The history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period—the camera obscura and the magic lantern—developed in response to, and framed, the era's key intellectual dilemma of whether the world fell under God's...(展开全部)

This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. He also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, such a...(展开全部)

The maverick cultural entrepreneur Li Yu survived the tumultuous Ming-Qing dynastic transition of the mid-seventeenth century through a commercially successful practice founded on intermedial experimentation. He engaged an astonishingly broad variety of cultural forms: from theatrical performance and literary production to fashion and wellness; from garden and interior design t...(展开全部)

This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. At the same time, historians of political thought have r...(展开全部)

This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. At the same time, historians of political thought have r...(展开全部)

This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and elusive man who rejects her, resolves to become "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful," to any number of others.

Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms...(展开全部)

安妮塔•布鲁克纳 1928年生，英国当代著名作家、卓有成就的艺术史学者。她是第一个获得剑桥大学斯莱德教授席的女性。1981年发表第一部长篇小说，1984年凭借小说《湖畔酒店》获布克奖。布鲁克纳文笔优美，是广受赞誉的文体家。小说多反映现代社会孤独的中产知识女性的情感经验与 困境，体察入微，并掺入丰富文学经典与艺术史细节，学院风浓厚，深具智性色彩。《天意》是她的代表作之一。 锡兵 数学系教授，精通多门外语，超级书蠹，博雅之士，曾译有翻译难度很高的历史小说《极地征伐》。全本书店编辑周丽华表示全书她没有挑出一处翻译错误，该译本的精确度与流畅度可以挑战乔纳森老师的密切关注。