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  1. The Opaque Experience
    Literature and Disenchantment
    Autor*in: Garramuño, Florencia
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Peter Lang Verlag, Oxford

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    ISBN: 9781788746687
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    Schriftenreihe: Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity ; 8
    Schlagworte: Literatur; Ästhetik
    Weitere Schlagworte: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Contemporary Literature;Culture and Dictatorship;Experience and Subjectivity; (VLB-WN)9580: Kunst; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; desencanto; Disenchantment; Experience; experiencia; Florencia; FONCA; Francis; Garramuno; Literatura; Literature; Lough; opaca; Opaque
    Umfang: Online-Ressource, VIII, 200 Seiten
  2. Stoic romanticism and the ethics of emotion
    Autor*in: Risinger, Jacob
    Erschienen: [2021]
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic... mehr

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    An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era—the period most polemically invested in emotion as art’s mainspring—was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded the transcendence of emotion.Risinger argues that Stoicism was a central preoccupation in a world destabilized by the French Revolution. Creating a space for the skeptical evaluation of feeling and affect, Stoicism became the subject of poetic reflection, ethical inquiry, and political debate. Risinger examines Wordsworth’s affinity with William Godwin’s evolving philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s attempt to embed Stoic reflection within the lyric itself, Lord Byron’s depiction of Stoicism at the level of character, visions of a Stoic future in novels by Mary Shelley and Sarah Scott, and the Stoic foundations of Emerson’s arguments for self-reliance and social reform.Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion illustrates how the austerity of ancient philosophy was not inimical to Romantic creativity, but vital to its realization

     
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    ISBN: 9780691223117
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    RVK Klassifikation: HL 1131
    Schlagworte: English literature; Stoics in literature; Romanticism; English literature-19th century-History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Weitere Schlagworte: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; Aesthetics; Altruism; An Essay on Man; Anacharsis; Anecdote; Antipathy; Antithesis; Apatheia; Apathy; Asceticism; Bellum omnium contra omnes; Byronic hero; Character of the Happy Warrior; Classical language; Confidant; Contingency (philosophy); Cosmopolitanism; Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay); Criticism; Critique; David Hume; Defamiliarization; Delusion; Descriptive poetry; Disenchantment; Effeminacy; Emotional detachment; Equanimity; Ethics; Expressivism; Falsity; Fatalism; Fears in Solitude; Gentlewoman; Historicism; Houyhnhnm; Hypocrisy; Idealism; Idealization; Impartiality; Inductive reasoning; Indulgence; Intentionality; Invective; Irony; Lord Byron; Lyrical Ballads; Meditations; Modern Moral Philosophy; Moral Landscape; Moral absolutism; Moralia; Morality; Nihil admirari; Noble savage; Nonviolence; Objectivity (philosophy); On Justice; Overreaction; Philosophy; Pity; Poetic diction; Poetry; Pragmatism; Presentism (literary and historical analysis); Psychoanalysis; Radical criticism; Rationality; Relativism; Religiosity; Res publica; Ridicule; Romanticism; Sage (philosophy); Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Satire; Selfishness; Sentimentalism (literature); Sentimentality; Skepticism; Soliloquy; Solipsism; Sophism; Sophistication; State of nature; Stiff upper lip; Stoic physics; Stoicism; Sublime (philosophy); Tabula rasa; The Anatomy of Melancholy; The Dispossessed; The Power of Sympathy; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Thought; Truth; Utilitarianism; Value (ethics); Weltschmerz
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. That tyrant, persuasion
    how rhetoric shaped the Roman world
    Autor*in: Lendon, J. E.
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire -- 1 Education in the Roman Empire -- 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education -- Section II Killing Julius... mehr

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire -- 1 Education in the Roman Empire -- 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education -- Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric -- 3 The Carrion Men -- 4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy -- 5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? -- Section III Rhetoric's Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire -- 6 Monumental Nymphaea -- 7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit -- Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law -- 8 Rhetoric and Roman Law -- 9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law -- 10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law -- Conclusion rhetoric, maker of worlds -- Notes -- Abbreviations of some modern works -- Works cited -- Index How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes-including one asserting that "he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city." In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite-and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different

     
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  4. The new science of the enchanted universe
    an anthropology of most of humanity
    Autor*in: Sahlins, Marshall
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors... mehr

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    One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even today, people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of “religion” and the “supernatural.” The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights.In this, his last, revelatory book, Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes readers around the world, from Inuit of the Arctic Circle to pastoral Dinka of East Africa, from Araweté swidden gardeners of Amazonia to Trobriand Island horticulturalists. In the process, Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane, all-too-human spheres of “economics” and “politics” emerge as people negotiate with, and ultimately usurp, the powers of the gods.The New Science of the Enchanted Universe offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America

     
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  5. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Autor*in: Sachs, Aaron
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... mehr

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    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     
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  6. Stoic romanticism and the ethics of emotion
    Autor*in: Risinger, Jacob
    Erschienen: [2021]
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

