Imagining the Unimaginable

Imagining the Unimaginable

Author: Ladina Bezzola Lambert

Publisher: Rodopi

ISBN: 9042015780

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 182

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From the contents: How metaphors matter: Astolfo's lunar journey in the Orlando furioso. - Images proposed in Jest: Galileo's Sidereus nuncius and the dialogue. - The stuff that dreams are made of: Kepler's Somnium. - Worlds of words: Cyrano de Bergerac's Lune and Soleil. - Metaphors as systems of thought: Fontenelle, Cyrano, Wilkins and Huygens.
Doubling the Point
Language: en
Pages: 438

Doubling the Point

Authors: Professor of General Literature J M Coetzee, J. M. Coetzee
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance. Doubling the Point takes the reader to
Love
Language: en
Pages: 684

Love

Authors: Steven Curtis Lance
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: Lulu.com

Through a thousand nights of love into a thousand days of poetry, love came to me wearing its thousand faces and thrillingly whispering words into my heart. I wanted to remember them and to share them with you so I wrote them all down with the uttermost care as my
The Early Evolutionary Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 300

The Early Evolutionary Imagination

Authors: Emelie Jonsson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-31 - Publisher: Springer Nature

Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity’s place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution
Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday Volume II
Language: en
Pages: 165

Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday Volume II

Authors: Frederic Will
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-06 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Like its companion Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday (2016), this volume is a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of the moral or emotional life – goodness and badness, ugly and beautiful, quiet and raucous. Each item, in each polarity, is allowed to gather up a
Repetition and International Law
Language: en
Pages: 200

Repetition and International Law

Authors: Wouter Werner
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

An exploration of the dialectical role of repetition in international law, building on insights from philosophy, sociology, theatre and film.