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TL;DR: The unfinished author: Dante's rhetoric of authority in the Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia Albert Russell Ascoli as mentioned in this paper, and the unfinished author's dialogue of authority with the poet Teodolinda Barolini.
Abstract: List of charts List of contributors Preface Note on translations Chronological table 1. Life of Dante Giuseppe Mazzotta 2. Dante and the lyric past Teodolinda Barolini 3. Approaching the Vita nuova Robert Pogue Harrison 4. The unfinished author: Dante's rhetoric of authority in the Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia Albert Russell Ascoli 5. Dante and the empire Charles Till Davis 6. Dante and Florence John M. Najemy 7. Dante and the classical poets Kevin Brownlee 8. Dante and the Bible Peter S. Hawkins 9. The theology of Dante Christopher Ryan 10. A poetics of chaos and harmony Joan Ferrante 11. Introduction to Inferno John Freccero 12. Introduction to Purgatory Jeffrey T. Schapp 13. Shadowy prefaces: an introduction to Paradiso Rachel Jacoff 14. Dante and his commentators Robert Hollander 15. Dante in English David Wallace Further reading Index.

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TL;DR: Acknowledgements Chronology 1. Contexts 2. The traditional background 3. Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw 4. Social themes and realistic formulae 5. The comic mirror - tradition and innovation 6. Poetic drama - verse, fantasy and symbolic images.
Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Chronology 1. Contexts 2. The traditional background 3. Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw 4. Social themes and realistic formulae 5. The comic mirror - tradition and innovation 6. Poetic drama - verse, fantasy and symbolic images 7. Present tense - feminist theatre Index.

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TL;DR: The language and politics of postmodernism are analysed, and particular sites' - painting, film, dance, fashion, architecture and photography - are philosophically examined in this paper, which should be of interest to advanced students of philosophy, art criticism and comparative literature.
Abstract: The language and politics of postmodernism are analysed, and particular sites' - painting, film, dance, fashion, architecture and photography - are philosophically examined. This book should be of interest to advanced students of philosophy, art criticism and comparative literature.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between journalism, modernity, and narrative fiction in Spanish America, and the ethics of writing: Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Poniatowska Notes Bibliography of works cited Index.
Abstract: Acknowledgements 1. Journalism, modernity, and narrative fiction in Spanish America 2. Journalism and (dis)simulation in El Periquillo Sarmiento 3. Sarmiento and sensationalist journalism: Facundo as crime story 4. Journalism versus genealogy: Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones peruanas 5. Journalism and the self: the Modernist chronicle 6. Journalism and the ethics of writing: Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Poniatowska Notes Bibliography of works cited Index.



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TL;DR: The authors examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare, and provides a rich understanding of the codes so familiar to the playwright and his audience.
Abstract: Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare. Across the canon, wooing may command either a casual reference or a central position in the action, but no play escapes a connection of some kind. Instead of taking a fixed position on an institution intended to stabilize the commonwealth, Shakespeare constantly shifts position, in a kaleidoscope of caricature, criticism, acceptance, subversion, or indifference. For general readers and specialists alike, this work supplies a rich understanding of the codes so familiar to the playwright and his audience--an understanding essential for an appreciation of the subtleties of his art. Delving into primary sources, social history, demography, and literary criticism, the author offers the widest possible range of both Renaissance and modern views on the most crucial experience of Elizabethan culture. Besides correcting or illuminating the interpretations of Shakespeareans, this book offers valuable material for any area of research on the English Renaissance that touches on courtship.


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TL;DR: This 13th-century narrative poem is an example of the epic in the style of the "mester de clericia" as discussed by the authors, and is based on the deeds of Fernan Gonzales, the first Count of Castile.
Abstract: This 13th-century narrative poem is an example of the epic in the style of the "mester de clericia". It is based on the deeds of Fernan Gonzales, the first Count of Castile, and is believed to have been composed by a cleric of the monastery of Arlanza. The poem was left incomplete, but the lacunae of the manuscript have been filled in by material from Spanish chronicles.


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TL;DR: This article explored the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design, including the semiotic flows of paradox and contradiction, the patterns of infinities, the limits of natural and mathematical languages, and the narrative function in scientific theory.
Abstract: This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by revealing how early twentieth-century and contemporary mathematics and physics also participated in a similar exploration. Topics treated include the semiotic flows of paradox and contradiction, the patterns of infinities, the limits of natural and mathematical languages, and the narrative function in scientific theory. Against this, background, Merrell provides incisive readings of Borges's complex fiction and essays.


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TL;DR: The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's 'Commedia' PDF, txt, DjVu, doc, ePub formats are available.
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TL;DR: Whitman and his readers through the century Notes Index as mentioned in this paper, a collection of essays written by 19th-century American writers and their readers, including Leaves of Grass and the Reader.
Abstract: Preface Part I. Whitman and the Conditions for Authorship in Nineteenth-century America: 1. Homage to the tenth muse 2. The evolution of American literary culture, 1820-50 3. Going forth into literary America 4. 'I am a writer, for the press and otherwise' Part II. Whitman, Leaves of Grass and the Reader: 5. Intentions and ambitions 6. Whitman and the reader, 1855 7. The public response 8. Whitman and the reader, 1856 9. 'Publish yourself of your own personality' 10. 1860: 'year of meteors' 11. Whitman and his readers through the century Notes Index.

