Author: Marie Dentiere File Type: pdf Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentiere (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformations takeover of Geneva.Dentieres Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French king Francis I, the Epistle asks the queen to help those persecuted for their religious beliefs. Dentiere offers a stirring defense of women and asserts their right to teach the word of God in public. She defends John Calvin against his enemies and attacks the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Her Preface (1561) to one of Calvins sermons criticizes immodesty and extravagance in clothing and warns the faithful to be vigilant. Undaunted in the face of suppression and ridicule, this outspoken woman persisted as an active voice in the Reformation.ReviewMarie Dentiere was an outspoken Protestant. . . . McKinley discusses the question of authorship did Dentiere herself write the Very Useful Epistle . . . to the Queen of Navarre . . . (1539), did her husband Froment do so, or was it a collaborative effort? McKinley supports the latter view, arguing that the Epistle clearly expressed doctrinal and political positions that the couple shared and that collaboration was standard practice for spreading the word of the reformed religion. McKinleys translation is excellent it retains the rhetorical energy of the original, while making the text accessible to a modern reader. . . . For the Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin on How Women Should Be Modest in Their Dress, as McKinley points out, Dentieres argument is less feminist than in the Epistle nonetheless, Dentiere assumes the paradoxical position of teaching about a passage [from 1 Timothy 2] that expressly forbade her to do so. . . . . Dentieres strident yet engaging voice is well worth listening to, for what it tells us about the authors beliefs and about the situaltion of an articulate and intelligent owoman in Calvinist Geneva.(Jane Couchman Renaissance Quarterly )Mary B. McKinley, [Dentieres] translator, provides a full and interesting biographical introduction, which reveals the excesses of Dentieres zeal. We see her storming into a convent to harangue the outraged nuns about the pleasures of conjugal relations, or arguing with John Calvin himself about the length of his disciples robes. . . . Her own writings are unsophisticated and direct, and reveal a violent hatred of the Catholic Church. . . . She is aware of the anomaly of her position as a woman daring to question the accepted religion of generations past, but the sheer forces of her conviction sweeps the reader along. And those who do not dare join her crusade are bold as slugs.(Maya Slater Times Literary Supplement )The book contributes to our growing understanding of the place of women in the Renaissance--and the value of their literary work. . . . Hers is a name you ought to learn and add to your list of the most outspoken writers of the first half of the turbulent sixteenth century.(Bibliotheque dHumanisme et Renaissance )Even in a series devoted to communicating the other voice . . . McKinleys volume is exeptional. Her translation conveys the vigor and oral cadence of Dentieres prose. . . . [Students] will learn much about the dynamism of the early Reformation and about the choices involved in making and writing history.(Cynthia J. Cupples H-France Review )A welcome contribution to scholarship on this relatively unknown sixteenth-century woman. From the pages of [the] preface, Dentiere reveals herself to be an extraordinary woman, not only in the breadth of her travels and learning, but also in her courage and determination. . . . McKinleys great achievement is in her clear and lucid situation of the two texts within the context of the contemporary religious upheaval.Journal of European Studies(Pollie Bromilow Journal of European Studies )McKinleys translation is indeed appreciated. . . . Not only does it give a voice to a woman from the Reformation but also to an entire genre of polemical Reformed literature, mostly untranslated and little known outside of specialist circles.(Michael W. Bruening Sixteenth Century Journal ) From the Inside FlapBorn to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentiere (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformations takeover of Geneva.Dentieres Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French king Francis I, the Epistle asks the queen to help those persecuted for their religious beliefs. Dentiere offers a stirring defense of women and asserts their right to teach the word of God in public. She defends John Calvin against his enemies and attacks the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Her Preface (1561) to one of Calvins sermons criticizes immodesty and extravagance in clothing and warns the faithful to be vigilant. Undaunted in the face of suppression and ridicule, this outspoken woman persisted as an active voice in the Reformation.

