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Iris exiled : a synoptic history of wonder / Dennis Quinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinn, Dennis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Wonder.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 345 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham [Md.] : University Press of America, [2002]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Iris Observed
- Chapter 1. The Name and Nature of Wonder 1
- Vocabulary
- Traditional Definition
- Passion
- Fear of Ignorance
- Consciousness of Ignorance
- Curiosity
- The Child's Wonder
- The Loss of Wonder
- Wonder in Philosophy, Myth, and Poetry
- Suspense
- Part 2 Iris Regnant: Wonder in Classical Antiquity and the Christian Era
- Chapter 2. Youthful Wonder: The Greeks 53
- Story
- Homer
- History
- Herodotus and Thucydides
- Tragedy
- Philosophy
- Plato and Aristotle
- Fantasy
- Apollonius of Rhodes
- Chapter 3. Mature Wonder: The Romans 97
- Lucretius
- Stoicism
- Cicero
- Virgil
- Chapter 4. The Conversion of Wonder: The Christian Era 115
- The Bible
- Biblical Exegesis
- St. Augustine
- St. Gregory
- Contemplation
- St. Francis
- St. Bonaventure
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Poetry
- Part 3 Iris Usurped: Wonder in the Modern Age
- Chapter 5. The Early Modern Era 160
- The Renaissance
- Active vs. Contemplative
- Valla, Erasmus, Cusa
- Neoplatonists
- Pico
- Cabalism
- Reuchlin
- The Reformation
- Biblical Criticism
- Luther, Calvin
- Skepticism
- Montaigne
- Descartes
- The New Philosophy
- Stevin
- Pascal
- Bacon
- Galileo
- Art and Criticism
- Leonardo
- Durer
- Theophilus Presbyter vs. Cellini
- Literary Criticism and Poetry
- Sidney
- Tasso
- Shakespeare
- Spenser
- Ben Jonson
- Polypragmatism
- Chapter 6. The Enlightenment 229
- Pope
- Newton
- Locke
- Addison
- Adam Smith
- Kant
- James Thomson and Newton
- Chapter 7. The Romantic Renaissance of Wonder 251
- Chapter 8. The Later Nineteenth Century 275
- Science
- Mill
- Carlyle
- Dickens
- Hopkins
- H. G. Wells
- Chesterton
- Chapter 9. From Romance to Fantasy
- and Beyond 293
- The Occult
- Gnosticism
- Novalis
- Hoffmann
- Lindsay
- Surrealism
- Breton
- Miller
- Peret
- Mabille
- Part 4 Iris in Exile
- Chapter 10. Modern Loyalists; Vive la Reigne! 311.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761821791
- 0761821783
- OCLC:
- 48449878
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