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La ricezione della storia di Adelphi ha risentito a lungo dell’influenza di una delle sue figure più autorevoli: Roberto Calasso. Quest’ultimo ha dedicato una parte della sua produzione a un discorso sulla figura dell’editore a cui si intrecciano percorsi autobiografici...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-11-21
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Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court culture, by using...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-20
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Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians as social agents within their social and cultural context. This collection of twelve essays develops that line of inquiry by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-11-17
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Walter Höllerer (1922–2003) gestaltete als Mitglied der Gruppe 47 und langjähriger Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift Akzente maßgeblich die Modernisierung der deutschen Literatur in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er gründete das Institut und die Zeitschrift...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-11-17
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This book investigates how culture and economics define novel forms of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan fiction. Tracing cosmopolitanism’s transition from universalism to vernacularism, the book opens up new avenues for reading cosmopolitan fiction by offering a precise...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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In the world’s so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family’s stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression becomes known, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-16
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Questo volume si propone di aggiornare la mappa della produzioneletteraria ottocentesca di argomento filellenico, stabilendo un confrontocon autori la cui opera non è stata ancora sufficientemente studiatada tale prospettiva. Partendo da una necessaria...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-11-16
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No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-14
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Der Sammelband dokumentiert die Wichtigkeit der inter- und transdisziplinären Erforschung des slawisch-österreichischen Kultur-, Literatur- und Kunstraums. Er präsentiert die Vermengung der Sprachen und Kulturen in realitätsnaher Weise und untersucht das daraus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-14
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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece.
Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-14
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Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-10
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Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-08
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Die Festschrift vereint in der Vielfalt ihrer Beiträge die verschiedenen Forschungsfelder und zahlreichen Interessen sowie Tätigkeiten von Laura Auteri anlässlich ihres 70. Geburtstags.Die Jubilarin vertritt in ihrem Schaffen nicht nur die Auslandsgermanistik, sondern...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-08
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Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-08
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Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-08
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The long nineteenth century (1789-1914) has been described as an axial age in the history of both bees and literature. It was the period in which the ecological and agronomic values that are still attributed to bees by modern industrial society were first established,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-07
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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-06
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Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of theAnthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to place, this book shows...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-03
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