Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “james dougal fleming”
Skip side bar filters

  • Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

    Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

    de James Dougal Fleming ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

    John Wilkins and the Universal Character

    de James Dougal Fleming ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700

    Edición de James Dougal Fleming ...
    The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Milton's Secrecy

    And Philosophical Hermeneutics

    de James Dougal Fleming ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic model. This is based on openness within language, rather than on secrets within the world. Milton's ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edición de Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edición de Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Spiritual Shakespeares

    Edición de Ewan Fernie ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’.Exploring a genuinely new perspective ... Leer más

    Gratis

  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    de Sarah Beckwith ...
    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    de Kristen Poole ...
    Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Reading Renaissance Ethics

    Edición de Marshall Grossman ...
    Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours.Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Christian Theology and Tragedy

    Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory

    Edición de Kevin Taylor, Giles Waller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
    Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Three main areas are examined: theological readings of a range of tragic literature, from plays to novels and the Bible itself; how theologians have explored tragedy theologically; and how theology can interact ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Chaucer

    The Canterbury Tales

    de Geoffrey Chaucer, Steve Ellis ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD