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The Aesthetics of the "Beyond"
by Jianguo Chen
ISBN: 978-087413-017-1
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The Aesthetics of the "Beyond" is about an alternative mode of reading, thinking, and representing the intricacies of human experience in Chinese literature of the late twentieth century, which the author calls the aesthetics of the "beyond." It investigates how contemporary Chinese writers, by means of dynamic interface of literary practice and cultural philosophical considerations, engage the reader in critical reflection on and aesthetic appreciation of the complexity of human conditions. By studying the "beyond" in its various manifestations: the semiotics of human embodiment, the discourse of the phantasm, the politics of nostalgia with regard to "origin" and "center," and the metaphysics of death in the writings of some major contemporary Chinese writers, the book explores the ways in which the "beyond" is constructed as a new paradigm of critical thinking in literary, aesthetic, and philosophical terms. Jianguo Chen is a Professor of Chinese literature at the University of Delaware. |
Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays
by David N. Beauregard
In this short, lucid, and well-argued study, David N. Beauregard draws upon the findings of revisionist historians of the English reformation . . . to make the compelling case that Shakespeare's plays reveal a Roman Catholic sensibility at work. His research radically reassesses the "Whig" interpretation of the English reformation and the conventional idea of the great playwright as a mind nourished by the Book of Common Prayer, the Books of Homilies, the Geneva Bible, and the Thirty-Nine Articles. In its stead, Beauregard makes available an almost overwhelming body of evidence for the strong presence of Roman Catholic theological doctrine, sacramental liturgy, and devotional practice across Shakespeare’s plays.
Source: Literature and Theology, vol .23, no. 3, September 2009, pages 359-363.
Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850-1950
by Carol Grissom
"Carol Grissom's book is an enormous accomplishment, and it is clearly now the standard reference on American zinc sculpture. The 554 illustrations are of good quality, mostly photographs (350 in color), including many fascinating period photographs of foundries and pieces long gone. Her writing is precise, yet easily read without the burden of academic jargon. The University of Delaware Press has done a good job of layout, printing on heavy gloss stock, and binding. This book will be useful, indeed indispensable, for anyone seriously interested in zinc sculpture, from collectors to dealers to art historians to conservators. It is refreshing to see a major book about American objects that is more than the usual decorator or collector book, which are often poorly editied and essentially vanity publications. Kudos to the author for an outstanding book that will be an important reference for years to come."
Source: Maine Antiques Digest, September 2009.
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Spenser's Ovidian Poetics
by M. L. Stapleton
No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), the Enlightenment editions of The Faerie Queene, the philological mode of the Spenser Variorum (1932–57), and the recent, innovative work of Harry Berger and Colin Burrow.
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Notes and Remembrances, 1871-1872
by Ludovic Halévy
Preface and Translation by Roger L. Williams
This is an eyewitness account of the brutal ending of the civil war in France in 1871; the military destruction of the Commune of Paris by the national government in Versailles; and the subsequent legal judgments rendered against the insurgents.
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Staring into the Void: Spinoza, Master of Nihilism
by Harold Skulsky
Professor Skulsky tries to disarm the justifiably skeptical reader by showing why Spinoza’s thesis about the One Real Thing is as arguable as it is outrageous.
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Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Ethics and Otherness from Romanticism through Realism
Edited by Donald R. Wehrs and David P. Haney
Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature presents nine essays that reread major British, American, and European nineteenth-century literary texts in light of the post-deconstruction ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Essay authors are A. C. Goodson, David P. Haney, E. S. Burt, Alain Paul Toumayan, N. S. Boone, Lorna Wood, Donald R. Wehrs, Melvyn New, and Rachel Hollander.
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Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Imitating beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry
by JoAnn DellaNeva
Unlikely Exemplars explores questions of reading and writing practices in the French Renaissance. While the imitation of great masters of the past, such as Petrarch, was a staple of Renaissance poetics, French poets of the mid-1500s, including Saint-Gelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, Baïf, and Magny, often turned to a set of unlikely exemplars: the second-rate poets published in a series of volumes known as the Italian Anthologies.
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Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen
by Carolyn D. Williams
This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica as an individual, including her appearance, personal ties and home life.
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