18円 Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especia...

15,256円 While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to his most ...

6,626円 Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast is Giordano Bruno’s first work of moral philosophy. It is dedicated with a long Explicatory Letter to Elizabeth I’s most cultured courtier, Sir Philip Sidney. It is a book about moral reform, expelling the beasts of evil, and putt...

7,953円 A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe situates itself at the crossroads of rhetori...

12,153円 John Fante's work has consistently delved into profound themes, including the elusive American Dream, the delicate psychology of immigrants, and the intricate dynamics of Italian American families. This study reveals the ingenious manner in which Fante employs humor and satire as powerful rhetori...

11,129円 Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der bisher kaum erforschten Lyrik der St. Petersburger Ego-Futuristen. Die Gruppe um Ignat’ev, Olimpov und Gnedov war zwar nur von kurzer Dauer, dennoch waren die Avantgardisten ihrem zeitgenössischen Publikum bestens bekannt. Die heute unbekannten Texte ...

2,561円 La vicenda umana di Giacomo Leopardi evoca un elogio della "Vita Saggia" . L'associazione si evidenzia prendendo in esame i valori di resistenza, autono-mia, ragionevolezza, amore per la vita e speranza che sono stati individuati a-nalizzando un insieme "ecologico" centrato sull'interezza della f...

2,115円 Gina Frangello was born, raised and lives in Chicago, so the book should have particular regional appeal there. Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels are a set of four novels published between 2011 and 2015. They tell the life story of two girls, Lila and Lenu, born in Naples in 1944, who try to create li...

2,000円 Il volume ha l'obiettivo di riscoprire la figura dello scrittore bolognese Giuseppe Raimondi (1898 –1985), che ha svolto un ruolo fondamentale nel panorama culturale italiano, pur collocandosi – come ha rilevato Gianfranco Contini – in una «singolarissima posizione di outsider». Sono qui raccolti...

0円 Der vorliegende Band erforscht Bewegungen der Verrückung, Querung und Grenzüberschreitung in romanischen Kulturräumen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Aufsätze widmen sich der interdisziplinären Verhandlung von Grenz- und Körperdiskursen in Literatur und Bildmedien. Überschreitungen rücken dabei...

8,027円 La literatura forma parte desde hace siglos de la educación escolar y, pese a los rápidos cambios a los que asistimos en las sociedades actuales, se sigue enseñando en gran medida de la misma forma. Este libro presenta los resultados de un proyecto de investigación que se ha centrado en obtener d...

6,477円 En esta investigación se aborda la figura y la obra de James Krüss, uno de los autores en lengua alemana más conocidos internacionalmente. Fue laureado a lo largo de su vida con distinguidos premios, destacando el galardón más importante de la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, el Premio Hans Christi...