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Shadows - E. H. Gombrich - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

Discusses the way shadows were represented - or ignored - by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the illusion of realism or drama in their representations.

DKK 167.00

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Dream in Shakespeare - Marjorie Garber - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination—one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a transforming experience which leads the dreamer toward a moment of self-awareness. In this illuminating study, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Marjorie Garber skillfully charts the development of Shakespeare's use of dream from the opening lines of Richard III to the magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy. Drawing on the works of Freud and other psychologists, but basing its argument on the language and dramatic structure of the plays themselves, Dream in Shakespeare presents a coherent and innovative reading of the plays and their developing concept of dream.

DKK 212.00

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Regaining Paradise - Standish Meacham - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

This engaging book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, a plan to build new communities on open land that would provide a healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution. Standish Meacham argues that although the garden city movement initially embodied radical schemes for the reformation of society, it became in the hands of its upper-middle-class proponents a device for maintaining the established order in the face of threatening social change. In the complex clash between conservative and progressive impulses among garden city proponents, conservatism ultimately prevailed. Meacham shows that even socialist architects closely associated with the movement and its most famous prewar projects at Letchworth and Hampstead relied for inspiration on the villages of England’s pre-industrial squirearchy. The result was the reaffirmation of a particular concept of Englishness that influenced both social policy and urban design.

DKK 222.00

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The Poetry of Tennyson - A. Dwight Culler - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the entire range of Tennyson’s poetry, with emphasis on the great period up to and including In Memoriam, but also with chapters on Maud, the Idylls of the King, and the best of the later poems. Taking the view that every poem contains its own literary history, Dwight Culler traces Tennyson’s evolving image of himself as a poet and the relation of this image to changing literary structures. He particularly emphasizes the “frame” device by which Tennyson first mediated between himself and the world and then, inverting it, placed himself in the world. He also explores the longer “composted” poem by which Tennyson declared himself a Victorian Alexandrian. Eschewing the autobiographical emphasis of recent years, Culler provides readings of Maud, Locksley Hall, The Palace of Art, Tithonus, and the Idylls of the King that depart significantly from previous interpretations. His sympathy for the Victorian element in Tennyson also recovers for modern taste several neglected areas of the poetry: the English Idylls, the civic poem, and the poems of social converse. Culler sees Tennyson’s faith in the magical power of the word as the source of his gift and, when he loses that faith, the reason for its decline.

DKK 393.00

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Homer - Paolo Vivante - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

Most studies of the Homeric poems have been dominated by the historical and anthropological views, concentrating on their place in the oral tradition and diverting attention from the nature of the poetry itself. Paolo Vivante offers us an intense look at the Iliad and the Odyssey, focusing on the poetic treatment of story, characters, and nature. Vivante discusses Homer’s sense of time, the capacity to resolve any complex event into the creative moments of its realization. Rather than narrative, Homer presents events in the making, as the story takes shape through the rhythm of successive acts. The recurrent phrases (the “formulas”), far from being an “oral” device, affirm the reality of acts that cannot help but fulfill their allotted moment. Arbitrary description yields to the self-consistency of the human condition. Vivante shows how such a mode of representation results in a sense of truth. Since the story is presented as moment to moment experience, the style itself reflects the clarity of what is possible and convincing. Hence the curtailment of the mythical, the humanization of gods and heroes. Homer’s poetry continually transcends the mythology of the background. The last chapter, “Age and Place of Homer,” relates the poems to the spirit of eighth-century Ionia. Homer is placed at the center of a renaissance, not seen as the ultimate spokesman of a long epic tradition.

