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1 online resource |
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Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; Volume 34 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 34.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Anthropomorphism and the Order of Things; Delineating the Boundaries of the Human; Chapter 1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt; Chapter 2 Monkey in the Middle; Chapter 3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel; Chapter 4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World; Empathy and the Constitution of the Self; Chapter 5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed |
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Chapter 6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel's Emblematic ArtChapter 7 The Album Amicorum and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq; Visualizing the Body Politic; Chapter 8 Picturing the 'Living' Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible; Chapter 9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the Carrara Herbal; Chapter 10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse; Figuration and Semiotic Potential; Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics |
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Chapter 11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600Chapter 12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol; Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions; Chapter 13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: 'Terms' of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance; Chapter 14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture; Figuring the Impossible; Chapter 15 Nobody's Bruegel; Chapter 16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel; Metamorphic Figuration; Chapter 17 Jan van Hemessen's Anatomy of Parody |
| Summary |
Anthropomorphism closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. Exploring the tension inherent in such notions, the essays in this volume address the contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought, that anthropomorphism entails |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Anthropomorphism.
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Analogy.
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Analogy (Religion)
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Anthropomorphism in literature.
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anthropomorphism.
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analogy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Analogy
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Analogy (Religion)
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Anthropomorphism
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Anthropomorphism in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Melion, Walter S., editor.
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Rothstein, Bret Louis, 1966- editor.
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Weemans, Michel, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004275034 |
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9004275037 |
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1322309612 |
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9781322309613 |
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