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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787475503321

Autore

Zimbardo Rose A.

Titolo

A mirror to nature : transformations in drama and aesthetics, 1660-1732 / / Rose A. Zimbardo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

0-8131-6498-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

822/.4/09384

Soggetti

English drama - Restoration, 1660-1700 - History and criticism

English drama - 18th century - History and criticism

Aesthetics, Modern - 17th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [226]-242.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Four Stages of Dramatic Imitation, 1660-1732; 2. Imitation of Nature as Idea; 3. Imitation of Nature as ""The City Between""; 4. The Varieties of Dramatic Satire in the 1670's; 5. Nature as the Experiential Actual, 1680-1700; 6. Imitation of the Inner Arena: Sentimental, Pornographic, or Novelistic?; 7. Emulation: The Early Eighteenth Century; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In this provocative study Rose Zimbardo examines a crucial revolution in aesthetics that took place in the late seventeenth century and that to this day dominates our response to literature. Although artists of that time continued to follow the precept ""imitate nature,"" that nature no longer corresponds to the earlier understanding of the term. What had been in essence an allegorical mode came to be a literal one.Focusing on the drama of the period as an exemplary form, Zimbardo shows how it moved from depicting a metaphysical reality of idea to portraying an inner reality of individual



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779220603321

Autore

Somerville Christopher

Titolo

The golden step : a walk through the heart of Crete / / Christopher Somerville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Armchair Traveller at the Book Haus, 2012

ISBN

1-907973-33-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 paages)

Collana

Armchair Traveller

Disciplina

914.9590476

Soggetti

Walking - Greece - Crete

Crete (Greece) Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Talking to myself; Out East (Kato Zakros to Kritsa); Upcountry Village: Kritsa Interlude; The Plains of Plenty (Kritsa to Asites); Across the Roof of Crete (Asites to Thronos); Lotus Land: Amari Interlude; To Sfakia: A Rock and a Hard Place (Thronos to Chora Sfakion); The Gorges of the West (Chora Sfakion to Paleochora); Of Earth and Dreams (Paleochora to Hrissoskalitissas); Author's Note; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

A travelogue of a 300-mile walk across Crete, tackling mountain ranges, high slopes and the numerous gorges of the West.