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Antonio Negri, one of Italy's most influential and controversial contemporary philosophers, offers in this book a radical new interpretation of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. For Negri, Leopardi is not the bitter, idealistic individualist of conventional literary history, but rather a profoundly materialist thinker who sees human solidarity as the only possible solution to the catastrophes of history and politics. Negri traces Leopardi's resistance to the transcendental idealism of Kant and Hegel, with its emphasis on reason's power to resolve real antagonisms into abstract syntheses, and his gradual development of a sophisticated poetic materialism focused on the constructive power of the imagination and its "true illusions." Like Nietzsche (who admired him), Leopardi provides an alternative to modernity within modernity, expressing a force of rupture and recomposition—a uniquely Italian one—that is as relevant now as it was in the nineteenth century, and which connects to the theory of Empire as the political constitution of the present that Negri has elaborated in collaboration with Michael Hardt.

Leopardi, Giacomo, --- Ǧākomo Léwopārdi, --- Leopardi, Džakomo, --- Leopardi, Dzhakomo, --- Leopardi, G. --- Léwopārdi, Ǧākomo, --- Papareschi, Cosimo, --- Philosophy. --- Leopardi, Giacomo

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The major themes and human concerns expressed in Leopardi's writings are related to his life experiences and to the historical period in which he lived. Of central interest are the book's discussions of nobility and love as these two themes evolve and change as Leopardi acquired a more general and universal conception of life. The fascinating admixture in his work of classical and modern perspectives on life and literature is highlighted throughout the book.

Italian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Leopardi, Giacomo, --- Ǧākomo Léwopārdi, --- Leopardi, Džakomo, --- Leopardi, Dzhakomo, --- Leopardi, G. --- Léwopārdi, Ǧākomo, --- Papareschi, Cosimo, --- Leopardi, Giacomo

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Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don't mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.-from Passions The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary-a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, literary criticism, linguistics, humankind and its vanities, and other varied topics-remained unpublished until more than a half-century after his death. But shortly before he died, Leopardi began to organize a small, thematic collection of his writings in an attempt to give structure and system to his philosophical musings. Now freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist, and critic Tim Parks, Leopardi's Passions presents 164 entries reflecting the full breadth of human passion. The volume offers a fascinating introduction to Leopardi's arguments and insights, as well as a glimpse of the concerns of thinkers to come, among them Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, and Beckett.

Italian literature --- Italian language --- Romance languages --- History and criticism. --- Leopardi, Giacomo, --- Ǧākomo Léwopārdi, --- Leopardi, Džakomo, --- Leopardi, Dzhakomo, --- Leopardi, G. --- Léwopārdi, Ǧākomo, --- Papareschi, Cosimo, --- Leopardi, Giacomo

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Vorliegende Studie tritt dem verbreiteten Urteil entgegen, August Wilhelm Iffland hätte das Berliner Nationaltheater von 1796 bis 1814 im Gegensatz zu Goethes Weimarer Bühne nur unter ökonomischem Aspekt geführt. Sie untersucht die komplexen Prozesse ökonomischer und ästhetischer Wertebildung im Theater und seinem Umfeld. Analysiert werden Repertoiregestaltung, Theaterkritiken, Theaterbilder und Bühnenstücke. Die Studie wird von einem dokumentarischen Anhang, bestehend aus einem Bild- und einem Textteil, ergänzt. Der Bildteil enthält Quellen, die Ifflands Berliner Zeit illustrieren. Der Textteil enthält u. a. Briefe von und an Iffland, Quittungen und Rechnungen der Autoren und Schauspieler, Gehaltslisten und Verträge. Erstmals wird ein monographischer Text des Berliner Lustspieldichters Julius von Voß über Iffland abgedruckt. Die Texte dienen zur Erläuterung der Monografie und sollen darüber hinaus der Forschung gleichzeitig neues Quellenmaterial liefern.

Theatrical managers --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Managers, Theatrical --- Theater managers --- Theater management --- History --- Iffland, August Wilhelm, --- Iffland, August Wilhelm --- Ifland, Wilhelm August --- Career in the theater. --- Königliches Nationaltheater --- Königliches Preussisches Nationaltheater zu Berlin --- Berliner Nationaltheater --- Kön. National-Theater in Berlin --- Königl. National Theater in Berlin --- History. --- Französisches Komödienhaus (Berlin, Germany)

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In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida, showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.

Comedy. --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Drama --- Wit and humor --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Comedies. --- Comedie de Geneve --- Komödie --- Theater --- Genf --- Kanton Genf