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Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, esp……続きを見る

"The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater.……続きを見る

Con la felice trasparenza propria dei grandi saggisti, che sanno affrontare le questioni più ardue e spinose e afferrarne come per incanto il bandolo nascosto, in "Manzoni e la via del romanzo" Giov……続きを見る

"A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country." Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory,……続きを見る

Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In p……続きを見る

Entre el amor y el odio, Pietro Aretino es un rayo que cruza toda la Europa del siglo XVI como personaje y poeta: famoso especialmente por la proyección de su imagen pública y por la leyenda negra c……続きを見る

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation and evaluation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons. Professor Cohen urges its reconsideration as a major Augustan poe……続きを見る

Educator, poet, and the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote many exceptional works in his lifetime. In this book, you'll find two of them. O……続きを見る

The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by ……続きを見る

Il brillante saggio di Anna Stefi dedicato a Georges Perec, uno dei più grandi autori francesi del Novecento, procede per lemmi. Ogni lemma affronta un tema portante o un'opera significativa dell’au……続きを見る

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the……続きを見る

Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never beforeーthe third volume in the acclaimed definitive biography This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells……続きを見る

The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Wal……続きを見る

This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspond……続きを見る

This book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that terrorists are fanatics. He portrays anarchists and poli……続きを見る

A raíz de sus ataques a las costas de España y a sus posesiones ultramarinas, el corsario inglés Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596) representó una amenaza constante para el dominio político y mercanti……続きを見る

Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life……続きを見る

500 Artikel von „Abend“ bis „Zypresse“: Dieses Lexikon versammelt die wichtigsten Symbole der abendländischen Literatur und zeichnet ihre Geschichte an exemplarischen Belegstellen nach. Zahlen, Farb……続きを見る

Joan Fuster confessava una fascinació constant per l'escriptura aforística, una part de la seua obra que sempre va considerar un espai de llibertat i de plaer. «Anotacions al marge» proposa un recor……続きを見る

Se publican en este volumen una serie de comunicaciones sobre el teatro medieval de la península Ibérica que se presentaron en el XI Colloquium de la Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théâtre M……続きを見る

La comprensión del teatro de inicios de la época barroca en su dimensión espectacular, a través del análisis de documentos figurativos conservados en España en torno a este momento, constituye el nú……続きを見る

Los historiadores de los teatros español e italiano se han mostrado tradicionalmente poco proclives a establecer puentes que permitan los estudios comparativos entre dos teatros tan ricos y complejo……続きを見る

Aquesta és una obra colpidora i tràgica que qüestiona la capacitat d'estimar de l'ésser humà, sobretot quan es troba en circumstàncies difícils. Una reflexió sobre la vida i la mort, l'escepticisme ……続きを見る

L'obra teatral El Tractat d'Almisrà, que presentem en tercera edició, va ser escrita amb encert i inspiració, l'any 1979, per Salvador Domènech i Llorens, a partir del Llibre dels feits de Jaume I, ……続きを見る

Sempre s'ha dit que la lluna influeix d'alguna manera en tot el que fem. La lluna nova, per exemple, és el pitjor moment per començar una història d'amor; per contra, en lluna creixent és el moment ……続きを見る

Edith Wharton's novel, 'Twilight Sleep', is a captivating exploration of the tumultuous lives of the New York elite during the early 20th century. With her characteristic wit and keen observation of……続きを見る

Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm……続きを見る

This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surfa……続きを見る

Il volume presenta una selezione di alcuni degli scritti più significativi di Giuliano Bernini. I temi trattati – che spaziano dalla fonetica e fonologia della L2, alla negazione, al plurilinguismo ……続きを見る

Die Verwandtschaft von Sprache und Musik ist tiefgreifend. Beide werden ausdrucksstark durch dieselben Parameter, die wir als prosodisch oder musikalisch bezeichnen. Diese "Musik der Sprache" wird i……続きを見る