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  • The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural ... Leer más

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  • Mapping Michel Serres

    de Niran Abbas ...
    Series series Studies In Literature And Science
    "Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]The work of Michel Serres---including the books Hermes, The Parasite, The Natural Contract, Genesis, The Troubadour of ... Leer más

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  • Chaos Imagined

    Literature, Art, Science

    de Martin Meisel ...
    The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, ... Leer más

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  • The Novel in German since 1990

    Edición de Stuart Taberner ...
    Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents the novel ... Leer más

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  • Joyce / Shakespeare

    Series series Irish Studies
    Shakespeare’s presence in Joyce’s work is tentacular, extending throughout his career on many different levels: cultural, structural, lexical, and psychological; yet a surprisingly long time has passed since the last monograph on this literary nexus was published. Joyce/Shakespeare brings together fresh work by internationally recognized Joyce scholars on these two icons, reinvigorating our ... Leer más

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  • Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres

    Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony

    Edición de Jacomien Prins, Maude Vanhaelen ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, philosophy, and science, and challenges the view that Renaissance discussions on cosmic harmony are ... Leer más

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  • The Calendar in Revolutionary France

    Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics

    de Sanja Perovic ...
    One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to ... Leer más

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  • Textual Awareness

    A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann

    Series series Editorial Theory And Literary Criticism
    Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and relates these to Anglo-American, French, and German theories of text. By ... Leer más

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  • British Romanticism in European Perspective

    Into the Eurozone

    Edición de Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia. ... Leer más

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  • Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

    Series Libro 157 - Studi e saggi
    This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two ... Leer más

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  • Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'

    German and Intercultural Stagings

    de David G. John ...
    Series series German and European Studies
    Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted stagings of Goethe's Faust in four different languages over a series of seven productions — ... Leer más

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  • Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital

    Luxury, Virtue and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century Culture

    de Mary Peace ...
    This book charts the complex ideological territory of eighteenth-century sentimental discourse through the uniquely revealing lens of the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes. The establishment of the London Magdalen House in 1758 is read as the cultural high watermark of sentimental confidence in the compatibility of virtue and commerce. It is the product of a whiggish, moral-sense ... Leer más

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