Author: Jane Everingham Nelson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004520600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the ‘religion of the mind’ found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare’s understanding of human psychology.
Shakespeare and religio mentis
Author: Jane Everingham Nelson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004520600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the ‘religion of the mind’ found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare’s understanding of human psychology.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004520600
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the ‘religion of the mind’ found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare’s understanding of human psychology.
Shakespeare, Religion and Beyond
Author: Robert F. Fleissner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453524797
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A daring look into the art and technique of one of history’s most celebrated literary scholars, Shakespeare, Religion and Beyond is a detailed documentation on that attempt to shed light on a missing piece in a cryptic puzzle. As described by Robin L. Inboden, Ph.D. (Wittenberg University), “Fleissners’s book summarized, interrogates, and extends both long-held assumptions about Shakespeare’s work and newer claims alike. His speculative web of connections among plays, the life, the religion, and the literary inspirations of Shakespeare links the unexpected and thus suggests potentially fruitful avenues for further study.”
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453524797
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A daring look into the art and technique of one of history’s most celebrated literary scholars, Shakespeare, Religion and Beyond is a detailed documentation on that attempt to shed light on a missing piece in a cryptic puzzle. As described by Robin L. Inboden, Ph.D. (Wittenberg University), “Fleissners’s book summarized, interrogates, and extends both long-held assumptions about Shakespeare’s work and newer claims alike. His speculative web of connections among plays, the life, the religion, and the literary inspirations of Shakespeare links the unexpected and thus suggests potentially fruitful avenues for further study.”
Christian Humanism in Shakespeare
Author: Lee Oser
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813235103
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare’s theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare’s work in the “radical middle,” the dialectical opening between the sacred and the secular where great writing can flourish. According to Oser, the radical middle was and remains a site of cultural originality, as expressed through mimetic works of art intended for a catholic (small “c”) audience. It describes the conceptual space where Shakespeare was free to engage theological questions, and where his Christian skepticism could serve his literary purposes. Oser reviews the rival cases for a Protestant Shakespeare and for a Catholic Shakespeare, but leaves the issue open, focusing, instead, on how Shakespeare exploits artistic resources that are specific to Christianity, including the classical-Christian rhetorical tradition. The scope of the book ranges from an introductory survey of the critical field as it now stands, to individual chapters on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, the Henriad, Hamlet, and King Lear. Writing with a deep sense of literary history, Oser holds that mainstream literary criticism has created a false picture of Shakespeare by secularizing him and misconstruing the nature of his art. Through careful study of the plays, Oser recovers a Shakespeare who is less vulnerable to the winds of academic and political fashion, and who is a friend to the enduring project of humanistic education. Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature is both eminently readable and a work of consequence.
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813235103
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare’s theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare’s work in the “radical middle,” the dialectical opening between the sacred and the secular where great writing can flourish. According to Oser, the radical middle was and remains a site of cultural originality, as expressed through mimetic works of art intended for a catholic (small “c”) audience. It describes the conceptual space where Shakespeare was free to engage theological questions, and where his Christian skepticism could serve his literary purposes. Oser reviews the rival cases for a Protestant Shakespeare and for a Catholic Shakespeare, but leaves the issue open, focusing, instead, on how Shakespeare exploits artistic resources that are specific to Christianity, including the classical-Christian rhetorical tradition. The scope of the book ranges from an introductory survey of the critical field as it now stands, to individual chapters on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, the Henriad, Hamlet, and King Lear. Writing with a deep sense of literary history, Oser holds that mainstream literary criticism has created a false picture of Shakespeare by secularizing him and misconstruing the nature of his art. Through careful study of the plays, Oser recovers a Shakespeare who is less vulnerable to the winds of academic and political fashion, and who is a friend to the enduring project of humanistic education. Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature is both eminently readable and a work of consequence.
Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare
Author: Lisa Lampert
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized contemporary Jews; Woman represented as either virgin or whore. In Western thought, the Christian was figured as spiritual and masculine, defined in opposition to the carnal, feminine, and Jewish. Women and Jews are not simply the Other for the Christian exegetical tradition, however; they also represent sources of origin, as one cannot conceive of men without women or of Christianity without Judaism. The bifurcated representations of Woman and Jew found in the literature of the Middle Ages and beyond reflect the uneasy figurations of women and Jews as both insiders and outsiders to Christian society. Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature. Focusing on representations of Jews and women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, selections from medieval drama, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Lampert explores the ways in which medieval and early modern authors used strategies of opposition to—and identification with—figures of Jews and women to create individual and collective Christian identities. This book shows not only how these questions are interrelated in the texts of medieval and early modern England but how they reveal the distinct yet similarly paradoxical places held by Woman and Jew within a longer tradition of Western thought that extends to the present day.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized contemporary Jews; Woman represented as either virgin or whore. In Western thought, the Christian was figured as spiritual and masculine, defined in opposition to the carnal, feminine, and Jewish. Women and Jews are not simply the Other for the Christian exegetical tradition, however; they also represent sources of origin, as one cannot conceive of men without women or of Christianity without Judaism. The bifurcated representations of Woman and Jew found in the literature of the Middle Ages and beyond reflect the uneasy figurations of women and Jews as both insiders and outsiders to Christian society. Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature. Focusing on representations of Jews and women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, selections from medieval drama, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Lampert explores the ways in which medieval and early modern authors used strategies of opposition to—and identification with—figures of Jews and women to create individual and collective Christian identities. This book shows not only how these questions are interrelated in the texts of medieval and early modern England but how they reveal the distinct yet similarly paradoxical places held by Woman and Jew within a longer tradition of Western thought that extends to the present day.
Speculum Mentis
Author: Robin George Collingwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Proposes a philosophy of culture stressing the unity of the mind. Structured around five forms of experience--art, religion, science, history, and philosophy--the work seeks a synthesis of levels of knowledge. -- Britannica.com.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Proposes a philosophy of culture stressing the unity of the mind. Structured around five forms of experience--art, religion, science, history, and philosophy--the work seeks a synthesis of levels of knowledge. -- Britannica.com.
Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays
Author: David N. Beauregard
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 0874130026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 0874130026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.
Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 1
Author: Maurice Cowling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A further contribution to understanding the role played by Christianity in modern English thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A further contribution to understanding the role played by Christianity in modern English thought.
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
“A” New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare Furness
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description