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The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735) - - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Elizabeth Cooper’s The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender.

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Unselfing - Michaela Hulstyn - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Altered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence – can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book focuses on the tension between rival conceptions of unselfing as either a form of productive self-transcendence or a form of alienating self-loss. Michaela Hulstyn explores the shapes and meanings of unselfing through the framework of the global French literary world, encompassing texts by modernist figures in France and Belgium alongside writers from Algeria, Rwanda, and Morocco. Together these diverse texts prompt a re-evaluation of the consequences of the loss or the transcendence of the self. Through a series of close readings, Hulstyn offers a new account of the ethical questions raised by altered states and shows how philosophies of empathy can be tested against and often challenged by literary works. Drawing on cognitive science and phenomenology, Unselfing provides a new methodology for approaching texts that give shape to the fringes of conscious experience.

DKK 480.00

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Culture and Authority in the Baroque - - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

The cultural forms often referred to as ‘baroque’ are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe’s effort to mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political authority was being centralized, the authority of religion undermined by the division of Christianity, and science and poetry were seen increasingly as rival forms of intellectual authority. Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.The essays in this collection span what has been called the ‘baroque crescent’ stretching from Spain through Italy to Russia, but they also bring Shakespeare and English cosmological poetry into productive dialogue with continental Europe in the reinterpretation of baroque world-views. The editors, Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman, along with a group of eminent scholars from across the disciplinary and geographic spectrum, investigate baroque modes of persuasion with careful attention to the complexity of particular cultural phenomena and their political and aesthetic implications. This collection redefines the way the baroque will be understood.

DKK 657.00

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Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions - Leslie Lockett - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions , argues that these depictions are literal representations of Anglo-Saxon folk psychology. Lockett analyses both well-studied and little-known texts, including Insular Latin grammars, The Ruin , the Old English Soliloquies, The Rhyming Poem , and the writings of Patrick, Bishop of Dublin. She demonstrates that the Platonist-Christian theory of the incorporeal mind was known to very few Anglo-Saxons throughout most of the period, while the concept of mind-in-the-heart remained widespread. Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions examines the interactions of rival - and incompatible - concepts of the mind in a highly original way.

DKK 363.00

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Two Women of the Great Schism – The Revelations of Constance de Rabastens by Raymond de Sabanac and Life of the Blessed Ursulina of Parma by Simone Za

The Great Schism (1378–1417) divided Western Christendom into two groups: those who recognized a pope in Rome and those who recognized one in Avignon. It was a crisis of authority that brought with it spiritual anxiety and political uproar. This book presents the responses of two fascinating women whose experiences demonstrate the impact of the Schism on ordinary Christians. Constance de Rabastens (active 1384–1386), who lived in a village in rural Languedoc, had dramatic visions indicting the Avignon pope Clement VII, despite his being recognized in her region. Ursulina of Parma (1375–1408), a diminutive young woman from an urban milieu in Italy, believed that she was commanded by Christ to engage in shuttle diplomacy between the Roman and Avignon papacies in order to end the Schism. Two Women of the Great Schism translates an account of Constance’s visionary experiences as recorded by her confessor Raymond de Sabanac and a posthumous biography of Ursulina by Simone Zanacchi, a pious abbot who wrote some sixty years after his subject’s death. These texts bring to life the extraordinary spiritual and political engagement of two late medieval women who refused to be passive bystanders as rival papal factions tore Christendom apart.

DKK 269.00

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Imitation & Design and Other Essays - Reid Maccallum - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Imitation approaches identity with the thing imitated; design attenuates to a void. The visual arts must be practised somewhere between these two poles. The rival claims of the two for primary and the decision in favour of design occupy the first essay, which gives its name to Reid MacCallum''s projected book on the theory of art. Concurrently Professor MacCallum was asking related questions in the field of literature: what differentiates prose or scientific statement from poetic, and how may the latter be said to convey truth? Again the extremes of a polarity must be rejected -- the "dry light" of logic and laboratory experiment and the "moist darkness" of irrationalism. In the essay on "Poetry and Truth" and in a third called "Myth and Intelligence" it is argued that the perception and imposition of pattern on experience, the lifting of meaningless commotion to ordered emotion, is an exercise of intelligence as rigorous and valid as the work of the physicist or logician. These three chapters -- on Painting, Poetry, and Myth -- were all of his book that Professor MacCallum lived to write. The study of T. S. Eliot''s Four Quartets, being a commentary on a poet''s myth-making, clearly belongs with them. Together they form an extensive body of material not previously printed, which displays a unity not only of point of view but of argument hardly to be hoped for in a posthumous book. Included also are four articles illustrative of the range of the author''s interests and the quality of his mind. One on the "Group of Seven" shows his continuing interest in the practice of painting by his compatriots; "Contemporary Aesthetic Theory" balances it with an appraisal of current theories of art. "The Idea of Man" and "First and Second Self" round out the book by making explicit the religious conception of man and mind on which the entire work has been based. IMITATION AND DESIGN has been edited with an introduction by William Blissett, Associate Professor of English in the University of Saskatchewan.

