The Dark Lantern: A Historical Study of Sight in Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton |
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Page 77
... aspect of the analogy is basically a question of detachment and interiority , and has been treated very usefully by Jonathan Crary ( 1990 ) . Since both aspects of the ' camera eye ' can be seen to reflect radical early modern ...
... aspect of the analogy is basically a question of detachment and interiority , and has been treated very usefully by Jonathan Crary ( 1990 ) . Since both aspects of the ' camera eye ' can be seen to reflect radical early modern ...
Page 79
... aspect of Kepler's analogy between the camera obscura and the eye : that of detachment . First of all , the early modern study of vision be- comes increasingly committed to observing the eye from the outside , as an object in the world ...
... aspect of Kepler's analogy between the camera obscura and the eye : that of detachment . First of all , the early modern study of vision be- comes increasingly committed to observing the eye from the outside , as an object in the world ...
Page 93
... aspect of Copernicanism that will be relevant to my readings of Donne and Chapman can be defined even more briefly : that the new theory demanded the banishment of mankind from the privileged centre of the cosmos . Significantly ...
... aspect of Copernicanism that will be relevant to my readings of Donne and Chapman can be defined even more briefly : that the new theory demanded the banishment of mankind from the privileged centre of the cosmos . Significantly ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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