1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000021059

Autore

Valentini, Valentina

Titolo

Mondi, corpi, materie : teatri del secondo Novecento / Valentina Valentini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Bruno Mondadori, c2007

ISBN

978-88-6159-023-6

Descrizione fisica

177 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Collana

Sintesi

Disciplina

792.0904

Soggetti

Teatro - Sec. 20

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455394803321

Autore

Teskey Gordon <1953->

Titolo

Delirious Milton [[electronic resource] ] : the fate of the poet in modernity / / Gordon Teskey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-674-04430-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Classificazione

HK 2575

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - 17th century

Poetry - Authorship - History - 17th century

Poetry - Authorship - Psychological aspects

Hallucinations and illusions in literature

Delirium in literature

Aesthetics, British

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Artificial Paradises -- 2. Milton's Halo -- 3. Milton and Modernity -- 4. Why, This Is Chaos, Nor Am I Out of It -- 5. God's Body: Concept and Metaphor -- 6. A Bleeding Rib: Milton and Classical Culture -- 7. Milton's Choice of Subject -- 8. Revolution in Paradise Regained -- 9. Samson and the Heap of the Dead -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective, the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective, the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784607803321

Autore

Hassig Ross <1945->

Titolo

Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico [[electronic resource] /] / Ross Hassig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2001

ISBN

0-292-79795-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

529/.32978452

Soggetti

Aztec calendar

Aztecs - History

Aztec cosmology

Manuscripts, Nahuatl

Time - Social aspects - Mexico

Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Time and the Interpretation of Other Cultures -- 2 Outside the Focus -- 3 Reinterpreting Aztec Perspectives -- 4 Why the Aztecs Manipulated Time -- 5 The Ripples of Time -- 6 The Colonial Transition -- 7 Time and Analysis -- Appendix: Pronunciation Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history. Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones. His findings promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history.