Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean world : a periplos /
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Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers' Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight - the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos , explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants' capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration.
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1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-297) and indexes. :
9789004194557 :
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David Jones : a Christian modernist? : new approaches to his art, poetry and cultural theory /
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David Jones: A Christian Modernist? is a major reassessment of the work of the poet, artist and essayist David Jones (1895-1974) in light of the complex, ambiguous idea of a 'Christian modernism'. His richly experimental and palimpsestic poetry, art and thought drew extensively on Christian tradition and symbolism as a key to the future: rejecting a technocratic and utilitarian modernity in favour of a revitalised culture of sign and sacrament. This volume examines historical influences on Jones's development, his impassioned engagement with the idea of modernity and with modernist literature and art, the theological sources and resonances of his work, and contemporary or late-modern perspectives on his achievement.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004356993 :
1877-3192 ; :
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Justus van Effen (1684-1735), leven en werk /
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Justus van Effen (1684-1735) geldt algemeen als een van de belangrijkste Nederlandse schrijvers uit de achttiende eeuw. Buitenlandse onderzoekers noemen hem een briljant essayist en een sleutelfiguur bij de overdracht van het ideeëngoed van de Verlichting. Dat alles uitsluitend op basis van zijn Franstalige publicaties. In eigen land daarentegen kent men Van Effen alleen als auteur van De Hollandse Spectator , waarin hij optrad als moreel en literair leidsman voor de opkomende burgerij. Maar over de persoon zelf achter al deze anonieme geschriften was tot dusver weinig of niets bekend. In deze biografie wordt daarom voor het eerst gepoogd om met behulg van archiefgegevens een totaalbeeld te geven van het leven en werk van Van Effen.
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1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004614864