milosc-i-bliskosc: William Shakespeare

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The mathematician, the Surrealist, and the poet are of imagination all compact: Man Ray’s Shakespearean Equations. Man Ray’s series of paintings entitled Shakespearean Equations remains largely unknown even today, despite the artist’s fame. Perhaps that is partly because, like many Surrealist works, it so stubbornly resists interpretation; it is difficult to even grasp what one is looking at. The paintings depict mathematical models and their only Shakespearean characteristics are their titles, taken directly from Shakespeare’s canon. Nevertheless, I argue that a fruitful analysis is possible by understanding the pictures in relation to Shakespeare’s texts, the reception of Shakespeare in t…

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Evidence: 49 • authority: 88

Evidence: 49 • authority: 80

Evidence: 49 • authority: 80

Evidence: 49 • authority: 80

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3 The Lover, the Believer, and the Poet: The Imagination of Order in Bonaventure’s Natural Theology

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The Poet, Voyager, and Cartographer Are ‘of Imagination All Compact’