1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783295003321

Autore

Lamonica Drew <1973->

Titolo

"We are three sisters" [[electronic resource] ] : self and family in the writing of the Brontèˆs / / Drew Lamonica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8262-6268-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809

Soggetti

Women and literature - England - Yorkshire - History - 19th century

Autobiography in literature

Sisters in literature

Families in literature

Self in literature

Yorkshire (England) In literature

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. 233-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Family as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483243903321

Autore

Wang Keping <1955->

Titolo

Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy / / by Keping Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9789811617140

9811617147

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Disciplina

181.11

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Arts

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Philosophical Traditions

Fine Art

Asian Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Pictographic Character and Totemism -- The Pottery and Bronze art -- Ethos of the Rites-Music Tradition -- Confucian Ideal and Equilibrium Harmony -- Critique of Mohist Utilitarianism -- Daoist Pursuit and Spontaneous Naturalness -- Beyond Poetic Sentimentalism -- Chan Buddhism and Subtle Void -- The Water Allegory and Waterscape -- The Art of Painting Landscape -- The Rise of Modern Chinese Aesthetics -- How-to-live Concern and Fourfold Engagement.

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the Chinese conception of beauty from a historical perspective with regard to its significant relation to human personality and human existence. It examines the etymological implications of the pictographic character mei, the totemic symbolism of beauty, the ferocious beauty of the bronzeware. Further on, it proceeds to look into the conceptual progression of beauty in such main schools of thought as Confucianism, Daoism and Chan Buddhism. Then, it goes on to illustrate through art and literature the leading principles of equilibriumharmony, spontaneous naturalness, subtle void and



synthetic possibilities. It also offers a discussion of modern change and transcultural creation conducted with particular reference to the theory of the poetic state par excellence (yi jing shuo) and that of art as sedimentation (ji dian shuo). Keping Wang is a Senior Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Emeritus Professor of CASS University.His recent publications are Harmonism as an Alternative (2019), Chinese Culture of Intelligence (2019), and Rediscovery of Sino-Hellenic Ideas (2016).