Comment la cerner sans la limiter, l’expliquer sans l’amoindrir cette âme scrupuleuse et pudique ; comment la respecter sans la trahir, cette lucidité extrême qui, humblement, passionnément, choisit l’incertitude par seul refus des consolations et des preuves.
Desde una perspectiva histórica, reflejada en la literatura de la época, cobra importancia en la España del Siglo de Oro el concepto de cultura de defensa (anejo al nacimiento del Estado moderno) y se consolida el ejército como poder estable que recorre un largo camino desde su origen estamental hasta su progresiva profesionalización.
Desde una perspectiva histórica, reflejada en la literatura de la época, cobra importancia en la España del Siglo de Oro el concepto de cultura de defensa (anejo al nacimiento del Estado moderno) y se consolida el ejército como poder estable que recorre un largo camino desde su origen estamental hasta su progresiva profesionalización.
This volume studies concrete examples of how female monastic spirituality acquires allegorical-symbolic connotations when representing itself, the world or life in the monasteries of the Hispanic area.
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality questions what it would mean to think of sexualities transnationally and explores the way cultural ideas about sex and sexuality are translated across languages.
In his wonderful book, Ibrahim Zidane takes us on an amazing journey through the orchards of luxurious Arabic literature, where he rediscovers the most beautiful anecdotes and anecdotes that abound in ancient Arabic books.
This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture - canonical literature, children's fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children - to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress.
In the book by Alexander Piskunov, "Beyond the Threshold of the House," the main characters are amazing creatures of the animal and plant world that everywhere surround people.
My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.
Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.
For decades, feminist literature has been a means for women to express their personal issues, touching on new areas and addressing topics that were previously taboo or unspoken.
Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation-from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo-but less often appreciated is the extent to which they worked closely with US editors and translators, published actively with American presses, and often theorized transatlantic connections within their work.
Mario Vargas Llosa's intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical fiction.
Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon.
Florus’ dialogue, of which only a fragment survives, dealt with the literary issue of whether Virgil, who had already been a canonical author in the Roman school for decades, was an orator or a poet.
Monströse Figuren spielen in mittelalterlichen Texten eine große Rolle, ihre Relevanz und insbesondere Funktionsweise als poetologische Reflexionsfiguren ist allerdings bisher nicht umfassend betrachtet worden.
Although he had a short career, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in the span of seventeen years.
Obwohl Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841) und die an ihn anschließende Ästhetiktradition eine hegemoniale Stellung in den geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen des 19.
A biographer is, in a sense, the ghostwriter of someone else's life, trying to keep out of the way but inevitably leaving an imprint and being changed in the enterprise.
A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike.
In 'Reden gegen Verres' präsentiert Marcus Tullius Cicero eine Sammlung von fünf Reden, die er vor Gericht hielt, um den korrupten römischen Beamten Verres anzuklagen.
Anthony Trollope's 'The Palliser Novels & The Chronicles of Barsetshire: Complete Series' is a magnum opus in the realm of Victorian literature, encompassing a rich tapestry of political and social commentary.
