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What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.
In Travesties and Transgressions, David Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. He uses a series of linked stories and close readings of local texts and narratives to investigate unorthodox happenings such as bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, excommunication and irregular burial, nakedness and cross-dressing. Each story, and the reaction it generated, exposes the strains and stresses of its local time and circumstances. The reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I were witness to endless religious disputes, tussles for power within the aristocracy, and arguments galore about the behaviour and beliefs of common people. Questions raised by 'unnatural' episodes were debated throughout society at local and national levels, and engaged the attention of the magistrates, the bishops, the crown, and the court. The resolution of such questions was not taken lightly in a world in which God and the devil still fought for people's souls.
Dans la foulée des événements qui ont souligné le 50e anniversaire de l’École d’art, cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire de cette véritable institution dans le paysage des arts, de l’enseignement, de la recherche, de la création et de la ville de Québec.
A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.
Tiré du site Internet de Hors-normes: "Marie-Hélène Clément auteur de dramatiques radiophoniques, d'un roman épistolaire et de plusieurs livres d'artiste; traductions de Stifter et Heym ; M.-H.C. n'écrit que des histoires qui servent à en masquer d'autres. Une vraie peau d'oignon. 2 x 5 dessins de zaven paré peintre, graveur, scénographe ... Un couple disparaît sur le chemin de Port-Royal-des-Champs, puis un homme au volant de sa voiture dans la forêt d'Habert. Des anonymes. Ils étaient dans le paysage, ils n'y sont plus. Ils ont été effacés de la carte, qui, elle, n'a rien perdu de sa lisibilité."
Multi-disciplinary in approach & cross-European in scope, this volume explores links between the political & the monstrous in Europe from the Renaissance to the 19th century. These essays stress the continual reinvention & polemical applications of the monstrous.
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Practical, focused and jargon-free this book shows you the power and potential of NVivo software across a wide range of research questions, data types, perspectives and methodologies.