Author: James Palumbo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448205379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Tancredi is born on the same day that scientists discover a small planet they jokingly call Surprise. A planet so insignificant that it went unnoticed for millennia reveals, on closer inspection, that it will develop into supernova and is destined to be the instrument of Armageddon across the Universe. Made rich by his invention of the MoronOmeter, Tancredi decides to make it his mission to save the world and buys a ticket on a space ship making its maiden voyage to the stars. Beautifully illustrated and reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels and The Little Prince, Tancredi is in turn shocking and profound, undercut with the dark humour that made Tomas so scandalous and successful.
Tancredi
Author: James Palumbo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448205379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Tancredi is born on the same day that scientists discover a small planet they jokingly call Surprise. A planet so insignificant that it went unnoticed for millennia reveals, on closer inspection, that it will develop into supernova and is destined to be the instrument of Armageddon across the Universe. Made rich by his invention of the MoronOmeter, Tancredi decides to make it his mission to save the world and buys a ticket on a space ship making its maiden voyage to the stars. Beautifully illustrated and reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels and The Little Prince, Tancredi is in turn shocking and profound, undercut with the dark humour that made Tomas so scandalous and successful.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448205379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Tancredi is born on the same day that scientists discover a small planet they jokingly call Surprise. A planet so insignificant that it went unnoticed for millennia reveals, on closer inspection, that it will develop into supernova and is destined to be the instrument of Armageddon across the Universe. Made rich by his invention of the MoronOmeter, Tancredi decides to make it his mission to save the world and buys a ticket on a space ship making its maiden voyage to the stars. Beautifully illustrated and reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels and The Little Prince, Tancredi is in turn shocking and profound, undercut with the dark humour that made Tomas so scandalous and successful.
Tancredi, a Tale of the Opera
The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen
Author:
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409400325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409400325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.
The Works
Freud and Italian Culture
Author: Pierluigi Barrotta
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039118472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various fields of Italian culture, such as literary criticism, philosophy and art history, as well as discussing scholars who have used psychoanalytical methods in their work. The areas discussed include: the city of Trieste, in chapters devoted to the author Italo Svevo and the artist Arturo Nathan; psychoanalytic interpretations of women terrorists during the anni di piombo; the relationships between the Freudian concept of the subconscious and language in philosophical research in Italy; and a personal reflection by a practising analyst who passes from literary texts to her own clinical experience. The volume closes with a chapter by Giorgio Pressburger, a writer who uses Freud as his Virgil in a narrative of his descent into a modern hell. The volume contains contributions in both English and Italian.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039118472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores the different ways in which psychoanalysis has been connected to various fields of Italian culture, such as literary criticism, philosophy and art history, as well as discussing scholars who have used psychoanalytical methods in their work. The areas discussed include: the city of Trieste, in chapters devoted to the author Italo Svevo and the artist Arturo Nathan; psychoanalytic interpretations of women terrorists during the anni di piombo; the relationships between the Freudian concept of the subconscious and language in philosophical research in Italy; and a personal reflection by a practising analyst who passes from literary texts to her own clinical experience. The volume closes with a chapter by Giorgio Pressburger, a writer who uses Freud as his Virgil in a narrative of his descent into a modern hell. The volume contains contributions in both English and Italian.
The Works
Author: Walter Savage Landor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Visconti
Author: Henry Bacon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599603
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first thorough study of the Italian filmmaker, Luchino Visconti.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599603
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first thorough study of the Italian filmmaker, Luchino Visconti.
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
Author: Margaret Beissinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520210387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520210387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Translations of Power
Author: Elizabeth J. Bellamy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elizabeth J. Bellamy here casts new theoretical light on the Renaissance genre of the dynastic epic. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to illuminate the emergence of an epic "subjecthood," she focuses on Virgil's Aeneid, Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, and Spenser's Faerie Queene in an attempt to demonstrate how the operations of the unconscious may be interpreted within narrative history. Bellamy first evaluates the psychoanalytic approach to epic as a possible alternative to the new historicism. Turning to the Aeneid, she discusses Freud's'neurotic'relation to Rome as a founding image for a historical unconscious. She then interweaves a genealogy of epic subjecthood with the motif of the translatio imperii, likening the'translations of power'that constitute the translatio imperii to extended meditations on the fate of Troy throughout literary history. According to Bellamy, the epic genre manifests a repeated displacement and repression of its Trojan origins, and the doomed city of Troy represents the locus of epic's own narrative narcissism. Offering provocative analyses of epic temporality and of the function of the death drive in epic narrative, she concludes that dynastic epic may be seen as a structure of narcissistic desire which undermines the capacity of the epic to embody a fully articulated historical subject. Translations of Power will enliven current debates among scholars and students of Renaissance culture, literary theory, gender studies, and psychoanalytic criticism.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elizabeth J. Bellamy here casts new theoretical light on the Renaissance genre of the dynastic epic. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to illuminate the emergence of an epic "subjecthood," she focuses on Virgil's Aeneid, Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, and Spenser's Faerie Queene in an attempt to demonstrate how the operations of the unconscious may be interpreted within narrative history. Bellamy first evaluates the psychoanalytic approach to epic as a possible alternative to the new historicism. Turning to the Aeneid, she discusses Freud's'neurotic'relation to Rome as a founding image for a historical unconscious. She then interweaves a genealogy of epic subjecthood with the motif of the translatio imperii, likening the'translations of power'that constitute the translatio imperii to extended meditations on the fate of Troy throughout literary history. According to Bellamy, the epic genre manifests a repeated displacement and repression of its Trojan origins, and the doomed city of Troy represents the locus of epic's own narrative narcissism. Offering provocative analyses of epic temporality and of the function of the death drive in epic narrative, she concludes that dynastic epic may be seen as a structure of narcissistic desire which undermines the capacity of the epic to embody a fully articulated historical subject. Translations of Power will enliven current debates among scholars and students of Renaissance culture, literary theory, gender studies, and psychoanalytic criticism.