Author: Judith H. Anderson File Type: pdf The title Translating Investments, a manifold pun, refers to metaphor and clothing, authority and interest, and trading and finance. Translation, Latin translatio, is historically a name for metaphor, and investment, etymologically a reference to clothing, participates both in the complex symbolism of early modern dress and in the cloth trade of the period. In this original and wide-ranging book, Judith Anderson studies the functioning of metaphor as a constructive force within language, religious doctrine and politics, literature, rhetoric, and economics during the reigns of the Tudors and early Stuarts. Invoking a provocative metaphorical concept from Andy Clarks version of cognitive science, she construes metaphor itself as a form of scaffolding fundamental to human culture. A more traditional and controversial conception of such scaffolding is known as sublation-Hegels Aufhebung, or raising,as the philosophers Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur have understood this term. Metaphor is the agent of raising, or sublation, and sublation is inseparable from the productive life of metaphor, as distinct in its death in code or clich. At the same time, metaphor embodies the sense both of partial loss and of continuity, or preservation, also conveyed by the term Aufhebung. Andersons study is simultaneously critical and historical. History and the theory are shown to be mutually enlightening, as are a wide variety of early modern texts and their specific cultural contexts. From beginning to end, this study touches the present, engaging questions about language, rhetoric, and reading within post-structuralism and neo-cognitivism. It highlights connections between intellectual problems active in our own culture and those evident in the earlier texts, controversies, and crises Anderson analyzes. In this way, the study is bifocal, like metaphor itself. While Andersons overarching concern is with metaphor as a creative exchange, a source of code-breaking conceptual power, each of her chapters focuses on a different but related issue and cultural sector. Foci include the basic conditions of linguistic meaning in the early modern period, instantiated by Shakespeares plays and related to modern theories of metaphor the role of metaphor in the words of eucharistic institution under Archbishop Cranmer the play of metaphor and metonymy in the writings of Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin and in John Donnes Devotions the manipulation of these two tropes in the politics of the controversy over ecclesiastical vestments and in its treatment by John Foxe the abuse of figuration in the house of Edmund Spensers Busirane, where catachresis, an extreme form of metaphor, is the trope du jour the conception of metaphor in the Roman rhetorics and their legacy in the sixteenth century and the concept of exchange in the economic writing of Gerrard de Malynes, merchant and metaphorist in the reigns of Elizabeth and James. What emerges at the end of this book is a heightened critical sense of the dynamic of metaphor in cultural history.Review...a complex, eloquent account of the peculiar blend of human ingenuity and impulse behind metaphor -- The Spenser Review...an impressive demonstration of how deconstuctive Philology can illuminate shadowy vestiges of meaning obscured by the passage of time. -- Arthuriana, 392006A fine sense of metaphor as a cultural project across an especially broad range of terrain in early modern England. -- Renaissance QuarterlyAbout the AuthorJudith H. Anderson is Chancellors Professor of English at Indiana University.

Author: Jeffrey Berman File Type: pdf Explores Yaloms profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature. A distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Irvin D. Yalom is also the United States most well-known author of psychotherapy tales. His first volume of essays, Loves Executioner , became an immediate best seller, and his first novel, When Nietzsche Wept , continues to enjoy critical and popular success. Yalom has created a subgenre of literature, the therapy story, where the therapist learns as much as, if not more than, the patient where therapy never proceeds as expected and where the therapists apparent failure provesultimately to be a success. Writing the Talking Cure is the first book to explore all of Yaloms major writings. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Jeffrey Berman comments on Yaloms profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature and emphasizes the recurrent ideas that unify his writings the importance of the therapeutic relationship, therapist transparency, here-and-now therapy, the prevalence of death anxiety, reciprocal healing, and the idea of the wounded healer. Throughout, Berman discusses what Yalom can teach therapists in particular and the common (and uncommon) reader in general. Review As a psychiatrist who has benefitted enormously not only from Yaloms writings but also from his mentorship, I admire Bermans relationship to his subject. They both write lucidly and imaginatively, inviting the reader to accompany them on a personal journey that is intriguing but intellectually rigorous. Reading this book helps me to better understand Yaloms dual rolesas brilliant psychotherapistteacher and compelling novelist. Bermans book-by-book examination of Yaloms work illustrates how good therapy involves facing reality, and good fiction involves making stories come alive by resonating with the hard truths of life. He is the perfect guide to Yalom, capturing his wisdom and creativity with respect and clarity. David Spiegel, author of Living Beyond Limits New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness This is a convincing celebration of and commentary on one of the most prominent psychotherapists of the last century. For anyone interested in the popularization of an idiosyncratic form of existential psychotherapy for individuals and groups, this will be an important book. Murray Schwartz, Emerson College In this richly textured book, Berman takes us backstage in a warm and skillful exploration of Irvin Yaloms unmatched contributions as a psychotherapist, author, and educator. We are provided a transparent view of how human healing emerges from our talking, writing, and reading. Berman reminds us eloquently that psychotherapy is, at its essence, the process of human connection and the joint attribution of meaning to experience. Molyn Leszcz, The University of Toronto About the Author Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His previous books include Writing Widowhood The Landscapes of Bereavement Death in the Classroom Writing about Love and Loss and Dying to Teach A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning , all published by SUNY Press.

Author: George Hinge File Type: pdf The papers in this volume illustrate the interplay between the studies of classical archaeology, religion, history, and musicology. The eight papers by the young scholars and their Nestor, Richard Hamilton, offer a fresh look at various aspects of ancient cult, including the use of the word cult in the academic disciplines of Archaeology and the History of Religion the introduction of Asklepios to Athens, and a detailed study of the same gods sanctuary on the south slope of Akropolis, where it will be demonstrated that the layout of the early sanctuary on the east terrace was carefully designed after one central monument. The book also contains an innovative study of the Philippeion at Olympia, where it is argued that the tholos with its sculpture was a proto-type for the use of divine images and royal ideology by Hellenistic rulers. Other papers include a statistical approach to the illustration of baskets on Classical votive reliefs, a theoretical study of the role of music in ancient Greek cult, and analysis of the use of the chorus as one of the most important expressions of ancient cult in Sparta.

Author: Peter J. Richerson File Type: pdf Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammals. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics. Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economicsand building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry themRicherson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature. In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come. I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the BoydRicherson stable.Robin Dunbar, Nature Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities.E. O. Wilson, Harvard University