The Anatomical Speaking Picture Of The Purple Island
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Author | : Peter Mitchell |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780838640180 |
Sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. This book demonstrates that the analogies and metaphors of literary works share coherence and consistency with anatomy textbooks.
Author | : Phineas Fletcher |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9004339760 |
Phineas Fletcher’s epic allegorical poem The Purple Island (1633) combines anatomical and devotional perspectives on the self as the poet explores the relationship between body and soul. The titular island is figured as both body and as England, thus merging religious, corporeal, devotional, and geo-national narratives. The present critical edition offers the first fresh editorial approach to the poem in over a century and situates the poem in its historical and critical contexts. Although the poem has often been regarded as a bizarre and fragmented curiosity, Johnathan H. Pope compellingly argues in favour of a more unified reading and understanding of the text as a whole, offering a newly-annotated edition that illuminates the text for both the Fletcher specialist and newcomer alike.
Author | : Jonathan Sawday |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134526350 |
An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. Though the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, The Body Emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political.
Author | : Claire Jowitt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351894439 |
Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of seeing the natural world that is charted by the essays in this book. The collection traces the many overlaps between 'literary' and 'scientific' discourses as writers in this period attempted both to understand imaginatively and empirically the workings of the natural world, and shows that a discrete separation between such discourses and spheres is untenable. The collection is designed around four main themes-'Philosophy, Thought and Natural Knowledge', 'Religion, Politics and the Natural World', 'Gender, Sexuality and Scientific Thought' and 'New Worlds and New Philosophies.' Within these themes, the contributors focus on the contests between different ways of seeing and understanding the natural world in a wide range of writings from the period: in poetry and art, in political texts, in descriptions of real and imagined colonial landscapes, as well as in more obviously 'scientific' documents.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Author | : Brian Muñoz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320921 |
Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture.
Author | : Michael Gaudio |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351545949 |
The first book-length study of the fifteen surviving Little Gidding bible concordances, this book examines the visual culture of print in seventeenth-century England through the lens of one extraordinary family and their hand-made biblical manuscripts. The volumes were created by the women of the Ferrar-Collet family of Little Gidding, who selected works from the family's collection of Catholic religious prints, and then cut and pasted prints and print fragments, along with verses excised from the bible, and composed them in artful arrangements on the page in the manner of collage. Gaudio shows that by cutting, recombining, and pasting multi-scaled print fragments, the Ferrar-Collet family put into practice a remarkably flexible pictorial language. The Little Gidding concordances provide an occasion to explore how the manipulation of print could be a means of thinking through some of the most pressing religious and political questions of the pre-civil war period: the coherence of printed scripture, the nature of sovereignty, the relevance of the Mosaic law, and the protestant reform of images. By foregrounding the Ferrar-Collets' engagement with the print fragment, this book extends the scope of early modern print history beyond the printmaker's studio and expands our understanding of the ways an early modern Protestant community could productively engage with the religious image. Contrary to the long-held view that the English Reformation led to a decline in the importance of the religious image, this study demonstrates the ongoing vitality of religious prints in early modern England as instruments for thinking.
Author | : Albert Schirrmeister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Human anatomy |
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Author | : D. Hillman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230285929 |
Shakespeare's Entrails explores the connections between embodiment, knowledge and acknowledgement in Shakespeare's plays. Hillman sets out a theory of the emergence of modern subjectivity in the context of a world that was increasingly coming to see the human body as a closed system.
Author | : University of St. Andrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 1912 |
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