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29 produkter
Under the Jaguar Sun
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2025
87 kr
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The solar energy coursed along dense networks of …
Why Read the Classics?
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2009
149 kr
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Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is …
Path to the Spiders' Nests
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister …
Leon Battista Alberti
Writer and Humanist
Inbunden, 2024
371 kr
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The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance—a fact often …
Under the Jaguar Sun
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2009
139 kr
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A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression …
Road to San Giovanni
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2009
129 kr
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A collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literatureIn these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian …
Numbers in the Dark
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2009
146 kr
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Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of …
Hermit in Paris
Av Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2011
141 kr
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Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of …
Petrarch in Britain
Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years
Av Martin McLaughlin, Letizia Panizza m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1602 kr
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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 …
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This book, a collection of essays to honour Hilary Gatti, reflects her interest in the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. The essays focus on literature and epistemology and provide analyses of authority, innovation and epistemology in the early modern period in Europe.
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers and their varying anxieties about autobiographical writing.
Ideology, Censorship and Translation
Av Martin McLaughlin, Javier Muñoz-Basols
Inbunden, 2021
1765 kr
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This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on a variety of genres, themes and audiences. Focusing on issues that have thus far not …
Ideology, Censorship and Translation
Av Martin McLaughlin, Javier Muñoz-Basols
Häftad, 2023
578 kr
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This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on a variety of genres, themes and audiences. Focusing on issues that have thus far not …
Leon Battista Alberti
Writer and Humanist
E-bok, 2024
492 kr
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The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance—a fact often …
Leon Battista Alberti
Writer and Humanist
Häftad, 2026
281 kr
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The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance—a fact often …
Ideology, Censorship and Translation
Av Javier Munoz-Basols, Martin McLaughlin
E-bok, 2021
763 kr
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This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on a variety of genres, themes and audiences. Focusing on issues that have thus far not …
Ideology, Censorship and Translation
Av Javier Munoz-Basols, Martin McLaughlin
E-bok, 2021
779 kr
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This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on a variety of genres, themes and audiences. Focusing on issues that have thus far not …
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
E-bok, 2017
928 kr
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"Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are written against this backdrop, and address issues in biographical and autobiographical writing in …
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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"Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are written against this backdrop, and address issues in biographical and autobiographical writing in …
Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
A Festschrift for Peter Brand
E-bok, 2017
1274 kr
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"In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of topics: politics, music, the visual arts, literature and the …
Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
A Festschrift for Peter Brand
E-bok, 2017
1302 kr
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"In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of topics: politics, music, the visual arts, literature and the …
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, reflects her constant concern for the principles of …
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, reflects her constant concern for the principles of …
Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
A Festschrift for Peter Brand
Häftad, 2000
1106 kr
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In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of topics: politics, music, the visual arts, literature and the …
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
Inbunden, 2007
1731 kr
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This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers and their varying anxieties about autobiographical writing.
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti
Inbunden, 2015
1527 kr
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This book, a collection of essays to honour Hilary Gatti, reflects her interest in the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. The essays focus on literature and epistemology and provide analyses of authority, innovation and epistemology in the early modern period in Europe.
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Av Colin Burrow, Stephen J. Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1867 kr
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This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional …
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Av Elisabetta Tarantino, Martin McLaughlin m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
1929 kr
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This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional …
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Av Elisabetta Tarantino, Martin McLaughlin m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
1887 kr
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This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional …
