Stone : An Ecology of the Inhuman /

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"Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stone.
Nature > Religious aspects.
Literature, Medieval.
Ecology > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Écologie > Philosophie.
Pierre > Miscellanees.
Nature > Aspect religieux.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Stone > Miscellanea.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Stories of Stone
  • Geophilia: The Love of Stone
  • Excursus: The Weight of the Past
  • Time: The Insistence of Stone
  • Excursus: A Heart Unknown
  • Force: The Adventure of Stone
  • Excursus: Geologic
  • Soul: The Life of Stone
  • Afterword: Iceland.

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