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Reproduction of the original: L’Adultera by Theodor Fontane
Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752349441
Reproduction of the original: L’Adultera by Theodor Fontane
Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Editions Aubier
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Theodor Fontane
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 1899
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
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ISBN : 3385059534
Author : Robert E. Lewis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1957-06-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472010219
The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies
Author : Brian Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501368370
What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane's works, this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light, the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval. Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability, falsehood, and indifference to truth, it is now easier to perceive in Fontane's novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language's credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer, Tucker's analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane's novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition.
Author : Maxim Newmark, Ph.D
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 1950-01-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1442234016
Compiled from English sources and containing foreign words, phrases, mottos, proverbs, place names, titles, allusions and abbreviations from the Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Hebrew and other foreign languages, together with English equivalents and definitions and a supplement in Greek orthography
Author : Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319422898
This volume addresses the study of family law and society in Europe, from medieval to contemporary ages. It examines the topic from a legal and social point of view. Furthermore, it investigates those aspects of the new family legal history that have not commonly been examined in depth by legal historians. The volume provides a new 'global' interpretative key of the development of family law in Europe. It presents essays about family and the Christian influence, family and criminal law, family and civil liability, filiation (legitimate, natural and adopted children), and family and children labour law. In addition, it explores specific topics related to marriage, such as the matrimonial property regime from a European comparative perspective, and impediments to marriage, such as bigamy. The book also addresses topics including family, society and European juridical science.
Author : KelleyHelmstutlerDi Dio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351560352
The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight. His remarkable leap in status from his humble birth to a stonemason's family, to his time as a galley slave, to living as a nobleman and courtier in Milan provide a specific case study of an artist's struggle and triumph over existing social structures that marginalized the Renaissance artist. Based on a wealth of discoveries in archival documents, correspondence, and contemporary literature, the author examines the strategies Leoni employed to achieve his high social position, such as the friendships he formed, the type of education he sought out, the artistic imagery he employed, and the aristocratic trappings he donned. Leoni's multiple roles (imperial sculptor, aristocrat, man of erudition, and criminal), the visual manifestations of these roles in his house, collection, and tomb, the form and meaning of the artistic commissions he undertook, and the particular successes he enjoyed are here situated within the complex political, social and economic contexts of northern Italy and the Spanish court in the sixteenth century.
Author : Laudomia Bonanni
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226063801
In the bitterly cold winter of 1943, the Italian countryside is torn apart by violence as partisans wage a guerilla war against the occupying German army and their local fascist allies. In the midst of this conflict, a ragtag group of fascist supporters captures a woman in the late stages of pregnancy. Suspecting her of being in league with the partisans, they hastily put her on “trial” by improvising a war tribunal one night in the choir stalls of the abandoned monastery that serves as their hide-out. This sham court convicts the woman and sentences her to die—but not until her child has been born. When a young seminarian visits the monastery and tries to dissuade the fascist band from executing their sentence, the absurd tragedy of the woman’s fate is cast in stark relief. The child’s birth approaches, an unnerving anticipation unfolds, and tension mounts ominously among the characters and within their individual psyches. Based on a number of incidents that took place in Abruzzo during the war, Laudomia Bonanni’s compact and tragic novel explores the overwhelming conflicts between ideology and community, justice and vengeance. The story is embedded in the cruel reality of Italian fascism, but its themes of revenge, sacrifice, and violence emerge as universal, delivered in prose that is at once lyrical and brutal. In her native Italy, Bonanni, a writer of journalism and critical prose as well as fiction, is hailed as one of the strongest proponents of post-war realism, and this is the first of her novels to be made available to Anglophone readers. Translators Susan Stewart and Sara Teardo render Bonanni’s singular style—both sparse and emotive, frank and poetic—into readable, evocative English.