Ancient Classical category: 1324 books

Cura e traduzione di Mario Ajazzi Mancini. Riprendere Orfeo. Euridice. Hermes in traduzione, dopo alcune storiche versioni che hanno caratterizzato con risolutezza l’impatto di Rilke in Italia – da Leone Traverso e Vincenzo Errante, a Antonio Prete, passando per Giaime Pintor e molti altri –...

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both the theory and practice of imitation....

Following in the tradition of recent work by cultural geographers and historians of maps, this collection examines the apparently familiar figure of Robin Hood as he can be located within spaces that are geographical, cultural, and temporal. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

You are on a Mission.  That Mission? Acquire a Fairy Companion of your very own. The only trouble is, you haven't the vaguest notion where to begin your search. Or what fairies like most in a Slightly Irregular But Nonetheless Lovable Sidekick such as yourself. Look no further....

Seven Miles of Steel Thistlesis a collection of essays on fairy tales, folk tales and ballads by novelist and blogger writer Katherine Langrish. It is the first non-fiction title by Langrish, whose popular blog of the same name, where she discusses folklore and fantasy from an academic perspective,is...

No Western text boasts a life as long as the "Iliad", and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry....

The epic tales of medieval France, called chansons de geste, or "songs of deeds", provided the chief means of cultural and imaginative expression in the French language for over one hundred and fifty years (c.1100-1250), during one of the most significant periods of social change in the...

Dickens Novels as Verse adds to Dickens criticism by being unlike most Dickens criticism. It argues that some of the great Dickens novels (A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations) are held together by book-length patterns in topics that, like alliteration in lyric verse, are...

I giovani non hanno ancora su tutte le questioni Dantesche la loro teorica piccina e cara, secondo l'espressione Omerica, o almeno non la tengono in bocca (mi si passi il paragone) come i cani l'osso; che, sia pure spolpato e mondo, se altri cani s'appressano, quelli ringhiano. E amano la scienza...

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Il principe opera completa di Niccolò Machiavelli in versione integrale lettura agevolata in formato ebook

Ogni epoca ha i suoi classici, di un paese, un gruppo di paesi, un continente, il mondo intero. Antichi, ma anche moderni e contemporanei, in lingua originale o in traduzione, essi costituiscono il serbatoio dei valori di riferimento per le ideologie piú diffuse, nutrono le mentalità, contribuiscono...

Nelle Operette Morali, Leopardi dà vita ad un mondo popolato da figure mitologiche, fiabesche e allegoriche argomentando, con ironia e distacco, le più complesse tematiche esistenziali. Il ricorso all'ironia intensifica la profondità dei concetti espressi e l'estrema lucidità con cui l'autore...