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  1. Imagining solar energy
    the power of the sun in literature, science and culture
    Author: Lynall, Gregory
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London [England] ; Bloomsbury Publishing, London

    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar... more

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    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day - have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours."--...

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781350011007
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    Edition: First edition
    Series: Explorations in science and literature
    Subjects: Sun; Solar energy in literature; Literary theory
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)), Illustrationen
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    Literary Studies 2020
  2. L'écriture solaire d'Hélène Cixous :
    Travail du texte et histoires du sujet dans Portrait du soleil /
    Author: Stevens, Christa,
    Published: 1999.; ©1999
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    Auteur célèbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singulière, Hélène Cixous est surtout connue pour son théâtre et ses écrits sur la poétique de la différence sexuelle. Cette étude traite pour la première fois d'une seule des fictions d'Hélène Cixous,... more

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    Auteur célèbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singulière, Hélène Cixous est surtout connue pour son théâtre et ses écrits sur la poétique de la différence sexuelle. Cette étude traite pour la première fois d'une seule des fictions d'Hélène Cixous, Portrait du soleil (1973). Elle tente d'expliciter le fonctionnement narratif et poétique et de relever les thèmes et motifs essentiels de cette oeuvre en les mettant à l'épreuve de la métaphore solaire. Constatant une solarité généralisée, elle propose une ouverture sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre d'Hélène Cixous, en particulier son livre le plus récent, O R, les lettres de mon père (1997), et touche à la profonde motivation d'une écriture. Cette analyse, qui suit de près le texte d'Hélène Cixous, se développe d'un chapitre à l'autre en entrant de plus en plus dans la complexité des questions soulevées par le texte lui-même. Elle tient compte du renouvellement critique et philosophique des années 70 en France et ailleurs, dont la fiction de Cixous intègre les questionnements mais pour les déplacer et les transformer. Elle montre également l'enracinement d'une oeuvre dans le vécu et dans l'Histoire. Quant à l'impossible portrait du soleil que la fiction d'Hélène Cixous essaie de tracer: il se manifeste à travers l'évocation de la figure du père, que l'on découvre partout présente, liée à la mort et à l'expérience de la séparation, et dans l'autoportrait d'un sujet féminin, en train de se chercher à travers des histoires aussi bien fictionnelles que textuelles.

     
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    Language: French
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    ISBN: 9789004455979
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004455979
    Series: Faux Titre ; ; 160
    Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    Subjects: Portrait of the sun (Cixous); Relations between men and women; Sun
    Scope: 1 online resource (304 pages) :, illustrations.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Array: Preliminary Material /
  3. Sol : Volume 2
    image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion
    Author: Hijmans, Steven E.
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the... more

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    With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger of facile equivalencies between visual and verbal meanings, his primary focus is Roman praxis, manifest in, for instance, the strict patterning of Sol imagery. These patterns encode core concepts that Sol imagery evoked when deployed, and in those concepts we recognize the bedrock of Rome’s understandings of the sun and his cult. Case studies illustrate these concepts in action and the final chapter analyzes the historical context in which previous, now discredited views on Sol could arise. This is volume II of a two-volume set

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004514720
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    RVK Categories: NH 8500
    Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022
    Subjects: Sun; Idols and images; Idols and images
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 617 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. Imagining Solar Energy
    The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture
    Author: Lynall, Gregory
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar... more

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    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day - have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours."-- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Bringing the Sun into Focus -- 1. Solar Renaissance: Through the Burning-Glass -- 2. Bundling up the Sun-Beams: Burning into the Enlightenment -- 3. Feeling the Promethean Heat: Romantic Radiance and the Power of Invisible Light -- 4. A Time of 'Solidified Sunshine': Victorian Imaginaries of Solar Energy -- 5. Bright Futures: Solar Science Fiction Takes Off -- 6. Dark Mirrors: Solar Reflections in the Nuclear Age -- 7. Self-Renewable: The Satire and Psycho-thermodynamics of Solar -- Selected Bibliography