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    An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion refutes this notion by demonstrating that Romantic-era writers devoted a surprising amount of attention to Stoicism and its dispassionate mandate. Jacob Risinger explores the subterranean but vital life of Stoic philosophy in British and American Romanticism, from William Wordsworth to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shows that the Romantic era—the period most polemically invested in emotion as art’s mainspring—was also captivated by the Stoic idea that aesthetic and ethical judgment demanded the transcendence of emotion.Risinger argues that Stoicism was a central preoccupation in a world destabilized by the French Revolution. Creating a space for the skeptical evaluation of feeling and affect, Stoicism became the subject of poetic reflection, ethical inquiry, and political debate. Risinger examines Wordsworth’s affinity with William Godwin’s evolving philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s attempt to embed Stoic reflection within the lyric itself, Lord Byron’s depiction of Stoicism at the level of character, visions of a Stoic future in novels by Mary Shelley and Sarah Scott, and the Stoic foundations of Emerson’s arguments for self-reliance and social reform.Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion illustrates how the austerity of ancient philosophy was not inimical to Romantic creativity, but vital to its realization

     
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    Schlagworte: English literature; Stoics in literature; Romanticism; English literature-19th century-History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Weitere Schlagworte: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; Aesthetics; Altruism; An Essay on Man; Anacharsis; Anecdote; Antipathy; Antithesis; Apatheia; Apathy; Asceticism; Bellum omnium contra omnes; Byronic hero; Character of the Happy Warrior; Classical language; Confidant; Contingency (philosophy); Cosmopolitanism; Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay); Criticism; Critique; David Hume; Defamiliarization; Delusion; Descriptive poetry; Disenchantment; Effeminacy; Emotional detachment; Equanimity; Ethics; Expressivism; Falsity; Fatalism; Fears in Solitude; Gentlewoman; Historicism; Houyhnhnm; Hypocrisy; Idealism; Idealization; Impartiality; Inductive reasoning; Indulgence; Intentionality; Invective; Irony; Lord Byron; Lyrical Ballads; Meditations; Modern Moral Philosophy; Moral Landscape; Moral absolutism; Moralia; Morality; Nihil admirari; Noble savage; Nonviolence; Objectivity (philosophy); On Justice; Overreaction; Philosophy; Pity; Poetic diction; Poetry; Pragmatism; Presentism (literary and historical analysis); Psychoanalysis; Radical criticism; Rationality; Relativism; Religiosity; Res publica; Ridicule; Romanticism; Sage (philosophy); Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Satire; Selfishness; Sentimentalism (literature); Sentimentality; Skepticism; Soliloquy; Solipsism; Sophism; Sophistication; State of nature; Stiff upper lip; Stoic physics; Stoicism; Sublime (philosophy); Tabula rasa; The Anatomy of Melancholy; The Dispossessed; The Power of Sympathy; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Thought; Truth; Utilitarianism; Value (ethics); Weltschmerz
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 270 Seiten), Illustrationen
  7. The Opaque experience
    literature and disenchantment
    Autor*in: Garramuño, Florencia
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  Peter Lang, Oxford

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    ISBN: 9781787073661; 1787073661
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    Schriftenreihe: Iberian and Latin American studies ; volume 8
    Schlagworte: Literatur; Ästhetik
    Weitere Schlagworte: (Produktform)Paperback / softback; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; desencanto; Disenchantment; Experience; experiencia; Florencia; FONCA; Francis; Garramuno; Literatura; Literature; Lough; opaca; Opaque; (VLB-WN)1580: Hardcover, Softcover / Kunst
    Umfang: VIII, 198 Seiten, 23 cm, 301 g
  8. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Autor*in: Sachs, Aaron
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... mehr

     

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     
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    ISBN: 9780691236940
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    Schlagworte: HISTORY / United States / General
    Weitere Schlagworte: A. Mitchell Palmer; Abolitionism; Adam Hochschild; Ahab; Ambiguity; Americans; At the Core; Awareness; Barbarian; Billy Budd; Biography; Captain Ahab; Career; City Of; Clarel; Commodity; Consciousness; Continuance; Countermovement; Cultural evolution; Deep history; Determination; Disenchantment; Dynasty; E. M. Forster; Emblem; Environmentalism; Escapism; Essay; Ethos; Exploration; Frigate; George Perkins Marsh; Gilded Age; Grief; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; His Family; Human Desire; Imperialism; Impressment; In This World; In the Life; John Claggart; Joseph Conrad; Kitimat; Langston Hughes; Lewis Mumford; Lifeway; Malcolm Cowley; Manifest destiny; Mechanization; Memoir; Michael Shelden; Moby-Dick; Modernity; Monomania; Mr; Narrative; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Near East; Oahu; Omoo; Optimism; Organism; Poetry; Prometheus; Puritans; Queequeg; Redburn; Reign; Remarkable; Requirement; Role; Romanticism; Scientism; Scurvy; Slang; Slavery; Suffering; Technology; The Conduct of Life; The Encantadas; The Golden Day; The Other Hand; The Philosopher; The Rest of the Story; The Spirit of the Age; Tropic of Capricorn; Typee; Uncertainty; Utopia; V; W. Somerset Maugham; Warfare; White-Jacket; William Roscoe; Woolf; Works and Days; Writing
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