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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Focus on civilizations and cultures
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Focus on civilizations and cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
FIRSTLIGHT: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO ROMANTICISM IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC; FIRSTLIGHT: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO ROMANTICISM IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: ""LIBERALIS" -- RENAISSANCE HUMANISM; MACHIAVELLI AND STATECRAFT; MONTAIGNE AND HUMANISM; RENAISSANCE VERSE; Chapter 2: ""TO FURNISH THEE TO BELMONT" -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE"S "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE"; Chapter 3: ""L"UOMO UNIVERSALE" -- LEONARDO DA VINCI"S"VITRUVIAN MAN"; Chapter 4: ""LINEARIS" -- RENAISSANCE LINEAR PERSPECTIVE; ARCHITECTURE AND THE FRAME. |
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MASACCIO"S TRINITYLINEAR PERSPECTIVE; THE HYPERBOLIC CURVE; VANISHING POINTS; DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY; Chapter 5: DEUS EX MACHINE -- GOETHE"S "FAUST: A TRAGEDY"; LAYERS AND SURFACES; THE PART WHICH WAS ABSOLUTE; TO BECOME FULLY HUMAN; THE SPIRIT THAT DENIES; Chapter 6: THE MAN "WITH ROMAN IDEAS" -NAPOLEONIC PORTRAITURE; Chapter 7: ""LIKE A PICTURE" -- ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE AESTHETIC APPRECIATION OF NATURE IN BRITAIN; Chapter 8: ""THE PENSIVE WAND"RER IN THEIR SHADES" -THE EVANGELISTS, MUNGO PARK AND THE SLAVE WRITERS; MUNGO PARK AND THE SOURCE OF THE NIGER RIVER; THE SLAVE WRITINGS. |
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Chapter 9: ""THE MOST VALUABLE CARGO ..."-EARLY COLONIAL CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS IN NEW ZEALANDCAPTAIN JAMES COOK RN; REYNOLD"S OMAI AND THE "NOBLE SAVAGE"; WILLIAM HODGES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE "NOBLE SAVAGE"; Chapter 10: ""THE DOLPHIN AND THE SEXTANT" -TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND MODERNITY IN POLYNESIAN NAVIGATION; Chapter 11: ""LONESOME SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH POLE" -CAPTAIN COOK"S VOYAGES AND COLERIDGE"S "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER"; Chapter 12: XANADU -- SYMBOLISM AND IMAGINATION IN SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE"S "KUBLA KAHN"; OPIUM INDUCED IMAGINATION. |
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Coleridge"s "kubla kahn" and orientalismcoleridge"s childhood landscape; the royal pavilion and "kubla kahn"; conclusion; references; index. |
| Summary |
The chapters of this book discuss in differing ways the transition in the second millennium of the Common Era from the Renaissance, through Enlightenment and subsequently, Romanticism, with a focus in Europe and the Pacific from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The book highlights salient features of each movement, using examples from the lives and works of critical exponents of each - artists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, engineers, navigators, and explorers. The aim has been to impart knowledge of each period, describe characteristics of the way in which the three movements tr. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Philosophy, Modern -- History.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Strongman, Luke. Firstlight : From the Renaissance to Romanticism in Europe and the Pacific. Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ©2015 9781634820158 |
| ISBN |
9781634820301 (electronic book) |
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1634820304 (electronic book) |
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9781634820158 |
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