Author: Daniela GrossiPublisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : it
Pages : 0
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Un albero per amico. Lettura del disegno con le essenze dello Spirito degli Alberi
Author: Daniela GrossiPublisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : it
Pages : 0
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The Work of Art
Author: Gérard GenettePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801482724
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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What art is--its very nature--is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence--its physical presence--and transcendence--the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.
The House of Others
Author: Silvio D'ArzoPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810160019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The illegitimate son of a fortune teller, Ezio Comparoni (1920-52) never knew his father, rarely left his home town, and admitted no one to his home. His deliberate obscurity was compounded by his use of many pseudonyms, including Silvio d'Arzo, under which he wrote the remarkable novella and three stories collected in The House of Others. The novella The House of Others is among the rare perfect works of twentieth century fiction. In a desolate mountain village an old woman visits the parish priest, ostensibly to ask about dissolving a marriage. Gradually, as she probes for information on "special cases"--cases in which what is obviously wrong can also be irrefutably right--it becomes clear her true question is whether or not she might take her own life. The question is metaphysical, involving not only the woman's life but the priest's; and to it he has no answer.
The Sword and the Pen
Author: Konrad EisenbichlerPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268078653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler sets forth a complex and original interpretation of the experiences of these three educated noblewomen and their contributions to contemporary culture in Siena by looking at the emergence of a new lyric tradition and the sonnets they exchanged among themselves and with their male contemporaries. Through the analysis of their poems and various book dedications to them, Eisenbichler reveals the intersection of poetry, politics, and sexuality, as well as the gendered dialogue that characterized Siena's literary environment during the late Renaissance. Eisenbichler also examines other little-known women poets and their relationship to the cultural environment of Siena, underlining the exceptional role of the city of Siena as the most important center of women's writing in the first half of the sixteenth century in Italy, and probably in all of Europe. This innovative contribution to the field of late Renaissance and early modern Italian and women's studies rescues from near oblivion a group of literate women who were celebrated by contemporary scholars but who have been largely ignored today, both because of a dearth of biographical information about them and because of a narrow evaluation of their poetry. Eisenbichler's analysis and reproduction of many of their poems in Italian and modern English translation are an invaluable contribution not only to Italian cultural studies but also to women's studies.
The Senses and the intellect
Author: Alexander BainPublisher:
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Category : Mind and body
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Parallel Botany
Author: Leo LionniPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Leo Lionni here presents ... [an] imaginary plant kingdom .. Lionni marshals all the facts, all the fabulous lore and scholarship surrounding parallel plants ... And, too, he provides his own elegant, detailed, and scientifically accurate drawings of each nonexistent plant species"--Cover.
For the Maintenance of Landscape
Author: Mia LecomtePublisher: Essential Translations
ISBN: 9781550713718
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most contemporary poets wear their cultural and artistic influences on their sleeve. Picking up a book in an English language bookstore, it is easy to see where the poet is coming from, either geographically, or culturally (ironic and formal; confessional and free etc). This may seem reductive until you read a book like the one you have in your hands. Put simply, Mia Lecomte is a quietly dazzling poet on her own terms. She is fed by multiple cultures, she is widely read, but her writing is unique and absolutely genuine. You won't have read anything like this.
Lines of Light
Author: Daniele Del GiudicePublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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An Orchid Shining in the Hand
Author: Lorenzo CalogeroPublisher:
ISBN: 9780986106125
Category : Italian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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English translation and translator's preface A2015 by John Taylor.
Between Rivers
Author: Maurizio GodorecciPublisher: Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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