Verlag: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681375435 ISBN 13: 9781681375434
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: New York Review Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681375435 ISBN 13: 9781681375434
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 022651661X ISBN 13: 9780226516615
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: The New York Review Of Books, Inc Mai 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681375435 ISBN 13: 9781681375434
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading.Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney's sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear; Virginia Woolf saw it as 'some luminous globe' wherein 'all the seeds of English fiction lie latent.' In Gallery of Clouds, Renaissance scholar Rachel Eisendrath has written an extraordinary homage to Arcadia in the form of a book-length essay divided into passing clouds: 'The clouds in my Arcadia, the one I found and the one I made, hold light and color. They take on the forms of other things: a cat, the sea, my grandmother, the gesture of a teacher I loved, a friend, a girlfriend, a ship at proud sail, my mother. These clouds stay still only as long as I look at them, and then they change.'Gallery of Clouds opens in New York City with a dream, or a vision, of meeting Virginia Woolf in the afterlife. She holds out her manuscript to her--an infinite moment passes--and Woolf takes it and begins to read. From here, in this act of magical reading, the book scrolls out in a series of reflective pieces connected through an association of metaphors and ideas. Golden threadlines tie each part to the next: a rupture of time in a Pisanello painting; Montaigne's practice of revision in his essays; a segue through Vivian Gordon Harsh, the first African-American librarian in the Chicago public library system; a fragment of Spenser; a brief history of prose style; a meditation on the active versus the contemplative life; the story of Sarapion, a fifth-century monk; the persistence of the pastoral; image-making and thought; reading Willa Cather to her grandmother in her Chicago apartment; the deviations of Benjamin's 'scholarly romance' The Arcades. Eisendrath's wondrously woven hybrid work extols the materiality of reading, its pleasures and delights, with wild leaps and bounding grace.
Verlag: New York Review Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681375435 ISBN 13: 9781681375434
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Rachel Eisendrath is a critic and scholar who specializes in English Renaissance poetry. The author of Poetry in a World of Things (winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Dietz Award), she is the Tow Associate Professor of English and director of the Me.
Verlag: University Of Chicago Press Apr 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 022651661X ISBN 13: 9780226516615
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a 'mental space' between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as 'things in themselves'-things, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance 'discovery' of the observable world.
Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 022651661X ISBN 13: 9780226516615
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Über den AutorRachel Eisendrath is assistant professor of English and chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.