Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature
Author: Frederick Herbert Wagman
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 196
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Author: Frederick Herbert Wagman
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Herbert Wagman
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780231885928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the attitude toward the natural sciences expressed in German Baroque prose to indicate to what extent the German intellectual laity of the 17th century had been influenced by scientific advances.
Author: Frederick Herbert Wagman
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 178
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of German Literature
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Kenny
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780191556586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, so much more than today? Why was curiosity a fashionable topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations, scientific treatises, sermons, newspapers, novellas, plays, operas, ballets, poems, from Corneille to Diderot, from Johann Valentin Andreae to Gottlieb Spizel? Universities, churches, and other institutions invoked curiosity in order to regulate knowledge or behaviour, to establish who should try to know or do what, and under what circumstances. As well as investigating a crucial episode in the history of knowledge, this study makes a distinctive contribution to historiographical debates about the nature of 'concepts'. Curiosity was constantly reshaped by the uses of it. And yet, strangely, however much people contested what curiosity was, they often agreed that what they were disagreeing about was one and the same thing.
Author: D I Duveen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 900461415X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacsimile edition to which is added: Catalogue 62, H.P. KRAUS, The Duveen Collection of Alchemy & Chemistry, supplementing the Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica. The Duveen Collection of Balneology.
Author: E. Bever
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-06-11
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 0230582117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.
Author: Enrique García Santo-Tomás
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-08-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 022646587X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGalileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period.
Author: Angus Fletcher
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1400842042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone who has ever said one thing and meant another has spoken in the mode of allegory. The allegorical expression of ideas pervades literature, art, music, religion, politics, business, and advertising. But how does allegory really work and how should we understand it? For more than forty years, Angus Fletcher's classic book has provided an answer that is still unsurpassed for its comprehensiveness, brilliance, and eloquence. With a preface by Harold Bloom and a substantial new afterword by the author, this edition reintroduces this essential text to a new generation of students and scholars of literature and art. Allegory puts forward a basic theory of allegory as a symbolic mode, shows how it expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices. Revealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, the book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals. In his new afterword, Fletcher documents the rise of a disturbing new type of allegory--allegory without ideas.