This beautifully illustrated multidisciplinary study addresses interpretations of the Genesis creation story in Paradise Lost and other seventeenth-century English poems and in the visual arts from the Middle Ages through the Reformation. It considers poems, visual images, and music concerned with divine and human creativity and interprets these works as salutary examples for the creation of the arts and the preservation of the earth. The central topic is the "daily work of body or mind" of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost as primal artists and caretakers of nature before the Fall, developing the arts of language, music, liturgy, and government, discovering the rudiments of a technology harmless to the biosphere, and dressing and keeping a garden that is an epitome of the whole earth. These unfallen arts promote awareness of the complex harmonies of creation and potentially of civilization: an awareness that is not only linear or binary but radiant and multiple; not only monodic but also choral. McColley argues that northern European visual artists and seventeenth-century English poets reimagined Eden in order to re-Edenize the imagination as a source of ethical and ecological healing. The best-known depictions of Adam and Eve in the visual arts, which focus on the drama of the all, depart from a widespread but undervalued tradition that more celebratory and regenerative and less susceptible to misogynous interpretation. This tradition includes the neglected topos of original righteousness and contributes to what we would now call ecological awareness. Poets allied to this view foster Edenic consciousness by creating a Paradisal language that weaves form, sound, image, metaphor, concept, and experience as closely as nature weaves life, and so exercises our sense of connections.
Todd K. Bender, Todd K.. Bender. Abbreviations Page references for quoted matter are incorporated into the text . Unless otherwise indicated , translations are my own . Garland Publishing , Inc. has published concordances to nearly all ...
103 knowledge , along with that of Minerva , is said to have brought a civilized , rational existence to savage , uncultivated peoples . Christine further associated the pair of miniatures of Ceres and Isis with the theme of wise women ...
Victor Hugo and the Graphic Arts 1820-1833
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In a letter to Dr B. G. Brooks , written at the beginning of May 1920 ( probably occasioned by Brooks's response to the Chapbook article of March ) Huxley recommended several Dadaist publications and also gave brief comments on the ...
Finally, in the sisters novels of Meredith, Gaskell, and Eliot, this study shows that there are rescues performed by sisters and the transformation of male characters into figurative sisters of the protagonists.
George Eliot and the Visual Arts
This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England.
James I found the story of the legendary Trojan king of Britain particularly appropriate for propaganda purposes , since Brute had foolishly divided the island between his three sons , while James , as the second Brute , was attempting ...
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