Author: Anna CellinesePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Sentieri, Colline, Labirinti
Author: Anna CellineseDissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Scientific Autobiography
Author: Aldo RossiPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Postscript by Vincent Scully Based on notebooks composed since 1971, Aldo Rossi's memoir intermingles his architectural projects, including discussion of the major literary and artistic influences on his work, with his personal history. His ruminations range from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual. The illustrations-photographs, evocative images, as well as a set of drawings of Rossi's major architectural projects prepared particularly for this publicationwere personally selected by the author to augment the text.
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.
Modern Italian Poets
Author: Jacob BlakesleyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442665661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his Quaderno di traduzioni and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the “translation notebook.” The quaderni were the work of some of Italy’s foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved fundamental for their aesthetic and cultural development. Modern Italian Poets shows how the new genre shaped the poetic practice of the poet-translators who worked within it, including Giorgio Caproni, Giovanni Giudici, Edoardo Sanguineti, Franco Buffoni, and Nobel Prize-winner Eugenio Montale, displaying how the poet-translators used the quaderni to hone their poetic techniques, experiment with new poetic metres, and develop new theories of poetics. In addition to detailed analyses of the work of these five authors, the book covers the development of the quaderno di traduzioni and its relationship to Western theories of translation, such as those of Walter Benjamin and Benedetto Croce. In an appendix, Modern Italian Poets also provides the first complete list of all translations and quaderni di traduzioni published by more than 150 Italian poet-translators.
Book Was There
Author: Andrew PiperPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books, print or digital. From medieval manuscript books to today’s playable media and interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read, while also observing his own children as they face the struggles and triumphs of learning to read. In doing so, he uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our reading materials—how we hold them, look at them, share them, play with them, and even where we read them—and shows how reading is interwoven with our experiences in life. Piper reveals that reading’s many identities, past and present, on page and on screen, are the key to helping us understand the kind of reading we care about and how new technologies will—and will not—change old habits. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world.
Sicily
Author: Giuseppe QuatriglioPublisher: Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
ISBN: 1881901785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c
Author: Edward LearMargaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman
Author: Ellen McWilliamsPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754660279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In her study of Margaret Atwood, Ellen McWilliams explores how the Bildungsroman has been appropriated by women writers in the second half of the twentieth century. Early works by Atwood are placed in dialogue with more recent novels, thus furthering our
My Fathers Scar
Author: Michael CartPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312181376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
As he enters his first gay relationship, Andy recalls key incidents in his life.