the modern analytical techniques for glass analysis, Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass presents an up-to-date description of the physico-chemical methods suitable for determining the composition of glass and for speciation of specific components. This unique resource presents members of Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, as well as university scholars, with a number of case studies where the effective use of one or more of these methods for elucidating a particular culturo-historical or historo-technical aspect of glass manufacturing technology is documented.