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Petrarch in Britain : Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years
ISBN: 9780197264133 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and more influential in English literature than Dante. His Italian love lyrics constituted the major influence on European love poetry for at least two centuries from 1400 to 1600, and in Britain he was imitated by Chaucer, the Elizabethans, and other lyric poets up until the end of the eighteenth century. With Romanticism Dante ousted Petrarch from his pre-eminent position, but in our post-Romantic age, attention has now started to swing back to...
Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and m...
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387,62 zł |
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Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance : The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo
ISBN: 9780198158998 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on literary imitation, the key critical concept of the period. Covering both theory and practice, and both Latin and the vernacular, McLaughlin charts the development of the concept from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century, offering fresh insights into major works of Italian literature from Dante to Bembo.
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on literary imitation, the key critical concept of the period. Cov...
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1052,52 zł |
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The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism : The Matter of Italy and the World of Rome
ISBN: 9780198160151 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The romance or chivalric epic was the most popular form of literature in Renaissance Italy. This book shows how it owed its appeal to a successful fusion of traditional, medieval tales of Charlemagne and Arthur with the newer cultural themes developed by the revival in classical antiquity that constitutes the key to Renaissance culture.
The romance or chivalric epic was the most popular form of literature in Renaissance Italy. This book shows how it owed its appeal to a successful fus...
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1400,91 zł |
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
ISBN: 9780198183327 / Angielski / Twarda / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive reference work on Italian literature to be published in English. With 2,400 entries from an international team of scholars, it provides a wealth of clear, up-to-date assessments of Italy's writers, famous and not so famous, from 1200 to 2000. It covers writers who wrote in Italian, dialect, or Latin, and offers vital background information on historical events, regional culture, and the other arts.
This is the first comprehensive reference work on Italian literature to be published in English. With 2,400 entries from an international team of scho...
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1110,59 zł |
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The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry : Metaphor, Negation, and Silence
ISBN: 9780199248988 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Locating the greatest Italian poet of the twentieth century, Eugenio Montale, firmly within European Modernism, this book examines the struggle with language that is central to his work. In its unravelling of the inexpressibility paradox, the book offers a new reading of Montale's early verse, and reveals how in articles and metapoetic comments Montale gives us insights into both his poetics and the whole process of expression.
Locating the greatest Italian poet of the twentieth century, Eugenio Montale, firmly within European Modernism, this book examines the struggle with l...
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1342,85 zł |
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Urania : A Romance
ISBN: 9780226048789 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, "Urania: A Romance" provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation.
The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's "Urania" centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that... Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, "Urania: A Romance" provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella...
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119,89 zł |
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Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling : Author as Midwife and Pimp
ISBN: 9780231136082 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in which Decameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examines Decameronin the context of the nature of storytelling, its relationship to other classic works of literature, and the culture of trecento Italy. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context that includes masks, metamorphosis, mythic themes, and...
In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in which Decameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral...
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257,73 zł |
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The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini
ISBN: 9780253210104 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. ..". a keen and brilliant critical account of Pasolini's films and writings..." --Italica "Rohdie's personal, idiosyncratic critical style is backed up by serious scholarly research, as the rich bibliography attests. This is one of the most original recent additions to the ever-growing literature on Pasolini." --Choice ..". refreshingly personal and full of unpredictable tangents."--Film Quarterly Sam Rohdie has written a personal, wonderfully lucid account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature. ..". a keen and brilliant critical account of Pasolini's films and writings..." --Italica "Rohdie's personal, idiosyncratic critical style is... |
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149,71 zł |
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Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present : Revising the Canon
ISBN: 9780271024875 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contents: Introduction Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers/Maria O. Marotti Part I: Canon Formation/Canon Revision Women Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy/JoAnn Cannon From One Closet to Another? Feminism, Literary Archaeology, and the Canon/Beverly Allen Italian "Difference Theory" A New Canon?/Renate Holub Part II: Renaissance Women: Rethinking the Canon Renaissance Women Defending Women: Arguments Against Patriarchy/Constance Jordan Selling the Self, or the Epistolary Production of Renaissance Courtesans/Fiora A. Bassanese Part III: At the Turn of the Century: Women Writers...
