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This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge.
Love poetry --- Courtly love in literature. --- Courtly love --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Love --- Chivalry --- Courts of love --- Minnesingers --- Troubadours --- Trouvères --- critical reception --- fin’amor --- love --- western canon --- poetry --- hermeneutics --- troubadour poets --- God --- Ovid
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This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.
American fiction. --- American literature --- american literature. --- austria. --- canon. --- classic fiction. --- classics. --- comedy. --- evil. --- famous authors. --- fear. --- fiction. --- good. --- historical fiction. --- human nature. --- humanity. --- humor. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- magic. --- mercy. --- morality. --- novella. --- paranormal. --- religion. --- religious fanaticism. --- righteousness. --- samuel clemens. --- satan. --- satans nephew. --- satire. --- simple people. --- sin. --- social commentary. --- spirituality. --- supernatural powers. --- supernatural. --- temptation. --- village. --- western canon. --- witch trials.
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Among Renaissance utopias, The City of the Sun is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical circumstances and the highly original nature of Campanella's thought. La città del sole is one of many books written by Tommaso Campanella--philosopher, scientist, astrologer, and poet--while imprisoned in Naples for his part in rebellion against the Spanish and ecclesiastical authorities who ruled his native Calabria. This first faithful and complete English translation by Daniel J. Donno is presented opposite the critically established Itaion text, with essential explanatory notes and an introductory essay. Students of Italian culture, of the history of science, and of political, philosophical, and religious thought will welcome the publication of this authoritative edition of Campanella's best-known work.
NON-CLASSIFIABLE. --- 17th century. --- annotated. --- astrologer. --- campanellas utopia. --- english translation. --- famous literature. --- italian authors. --- italian culture. --- italian literature. --- italian renaissance. --- italy. --- naples. --- original thought. --- philosophical. --- poetical dialogue. --- poetics. --- political science. --- rebellion. --- religious thought. --- renaissance fiction. --- renaissance history. --- renaissance literature. --- renaissance philosophers. --- renaissance scientist. --- renaissance. --- social cultural. --- utopia dystopia. --- western canon.
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When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality-for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars-through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression-and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists.
Novelists, American --- Journalists --- Dreiser, Theodore, --- Dreiser, Theodore --- Novelists [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- american authors. --- american literature. --- american novels. --- biography. --- class. --- classics. --- communism. --- dreiser. --- emerson. --- emma goldman. --- factory workers. --- famous authors. --- fbi. --- fdr. --- gender. --- hawthorne. --- hollywood. --- immigration. --- industrialists. --- journalist. --- labor movement. --- literary celebrity. --- literature. --- lynchings. --- mencken. --- naturalism. --- new woman. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- progressive era. --- realism. --- roaring 20s. --- robber barons. --- roosevelt. --- sexual morality. --- sexuality. --- social change. --- social commentary. --- thoreau. --- urban life. --- western canon. --- whitman. --- workers rights.
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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings-Peru and Paris-which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo-and Latin American poetry-to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.
Vallejo, César, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Peruvian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Vallejo, César, --- Vallejo Mendoza, César Abraham, --- Mendoza, César Abraham Vallejo, --- Vallejo, César Abraham, --- Valʹekho, Sesar, --- Valliecho, Kaisar, --- Vallejo, Cholo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Vallejo, César, - 1892-1938 - Criticism and interpretation --- aesthetics. --- american literature. --- avant garde. --- canon. --- cesar vallejo. --- classic. --- international modernism. --- interwar paris. --- interwar period. --- latin america. --- latin american poetry. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- lyric modernity. --- modernism. --- modernity. --- multicultural. --- paris. --- peru. --- peruvian literature. --- poetry. --- politics. --- south america. --- western canon. --- world literature. --- Vallejo, César, - 1892-1938 --- Vallejo, Cesar,
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Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov's analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov's interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.
Dialectic --- Reasoning --- Ontology --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Argumentation --- Ratiocination --- Reason --- Thought and thinking --- Judgment (Logic) --- Logic --- Plato. --- Zeno, --- Parmenides. --- Socrates. --- Socrates --- Socrate --- Zenón, --- Zénon, --- Zenon, --- Ζήνων, --- Zēnōn, --- Sokrates --- Sokrat, --- Sokrates, --- Suqrāṭ, --- Su-ko-la-ti, --- Sugeladi, --- Sokuratesu, --- Sākreṭīsa, --- Socrate, --- سقراط, --- Σωκράτης, --- ancient classics. --- ancient greece. --- ancient greek philosophy. --- classic philosophy. --- classical philosophy. --- classical thought. --- classics. --- eleatics. --- forms. --- greece. --- greek philosophy. --- greek translation. --- greeks. --- logic. --- metaphysics. --- monism. --- mystic. --- neoplatonism. --- parmenides. --- philosophy. --- plato. --- platonic metaphysics. --- platonism. --- religion. --- spirituality. --- western canon.
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Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first study in English on the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett's published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian).The book is aimed a
Comparative literature --- Dante Alighieri --- Beckett, Samuel --- English and Italian. --- French and Italian. --- Italian and English. --- Italian and French. --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Dante Alighieri, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- English and Italian --- Italian and English --- French and Italian --- Italian and French --- Alihii︠e︡ri, Dante, --- Alaghieri, Dante, --- Aldigeri, Dante, --- Aligeri, Dante, --- Allighieri, Dante, --- Aligerius, Dantes, --- Alighieri, Dante --- Aligheri, Dante, --- Alighieri, Dante, --- Alleghieri, Dante, --- Durante Alighieri, --- Tan-ting, --- Danding, --- Dāntī Alījyīrī, --- Alīyīrī, Dāntī, --- Dante Alih'i︠e︡ri, --- Dante, --- Dant Aligīeri, --- Aligīeri, Dant, --- Dantte, --- Tantte, --- Dantis Alagherius, --- Danthe Alighieri, --- Alighieri, Danthe, --- Dante Alig'i︠e︡ri, --- Alig'i︠e︡ri, Dante, --- Ailígiéirí, Dainté, --- Dantė Aligjeris, --- Dānté ʼAligiyéri, --- Makākavi Tāntē, --- Tāntē Alikiyari, --- Alikiyari, Tāntē, --- אליגיירי דנטי --- אליגירי, דנטי --- דאנטי אליגיירי --- דאנטי אליגיירי, --- דאנט, --- דנטה אליגיירי, --- דנטה אליגירי, --- דנטי אליגיארי, --- דנטי אליגירי, --- دانتى ألغييري --- دانتي أليجيري،, --- ダンテ, --- Данте Аліґгіері, --- Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Sa-miao-erh, --- Beḳeṭ, Samuel, --- Beckett, Sam, --- Беккет, Сэмюэль, --- בעקעט, סאמועל --- בקט, סמואל --- בקט, סמואל, --- بكت، ساموئل --- Bikit, Sāmūʼil, --- Dante. --- French literature. --- Italian studies. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Western canon. --- comparative literature. --- intertextuality. --- literary relation. --- medieval author. --- twentieth-century writers.
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