"Frame, Glass, Verse shows how an earlier understanding of poetic language has been obscured by a modern idea of framing that has structured our apprehension of works of art, concepts, and even historical periods. Kalas presents archival research in the history of frames, mirror…
In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought-from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection"--Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas explores …
"Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. The juxtaposition between the everyday "frame world" of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experien…
"Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. The juxtaposition between the everyday "frame world" of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experien…
"The manuscripts of three Latin authors were copied and preserved for use in Benedictine abbey scriptoria - Terence, Apuleius, and Augustine. The works of the first two, both from Roman Africa, were well known to a third and later Roman, also African, also to have great influenc…
"The manuscripts of three Latin authors were copied and preserved for use in Benedictine abbey scriptoria - Terence, Apuleius, and Augustine. The works of the first two, both from Roman Africa, were well known to a third and later Roman, also African, also to have great influenc…