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  1. Infinite Variety
    Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730
    Author: Schmidgen, Wolfram
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were... more

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    Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention.Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical works, voluntarism authorized the move beyond the natural toward the deformed, the infinite, and the counterfactual.In reclaiming ontology as an explanatory context for literary invention, Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of an aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite. It is a book that articulates how religious belief shaped modern literary practices, including novelistic realism, and one that will be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the relationship between literature, religion, and philosophy.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780812299908
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    Subjects: English literature; Literary form; Order (Philosophy) in literature; Religion and literature; Voluntarism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    Other subjects: Alexander Pope; British literature; Daniel Defoe; Eighteenth-century; Empiricism; John Locke; Jonathan Swift; Literary history; Nominalism; Richard Blackmore; Rise of the novel; Robert Boyle; Secularization; Thomas Hobbes; Voluntarism
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  2. Die Südseeblase in der englischen Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
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    Author: Löwe, Kathleen
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Reimer, Berlin

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  3. <<Ein>> Bruderkampf um Troja
    die griechische Götterwelt im Ritual der Freimaurer
    Author: Sichrovsky, Heinz
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  StudienVerlag, Innsbruck

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783706559263
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    RVK Categories: BG 9745 ; MS 3700 ; FH 20085
    DDC Categories: 360; 880
    Series: Quellen und Darstellungen zur europäischen Freimaurerei ; 21
    Subjects: Homerus; Rezeption; Freimaurer; Geschichte; ;
    Other subjects: Johann Heinrich Voß; Giosuè Carducci; Gabriele D'Annunzio; griechische Literatur; Odyssee; Ilias; Homer; Troja; griechische Sagen; Alexander Pope; Nikos Kazantzakis; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Scope: 160 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm
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  4. John Gay – Satiriker ohne Zielscheibe
    Transtextualität und Subversion in der ‘Beggar's Opera‘ und anderen satirischen Werken
    Author: Beyer, Stefan
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  AV Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken

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    ISBN: 9783639390919
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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Ironie; Transtextualität; Parodie; neoclassicism; Thomas D'Urfey; The Shepherd's Week; David Nokes; Sir Robert Walpole; Alexander Pope; (VLB-WN)1564: HC/Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Augustan Age; 18. Jahrhundert; Beggar's Opera; John Gay; Satire; ballad opera; Menippea; Intertextualität
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  5. "Bound hand and foot and yet dancing as if free"
    satires II 1, II 2, and I 1 from Alexander Pope's "Imitations of Horace"
    Author: Salcher, Gerhild
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Ibidem-Verl., Stuttgart

    Embedded in a discussion of the 18th century literary practice of imitation, this study offers an in-depth analysis of the three full-length satires from Alexander Pope's Imitations of Horace. Taking into account aspects such as content, metre,... more

     

    Embedded in a discussion of the 18th century literary practice of imitation, this study offers an in-depth analysis of the three full-length satires from Alexander Pope's Imitations of Horace. Taking into account aspects such as content, metre, message, personal references, and language, the three satires are compared to their Latin originals, shedding light on how Pope succeeds in transferring the texts into his contemporary world and idiom whilst sticking very closely to the original framework on a larger scale. Thus, they "show the poet bound hand and foot and yet dancing as if free."

     
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  6. Aesthetic Elements in A. Pope & H. Ibrahim Selected Fraternal Epistles
    A Comparative Study
    Author: Labani, Noha Siraj
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Noor Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9786202345118; 620234511X
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    9786202345118
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Literature; poetry; Alexander Pope; Hafiz Ibrahim; Epistles; Aesthetics; Fraternal; lEnglish; Comparative Literature; (VLB-WN)1564: Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
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  7. “Bound Hand and Foot and yet Dancing as if Free” Satires II 1, II 2, and I 2 from Alexander Pope’s Imitations of Horace
    Author: Salcher, Gerhild
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  ibidem, Stuttgart

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  8. 3 books to know - The Art of Writing
    Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis; Aristotle; Schopenhauer, Arthur; Nemo, August
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Tacet Books, Vachendorf

