10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRCUMAMBIENCE»
Discover the use of
circumambience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
circumambience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text
We are given an overdose of what I would call 'circumambience'; we do not need
it to transport us back into the period depicted. Instead, circumambience functions
as escapist fantasy, a spectacular excess of signification that is unironically ...
Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan, 2013
2
Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession
No such sweet sights doth Limbo den immure, Wall'd round, and made a spirit-
jail secure, By the mere horror of blank Naught-at-all, Whose circumambience
doth these ghosts enthral. A lurid thought is growthless, dull Privation, Yet that is
but ...
3
Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel
We are given an overdose of what I would call 'circumambience'; we do not need
it to transport us realistically back into the period depicted. Instead,
circumambience functions as escapist fantasy, spectacular excess of signification
that is ...
from a certain centre or focus a stimulus upon its circumambience, and the
circumambience again exercises a stimulus upon the centre. The focus of a
culture ignores national boundaries, and shifts about. If we consider Oriental
culture, we ...
5
Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of ...
Taking a cue from Gibson's pioneering work, let us say that wilderness presents
itself to us as the circumambience of the ambient array. A conspicuous instance
is a mountain chain that heightens and rings a low-lying valley or a large inland ...
6
Creativity, Imagination, Logic: Meditations for the Eleventh ...
In reason and logic a valuation is at work, at work so long as a life strives to
preserve itself, strives even without hope, to proportion the force and scope of its
actions to the immediate impact of its circumambience and its imaged
consequences ...
Horace Meyer Kallen, 1973
7
The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet
... reveling in the radiant interpenetration of his body and its circumambience,
turns out exultantly: "To behold the daybreak!" Just as the immediately preceding
catalogue in Section 24 looks back to the catalogue in Section 2 and expands it,
...
8
The Poetry of Ezra Pound
The energy required to maintain these perceptions in focus amid the down-
drifting circumambience of the decade 1910-20 accounts for the precipitate of
unassimilated violence in the Vorticist sensibility. It was natural that the Blast
coterie ...
9
The history of Napoleon
Finally, however, Lord Grenville, with diplomatic circumambience, declared that
there existed " no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new
government of France would be directed ; no reasonable ground by which to
judge of its ...
Richard Henry Horne, 1841
10
The Life and Literary Remains of Charles Reece Pemberton: ...
... of some of them ; but can you distinguish them from the rest ? Oh, no ! But of
other matters now ! I left Cairo on the 21st of January, detained one day by the
worst of Egypt's annoyances, a storm of dust — the whole circumambience was
one ...
Charles Reece Pemberton, W. J. Fox, John Fowler, 1843
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRCUMAMBIENCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
circumambience is used in the context of the following news items.
Video: Pioneering VR – Creating a Better World Through Virtual …
... medium that displayed information from airplane systems as visual, auditory and tactile circumambience for quick understanding by the pilot. «Flip the Media, Dec 14»
SI 60: Kentucky: May: Saturday
... speaking not to us but to all circumambience: man and beast either within hearing: "Y'awl can git out of the way too now; here's the big horse ... «SI.com, Aug 14»
