Screen LibraryRuskin's maze : mastery and madness in his art /
Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study, he examines and transcribes the ways in which Ruskin observed his dislocation of imagination and shows how, in the very process of disintegration; he was enabled by his peculiar g...
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[1981] ©1981 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study, he examines and transcribes the ways in which Ruskin observed his dislocation of imagination and shows how, in the very process of disintegration; he was enabled by his peculiar genius to transform the effects on his language and conceptualization into new forms of articulation under pain.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(284pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400853984 |
| Index Number: | PR5264 |
| CLC: | I561.06 |
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Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- A Note on Sources. Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction. A Travel Diary Toward Nothing But a Dream: Shadowy Types for Concluding Images and 'The Excavations of Silence" -- Chapter One. Strange Chords of Incipient Orthodoxy: Centres and Epicycles -- Chapter Two. Central Men and Awful Lines: Attempts and Failures in Mastery -- Chapter Three. The Frosts of Death -- Chapter Four. Vacancies, Kindly and Deadly: Sweet Transitions and Jarring Thoughts -- Chapter Five. Circumferential Considerations: Lines without Beginnings or Endings -- Chapter Six. Labyrinths of Presence, Labyrinths of Absence: Initial Experiences of the Superimposition of Contrasting Designs -- Chapter Seven. Capricious Sinuousities: Venice and the City as Mind -- Chapter Eight. The Excavations of Silence: Double Labyrinths and the Architecture of Reluctant Nihilism -- Appendices. |