DKK 195.00

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Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry - Gordon Williams - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

It has long been assumed that the language of Roman poetry was constructed under the dictates of elaborately defined rules of rhetoric, and its content determined according to the system of comparable classifications called invention. This belief has persisted in spite of the difficulty of fitting the works of Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Propertius, and Tibullus into such a rigid scheme. In this book Gordon Williams demonstrates that, although Ovid and his successors did indeed assimilate their poetry to the rhetorical rules devised for prose, the earlier poets employed a quite different method. Williams sees this method as falling into either a metaphorical or metonymic mode, both of which permitted the poet “to say one thing and mean another.” Delicate and often startling transitions of thought could be grasped—though not necessarily on first reading—by readers “assumed by the poet to have a special access to the poet’s process of thought.” This access presupposed similarities of “education, social position, and sympathetic understanding.” Through close analyses of many poems, Williams shows how poets in the fifty years before Horace’s death exploited metaphor, metonymy, and a third device that he calls thematic anticipation to evoke subtle associations of thought. In doing so he elucidates problems of Latin poems that have been generally misunderstood almost since they day they were written.

DKK 348.00

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Lines of Resolution - Kelly Montana - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

Television and video’s influence on drawing practices and the ways they inspired new modes of graphic expression in the twentieth century From the late 1950s to the 1980s, a period known as the network era, television reached its apex as a cultural force in the home, and portable video cameras became widely available. Examining how this new technology spurred artistic experimentation, this study considers the relationship between drawing and art made for the small screen of the domestic television set and early video cameras. These electronic screens entered artists’ studios for the first time and became a new source of imagery and a device that could be manipulated to generate entirely new kinds of drawing. An essay by Anna Lovatt looks at the ways in which early television and video images—captured, transmitted, and displayed through raster lines—inspired new possibilities for abstraction and expressing concepts of self-reflection and surveillance, while Kelly Montana explores artworks made by women who used the immediacy and familiarity of drawing to disrupt objectifying media representations of their gender by recording themselves drawing, often on their own bodies. This copiously illustrated volume features drawings, film stills, videos, and multimedia installations by more than twenty artists both well-known and heretofore obscure, and includes discussions of the televisual imagery that permeates works on paper by Walter de Maria, the ways artists such as Anna Bella Geiger and Dennis Oppenheim used video to capture performative acts of drawing, and how Nam June Paik and Howardena Pindell treated the screen as a site of inscription. Distributed for the Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (October 3, 2025–February 6, 2026)

DKK 356.00

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The Insanity Defense - Abraham S. Goldstein - Bog - Yale University Press - Plusbog.dk

For more than a century, the insanity defense has been the most passionately debated issue in criminal law, the focal point of deeply rooted conflicts as to the function of a law of crime. Unfortunately, however, the debate has been dominated by slogans and stereotypes – and by an inappropriate array of law against psychiatry, retribution against rehabilitation. The prevailing M’Naghten and “irresistible impulse” rules have been roundly condemned and a reform consensus has developed that “something” desperately needs to be done about the insanity defense. Mr. Goldstein examines the assertions about the inadequacy of the existing rules and considers what might be expected from the new rules which have been proffered. Making his examination in the context of the entire trial process, he asks what relation the legal rules bear to those aspects of the trial which give them detailed content: whether evidence of mental disorder will be admitted; how freely experts may testify; whether a defendant’s case will be regarded by the judge as sufficient to allow the jury to pass upon it; and how the jurors are instructed about the defense. He demonstrates that far too much has been expected from the insanity rule, that the words of the rule are less important than the underlying processes of proof, the institutions through which they function, and the influences brought to bear from the larger culture. The layman often regards the insanity defense as a device by which the criminal avoids the consequences of his crime; but though the insanity defense speaks in terms of “acquittal,” it is in reality a mechanism for preventive detention. Under existing procedures, the offender is committed to a mental hospital until he is “recovered” or no longer dangerous, or both. The specter of indefinite commitment makes the defense most unattractive to defendants and their counsel, pressing them to seek less threatening alternatives. The result is a patchwork of procedures for coping with the mentally disordered offender in an almost accidental way, a pattern very much at odds with the conventional view that the insanity defense dominates the field.

DKK 231.00

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