The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an extensive and deeply researched examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Kent State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781606354711)
In this remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets to the heart of the tension between pity and the desire for power in J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. As the book traces the entangled story of the One Ring and i...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Apr-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009280266)
This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It argues that the term sympathy was used to refer...Lasīt vairāk
Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions. Early modern English writing about pity evid...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, ISBN-13: 9781501759734)
Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, ISBN-13: 9781501759741)
Chinese Sympathies examines how EuropeansGerman-speaking writers and thinkers in particularidentified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polos Travels....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2021, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501759758)
Chinese Sympathies examines how EuropeansGerman-speaking writers and thinkers in particularidentified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polos Travels....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2021, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501759765)
Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-May-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478007791)
Exploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic plura...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-May-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478008309)
In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett explored the vital materiality of non-human objects and the deep interrelation of human and non-human forces. Yet she was left with a question: if we recognize human agency as bound up with the agentic f...Lasīt vairāk
With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has remained a divisive genre and category of analysis. On Sympathetic Grounds offers a new interpretation of the sentimental by mapping its grounds in Nor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198846697)
Adam Smiths Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view. British and French novels published over the following century redefine sympathy through n...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108481335)
In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson rethought...Lasīt vairāk
With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has remained a divisive genre and category of analysis. On Sympathetic Grounds offers a new interpretation of the sentimental by mapping its grounds in Nor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Apr-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691630755)
Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to...Lasīt vairāk
This volume opens a dialogue between eighteenth-century passions and twenty-first century understandings of emotion, as revealed by psychological research into human emotions, and sociological studies of emotions and the media. It unites liter...Lasīt vairāk
In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic...Lasīt vairāk
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotles poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Platos critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all ackn...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jan-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300192032)
Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeares The Tempest and building to a new reading of Miltons Paradise Lost, author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to m...Lasīt vairāk
