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  • A History of Silence

    From the Renaissance to the Present Day

    de Alain Corbin ...
    Traducido por Jean Birrell ...
    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

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  • Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man (Mobi Classics)

    de Marquis de Sade ...
    Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated in 1782, expressing his atheism by having the dying libertine convince the priest of the mistakes of a pious life. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    de Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Traducido por Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • David to Delacroix

    The Rise of Romantic Mythology

    de Dorothy Johnson ...
    Series series Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
    In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gérard, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Western Attitudes toward Death

    From the Middle Ages to the Present

    de Philippe Ariès ...
    Traducido por Patricia Ranum ...
    Series Libro 3 - The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
    Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times. ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Unquiet Grave

    de Palinurus ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    de Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Lourdes

    Body And Spirit in the Secular Age

    de Ruth Harris ...
    Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit. Since the ‘visions’ of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Occult Paris

    The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque

    de Tobias Churton ...
    How fin-de-siècle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the Renaissance• Examines the remarkable lives of occult practitioners Joséphin Peladan, Papus, Stanislas de Guaïta, Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, Jules Doinel, and others• Reveals how occult activity deeply influenced many well-known cultural movements, such as Symbolism, the Decadents, modern ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    de Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism

    Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies

    de Patrick Lepetit ...
    A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works• Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers• Provides many examples of ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Baudelaire the Damned

    A Biography

    de F. W. J. Hemmings ...
    First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a fascinating new perspective on Baudelaire's extraordinary, complex personality, his artistic achievements, and his tormented life.Hemmings, the noted biographer of Zola and Alexandre Dumas, has drawn on a great volume of material for this work, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD