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An Unexpected Journal: Imagination
Volume 2, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The Power of Imagination
Our imaginations are often treated as relics of our childhood. We are told to grow up and leave that sense of awe and wonder behind. What if these modernistic tendencies were entirely wrong? What if we were meant to live enchanted lives, seeing the world with the joy and amazement?
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 1: The Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 3: The American Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to...
by C. J. Herington
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The Prometheus Bound has proved to be both the most problematic and the most influential of extant Greek tragedies. Especially during the past two hundred years the character here created has transcended the boundaries of nationality, ideology, and race: Goethe, Shelley, Marx, and—to judge by other...
by Giuseppe Sermonti, Elémire Zolla, Giulio Giorello
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Giuseppe Sermonti da molti anni si dedica a una serrata riflessione intorno alla scienza e alla sua pretesa di elaborare la sola spiegazione valida della realtà. Denunciando la sua presenza sempre più invadente, compie una sorta di «percorso a ritroso», recuperando come termini di confronto i...
L'Odyssée d'Homère
Questionnaire de lecture
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Testez vos connaissances sur L’Odyssée d’Homère !Ce questionnaire de lecture sur L’Odyssée d’Homère vous aidera à :• vérifier votre compréhension du récit• faire des liens entre la réalité et la fiction• approfondir votre analyse de l’œuvreCette ressource comprend un questionnaire...
Ces lambeaux, gardiens de la mémoire des hommes. Papyrus et culture de l'Antiquité tardive
Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 7 janvier 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Prenant son véritable essor au xixe siècle avec la découverte de milliers de papyrus en Égypte, la papyrologie consiste à étudier les textes grecs et latins écrits sur un support transportable (papyrus, tessons de poterie, tablettes de bois ou parchemin). Alors que les inscriptions et les sources...
La fabrique du divin
Les Hymnes de Callimaque à la lumière des Hymnes homériques et des Hymnes épigraphes
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Parole investie de pouvoirs tournés vers les dieux et les hommes, les hymnes s'apparentent en même temps à une matière malléable travaillée par la main des poètes. La biographie divine qu'ils relatent porte en effet l'empreinte des projets politiques, poétiquers et religieux de la société...
by Alain Vaillant
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Baudelaire est ce singulier romantique pour qui le rire, contenu et latent, joue le rôle de la voix lyrique chez les autres poètes : il s'offre comme victime sacrificielle au public pour lui faire partager ses extases intérieures à travers la surface ironique de ses images versifiées. De telle...
Énée le mal-aimé
Du roman médiéval à la bande dessinée
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Les faits et gestes du héros de Virgile, ancêtre mythique d’Auguste, peinent à occuper le devant de la scène, comme si la postérité ne s’y reconnaissait pas. Les raisons d’un tel déséquilibre méritaient d’être interrogées. Traître en amour et traître à sa patrie, qu’il a livrée...