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    ISBN: 9783969696811
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    Series: 3 books to know ; 69
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Zielgruppe)ab 12 Jahre; (BISAC Subject Heading)JNF029010; (BISAC Subject Heading)LAN005000; Self-Editing for Fiction Writers; Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury; On Writing; Stephen King; Sean Platt; Johnny B. Truant; Indie Writer Survival Guide; Susan Kaye Quinn; Story Genius; Lisa Cron; Steering the Craft; Ursula K. LeGuin; The Writer’s Journey; Christopher Vogler; The Creative Tarot; jessica Crispin; Steal Like an Artist; Austin Kleon; The Writing Life; Save the Cat; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running; Haruki Murakami; Penguin Classics; Scholastic Junior Classics; Penguin Young Readers; Vintage Classics; Puffin Classics; Golden Classics; Dover Read and Listen; Signet Classics; Fifty Shades of Oz; Big Finish Classics; Futhermucking Classics; Campfire Graphic Novels; Maplewood Books; Big Book; Alexander Pushkin; Russia; Ivan Turgenev; vladimir Nabokov; Ivan Bunin; Nikolai Gogol; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Leo Tolstoy; David Aizman; Sergey Aksakov; Mikhail Albov; Louisa May Alcott; Hans Christian Andersen; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; L. M. Montgomery; Karen White; Leonard Weisgard; O. Henry; Clement Clarke Moore; L.M. Montgomery; Andrew J. Heller; Clement C. Moore; Hans Christian Andersen; Edgar Allan Poe; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Andrew Lang; George Eliot; Eleanor H. Porter; Edward Everett Hale; Susan Coolidge; Ambrose Bierce; Algernon Blackwood; Charles Brockden Brown; Julian Hawthorne; Mark twain; Henry James; temperance movement; Arthur Robins; Arthur MacHen; Charles Baudelaire; James Fenimore Cooper; George MacDonald; Alexander Pope; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Laurence Sterne; Inazo O. Nitobe; Andrew Lang; Walt Whitman; Wilkie Collins; Samuel Butler; Arthur Conan Doyle; Temperance Movement; Prohibition; Symbolic Crusade; Anti-Liquor; Beware the First Drink; Washington Temperance Movement; Alcoholics Anonymous; Charles Dickens; Robert Burns; Thomas Chatterton; Leo Tolstoy; L. Frank Baum; Sara Teasdale; Thomas Hardy; William Makepeace Thackeray; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Robert Louis Stevenson; canadian author; Literary Lapses; Nonsense Novel; Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; The Triumph of the Egg; Death in the Woods; A Story Teller’s Story; Tar: A Midwest Childhood; Hemingway; Gertrude Stein; Malcolm Cowley; Irving Howe; Dean Koontz; Tobias Wolff; Jonathan Lethem; Michael Cunningham Richard Russo; John Updike; Wilkie Collins; William Faulkner; Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain; O. Henry; Deaver Brown; Winesburg Ohio; R. Austin Freeman; Arthur Morrison; Arthur Conan Doyle; Agatha Christie; Hugh Lamb; Edgar Wallace; Carlo Carretto; Leonardo Boff; Dan Anderson; Daniel Anderson; Jerome K. Jerome; G.K. Chesterton; A. C. Doyle; Sarah Smarsh; British Detectives; Private Investigators; Police Officers; Delphi Series Eight; Picture Puffins; Jonathan Cott; Edgar Allan Poe; Ambrose Bierce; Bram Stoker; Robert E. Howard; Arthur Conan Doyle; William Hope Hodgson; H.P. Lovecraft; Wilkie Collins; Charles Dickens; Anatole France; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Washington Irving; Henry James; (VLB-WN)9950
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 110 Seiten
  9. Ein Bruderkampf um Troja
    die griechische Götterwelt im Ritual der Freimaurer
    Author: Sichrovsky, Heinz
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Studienverlag, Innsbruck

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783706559263; 3706559269
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    Edition: [1. Auflage]
    Series: Quellen und Darstellungen zur europäischen Freimaurerei ; Band 21
    Subjects: Rezeption; Freimaurer; Ritual
    Other subjects: Homerus (ca. v8. Jh.): Ilias; (Produktform)Hardback; Johann Heinrich Voß; Giosuè Carducci; Gabriele D'Annunzio; griechische Literatur; Odyssee; Ilias; Homer; Troja; griechische Sagen; Alexander Pope; Nikos Kazantzakis; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; (VLB-WN)1560: Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft; (BISAC Subject Heading)HIS002010; (BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004190
    Scope: 160 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm, 274 g
  10. Ein Bruderkampf um Troja
    Die griechische Götterwelt im Ritual der Freimaurer
    Author: Sichrovsky, Heinz
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  StudienVerlag, Innsbruck

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783706559416
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    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series: Quellen und Darstellungen zur europäischen Freimaurerei ; 21
    Subjects: Rezeption; Freimaurer; Ritual; Freimaurer; Gott; Witwe; Bruder
    Other subjects: Homerus (ca. v8. Jh.): Ilias; Hephäst; (Produktform)Electronic book text; (BISAC Subject Heading)HIS002010; (BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004190; (VLB-WN)9562; Alexander Pope; Gabriele D'Annunzio; Giosuè Carducci; Homer; Ilias; Johann Heinrich Voß; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Nikos Kazantzakis; Odyssee; Troja; griechische Literatur; griechische Sagen; (VLB-WN)9560
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  11. Taocriticism and Alexander Pope
    Author: Feng, Liqun
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9786139449804; 6139449804
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    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Taocriticism; Alexander Pope; Tao; comparative study; An Essay on Man; (VLB-WN)1560: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 68 Seiten
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  12. Infinite variety
    literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730
    Author: Schmidgen, Wolfram
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic -- Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety -- Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic -- Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety -- Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope -- Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism -- Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition -- Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention.Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical works, voluntarism authorized the move beyond the natural toward the deformed, the infinite, and the counterfactual.In reclaiming ontology as an explanatory context for literary invention, Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of an aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite. It is a book that articulates how religious belief shaped modern literary practices, including novelistic realism, and one that will be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the relationship between literature, religion, and philosophy

     
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  13. Die Südseeblase in der englischen Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
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    Author: Löwe, Kathleen
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  14. The Scriblerus Club
    Published: 2010

    Commercial Providers ; sc In this BBC Radio broadcast 'Melvyn Bragg and guests [John Mullan, Senior Lecturer in English, University College London; Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London; Marcus Walsh, Kenneth... more

     

    Commercial Providers ; sc In this BBC Radio broadcast 'Melvyn Bragg and guests [John Mullan, Senior Lecturer in English, University College London; Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London; Marcus Walsh, Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool] discuss the Scriblerus Club. The 18th century Club included some of the most extraordinary and vivid satirists ever to have written in the English language.' The website also offers related links to the topic as well as further reading.

     
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  15. Infinite variety
    literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730
    Author: Schmidgen, Wolfram
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic -- Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety -- Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic -- Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety -- Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope -- Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism -- Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition -- Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention.Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical works, voluntarism authorized the move beyond the natural toward the deformed, the infinite, and the counterfactual.In reclaiming ontology as an explanatory context for literary invention, Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of an aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite. It is a book that articulates how religious belief shaped modern literary practices, including novelistic realism, and one that will be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the relationship between literature, religion, and philosophy

     
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