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  • Dante: De vulgari eloquentia

    Series Libro 5 - Cambridge Medieval Classics
    De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later ... 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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  • The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert

    Edición de Timothy Unwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together a series of essays by acknowledged experts on Flaubert. It offers a coherent overview of the writer's work and critical legacy, and provides insights into the very latest scholarly thinking. While a central place is given to Flaubert's most widely read texts, attention is also paid to key areas of the corpus that have tended to be overlooked. Close textual analyses are ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture

    Edición de Nicholas Rzhevsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been ... Leer más

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  • Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

    Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

    Edición de Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Günter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was ... Leer más

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  • Communities of Learned Experience

    Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance

    Series series Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe
    Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise.During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical ... Leer más

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  • Decadence, Degeneration, and the End

    Studies in the European Fin de Siècle

    Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. ... Leer más

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  • New Essays on Diderot

    Edición de James Fowler ...
    The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has ... Leer más

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  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    de Ryszard Nycz ...
    Traducido por Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Series Libro 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... Leer más

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  • Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime

    de Mark Canuel ...
    Read the Romantics from the perspective of both political theory and literary studies—and consider justice through the lens of the sublime.In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty—because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity—provides a model ... Leer más

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  • Arbitrary Power

    Romanticism, Language, Politics

    de William Keach ...
    Series series Literature in History
    This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of ... Leer más

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