A New Scene of Thought, Studies in Romantic Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Scene of Thought, Studies in Romantic Realism write by Richard Lansdown. This book was released on 2015-12-22. A New Scene of Thought, Studies in Romantic Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteenth-century literature is often associated with the birth of the realistic novel, just as the Romantic movement is often associated with intellectual idealism. This study asks its readers to reconsider and perhaps even to invert impressions like these. It re-examines English Romantic literature in the light of a profound shift of realistic understanding, going beyond the empirical representation of people and objects into new and bold explorations of moral psychology.
Landscapes of Realism
Landscapes of Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of Realism write by Dirk Göttsche. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Landscapes of Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.
Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place
Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place write by Dani Napton. This book was released on 2018-05-23. Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Counter-revolutionary or wary progressive? Critical apologist for the Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties? What are the political and cultural significances of place when Scott represents the instabilities generated by the Union? Scott's Novels and the Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Place analyses Scott’s sophisticated, counter-revolutionary interpretation of Britain's past and present in relation to those questions. Exploring the diversity within Scott’s life and writings, as historian and political commentator, conservative committed to progress, Scotsman and Briton, lawyer and philosopher, this monograph focuses on how Scott portrays and analyses the evolution of the state through notions of place and landscape. It especially considers Scott’s response to revolution and rebellion, and his geopolitical perspective on the transition from Stuart to Hanoverian sovereignty.
Romanticism and Speculative Realism
Romanticism and Speculative Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romanticism and Speculative Realism write by Chris Washington. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Romanticism and Speculative Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Romanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the human imagination, the natural world, and the language that correlates them in radical ways that can advance current speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms. In their wide-ranging examinations of canonical and non-canonical romantic writers, the scholars gathered here rethink the connections between the human and non-human world to envision speculative modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning historical and national frameworks-from historical romanticism to contemporary post-romantic ecology, and from British and German romanticism to global modernity-these essays examine life in all its varied forms in, and beyond, the Anthropocene.
What It Is Like To Perceive
What It Is Like To Perceive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What It Is Like To Perceive write by J. Christopher Maloney. This book was released on 2018-06-15. What It Is Like To Perceive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Naturalistic cognitive science, when realistically rendered, rightly maintains that to think is to deploy contentful mental representations. Accordingly, conscious perception, memory, and anticipation are forms of cognition that, despite their introspectively manifest differences, may coincide in content. Sometimes we remember what we saw; other times we predict what we will see. Why, then, does what it is like consciously to perceive, differ so dramatically from what it is like merely to recall or anticipate the same? Why, if thought is just representation, does the phenomenal character of seeing a sunset differ so stunningly from the tepid character of recollecting or predicting the sun's descent? J. Christopher Maloney argues that, unlike other cognitive modes, perception is in fact immediate, direct acquaintance with the object of thought. Although all mental representations carry content, the vehicles of perceptual representation are uniquely composed of the very objects represented. To perceive the setting sun is to use the sun and its properties to cast a peculiar cognitive vehicle of demonstrative representation. This vehicle's embedded referential term is identical with, and demonstrates, the sun itself. And the vehicle's self-attributive demonstrative predicate is itself forged from a property of that same remote star. So, in this sense, the perceiving mind is an extended mind. Perception is unbrokered cognition of what is real, exactly as it really is. Maloney's theory of perception will be of great interest in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