Author: J. D. Connor File Type: pdf Money is Hollywoods great theme-but money laundered into something else, something more. Money can be given a particular occasion and career, as box office receipts, casino winnings, tax credits, stock prices, lotteries, inheritances. Or money can become number, and numbers can be anything pixels, batting averages, votes, likes. Through explorations of all these and more, J.D. Connors Hollywood Math and Aftermath provides a stimulating and original take on the equation of pictures, the relationship between Hollywood and economics since the 1970s. Touched off by an engagement with the work of Gilles Deleuze, Connor demonstrates the centrality of the economic image to Hollywood narrative. More than just a thematic study, this is a conceptual history of the industry that stretches from the dawn of the neoclassical era through the Great Recession and beyond. Along the way, Connor explores new concepts for cinema studies precession and recession, pervasion and staking, ostension and deritualization. Enlivened by a wealth of case studies-from The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street to Equity and Blackhat, from Moneyball to 12 Years a Slave, Titanic to Lost, The Exorcist to WALLE, Deja Vu to Upstream Color, Contagion to The Untouchables, Ferris Bueller to Pacific Rim, The Avengers to The Village-Hollywood Math and Aftermath is a bravura portrait of the industry coming to terms with its own numerical underpinnings. **Review This is a rare book that provides an entirely new way of thinking about Hollywood and the equation of pictures. Eloquent and methodologically aware, JD Connor provides deft analysis of the internalized relation of film to money, excavating the economic image of movies and TV shows with killing insight. For anyone seeking yield in the study of media industries and the stories they tell, this book is worth serious investment. Paul Grainge, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham, UK With Hollywood Math and Aftermath, Connor establishes himself as the premier quantum economist of contemporary Hollywood. Bringing film and TV studios financial logic into dialogue with Deleuzian theory and his own imaginative capital through a series of dexterous case studies spanning the past 50 years, Connor gives new meaning to creative accounting, yielding a profitable, balanced account of industry practices, corporate self-inscription and the politics of entertainment finance. Mark Gallagher, author of Another Steven Soderbergh Experience Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood (2013), University of Nottingham, UK With Hollywood Math and Aftermath, J.D. Connor provides an original, provocative perspective on Conglomerate Hollywoods evolving practices and products. At once historical, philosophical, and industrial in scope, Connor creatively accounts for Hollywoods financial activities in a compelling set of case studies. Alisa Perren, Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin, USA One of the more original and illuminating explorations of commercial film and television production Connor is as funny as he is smart, and he knows that taking the business of movies seriously will involve some ludicrous scenarios. Reading Aftermath often provides the insider thrill of pulling the curtain back to get a glimpse of how the sausage gets made. Johns Hopkins Magazine About the Author J.D. Connor is Associate Professor in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, USA. His research focuses on the interplay of art and industry in the contemporary Hollywood system, the history of tape recording, and Kennedy-era media shifts. Connor is the author of the forthcoming The Studios after the Studios (2015) and on the Steering Committee of Post45 (post45.org).

Author: Étienne Souriau File Type: pdf Ware die Philosophie auch nur eine Stunde der Muhe wert, wenn sie uns nicht fur das Leben rustete? Gezielten Schrittes entwirft der franzosische Philosoph Etienne Souriau in diesem dicht gedrangten Buch eine Grammatik der Existenz. Im Fokus steht nicht nur ihre Theorie, sondern auch die tatsachliche Ausubung der Kunst des Existierens. Wie Gilles Deleuze und William James vertritt Souriau dabei die These eines existenziellen Pluralismus Es gibt Phanomene, Dinge, das Virtuelle, fiktionale Wesen die Existenz ist polyphon. Souriaus radikale Herangehensweise hat auch Bruno Latour und Isabelle Stengers entscheidend beeinflusst. In ihrer ausfuhrlichen Einleitung zu Souriaus Text von 1943 und dem ebenfalls zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache veroffentlichten Vortrag Uber den Modus der Existenz des zu vollbringenden Werks (1956) zeigt sich eindrucksvoll die Aktualitat seines Denkens.

Author: George E. Dutton File Type: pdf A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphe Binh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on Binhs surviving writings from his thirty-seven-year exile in Portugal, this book examines how the intersections of global and local Roman Catholic geographies shaped the lives of Vietnamese Christians in the early modern era. The book also argues that Binhs mission to Portugal and his intense lobbying on behalf of his community reflected the agency of Vietnamese Catholics, who vigorously engaged with church politics in defense of their distinctive Portuguese-Catholic heritage. George E. Dutton demonstrates the ways in which Catholic beliefs, histories, and genealogies transformed how Vietnamese thought about themselves and their place in the world. This sophisticated exploration of Vietnamese engagement with both the Catholic Church and Napoleonic Europe provides a unique perspective on the complex history of early Vietnamese Christianity. **