Peter Davidson (1) (1957–)
Auteur de The Idea of North
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Peter Davidson, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Professor Peter Davidson is Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford
Œuvres de Peter Davidson
Four Latin poems 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A Selection of the Poems of Sir Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) (2002) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Davidson, Peter
- Nom légal
- Davidson, Peter Robert Keith
- Autres noms
- Davidson, Peter R.
- Date de naissance
- 1957
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Scotland
UK - Études
- Cambridge University (BA|Ph.D)
University of York (MA) - Professions
- professor
art historian
comparatist
curator - Relations
- Stevenson, Jane (wife)
- Organisations
- Campion Hall, University of Oxford
University of Aberdeen
University of Warwick
University of Leiden - Prix et distinctions
- Barry Bloomfield Award
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 179
- Popularité
- #120,383
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 57
- Langues
- 2
The book was amply illustrated and full of quotations and insights that backed up the author's take on twilight as being a state of being as much as a state of daylight. The book was printed on high gloss heavy stock paper to allow for the inclusion of many works of art and chocked full of quotations from poems, essays, and memoirs where twilight played an important roll. The inclusion of these pictures was helpful as they helped to illustrate the setting and tone of the work. The paper gave this volume a heavier weight for the number of pages it had.
It was a very interesting in-depth study of the concept of twilight that was poetic and challenging to read. This is a work about symbolism and sense of time and place. Setting was everything in this book, and the critique of the art work used to illustrate the point the author made was a highlight.… (plus d'informations)