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Cosmos and community in early medieval art
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ISBN: 9780300219166 0300219164 9780300228496 030022849X 0300247761 9780300247763 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven

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"In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states-the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, [it] illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history"--Jacket flap.

Hopkins's Poetics of Speech Sound
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ISBN: 1281992097 9786611992095 1442675861 9781442675865 0802091547 9780802091543 0802085113 9781281992093 661199209X Year: 2006 Publisher: Toronto

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Although virtually unknown in his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844?1889) is counted today among the great nineteenth-century poets. His poetry was collected and published posthumously by his friend Robert Bridges in 1917, and subsequently Hopkins?s reputation flowered, though more as a modern writer than as Victorian, and very little as a poetic theorist. Yet the body of Hopkins?s critical writing reveals sharp insight into the subject of poetics, and presents an innovative theory that locates primary poetic meaning in ?figures of speech sound.? These ?figures of speech sound? provide the focus for James I. Wimsatt?s erudite and original study. Drawing from Hopkins?s diaries, letters, student essays, and correspondence with poet-friends, Wimsatt illuminates Hopkins?s theory that the sound of poetic language carries an emotional, not merely logical and grammatical, meaning. Wimsatt concentrates his study on Hopkins?s writings about ?sprung rhythm,? ?lettering,? and ?inscape,? ? his coinages ? and makes abundant reference to Hopkins?s verse, showing how it exemplifies his language theory. A well-researched and highly detailed book, Hopkins?s Poetics of Speech Sound asserts major significance for a relatively neglected aspect of this important poet?s writings.

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