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Reiss, Timothy James was born on May 14, 1942 in Stanmore, England. Came to the United States, 1964, 84. Son of James Martin and Margaret Joan (Ping) Reiss.
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Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a "spatial" way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes in thought that occurred. He describes how, while teaching and public debate continued to be based in the language arts, scientific and artistic areas came to depend on mathematical disciplines, including music, for new means and methods of discovery, and as a basis for wider sociocultural renewal.
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Winner of the sixth annual Morris Forkosch Prize, given by the Journal of the History of Ideas, for the best book published in intellectual history in 1992. In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from Central and Western Europe, Reiss maintains that by the early eighteenth century divergent views concerning gender, politics, science, taste, and the role of the writer had consolidated, and literature came to be regarded as an embodiment of universal values.
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For many of us the moon, and the chill light it casts, are things we either ignore or take for granted. It wouldn't enter our heads therefore to set off around the world in search of moonlight. But, as James Attlee's eccentric quest proves, we couldn't be more wrong. From Normandy to Naples, Wales to Arizona, Las Vegas to Japan, Attlee explores moonlight's many moods and meanings. Taking in the ancient and modern, art and literature, science and music, "Nocturne" travels far and deep to provide a portrait of an enigmatic light increasingly endangered in our over-illuminated world.
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Have your ever found beauty in a horribly tragic story? Aristotle wrestled with this penomenon in his book the Poetics. This book analyzes and explains Aristotle's claims regarding to the tragic and then considers those claims in light of the tragic films created by one I hollywood's most talented directors: Darren Aranofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and Noah). The questions this book seeks to answer are whether or not Aristotle claims about tragedies 2500 years ago still help us understand and critique tragedies today or has humanity found a better way to tell tragic stories? This book addresses these questions in a manor that lets Aristotle speak for himself and Aranofsky's movies speak for themselves. Any lover of Philosophy or contemporary film will surely find something of value in these pages.
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writer comparative literature educator
Reiss, Timothy James was born on May 14, 1942 in Stanmore, England. Came to the United States, 1964, 84. Son of James Martin and Margaret Joan (Ping) Reiss.
Bachelor honours, Manchester University, England, 1964. Master of Arts, University Illinois, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1968.
Instructor French University Illinois, Urbana, 1967-1968. Instructor, then assistant professor Yale University, New Haven, 1968-1973. Associate professor, then professor comparative literature University Montreal, Canada, 1973-1984, director comparative literature Canada, 1976-1981.
Professor comparative literature, French and philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, 1983-1986, Samuel Candler Dobbs professor French and comparative literature, 1986-1987. Professor comparative literature New York University, since 1987, chairman, 1987-1994. Visiting professor University Toronto, 1976-1977, University British Columbia, Vancouver, 1979, New York University, New York City, 1982, University Montreal, 1984-1987, Graduate Center City University of New York, 1985, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1988-1989, University California, Berkeley, 1996-1997, University Oregon, Eugene, 1999-1900.
(Recent explanations of changes in early modern European t...)
(Winner of the sixth annual Morris Forkosch Prize, given b...)
(Have your ever found beauty in a horribly tragic story? A...)
(For many of us the moon, and the chill light it casts, ar...)
(Book by Reiss, Timothy)
Author: Toward Dramatic Illusion, 1971, Tragedy and Truth, 1980, Discourse of Modernism, 1982, 85, The Uncertainty of Analysis, 1988, The Meaning of Literature, 1992 (Morris D. Forkosch Intellectual History prize), Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe, 1997. Editor: Science, Language and the Perspective Mind, 1973, Sisyphus and Eldorado: Magical and Other Realisms in Caribbean Literature, 1997. (with others) Opening Up the Disciplines, 1982, Tragedy and the Tragic, 1983.
Sisyphus and Eldorado, 1997.
Fellow Royal Society Canada, Academy Literary Studies. Member Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, Renaissance Society American, C. S. Peirce Society, Canada Association Comparative Literature (vice president 1981-1983), International Comparative Literature Association, Canada Society Research in Semiotics. M C.
Married Patricia J. Penn Hilden, 1988. Children from previous marriage: Matthew James, Suzanna Jean, Justin Timothy.
