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Author:   Allie Terry-Fritsch ,  Erin Felicia Labbie ,  W.J.T. Mitchell ,  Erin Felicia Labbie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781409442868

ISBN 10:   1409442861
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword, W.J.T. Mitchell; Introduction: beholding violence, Erin Felicia Labbie and Allie Terry-Fritsch; Proof in pierced flesh: Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas and the beholder of wounds in early modern Italy, Allie Terry-Fritsch; Giovanni Pisano's marble wounds: beholding artistic self-defense in the Pisa cathedral pulpit, Matthew G. Shoaf; Beholding and touching: early modern strategies of negotiating illness, Mirella G. Pardee; The gap of death: passive violence in the encounter between the Three Dead and the Three Living, Elina Gertsman; Being beheld: Julian of Norwich's mystical surreal and the violence of vision, Christopher Taylor; Image in pain: icons, old bones and new blood, Galina Tirnanic; 'To have the pleasure of this siege': envisioning siege warfare during the European wars of religion, Brian Sandberg; Theatrum mundi: performativity, violence and metatheatre in Webster's The White Devil, Lisa Dickson; Portia's Pauline perversion: The Merchant of Venice and Romans I, Will Stockton; Violent passions: plays, pawnbrokers, and the Jews of Rome, 1539, Barbara Wisch; Beholding typology: the violence of recognition in Caravaggio's representations of the Sacrifice of Isaac, Erin Felicia Labbie; Bibliography; Index.

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'Violence abounds in the art and literature of medieval and early modern Europe, but what was at stake for its original beholders? And what does it mean to behold such images today? This volume puts the art of beholding under the spotlight, asking whether we may discover, in the scene of violence, its most defining characteristics. A timely and wide ranging set of meditations.' Robert Mills, King's College London 'I can state with conviction that all the essays are infinitely intriguing and that every one of them is based on exemplary research.' Renaissance Quarterly '... specialists and advanced graduate students can read with profit these varied angles of approach to the fascinating and, at times, disturbing questions raised by the act of beholding violence...' Sixteenth Century Journal

'Violence abounds in the art and literature of medieval and early modern Europe, but what was at stake for its original beholders? And what does it mean to behold such images today? This volume puts the art of beholding under the spotlight, asking whether we may discover, in the scene of violence, its most defining characteristics. A timely and wide ranging set of meditations.' Robert Mills, King's College London 'I can state with conviction that all the essays are infinitely intriguing and that every one of them is based on exemplary research.' Renaissance Quarterly '... specialists and advanced graduate students can read with profit these varied angles of approach to the fascinating and, at times, disturbing questions raised by the act of beholding violence...' Sixteenth Century Journal

'Violence abounds in the art and literature of medieval and early modern Europe, but what was at stake for its original beholders? And what does it mean to behold such images today? This volume puts the art of beholding under the spotlight, asking whether we may discover, in the scene of violence, its most defining characteristics. A timely and wide ranging set of meditations.' Robert Mills, King's College London 'I can state with conviction that all the essays are infinitely intriguing and that every one of them is based on exemplary research.' Renaissance Quarterly '... specialists and advanced graduate students can read with profit these varied angles of approach to the fascinating and, at times, disturbing questions raised by the act of beholding violence...' Sixteenth Century Journal

Author Information

Allie Terry-Fritsch is Associate Professor of Art History at Bowling Green State University. Erin Felicia Labbie is Associate Professor of English Literature at Bowling Green State University and is the author of Lacan's Medievalism. W.J.T. Mitchell, Erin Felicia Labbie, Allie Terry-Fritsch, Matthew G. Shoaf, Mirella G. Pardee, Elina Gertsman, Christopher Taylor, Galina Tirnanic, Brian Sandberg, Lisa Dickson, Will Stockton, Barbara Wisch.

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