This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elements of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality. Lynette M. F. Bosch examines the conceptual vocabulary found in…
"This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of the origin of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality. Lynette Bosch examines the conceptual vocabulary found in si…
"This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of the origin of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality. Lynette Bosch examines the conceptual vocabulary found in si…
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Big people and little people : two cases of disproportion. Rabelais and Mannerism ; Swift and commensuratio -- Pathologies of deformation : Jonson, Sade, Pynchon. Narcissism : Jonson and the disfigured self ; Sade and the deformed body ; Hysteria : Pynchon's cartoon space -- Bac…
"In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form--distorting space and time--began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Coper…
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Manierismo was the extreme consciousness of elegant style for its own sake, a passion which unites the cold narcissistic nudes of Bronzino, the elaborate chiselling of Benvenuto Cellini's saltcellar, and the water-games in a duke's garden.
This definitive work offers a new approach to the period film at the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. This book explores the relation between visual motifs and cultural representation in a range of k…