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350011007; 9781350010994
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    Series: Explorations in Science and Literature
    Subjects: Sun; Solar energy in literature; Literary theory
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  5. Sol : Volume 1
    image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion
    Author: Hijmans, Steven E.
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    "With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the... more

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    "With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger of facile equivalencies between visual and verbal meanings, his primary focus is Roman praxis, manifest in, for instance, the strict patterning of Sol imagery. These patterns encode core concepts that Sol imagery evoked when deployed, and in those concepts we recognize the bedrock of Rome's understandings of the sun and his cult. Case studies illustrate these concepts in action and the final chapter analyzes the historical context in which previous, now discredited views on Sol could arise"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004406698
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    RVK Categories: BE 7402 ; LG 6600
    Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; 198
    Subjects: Sun; Idols and images
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 821 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. L'écriture solaire d'Hélène Cixous
    Travail du texte et histoires du sujet dans Portrait du soleil
    Author: Stevens, Christa
    Published: 1999; ©1999
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Auteur célèbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singulière, Hélène Cixous est surtout connue pour son théâtre et ses écrits sur la poétique de la différence sexuelle. Cette étude traite pour la première fois d'une seule des fictions d'Hélène Cixous,... more

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    Auteur célèbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singulière, Hélène Cixous est surtout connue pour son théâtre et ses écrits sur la poétique de la différence sexuelle. Cette étude traite pour la première fois d'une seule des fictions d'Hélène Cixous, Portrait du soleil (1973). Elle tente d'expliciter le fonctionnement narratif et poétique et de relever les thèmes et motifs essentiels de cette oeuvre en les mettant à l'épreuve de la métaphore solaire. Constatant une solarité généralisée, elle propose une ouverture sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre d'Hélène Cixous, en particulier son livre le plus récent, O R, les lettres de mon père (1997), et touche à la profonde motivation d'une écriture. Cette analyse, qui suit de près le texte d'Hélène Cixous, se développe d'un chapitre à l'autre en entrant de plus en plus dans la complexité des questions soulevées par le texte lui-même. Elle tient compte du renouvellement critique et philosophique des années 70 en France et ailleurs, dont la fiction de Cixous intègre les questionnements mais pour les déplacer et les transformer. Elle montre également l'enracinement d'une oeuvre dans le vécu et dans l'Histoire. Quant à l'impossible portrait du soleil que la fiction d'Hélène Cixous essaie de tracer: il se manifeste à travers l'évocation de la figure du père, que l'on découvre partout présente, liée à la mort et à l'expérience de la séparation, et dans l'autoportrait d'un sujet féminin, en train de se chercher à travers des histoires aussi bien fictionnelles que textuelles

     
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    Language: French
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004455979
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    Series: Faux Titre ; 160
    Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    Subjects: Portrait of the sun (Cixous); Relations between men and women; Sun
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages), illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  7. Imagining solar energy :
    the power of the sun in literature, science and culture /
    Author: Lynall, Gregory,
    Published: 2020.; 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic,, London [England] : ; Bloomsbury Publishing,, [London, England] :

    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar... more

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    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day - have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours."--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-350-01100-2; 1-350-01098-7
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    Edition: First edition.
    Series: Explorations in science and literature
    Subjects: Sun; Solar energy in literature.; Literary theory
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) :, illustrations.
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    Includes bibliographical references.

    Also published in print.

