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“david carroll simon”

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  • Light without Heat

    The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

    by David Carroll Simon ...
    In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the New Science. In ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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    by Marshall McLuhan ...
    The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we ... Read more

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  • The Mind of the Maker

    The Expression of Faith through Creativity and Art

    by Dorothy L. Sayers ...
    An investigation into the nature of God and creativity from the author of the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, with an introduction by Madeleine L'Engle.From the first pages of Genesis, it is clear that God and man share one vital trait: the ability to create great works out of nothing. More than any other group, artists feel impelled to create, and this urge brings them closer to God. By ... Read more

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  • Mirror, Mirror

    The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    From the author of Think, an enlightening and entertaining exploration of narcissism and self-esteemEveryone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon ... Read more

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  • Close Reading

    The Reader

    by John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, Kenneth Burke ...
    An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism, including works of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Spiritual Shakespeares

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Solitude

    A Philosophical Encounter

    by Philip Koch ...
    In Koch's Solitude, both solitude and engagement emerge as primary modes of human experience, equally essential for human completion. This work draws upon the vast corpus of literary reflections on solitude, especially Lao Tze, Sappho, Plotinus, Augustine, Petrarch, Montaigne, Goethe, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Proust."Koch uses the work of philosophers, historians, and writers, as ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • The Great Philosophers:Berkeley

    by David Berman ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.George Berkeley 1685-1753A scientist, theologian and writer on medicine and economics, George Berkeley was in his way a most improbable philosopher. A master of English prose, he was suspicious of language; scornful of abstractions, he looked instead to immediate experience for the basis of his thought.David Berman's readable guide traces Berkeley's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    by 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 ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Sublime

    by Philip Shaw ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chaptersThe legacy of the earliest ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

    Classical to Contemporary

    Edited by David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, ... Read more

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  • John Donne, Undone (Routledge Revivals)

    by Thomas Docherty ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethical, cultural and political individualism. In this title, first published in 1986, Thomas Docherty challenges this with a more rigorously theoretical reading of Donne, particularly in relation to the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD