Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Comparative literature
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Comparative literature
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Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521313506
A collection of essays debating what fourteenth-century Italy and its literature meant to Chaucer.
Author : Peter Tremewan
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780729301794
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874137071
These essays engage with narratives and narrative issues, in particular on the issue of performance in and of narrative, with the telling of performance and the performance of telling, and the way stories perform gender and identity. They focus on narrative as such, on narrative genres, and on particular narratives, but they all seek to inform thinking on narrative.
Author : Stefano Evangelista
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441173684
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is now widely recognised not only as one of the most representative figures of the British fin de siècle, but as one of the most influential Anglophone authors of the nineteenth century. In Britain Wilde suffered a long period of comparative neglect following the scandal of his conviction for 'gross indecency' in 1895; and it is only recently that his works have been reassessed. But while Wilde was subjected to silence in Britain, he became a European phenomenon. His famous dandyism, his witticisms, paradoxes and provocations became the object of imitation and parody; his controversial aesthetic doctrines were a strong influence not only on decadent writers, but also on the development of symbolist and modernist cultures. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Oscar Wilde's work across Europe, from the earliest translations and performances of his works in the 1890s to the present day.
Author : Martin Thom
Publisher : Verso
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1995-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781859840207
Covers a key time of transition in European history, 1795-1848, linking revolutionary Paris to the trial of the Enlightenment. The book explores the development of ideas about the citizen, the nation and freedom, in particular the drift from republican/classical to Germanic/Romantic thought.
Author : Helmut Pfeiffer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110523256
‘Rewriting’ is one of the most crucial but at the same time one of the most elusive concepts of literary scholarship. In order to contribute to a further reassessment of such a notion, this volume investigates a wide range of medieval and early modern literary transformations, especially focusing on texts (and contexts) of Italian and French Renaissance literature. The first section of the book, "Rewriting", gathers essays which examine medieval and early modern rewritings while also pointing out the theoretical implications raised by such texts. The second part, "Rewritings in Early Modern Literature", collects contributions which account for different practices of rewriting in the Italian and French Renaissance, for instance by analysing dynamics of repetition and duplication, verbatim reproduction and free reworking, textual production and authorial self-fashioning, alterity and identity, replication and multiplication. The volume strives at shedding light on the complexity of the relationship between early modern and ancient literature, perfectly summed up in the motto written by Pietro Aretino in a letter to his friend the painter Giulio Romano in 1542: "Essere modernamente antichi e anticamente moderni".
Author : Steve Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521251265
This book is a history of the influence of Dante on English poetry. The focus us not primarily upon stylistic influences or attempts to imitate Dante's manner of writing, but rather on the different guises in which the enormous presence of Dante has made itself felt, and how that presence has affected some of the central concerns of the poets in question. The poets considered are Shelley, Byron, Browning, Rossetti, Yeats, Pound and Eliot. In addition to analysing the way Dante is approached by these poets in their major poetry, Dr Ellis also discusses relevant critical works: Shelley's Defence of Poetry, Pound's The Spirit of Romance and Yeats' A Vision. The critical survey is unified by the attempt to show certain recurrent preoccupations in the work of these writers, such as the need to define a tradition in which Dante is a necessary forerunner. Ellis also shows that Dante has been read in a very partial way by these poets and the images of him which emerge in their works are inevitably varied and contradictory.
Author : Sara Fortuna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351570196
Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with the prestige of Latin. By bringing together different approaches, from literary studies to philosophy and history, from aesthetics to queer studies, from psychoanalysis to linguistics, this volume offers new critical insights on the question of Dantes language, engaging with both the philosophical works characterized by an original project of vulgarization, and the poetic works, which perform a new language in an innovative and self-reflexive way. In particular, Dantes Plurilingualism explores the rich and complex way in which Dantes linguistic theory and praxis both informs and reflects an original configuration of the relationship between authority, knowledge and identity that continues to be fascinated by an ideal of unity but is also imbued with a strong element of subjectivity and opens up towards multiplicity and modernity.
Author : Deborah Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521761409
Deborah Parker examines Michelangelo's use of language in his correspondence as a means of understanding the creative process of this extraordinary artist.