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The Bible and its Rewritings
Inbunden, 1999
3495 kr
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Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, …
The European Tragedy of Troilus
Av Boitani, Piero Boitani
Inbunden, 1989
3285 kr
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This book, the first to be devoted to the story of Troilus and Cressida as it develops through the ages and in various literatures, is the joint effort of an international team of scholars. It studies a myth which represents an important aspect of the European imagination: the way in which the …
Gospel According to Shakespeare
Häftad, 2014
572 kr
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In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare's "rescripturing" of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and …
Genius to Improve an Invention
Literary Transitions
Inbunden, 2002
1767 kr
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This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and ""perfect"" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors.
Genius to Improve an Invention
Literary Transitions
Häftad, 2002
450 kr
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This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and ""perfect"" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors.
Gospel According to Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2024
1767 kr
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In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare's "rescripturing" of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and …
English Studies in Transition
Papers from the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English
Av Piero Boitani, Robert Clark
Inbunden, 1993
2890 kr
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Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies.Topics addressed include:* the nature of the canon* the poetics of language* the representation of women and the …
Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
E-bok, 2004
469 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have …
The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, studies tragic and sublime tensions in stories and scenes recounted …
English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Häftad, 1986
654 kr
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This is a wide-ranging and detailed study of English narrative verse in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Piero Boitani describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as the anonymous romances and …
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento
Av Piero Boitani, Piero Boitani
Häftad, 1985
654 kr
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This paperback consists of a collection of essays which have aroused considerable interest, since their first publication in 1983, in a question that has been occupying scholars for many years: what did fourteenth-century Italy and its literature mean to Chaucer? In the first part of the book …
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Inbunden, 2004
1760 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have …
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Häftad, 2004
486 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have …
Timaeus in Paradise
Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond
Inbunden, 2025
451 kr
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Tracing the influence and impact of Plato’s Timaeus—and its major themes, creation and beauty—through the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato’s Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers. In Timaeus in Paradise, Piero Boitani traces the abiding legacy of …
Timaeus in Paradise
Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond
E-bok, 2025
610 kr
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Tracing the influence and impact of Plato’s Timaeus —and its major themes, creation and beauty—through the centuries More than two thousand years after it was written, Plato’s Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers. In Timaeus in Paradis e, Piero Boitani traces the abiding legacy …
Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame
Inbunden, 1984
1508 kr
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is one of Chaucer's most intellectually challenging poems, drawing on diverse traditions such as dream poetry and mythology, but unified by the central concept of Fame. It is this concept, and the `imaginary world' which surrounds it, which Professor Boitani explores in this volume in the Chaucer …
Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature
Inbunden, 1999
1433 kr
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The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings.The theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of …
Dante's Poetry of Donati: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005: No. 7
The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005
Häftad, 2007
728 kr
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Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso .
Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
E-bok, 2004
469 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have …
English Studies in Transition
Papers from the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English
Av Robert Clark, Piero Boitani
E-bok, 2002
1115 kr
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Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies. Topics addressed include: * the nature of the canon * the poetics of language * the representation of women and the …
English Studies in Transition
Papers from the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English
Av Robert Clark, Piero Boitani
E-bok, 2002
1091 kr
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Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies. Topics addressed include: * the nature of the canon * the poetics of language * the representation of women and the …
English Studies in Transition
Papers from the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English
Av Piero Boitani, Robert Clark
Häftad, 2014
946 kr
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Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies.Topics addressed include:* the nature of the canon* the poetics of language* the representation of women and the …
Dante's Poetry of Donati: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005: No. 7
The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005
E-bok, 2017
856 kr
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"Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante''s Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a ''comedy'' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso ."
Dante's Poetry of Donati: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005: No. 7
The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005
E-bok, 2017
856 kr
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"Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante''s Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a ''comedy'' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso ."
Machine of the World: The Modern Cosmos
E-bok, 2018
4481 kr
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The World Machine is the second volume Piero Boitani devotes to the way in which the sciences and the arts interact when it comes to modern consideration of the stars and the cosmos (the first, also published in English by Nova Science Publishers, is entitled Looking Upwards: Stars in Ancient and …
New Sublime
Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics
Häftad, 2020
163 kr
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“[It] will move you across the globe and back in time.” - Library JournalEuropa Compass series – new format and coversFor the readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes(Re)discover the timeless beauty of ancient literatureThe classics “never exhaust what they have to say”. Informed by this belief, …
Las Metamorfosis: Una pasion infinita
E-bok, 2022
91 kr
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Libro concebido para retar al tiempo y vencerlo, las Metamorfosis de Ovidio resumen la totalidad de la mitologia clasica por medio de un encadenamiento de historias que, a modo de matrioskas o cajas chinas, surgen la una de la otra a un ritmo vertiginoso regidas por el principio de transformacion …
Diez lecciones sobre los clásicos
E-bok, 2019
70 kr
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Estas "Diez lecciones sobre los clásicos" provienen de una propuesta que el autor recibió en su día de la RSI, la Radiotelevisión Suiza en lengua italiana. Esta propuesta daba a Piero Boitani la posibilidad de "decir lo que pensaba de mis amadas lecturas antiguas y explicárselo a un público no …