    List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Bringing the Sun into Focus -- 1. Solar Renaissance: Through the Burning-Glass -- 2. Bundling up the Sun-Beams: Burning into the Enlightenment -- 3. Feeling the Promethean Heat: Romantic Radiance and the Power of Invisible Light -- 4. A Time of 'Solidified Sunshine': Victorian Imaginaries of Solar Energy -- 5. Bright Futures: Solar Science Fiction Takes Off -- 6. Dark Mirrors: Solar Reflections in the Nuclear Age -- 7. Self-Renewable: The Satire and Psycho-thermodynamics of Solar -- Selected Bibliography
  8. Sarudza
    How a European woman can retain her love for the country and its people despite contradictory entanglements in the African bureaucratic jungle.
    Author: van Ruiten, geb. Lutter, Claudia
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  tredition, Hamburg

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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783347740730; 3347740734
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    9783347740730
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series: Sarudza ; 2
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Lesealter)ab 15 Jahre; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027050; (BISAC Subject Heading)FV; (VLB-WN)1112: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik; (VLB-WN)1110: Erotische Literatur; (VLB-WN)1113: Historischer Roman; People; World; Relationships; Law; Love; Family; Children; Africa; Violence; Nature; Sun; Wildlife; Justice; Fear; Dictatorship; Freedom; Will to decide; Serenity; Responsibilty; Education; Poverty; Wealth; Peaceful; Down-to-earth; Religion; Choices; (Zielgruppe)For romantics between 14-80 years and older ;-) Probably more a read for women. A social streak and interest in southern Africa and its living conditions away from the glamorous tourist crowds are an advantage.; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC000000: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027010: Erotische Literatur; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC045000: Generationenromane, Familiensagas; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027050: Historischer Roman; (BIC subject category)FA: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik; (BIC subject category)FP: Erotische Literatur; (BIC subject category)FT: Generationenromane, Familiensagas; (BIC subject category)FV: Historischer Roman
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Vom Verlag als Druckwerk on demand und/oder als E-Book angeboten
  9. The Eco-semiotic Triangle of Natural Powers
    Jacques Roumain; Jacques Stephen Alexis; Albert Camus
    Author: Saah Nengou, Clotaire
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9786203042351; 6203042358
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    9786203042351
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Ecology; eco-semiotics; Sun; water; ideology; natural powers; (VLB-WN)1560: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 180 Seiten
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  10. Sarudza
    Author: van Ruiten, geb. Lutter, Claudia
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  tredition, Hamburg

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783347915923; 3347915925
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    9783347915923
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Lesealter)ab 13 Jahre; (BISAC Subject Heading)HIS001000; (BISAC Subject Heading)HBJH; (VLB-WN)1550: Afrikanische Geschichte: vorkolonial; Frauenhaus; Schicksalsschläge; Problembewältigung; positives Denken; Korruption; Engagement; Häusliche Gewalt; Mitgefühle; Fürsorge; Miteinander; (Zielgruppe)For romantics between 14-80 years and older ;-) Probably more a read for women. A social streak and interest in southern Africa and its living conditions away from the glamorous tourist crowds are an advantage.; (Lesealter)ab 15 Jahre; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC000000: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027010: Erotische Literatur; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC045000: Generationenromane, Familiensagas; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027050: Historischer Roman; (BIC subject category)FA: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik; (BIC subject category)FP: Erotische Literatur; (BIC subject category)FT: Generationenromane, Familiensagas; (BIC subject category)FV: Historischer Roman; People; World; Relationships; Law; Love; Family; Children; Africa; Violence; Nature; Sun; Wildlife; Justice; Fear; Dictatorship; Freedom; Will to decide; Serenity; Responsibilty; Education; Poverty; Wealth; Peaceful; Down-to-earth; Religion; Choices; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027050; (BISAC Subject Heading)FV; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC000000; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC027010
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  11. L'écriture solaire d'Hélène Cixous
    Travail du texte et histoires du sujet dans Portrait du soleil
    Author: Stevens, Christa
    Published: 1999; ©1999
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Auteur célèbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singulière, Hélène Cixous est surtout connue pour son théâtre et ses écrits sur la poétique de la différence sexuelle. Cette étude traite pour la première fois d'une seule des fictions d'Hélène Cixous,... more

