Author: Roland Altenburger
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783034300360
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
The Sword Or the Needle
Author: Roland Altenburger
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783034300360
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783034300360
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Century Readings for a Course in English Literature
Author: John William Cunliffe
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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The Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume
Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Poetical Works
Author: Walter Scott (Sir)
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Poetical Works
Author: Mrs. Hemans
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans
Author: Mrs. Hemans
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Languages : en
Pages : 722
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