A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kiely, a distinguished scholar of modernist literature and a historian and critic of exceptional sensibility, has a keen eye and uncanny ability to capture details of significance and to prompt the reader to look again and to see with fresh eyes that the lives of saints and the Renaissance depictions of them are anything but dull, uniform, or narrowly orthodox. His beautifully written and thoughtful book treats saints seriously as human religious figures (not icons of perfection), brought to life by great Italian paintings in dialogue with scripture, legend, and poetry.
Wise, learned, and readable, and offering a rare combination of insight into religion, literature, and art, this ravishingly illustrated and vividly written volume should be by your side whenever you pick up a classic text, look at a Renaissance painting, or spend a few moments in private meditation or prayer.

Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints

Arts & Photography

Kiely, Robert

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Compares the way three modern novelists, Joyce, Woolf, and Lawrence treat basic human relationships and suggests that all three develop the theme of the value of human interdependence

Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence

Literature & Fiction

Harvard University Press

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British & Irish

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure

Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures in examining a variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old.In this engaging book, Kiely not only juxtaposes familiar authors in unfamiliar ways; he proposes a countertradition of intertextuality and a way to release the genie of postmodernism from the bottleneck of the late twentieth century. Placing the reader’s response at the crux, he offers arresting new readings by pairing, among others, Jorge Luis Borges with Mark Twain, and Maxine Hong Kingston with George Eliot. In the process, he tests and challenges common assumptions about transparency in nineteenth-century realism and a historical opacity in early and late postmodernism.

Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel

The Romantic Novel in England

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

One of the most important meeting of the minds - the gospels as interpreted by the Dalai Lama. Truly a gift from an unexpected courier.

The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus

Religion & Spirituality

Dalai-Lama, Xiv

Buddhism

Wisdom Pubns

'Erasmus thought that comic sense brought us close to understanding fallen humanity in relation to God. Robert Kiely's reflections on the spiritual challenges of mid-life are in that great humanist tradition.#65533;- Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain and True North

Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor's Life

Medeo Media

Numbers, A Cultural History provides high school and introductory-level college students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history. Mathematics is often referred to as a "universal language," and that is a fitting description. Many cultures have contributed to mathematics in fascinating ways, but despite its "universal" character, mathematics is also a human endeavor. It has played pivotal roles in societies at particular times; and it has influenced, and been influenced by, a wide range of ideas and institutions, from commerce to philosophy. Egyptian views of mathematics, for example, are tied closely to engineering and agriculture. Some European Renaissance views, on the other hand, relate the study of number to that of the natural world. Numbers, A Cultural History seeks to place the history of mathematics into a broad cultural context. While it treats mathematical material in detail, it also relates that material to other subject matter: science, philosophy, navigation, commerce, religion, art, and architecture. It examines how mathematical thinking grows in specific cultural settings and how it has shaped those settings in turn. It also explores the movement of ideas between cultures and the evolution of modern mathematics and the quantitative, data-driven world in which we live. <ul> <li>Presents mathematics as a human endeavor, a product of human inquiry and human society</li> <li>Provides readers with a cumulative history of mathematics that draws on global cultures over time</li> <li>Places mathematics in multiple cultural contexts and demonstrates its relationship with other areas of thought</li> <li>Demonstrates the link between mathematical knowledge and such practical endeavors as timekeeping, navigation, and commerce</li> <li>Illustrates the movement of ideas between cultures and the complexity of intellectual history</li> <li>Explores the complex relationship between mathematics and technology over time and cultural space</li> </ul>

Numbers: A Cultural History

History

Americas

ABC-CLIO

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Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints

Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence

Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure

Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel

The Romantic Novel in England

The Romantic Novel in England

The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus

Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor's Life

Numbers: A Cultural History