Sketches in Italy and Greece
Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN :
Words of Hope
Author : Ho Doulos
Publisher : Author House
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1452031975
Book Description
Many people today wonder why so many Christians insist on absolute adherence to every word that they see in the Bible. Come with me on a verbal journey in Gods word, The Bible. See for yourself how important the accurate understanding of each and every Biblical word is. Understand in your own soul (your mind) what the substitution of a euphemism can cause. Know what damage the misunderstanding of a single word is able to accomplish in a church and in the lives of people. Discover what the changing of a single word caused in the lives of innocent millions. Find out, for yourself, what these three items of speech, a euphemism, a misunderstanding and a word change can cause. Learn how they bring anxiety, indescribable heartache and sorrow to people whose only desire is to serve Jehovah God. You will be able to see how the change of a single word brought confusion to many people and brought dishonor to the cause of Jesus the Christ. When people sit down to study the Bible they very often read that book with preconceived ideas. They read, with what they have been taught, ever present in the background of their mind. Where they acquired those ideas will all too often decide how they will think as they read. If the reader thinks that the Bible is the word of God it is probable that all too often their reading will be slanted by the denomination in which they were taught. When a person, of this day and age, combines twenty first century church doctrine with the King James English, they come up against big bunches of words which become hazy or even defiant of understanding. Entire passages of Holy Scripture become unintelligible. Those types of passages then force the reader to accept their denominations definition. When a reader reads with those predetermined definitions they will miss many of the answers which they are seeking. You see, the denominational definitions cause most of the questions in the first place. What they discover is that the problems they are trying to solve simply increase in intensity. Those problems almost always bring about the conflict between what they were taught about God and life, and the experiences of the life that they are living. Gods word then creates anxiety and unhappiness instead of bringing quiet contentment.
ITALY from I to Y?
Author : James De Franco
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493124056
Book Description
The decision to write a book about my obersavtion of people and events in my life journey from my native Italy to Austraila was taken when coming out of my work life, I was suddenly made aware that the tools of literacy required were somewhat different from the tools of my trade where sharpness was essential as bluntness was for the book. I apologize on behalf of my tools while I defend the message they convey: I love both Italy and Austraila. But being born in a particular part of the world should not impede or curtail our criticism of it, man's history is a tragic testimony of that where sons and daughters have continued conflicts initiated by their fathers with their own criticism muted by the unquestioned love for the parent couple: Father-Land; thus sadly neglecting the apoltically stateless Mother-Nature.
Rabelais and His World
Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253203410
Book Description
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
Travels Through Different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and Several Parts of Asia, as the Far as the Banks of the Euphrates, in a Series of Letters... by Alexander Drummond,...
Author : Alexander Drummond
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1754
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences ... Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes) and the English Translated Into the Other Three ... Moroever, There are Sundry Familiar Letters and Verses Running All in Proverbs ... By the Labours, and Lucubrations of James Hovvell
Author : James Howell
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 1660
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Dictionary of Untranslatables
Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1339 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2014-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1400849918
Book Description
Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters. This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and cross-cultural complexities. Spanning the classical, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods, these are terms that influence thinking across the humanities. The entries, written by more than 150 distinguished scholars, describe the origins and meanings of each term, the history and context of its usage, its translations into other languages, and its use in notable texts. The dictionary also includes essays on the special characteristics of particular languages--English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Originally published in French, this one-of-a-kind reference work is now available in English for the first time, with new contributions from Judith Butler, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Ben Kafka, Kevin McLaughlin, Kenneth Reinhard, Stella Sandford, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jane Tylus, Anthony Vidler, Susan Wolfson, Robert J. C. Young, and many more.The result is an invaluable reference for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas. Covers close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms that defy easy translation between languages and cultures Includes terms from more than a dozen languages Entries written by more than 150 distinguished thinkers Available in English for the first time, with new contributions by Judith Butler, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Ben Kafka, Kevin McLaughlin, Kenneth Reinhard, Stella Sandford, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jane Tylus, Anthony Vidler, Susan Wolfson, Robert J. C. Young, and many more Contains extensive cross-references and bibliographies An invaluable resource for students and scholars across the humanities
The voiages and travels of John Struys through Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other Countries in Europe, Africa and Asia
Author : Jan Janszoon Struys
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1684
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc
Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 1849
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Italy's Sea
Author : Valerie McGuire
Publisher : Transnational Italian Cultures
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1800348002
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy's Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneita or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy-as well as Greece-may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today. --
