book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'...
The connection between literary depictions and visual perception significantly enhances the quality of meditative practice and promotes deeper understanding and emotional-volitional engagement with the text and personal development of the meditators. Both secondary and primary data sources were...
The historical spectrum, provided by a discussion of Biblical narratives, Midrashic sources, documents of the Jewish mystics, Hasidic tales, and modern Hebrew works, allows an understanding of the metamorphosis that the female figure has experienced in her literary odyssey....
Subsequent editions of Pauli’s compilation add an extra “f” to the title’s first word. 7 Elisabeth Wåghäll, “Georg Wickram (circa 1505–circa 1561),” in German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280–1580, ed. James N. Hardin and Max Reinhart, Dictionary of Literary ...
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority–literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. — Ignazio Silone ...
English language readers will instantly recognize, with influences drawn from an international well of literary sources. You will find work that pays homage to the China’s past and tales that turn on distinctly futuristic, apocalyptic visions. And surreal, experimental tones alongside traditional Chine...
the analyses of a series of case studies of literary translations from and into Romanian provide evidence in support of the idea that, depending on particular configurations of power relations at particular times in history, such ethnic clichés were carefully negotiated by translators, who faithfully...
Somewhere, some time back, I saw an image of a map to do with literary authors all over the world. When I went to look for this map to send to someone, I tried a Google image search for “map of world with authors”. I did find this interesting map, which shows the the proportio...
As a poetic text rich with literary and traditional allusions,Among the Almond Treesbenefits from (but does not strictly require) a detailed translator’s introduction and extensive footnotes. Ibrahim Muhawi, as a Mahmoud Darwish scholar and a folklorist, is perfectly suited to bring to the reade...
48Togetherwith these technical issues, it is important to consider that the worship of Herakles inthe Greek East and Alexander’s special devotion along the campaign routes are wellattested in the literary sources, which report Alexander’s frequent stops to offer sacri-fice to his famous‘ancestor...