Birth of Pandora And the Division of Knowledge by John Barrell 1992 HCDJ
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992
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- Title
- Birth of Pandora And the Division of Knowledge by John Barrell 1992 HCDJ
- Author
- Barrell, John
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0812231538
- ISBN 13
- 9780812231533
- Item weight
- 18 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x0x9
Barrell's topics here range from Thomas Rowlandson's comic representations of the rural poor to a sentence of interminable length in a text by William Collins; from the ability to understand the composition of landscape as a metaphor for the ability to understand the public interest to the proper way of representing Venus, image of all that the citizen should both reject and admire. In a piece appearing here for the first time, Barrell examines the famous treason trials of 1794 and the conflict they reveal between written legal codes and the common law; in the long title essay, also new to this volume, he brilliantly discusses the problems raised that the representation of the body by the theory of the division of labor, by the Western discovery of Hindu art, and the question of equal difference in the context of the French Revolution.
The individual chapters in The Birth of Pandora "continually return to one question in particular," notes Barrell, " a question about the nature of knowledge and of representation in a society which is (or which is represented as) a distinctively commercial one."
The Birth of Pandora will be of value to historians, literary critics, historians of art, and all those with an interest in cultural history and cultural studies.
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