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Laments of the Virgin Mary represent a devotional genre that offered its clerical and lay audiences of the High and Late Middle Ages a deeply inspiring, yet at the same time ambiguous, religious experience. Through the deeply emotional and markedly animated representation of the Passion, seen as if through the eyes of the mother of God, audiences and performers were not only reminded of the redemptive power of the Cross, but encouraged to experience Christ's sacrifice in a more personal and intimate manner. In the pious practice of imitatio Mariae, believers mirrored the sorrow of the mother through their own bodies in order to develop a kind of visceral empathy towards, and hence a deeper understanding of, the divine.

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Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem on lament, translated here for the first time into English. The volume also includes original essays by leading scholars, which interpret Scholem's texts and situate them in relation to other Weimar-era Jewish thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan, who drew on the textual traditions of lament to respond to the destruction and upheavals of the early twentieth century. Also included are studies on the textual tradition of lament in Judaism, from biblical, rabbinic, and medieval lamentations to contemporary Yemenite women's laments. This collection, unified by its strong thematic focus on lament, shows the fruitfulness of studying contemporary and modern texts alongside the traditional textual sources that informed them.

Laments --- Jewish mourning customs --- Jewish philosophy. --- Laments in the Bible. --- 296*6 --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Mourning customs, Jewish --- Mourning (Jewish law) --- Mourning customs --- Complancha --- Lamentations --- Elegiac poetry --- 296*6 Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Jewish philosophy --- Laments in the Bible --- Gershom Scholem. --- Jewish Thought. --- Lament. --- Mourning.

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In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi's lost L'Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d'Ulisse and L'incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli's L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli's L'Ormindo and L'Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell'arte theater specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.

Opera --- Commedia dell'arte --- Commedia dell'arte. --- Oper. --- Rezeption. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Characters. --- Italien. --- Characters and characteristics in music. --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- History and criticism --- Music --- opera's --- muziekgeschiedenis --- improvisatie --- barokmuziek --- anno 1600-1699 --- Musical portraits --- Musical portraiture --- Acting --- Comedy --- Farce --- Italian drama (Comedy) --- Improvisation (Acting) --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Characters and characteristics in music --- Influence --- Claudio Monteverdi. --- Francesco Cavalli. --- Virginia Andreini. --- aria. --- commedia dell'arte. --- lament. --- listening. --- opera. --- recitative. --- sound.

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When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed.

Jews --- Judaism --- Martyrdom --- Martyrdom in literature. --- Hebrew literature, Medieval --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Religions --- Martyrdom (Judaism) --- Persecutions --- History --- Judaism. --- History and criticism. --- Religion --- Abraham ibn Ezra. --- Allusion. --- Apostasy. --- Ashkenaz. --- Blood libel. --- Book burning. --- Book of Ezekiel. --- Books of Kings. --- Christian literature. --- Christianity. --- Conversion to Christianity. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Crusades. --- Defection. --- Desecration. --- Desperation (novel). --- Elohim. --- Emeritus. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- First Crusade. --- Gershom. --- God. --- Hagigah. --- Hagiography. --- Halevi. --- Harassment. --- Hazzan. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hebrew language. --- Heresy. --- High Middle Ages. --- Historian. --- Host desecration. --- Humiliation. --- Illustration. --- In Death. --- Incorruptibility. --- Israelites. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Kohen. --- Lament. --- Lamentations Rabbah. --- Laments (Kochanowski). --- Libation. --- Literature. --- Maimonides. --- Martyr. --- Martyrology. --- Medieval Hebrew. --- Meir of Rothenburg. --- Middle Ages. --- Mishnah. --- Nahmanides. --- Names of God in Judaism. --- Narrative. --- Old French. --- Penitential. --- Persecution. --- Piyyut. --- Poetry. --- Polemic. --- Princeton University. --- Prose. --- Psalms. --- Pyre. --- Quatrain. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Rashbam. --- Rashi. --- Relic. --- Religious text. --- Responsa. --- Righteousness. --- Second Crusade. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Sefer Hasidim. --- Simhah. --- Soloveitchik. --- Stanza. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Talmud. --- Tefillin. --- Ten Martyrs. --- The Other Hand. --- The Song of Roland. --- Torah scroll. --- Torah. --- Treatise. --- Troyes. --- V. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Yechiel of Paris. --- Yom Tov of Joigny.

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Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

Self-translation. --- Translating and interpreting. --- Translators --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting. --- Adjective. --- Adverb. --- Aestheticism. --- Afterword. --- Anaphora (rhetoric). --- Anatole Broyard. --- Ancient Greek. --- Annotation. --- Antonio Gramsci. --- Audiobook. --- Author. --- Awareness. --- Between the Acts. --- Catullus. --- Close reading. --- Clothing. --- Communication. --- Contraction (grammar). --- Cultural diversity. --- Cultural translation. --- Depiction. --- Dictionary. --- Discernment. --- Editing. --- Edition (book). --- Elena Ferrante. --- Emoticon. --- Essay. --- Fiction. --- First Things. --- Grammar. --- Hairstyle. --- Headline. --- Idiom. --- Imagism. --- Implementation. --- Interpreter of Maladies. --- Intertextuality. --- Italo Calvino. --- Jhumpa Lahiri. --- Jorge Luis Borges. --- Kate Lechmere. --- Lament. --- Language. --- Latin poetry. --- Lecture. --- Lingua (journal). --- Lingua (play). --- Linguistics. --- Listening. --- Literature. --- Metaphor. --- Mneme. --- Monologue. --- Note (typography). --- Noun. --- Novelist. --- Observation. --- Orbe. --- Osbert Sitwell. --- Parody. --- Paul Muldoon. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Precedent. --- Preposition and postposition. --- Processing (programming language). --- Pronunciation. --- Proofreading. --- Prose. --- Proverb. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Reading (process). --- Recipe. --- Repetition (rhetorical device). --- Romance languages. --- Satire. --- Semiotics. --- Sensibility. --- Sincerity. --- Storytelling. --- Subjectivity. --- Subjunctive mood. --- Suggestion. --- Supplement (publishing). --- Temporality. --- The Other Hand. --- The Translator. --- The Various. --- Thought. --- Translation. --- Transliteration. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Verb. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Wyndham Lewis. --- Interpreters --- Linguists --- Translating services --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Auto-translation (Self-translation) --- Translating and interpreting --- Translating --- Lahiri, Jhumpa. --- Jhumpa Lahiri --- להירי, ג׳ומפה --- Lahiri, Nilanjana Svadeshna --- Lahiri, Nilanjana Sudeshna --- Lahiri, Jhumpa --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women