Product Description: Archaeopoetics explores “archaeological poetry,” ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography...read more

Product Description: Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual Imagination and Paradise Lost, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details...read more

Product Description: Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we see and, somehow, an element of our sensory presence is transmitted elsewhere...read more

Product Description: Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature shows how these images fostered what Elizabeth Eisenstein called brainwork related to concepts of space, truth, art, and nature, and reveals their importance to poetry by Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko...read more

Product Description: Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser is a study of the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature.  Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this book  details varying attitudes toward the development of ethical human subjectivity at a moment when basic assumptions about perception and knowledge were breaking down...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Euripides and the Language of CraftAuthor: Stieber, MaryPublisher: Brill Academic PubPublication Date: 2011/01/01Number of Pages: 494Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 2010041730

Product Description: One of the masterpieces of Latin and, indeed, world literature, "Virgil's Aeneid" was written during the Augustan 'renaissance' of architecture, art, and literature that redefined the Roman world in the early years of the empire. This period was marked by a transition from the use of rhetoric as a means of public persuasion to the use of images to display imperial power...read more

Product Description: Eighteenth-century sensibilite has always been controversial. In fact, the term itself refers to complex forms of physical and emotional responsiveness, and Lewis's study investigates the fictional exploration of various key problems of sentimental response that were at the heart of eighteenth-century moral, epistemological and aesthetic debates...read more