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Petrarch's Canzoniere had a central role in the Italian Early Modern culture, especially - but not only - in the sixteenth century, as is shown by its remarkable diffusion in print and manuscript copies, and its status as supreme poetic and linguistic...

Three works by Cicero: Treatises on friendship and old age, De amicitia, Scipio's dream.

This is a collection of essays on culture and history of India including Jagannath culture, Nabakalebara. This book has chapters on how to live a better life and how to raise a good family too.

ଡକ୍ଟର ବିଦ୍ୟାଧର ରାଉତ କଟକ ଜିଲ୍ଲା, ନିଆଳି ବ୍ଲକ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଗତ ତିହୁଡ଼ି ଗ୍ରାମର ଶ୍ରୀଯୁକ୍ତ ଜଟାଧାରୀ ରାଉତଙ୍କ ସୁପୁତ୍ର ଅଟନ୍ତି। ଡକ୍ଟର ରାଉତ ବର୍ତ୍ତମାନ ଭାରତୀୟ ସ୍ଥଳସେନାରେ (INDIAN ARMY) କାର୍ଯ୍ୟରତ । ପେଷାରେ ଜଣେ ବନ୍ଧୁକଧାରୀ ଓ ନିଶାରେ ଲେଖନୀ ଚାଳନାକାରୀ । ଡକ୍ଟର ରାଉତଙ୍କ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ସମାଲୋଚନା...

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence...

Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to...

This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories,...

George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. This book explores musical reference in her work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in...

This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster's fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the case for a new definition and interpretation of...

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological...

A Sidney Chronology: 1554-1654 offers a comprehensive chronological survey of the literary, political and personal history of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent. As royal servants, courtiers, diplomats, soldiers, writers and patrons of numerous...

Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671...

Il libro ""Il Canto II del Paradiso di Dante: Comentato (1877)"" di Mariotti, Alessandro ����� un'opera che si concentra sul secondo canto del Paradiso di Dante Alighieri, la terza parte della Divina Commedia. Il libro offre una dettagliata analisi del...

""I Salterelli Del Bronzino: E Gibello Novella Inedita In Ottava Rima Del Buon Secolo Della Lingua"" ����� un libro del 1863 scritto da Agnolo Bronzino. Il libro contiene una raccolta di salterelli, ovvero poesie popolari in ottava rima, scritte dal...

""I Primi Bolognesi Che Scrissero Rime Italiane"" ����� un libro scritto da Salvatore Muzzi nel 1875, che tratta della poesia italiana scritta dai primi autori bolognesi. Il libro analizza le opere di poeti come Guido Guinizelli, Guido Cavalcanti e Dante...

""I Lucchesi a Venezia: Alcuni Studj Sopra I Secoli XIII E XIV"" ����� un libro scritto da Telesforo Bini nel 1853. Il libro esplora la presenza dei Lucchesi nella citt������ di Venezia durante i secoli XIII e XIV. L'autore analizza la storia, la cultura...

""I Caratteri Morali di Teofrasto"" ����� un'opera scritta da Augusto Romizi nel 1899, che presenta una traduzione dell'opera di Teofrasto, filosofo e scrittore greco antico, intitolata ""Caratteri"". Il libro analizza i vari tipi di comportamento umano,...

Das Buch ""Grammatik und Wortstellung der Chanson de Geste Amis et Amiles"" von Adolf Mager aus dem Jahr 1887 besch�����ftigt sich mit der Analyse der Grammatik und Wortstellung in der franz������sischen Chanson de Geste ""Amis et Amiles"". Dabei werden...

Grammaires Provencales est un livre �����crit par Hugues Faidit en 1858. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage qui traite de la grammaire de la langue proven�����ale, une langue r�����gionale parl�����e dans le sud de la France. Le livre est divis����� en plusieurs...

Das Buch ""Gotfrid Von Viterbo: Beitrag Zur Historiographie Des Mittelalters"" von Heinrich Ulmann aus dem Jahr 1863 ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber den mittelalterlichen Historiker Gotfrid von Viterbo. Der Autor untersucht dabei insbesondere...

""Golias: Studentenlieder des Mittelalters"" ist ein Buch von Ludwig Laistner aus dem Jahr 1879. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Studentenliedern aus dem Mittelalter, die unter anderem in den Universit�����tsst�����dten Paris, Bologna und Oxford...

""Goldene Schmiede"" ist ein historischer Roman von Konrads Von Wurzburg, der erstmals im Jahr 1840 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt im mittelalterlichen Deutschland und erz�����hlt von der Liebe zwischen dem Ritter Hagen von Tronje und...

""Platons Gorgias"" ist ein Buch von Heinrich Kratz aus dem Jahr 1864. Es handelt sich um eine kritische Untersuchung von Platons Dialog ""Gorgias"", der sich mit der Frage nach der Natur der Rhetorik und ihrer Rolle in der Gesellschaft befasst. Kratz...

Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading these three plays from a fresh perspective, Ibsen and Degeneration sheds new light on some of Ibsen's most enduring contributions to world...

This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience consuming them, and the poet responsible for mythopoesis.

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the fims of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. It emphasizes women filmmakers and...

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how white American women writers translated petitioning -- a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "political prayer" -- in their...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

To many people Aristophanes is the most immediately attractive and enjoyable of the Greek dramatists. No other comedies from the great age of Attic drama survive in a complete state, and the vigour of his fictions and the brilliance of his humour...

Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Cicero stands out, however, not only because of his fame, but also because his murder included a unique addition to the customary decapitation. For his corpse...

First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterby Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century...

Using an ecomaterialist conceptual framework, addresses interconnected stories from fiction, nonfiction, works of visual art, and physical sites in Italy and elsewhere.

Examines how French Renaissance travelers consumed and represented Italian space through writing and the imagination. Includes writings by Rabelais, Montaigne, and Du Bellay as well as lesser-known French travelers, illustrating how the material and...

The series "Beiträauml;ge zur Altertumskunde" was founded in 1990. It mainly contains monographs and conference proceedings in German, but also includes texts, translations and commentaries on classical works which have had a long-lasting impact...

Diese Studie entwickelt ausgehend von grundsäauml;tzlichen Überlegungen zu den Produktionsbedingungen der griechischen Tragöouml;die in ihrem soziologischen, politischen und v.a. ideologischen Kontext ein...

Die Beiträge zur Altertumskunde enthalten Monographien, Sammelbände, Editionen, Übersetzungen und Kommentare zu Themen aus den Bereichen Klassische, Mittel- und Neulateinische Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, Antike Philosophie sowie Nachwirken...

Euripides' Danae and Dictys are two of the most important and influential treatments of a popular tragic myth-cycle, which is unrepresented among extant plays. Moreover, they are early treatments of major Euripidean plot-patterns that anticipate and...

Kein Werk der griechisch-römischen Dichtung hat zu so dissonanten Reaktionen geführt wie das Bellum Civile Lucans. Nachdem die Verurteilung des Epos im 19. Jahrhundert ihren Höhepunkt erreicht hatte und das 20. Jahrhundert seine langsame 'Rehabilitation'...

Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart Wachinger, betreut. Seit 2001 liegt die Verantwortung in den...