Contents: Introduction Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers/Maria O. Marotti Part I: Canon Formation/Canon Revision Women Writers and the Canon i...
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216,09 zł |
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The Italian Novella
ISBN: 9780415937252 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This collection of essays is dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron, the epitome of the genre, to studies of 16th century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.
The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to mo...
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552,97 zł |
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Eccoci!
ISBN: 9780471647171 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Presentation
A pair of striking photos announce the chapter region and theme. A geographical photo is accompanied by basic information about the region while a thematic photo introduces the communication goals, the grammatical structures, and the cultural topic. The photos may be used as a warm-up or as an end-of-chapter activity. Per cominciare This presents the thematic vocabulary and grammatical structures, which become the active material for the chapter, in two meaningful contexts: via an illustrated text or authentic document and via a dialogue (or... Presentation
A pair of striking photos announce the chapter region and theme. A geographical photo is accompanied by basic information about the... |
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904,19 zł |
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Italian Women's Writing 1860-1994
ISBN: 9780485910025 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines women's writing in Italy from Unification to the present day, exploring the lives and works of women writers within the context of Italian history, culture and politics. The changing face of Italian social and political life since Unification has greatly affected the position of women in Italy. This work discusses the relation between the changing role of women over this period, their struggle for social and political emancipation and equality, and the search by women writers for a personal and authentic literary voice. Wood's other publications include Woman as Object:...
This book examines women's writing in Italy from Unification to the present day, exploring the lives and works of women writers within the context of ...
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1429,94 zł |
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Strangers at Home : Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination
ISBN: 9780520078406 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938.
Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s t...
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248,22 zł |
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The Other Modernism : F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power
ISBN: 9780520200494 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of Italian Futurism: technical revolution, espousal of violence, avowed misogyny, and rejection of literary tradition. Blum argues for the centrality of the rhetoric of gender in Marinetti's work. She also investigates a diverse array of his futurist textual practices that range from formal...
Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of ...
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124,64 zł |
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Dante: The Divine Comedy
ISBN: 9780521539944 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Robin Kirkpatrick addresses questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how the early work known as the Vita Nuova is a principal source of the literary achievement of the Comedy. His detailed study reveals how the great narrative poem explores the relationship that Dante believed to exist between God as creator of the universe and the human being as a creation of God. First Edition Hb (1986): 0-521-32809-8 First Edition Pb (1986): 0-521-30533-0
Robin Kirkpatrick addresses questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how the early work known as the Vita Nuova is a princi...
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85,50 zł |
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A History of Women's Writing in Italy
ISBN: 9780521578134 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow definitions of literature, and brings to light other forms of expression such as letter writing, religious and devotional writing, travel writing, and journalism. Contributors point to the considerable practical, social and ideological difficulties faced by women in writing and presenting their work to a wider reading public, but also highlight the determination of women through the centuries in making their voices heard.
This volume offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves...
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287,26 zł |
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The Cambridge History of Italian Literature
ISBN: 9780521666220 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of a wide range of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition from its earliest origins to the present day. The volume is accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars. Translations are provided, along with maps, chronological charts, and up-to-date bibliographies.
This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of one of the r...
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326,45 zł |
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Letters, Volume 1 : Books I-IV
ISBN: 9780674021969 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." His correspondence gives us an intimate glimpse of the revival of classical literature from the pen of a man at the very center of the Renaissance movement. This volume illuminates his close friendship with the philosopher Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence concerning the composition and reception of his Miscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology. It also includes his famous and moving...
Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' M...
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95,88 zł |
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Baiae
ISBN: 9780674021976 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings of Naples. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae by their first editor Pietro Summonte, experiment brilliantly with the metrical form associated principally with the ancient Latin poet Catullus. The poems are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love,...
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, an...
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95,88 zł |
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Ciceronian Controversies
ISBN: 9780674025202 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy is the subject of the texts collected for the first time in this volume: exchanges of letters between Angelo Poliziano and Paolo Cortesi; between Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Pietro Bembo; and between Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio and his mentor Celio Calcagnini. A postscript by Lilio Gregorio Giraldi and... The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best ... |
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95,88 zł |
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