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  • Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain

    by Clifford Davidson ...
    Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain more comprehensively than any other work to date. The study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles, from Kilkenny to Great Yarmouth, from Scotland to Cornwall. It offers detailed readings of individual plays-including the York Creed Play, Pentecost and Corpus Christi plays and the little ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts

    by Clifford Davidson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

    How to See Things

    by Cecilia Sjöholm ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • In a Dark Wood

    What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love

    by Joseph Luzzi ...
    When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn?On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante scholar and professor at Bard College, found himself racing to the hospital—his wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father.In the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Animals in the Classical World

    Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts

    by A. Harden ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era. Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient life, from philosophy to farming. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy and Politics of Aesthetic Experience

    German Romanticism and Critical Theory

    by Nathan Ross ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive response to art—it is the capacity to cultivate true personal autonomy, and to critique the social ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism

    The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828)

    by Franco Cirulli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is a comprehensive, integrated account of eighteenth and early nineteenth century German figurative aesthetics. The author focuses on the theologically-minded discourse on the visual arts that unfolded in Germany, circa 1754-1828, to critique the assumption that German romanticism and idealism pursued a formalist worship of beauty and of unbridled artistic autonomy. This book foregrounds what ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy

    by Will Daddario ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult. The ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • They Need Nothing

    Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period

    by Robert Richmond Ellis ...
    The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

    Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension

    by Paul M.W. Hackett ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD