Cassandra Gorman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5423402 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cassandra Gorman |
| PRENOMES | Cassandra |
| SOBRENOME | Gorman |
| ASSINATURA | GORMAN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Catastrophizing
Gerard Passannante opens the fourth chapter of his new monograph, Catastrophizing, with an anecdote from the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California. One of the permanent exhibitions on display at the museum—which, despite its name and promise to advance “public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic” (http://mjt.org/), holds no dinosaurs in sight—is a display of microminiatures by the Armenian American artist Hagop Sandaldjian, who …
Allegorical Analogies
As a young fellow at Cambridge, Henry More wrote a collection of long allegorical poems that were first published in 1642. More’s poems are “Philosophicall Poems” in title and content; they are also Spenserian allegories. This article explores the ways in which More turns to the allegorical mode to express his key philosophical theory of “Vital Congruity,” the act of union between body and soul he knew “not better how to term.” I will argue that,…
Poetry and Atomism in the Civil War and Restoration
Poetry was a great communicator of natural philosophical ideas in 17th‐century England, and the writing and reading of it substantially increased the numbers of the audience engaging with and contributing to scientific knowledge. This was especially the case with atomism, a philosophical theory with poetical roots in the work of Lucretius, which considered the existence of unfathomable particles that could only be described by what they were not …
Lucy Hutchinson, Lucretius and Soteriological Materialism
This article examines Lucy Hutchinson's pervasive materialism, arguing that her use of corporeal imagery – in part shaped by her early translation of Lucretius – contributes to the soteriological purposes of her later works in multiple ways. Criticism on Hutchinson has tended to divorce the materialist imagery of her translation from the Calvinistic themes of her other writings. I argue, however, for the lasting presence of a materialism construc…
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Lucy Hutchinson, Lucretius and Soteriological Materialism
This article examines Lucy Hutchinson's pervasive materialism, arguing that her use of corporeal imagery – in part shaped by her early translation of Lucretius – contributes to the soteriological purposes of her later works in multiple ways. Criticism on Hutchinson has tended to divorce the materialist imagery of her translation from the Calvinistic themes of her other writings. I argue, however, for the lasting presence of a materialism construc…
Poetry and Atomism in the Civil War and Restoration
Poetry was a great communicator of natural philosophical ideas in 17th‐century England, and the writing and reading of it substantially increased the numbers of the audience engaging with and contributing to scientific knowledge. This was especially the case with atomism, a philosophical theory with poetical roots in the work of Lucretius, which considered the existence of unfathomable particles that could only be described by what they were not …
Allegorical Analogies
As a young fellow at Cambridge, Henry More wrote a collection of long allegorical poems that were first published in 1642. More’s poems are “Philosophicall Poems” in title and content; they are also Spenserian allegories. This article explores the ways in which More turns to the allegorical mode to express his key philosophical theory of “Vital Congruity,” the act of union between body and soul he knew “not better how to term.” I will argue that,…
Catastrophizing
Gerard Passannante opens the fourth chapter of his new monograph, Catastrophizing, with an anecdote from the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California. One of the permanent exhibitions on display at the museum—which, despite its name and promise to advance “public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic” (http://mjt.org/), holds no dinosaurs in sight—is a display of microminiatures by the Armenian American artist Hagop Sandaldjian, who …
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