Structures of Appearing:Allegory and the Work of Literature - 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 Structures of Appearing:Allegory and the Work of Literature write by Brenda Machosky. This book was released on 2013. Structures of Appearing:Allegory and the Work of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature is an interdisciplinary study that revises the history of allegory through a phenomenological approach. The book also takes on the history of aesthetics as an ideology that has long subjugated literature (and art generally) to criteria of judgment that are philosophical rather than literary.
The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing
The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing - 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 The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing write by Annette Volfing. This book was released on 2017-07-14. The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Daughter Zion allegory represents a particular narrative articulation of the paradigm of bridal mysticism deriving from the Song of Songs, the core element of which is the quest of Daughter Zion for a worthy object of love. Examining medieval German religious writing (verse and prose) and Dutch prose works, Annette Volfing shows that this storyline provides an excellent springboard for investigating key aspects of medieval religious and literary culture. In particular, she argues, the allegory lends itself to an exploration of the medieval sense of self; of the scope of human agency within the mystical encounter; of the gendering of the religious subject; of conceptions of space and enclosure; and of fantasies of violence and aggression. Volfing suggests that Daughter Zion adaptations increasingly tended to empower the religious subject to seek a more immediate relationship with the divine and to embrace a wider range of emotions: the mediating personifications are gradually eliminated in favour of a model of religious experience in which the human subject engages directly with Christ. Overall, the development of the allegory from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries marks the striving towards a greater sense of equality and affective reciprocity with the divine, within the context of an erotic union.
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott - 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 Companion to the Works of Kim Scott write by Belinda Wheeler. This book was released on 2016. A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Notes on the Contributors -- Index
Allegory Studies
Allegory Studies - 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 Allegory Studies write by Vladimir Brljak. This book was released on 2021-08-30. Allegory Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, cultural, and period-based divides, from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future, and from the rich variety of its cultural and artistic manifestations to its deep cognitive roots. Allegory is everything we already know it to be: a mode of literary and artistic composition, and a religious as well as secular interpretive practice. As this volume attests, however, it is much more than that—much more than a sum of its parts. Collectively, the phenomena we now subsume under this term comprise a dynamic cultural force which has left a deep imprint on our history, whose full impact we are only beginning to comprehend, and which therefore demands precisely such dedicated cross-disciplinary examination as this book seeks to provide.
Remainders of the American Century
Remainders of the American Century - 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 Remainders of the American Century write by Brent Ryan Bellamy. This book was released on 2021-03-08. Remainders of the American Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels imagine human responses to the aftermath of catastrophe. The shape of the future they imagine is defined by "the remainder," when what is left behind expresses itself in storytelling tropes. Since 1945 the portentous fate of the United States has shifted from the irradiated future of nuclear holocaust to the saltwater wash of global warming. Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory. From George R. Stewart's Earth Abides to N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Remainders of the American Century describes the tension between a reactionary impulse and the progressive impetus for a new world. "Brent Ryan Bellamy weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of fictions, all of which navigate the changing valences of apocalypse, survival, and remainders during the rise and fall of the post-Second World War 'American Century.' Given the global post-apocalyptic reality we all currently inhabit, this is a timely and significant study." "Brent Ryan Bellamy weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of fictions, all of which navigate the changing valences of apocalypse, survival, and remainders during the rise and fall of the post-Second World War 'American Century.' Given the global post-apocalyptic reality we all currently inhabit, this is a timely and significant study." —Gerry Canavan, author of Octavia E. Butler