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    Auteur célèbre d'une oeuvre multiforme et singulière, Hélène Cixous est surtout connue pour son théâtre et ses écrits sur la poétique de la différence sexuelle. Cette étude traite pour la première fois d'une seule des fictions d'Hélène Cixous, Portrait du soleil (1973). Elle tente d'expliciter le fonctionnement narratif et poétique et de relever les thèmes et motifs essentiels de cette oeuvre en les mettant à l'épreuve de la métaphore solaire. Constatant une solarité généralisée, elle propose une ouverture sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre d'Hélène Cixous, en particulier son livre le plus récent, O R, les lettres de mon père (1997), et touche à la profonde motivation d'une écriture. Cette analyse, qui suit de près le texte d'Hélène Cixous, se développe d'un chapitre à l'autre en entrant de plus en plus dans la complexité des questions soulevées par le texte lui-même. Elle tient compte du renouvellement critique et philosophique des années 70 en France et ailleurs, dont la fiction de Cixous intègre les questionnements mais pour les déplacer et les transformer. Elle montre également l'enracinement d'une oeuvre dans le vécu et dans l'Histoire. Quant à l'impossible portrait du soleil que la fiction d'Hélène Cixous essaie de tracer: il se manifeste à travers l'évocation de la figure du père, que l'on découvre partout présente, liée à la mort et à l'expérience de la séparation, et dans l'autoportrait d'un sujet féminin, en train de se chercher à travers des histoires aussi bien fictionnelles que textuelles

     
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    Language: French
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    ISBN: 9789004455979
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    Series: Faux Titre ; 160
    Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    Subjects: Portrait of the sun (Cixous); Relations between men and women; Sun
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages), illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  12. Sol : Volume 1
    image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion
    Author: Hijmans, Steven E.
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    "With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the... more

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    "With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger of facile equivalencies between visual and verbal meanings, his primary focus is Roman praxis, manifest in, for instance, the strict patterning of Sol imagery. These patterns encode core concepts that Sol imagery evoked when deployed, and in those concepts we recognize the bedrock of Rome's understandings of the sun and his cult. Case studies illustrate these concepts in action and the final chapter analyzes the historical context in which previous, now discredited views on Sol could arise"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004406698
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    RVK Categories: BE 7402 ; LG 6600
    Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; 198
    Subjects: Sun; Idols and images
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 821 Seiten), Illustrationen
  13. Imagining Solar Energy
    The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture
    Author: Lynall, Gregory
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar... more

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    "How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day - have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours."-- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Bringing the Sun into Focus -- 1. Solar Renaissance: Through the Burning-Glass -- 2. Bundling up the Sun-Beams: Burning into the Enlightenment -- 3. Feeling the Promethean Heat: Romantic Radiance and the Power of Invisible Light -- 4. A Time of 'Solidified Sunshine': Victorian Imaginaries of Solar Energy -- 5. Bright Futures: Solar Science Fiction Takes Off -- 6. Dark Mirrors: Solar Reflections in the Nuclear Age -- 7. Self-Renewable: The Satire and Psycho-thermodynamics of Solar -- Selected Bibliography

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350011007; 9781350010994
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    Series: Explorations in Science and Literature
    Subjects: Sun; Solar energy in literature; Literary theory
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  14. Sol : Volume 2
    image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion
    Author: Hijmans, Steven E.
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the... more

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    With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger of facile equivalencies between visual and verbal meanings, his primary focus is Roman praxis, manifest in, for instance, the strict patterning of Sol imagery. These patterns encode core concepts that Sol imagery evoked when deployed, and in those concepts we recognize the bedrock of Rome’s understandings of the sun and his cult. Case studies illustrate these concepts in action and the final chapter analyzes the historical context in which previous, now discredited views on Sol could arise. This is volume II of a two-volume set

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004514720
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    Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022
    Subjects: Sun; Idols and images; Idols and images
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 617 Seiten), Illustrationen