DKK 268.00

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Milton and the Rise of Russian Satanism - Valentin Boss - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

No European Devil can claim so long or so political a connection with Russian culture as Milton''s Satan. Russian poets came to know him before they heard of Dante, Marlowe, Tasso, or of the devils of the Baroque era. This may explain why Milton''s influence was so intensely felt by the Russians, especially during the Romantic age. In this, the first study in any language of Milton''s reception in Russia, that influence is traced to an early translation of Paradise Lost uncovered by Valentin Boss in the Moscow archives. British radicals who professed to believe that Milton himself was of the Devil''s party were, with the notable exception of Byron and Tom Moore, hardly known by Pushkin and his contemporaries. Russian literary Satanism, although derived from Milton, thus developed its own characteristics which tsarist censors considered morally subversive. A brilliant pleiade of poets from Zhukovsky to Lermontov gave Milton''s outcast from Heaven some of his many modern masks. Towards the end of the nineteenth century these inspired the alarming paintings and sculptures of Mikhail Vrubel who, like Lermentov, was obsessed by the demonic. In cultural influence Goethe''s Devil had by then eclipsed Milton''s, but Goethe''s did not survive 1917 with the same political authority. Boss concludes with a description of what happened to Milton''s Satan after October 1917, when his connection with the English Revolution gave him an edge his German rival lacked. Lunacharsky, Lenin''s Commissar for Education, who admired Milton''s Arch-rebel, steered him past Left-wing Communists who continued to regard Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained as Christian propaganda. Despite such attacks, Milton''s Satan resurfaced under Brezhnev to bask in Soviet pedagogic approval as an Anti-Imperialist and ''the embodiment of love of freedom.'' Russian notions of good and evil changed before the Revolution and will change again under glasnost'' and perestroika. But no literary character has reflected such changes more dramatically than Milton''s Satan, who managed to be both a hero to Romantic poets and Marxist critics.

DKK 312.00

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Le Turpin Francais, De Le Turpin I - Ronald Noel Walpole - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Vers le milieu du douzième siècle un clerc inconnu se faisant appeler Turpin, archevêque de Reims, écrivit une ‘histoire’ de ‘Charlemagne et Roland’ en latin. L’inconnu s’identifia à Turpin, guerrier saint et aime de la Chanson de Roland; à son personnage inspire d’un Charlemagne déjà monarque légendaire et emblème vivant de cet idéal tant envié du roi bon et fort, il donna pour compagnons Roland et ses pairs et, ayant traversé avec ceux-ci et avec l’armée des croises les épreuves des guerres d’Espagne, il écrivit la vérité sur tout ce qu’ils avaient fait et enduré ensemble. Cependant, l’invention majeure du pseudo-Turpin est d’avoir fait de St Jacques le génie tutélaire de la croisade de Charlemagne en Espagne, le bon ange qui arrive miraculeusement au bon moment et enfin, l’intercesseur qui obtient le salut ultime de Charlemagne. La matière de laquelle le pseudo-Turpin puisa son récit est cette tradition épique française dont une partie nous est esquissée aujourd’hui, seulement dans son œuvre. Les épisodes de cette croisade, qui dura quatorze ans, furent empruntés à l’épopée : ici, on pense surtout à la Chanson de Roland et à sa grande tragédie de Roncevaux transformée, de poésie qu’elle était, en historie contrefaite et en fausse piété. Nous avons dans Turpin 1 cette histoire-là. Elle fut traduite vers 1210—20 en français, en prose, celle-ci devenant de plus en plus le véhicule privilégie par les raconteurs. La traduction n’existe plus dans sa forme originale, mais le manuscrit qui a servi de base au présent ouvrage reste fidèle au texte latin, en plus d’être rédigé en prose claire et incisive. Les copies du manuscrit, neuf en tout, montrent avec quelle liberté les scribes manipulaient la langue de l’original. Dans une rédaction de notre Turpin I – une rédaction représentée par six manuscrits et reproduite intégralement en appendice dans cette édition – la préméditation associée à l’intervention des scribes revêt plus d’importance. Vers la fin de la chronique, cette fois, on introduit St. Denis, que l’on pose en rival a St Jacques en lui confiant le rôle qui non seulement assure le salut de l’Empereur, mais accroit l’importance de L’Abbaye de St-Denis a la fois comme siège politique et comme véritable cœur de la France.

DKK 313.00

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