Una storia d'amore tra sogno e realtà. A love story between dream and reality
Author: Natalina Brizzi
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9788859170136
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The Magic Orange Tree
Author: Diane Wolkstein
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1997-01-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780805210774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Diane Wolkstein, herself a well-known storyteller traveled throughout the Haitian countryside in search of stories, she harvested a rich collection of twenty-seven tales, each of which is illuminated by fascinating introductory notes. From orange trees growing at the command of a child to talking fish, these stories present us with a world of wonder, delight, and mystery. With a foreword by Edwidge Danticat
Fascist Spectacle
Author: Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0520926153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.
Requiem
Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780811215176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntonio Tabucchi's novel Requiem is set in Lisbon on a torrid July day. The unnamed narrator - clearly a persona of Tabucchi himself - awaits a midnight appointment on a quay of the Tagus. His time is filled with a succession of encounters with residents of the Portuguese capital, and with late friends and relations. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem at once becomes a homage to a country and a people and a farewell to the past; requiescat in pace. In all this, the narrator himself remains shadowy, walking in a dream atmosphere. The midnight appointment approaches. The narrator meets at last with another unnamed writer, now long dead, though the evidence points to the great poet Fernando Pessoa. Requiem thus ends as an act of succession, the narrator's claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is of evasive and manifold personalities.
Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes
Author: Vincent Ilardi
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780871692597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. "By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western and central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today." Eyeglasses served an important technological function at both the intellectual and practical level, not only easing the textual studies of scholars but also easing the work of craftsmen/small bus. During the 15th cent. two crucial developments occurred: the ability to grind convex lenses for various levels of presbyopia and the ability to grind concave lenses for the correction of myopia. As a result, eyeglasses could be made almost to prescription by the early 17th cent. Illus.
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
Author: Pierre Destrée
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-07-20
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 1444337645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Author: William V. Harris
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9047406389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.
Indian Nocturne
Author: Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1989-03-17
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 081122144X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An enjoyable, well-crafted little book."—The Complete Review Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator, is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His search, which develops into a quest, takes him from town to town across the subcontinent.
In Spite of Plato
Author: Adriana Cavarero
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780415914475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosopher's texts--mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides--in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking.
Herculaneum, Past, Present & Future
Author: Charles Waldstein
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781016392655
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