1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809106903321

Autore

Tekcan Rana

Titolo

The biographer and the subject : a study on biographical distance / / Rana Tekcan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2012

ISBN

3-8382-5995-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Studies in English literatures

Disciplina

808.06692

Soggetti

Biography as a literary form

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnson�s Life of Savage and Boswell�s Life of Johnson""; ""2 Judas and The Frog Prince: Strachey�s Eminent Victorians and Holroyd�s Lytton Strachey""; ""3 Too Far For Comfort: Honan�s Jane Austen, Her Life and Motion�s Keats""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates -- on paper -- a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in the creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is formed by accurate historical facts. But its soul lies elsewhere. Since the concern is life, something more is needed: Nothing dry, cold or dead, but a vibrant impression of life that is left in the air after one turns over the last page. But how does a biographer do it? The way a biographer creates a subject is lar



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968554803321

Autore

Gurashi Dario

Titolo

In deifico speculo : Agrippa's humanism / Dario Gurashi, Brian McNeil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paderborn, : Brill | Fink, 2021

ISBN

3-8467-6651-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Humanistische Bibliothek Reihe I: Abhandlungen ; 67

Disciplina

230.0922

Soggetti

Menschenwürde

Magie

Hermetismus

Neuplatonismus

Kabbalah

Human dignity

Magic

Hermeticism

Neoplatonism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Dario Gurashi -- Copyright page / Dario Gurashi -- Epigraph / Dario Gurashi -- Acknowledgments / Dario Gurashi -- Preface / Dario Gurashi -- Abbreviations / Dario Gurashi -- Introduction / Dario Gurashi -- Chapter 1 Agrippa in Italy: a Hermetic Thinker of the Renaissance / Dario Gurashi -- Chapter 2 Magic in the Debate Among the Humanists / Dario Gurashi -- Chapter 3 Quasi imaginis imago : the Origins of a Discourse on Human Nature / Dario Gurashi -- Chapter 4 The Dialogus de homine. Content, Structure, Interpretation / Dario Gurashi -- Chapter 5 From Putting an Idea into Writing to its Reconstruction / Dario Gurashi -- Chapter 6 Dialogue on Humankind / Dario Gurashi -- Bibliography / Dario Gurashi -- Index Nominum Notabilium / Dario Gurashi.

Sommario/riassunto

The magic of the Renaissance embodies a great meditation on the human condition. This book focuses on the contribution that Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim made to the philosophical discussion.



Agrippa views humankind as a microcosm, created by God in His own image, whose purpose is to bring creation to completion. Soul and body conceal divine powers that each person can rightfully awaken through magical knowledge and miraculous practice. Agrippa’s humanism responds to the spiritual crisis that hit the Christian world in the early modern period. Die Magie der Renaissance verkörpert eine umfassende Meditation über die Würde des Menschen. Laut Agrippa von Nettesheim begünstigt die Wiedergeburt der okkulten Wissenschaften eine Reform der Kultur. In seinen Schriften wird dem Menschen die Verwirklichung der Schöpfung durch magische Weisheit zugesprochen.