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TL;DR: The authors examines the distinctions in various Shakespeare plays between wild nature and subduing civilization and shows how gender stereotypes are affixed to those distinctions and transports the reader to three kinds of 'wilds' that impinge on Shakespeare's literary world: the mysterious 'female Wild', often associated with the malign and benign forces of [nature]; the animal Wild, which offers both reassurance of special human status and the threat of the loss of that status; and the barbarian Wild populated by marginal figures such as the Moor and the Jew as well as various hybrids'.
Abstract: Socrates is said to have thanked the gods that he was born neither barbarian nor female nor animal. His words conjure up the image of a human being, a Greek male, at the center of the universe, surrounded by 'wild' and threatening forces. To the Western imagination the civilized standard has always been masculine, and taken for granted as so until recently. Shakespeare's works, for all their genius and astonishing empathy, are inevitably products of a culture that regards women, animals, and foreigners as peripheral and threatening to its chief interests. 'We have been so hypnotized by the most powerful male voice in ourl anguage, interpreted for us by a long line of male critics and teachers, that we have seen nothing exceptionable in his patriarchal premises', writes Jeanne Addison Roberts. If the culture-induced hypnosis is wearing off, it is partly because of studies like \"The Shakespearean Wild\". Plunging into a psychological jungle, Roberts examines the distinctions in various Shakespeare plays between wild nature and subduing civilization and shows how gender stereotypes are affixed to those distinctions. Taking her cue from Socrates, Roberts transports the reader to three kinds of 'Wilds' that impinge on Shakespeare's literary world: the mysterious 'female Wild, often associated with the malign and benign forces of [nature]; the animal Wild, which offers both reassurance of special human status and the threat of the loss of that status; and the barbarian Wild populated by marginal figures such as the Moor and the Jew as well as various hybrids'. \"The Shakespearean Wild\" brims with mystery and menace, the exotic and erotic; with male and female archetypes, projections of suppressed fears and fantasies. The reader will see how the male vision of culture - exemplified in Shakespeare's work - has reduced, distorted, and oversimplified the potentiality of women. Jeanne Addison Roberts, a professor of Literature at American University, is the author of \"Shakespeare's English Comedy: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' in Context\" (1979), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.


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TL;DR: In this article, Dowling revisited the early days of the American republic by examining major works of four early American poets of the circle known as the Connecticut Wits and their British forerunners, including John Trumbull, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight and Joel Barlow.
Abstract: \"Poetry\", once despaired W.H.Auden, \"makes nothing happen\". That, however, is a modern condition, argues William Dowling, for in the 18th century poets helped topple corrupt governments and fuel revolutions. In this work on the creation and early days of the American republic, Dowling revives the literary and intellectual atmosphere of the period by examining major works of four early American poets of the circle known as the Connecticut Wits and their British forerunners. Understanding the work of John Trumbull, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight and Joel Barlow, says Dowling, requires a knowledge of the underlying assumptions about poetry and society that gave their work meaning in their own time - namely that ideology was an autonomous and dynamic force in the historical process and that language and literature were potent ideological weapons. These Connecticut poets, he argues, saw themselves as the inheritors of the tradition of the English Opposition poets of the Augustan period. In fact, Opposition poets such as Pope, Swift and Thomson must be seen as the moving spirits of the American Revolution, for their warfare against Sir Robert Walpole's government not only set an example for the Connecticut poets but also contributed to the political climate in England that allowed the revolution in the American colonies to flourish. Like their Opposition predecessors, the Connecticut poets drew inspiration from the classical republican tradition of Horace, Livy and Virgil. They viewed their country as both new and old - as an original creation inspired by the vision of a virtuous past that served as a disinterested model for the moral regeneration of society. In addition to the classical republican tradition, Dowling discusses other ideologies and myths of the Opposition and Connecticut poets - from the alliance of \"commonwealthman\", Tory and Leicester House opposition in England and the ideology of the enlightenment to the myth of \"translation\" and the Puritan mythology of the completion of the Reformation and the beginning of the millennium in America. As he traces the ideological connections between the Opposition and Connecticut poets, Dowling denies any distinctions between \"American\" and \"British\" 18th century-literature, claiming that the writers inhabited a single transatlantic universe of thought. Only when read in this light, he says, can one appreciate the power of the Connecticut poets' language and understand their linuistic and prosodic borrowings from the Opposition poets. It is also through this recovered significance of the Connecticut poets that one can best understand the importance of Joel Barlow's break from the group's Federalism to align himself with the Jeffersonians.

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TL;DR: Garson as mentioned in this paper argues that the fiction of Hardy's major novels is shaped by a pervasive anxiety about the body and about bodily disintegration, which shapes both Hardy's powerful depiction of nature and his ambivalent treatment of women.
Abstract: In this fresh reading of seven of Hardy's major novels, Marjorie Garson argues that the fiction is shaped by a pervasive anxiety about the body and about bodily disintegration. Taking as its starting-point the many somatic images and metaphors within the novels, the book uncovers a subtext about the threat of bodily and psychic dissolution which shapes both Hardy's powerful depiction of nature and his ambivalent treatment of women. This approach focuses concentration on aspects of the fiction which are often underemphasized, especially the figurative dimension of Hardy's language and his treatment of his minor characters; and accounts for peculiarities in tone, plotting, and characterization which have always attracted critical attention. A study which will substantially change the way the texts are interpreted, Hardy's Fables of Integrity will be of particular interest to students of critical theory and to feminists, as well as to anyone attracted by the peculiar power of the Hardyan voice.

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TL;DR: Etude sur les sources victoriennes de la phrenologie et de l'eschatologie contextualisant la depravation du traitre alcoolique dans The Tenant of Wildfell Hall de A. Bronte as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Etude sur les sources victoriennes de la phrenologie et de l'eschatologie contextualisant la depravation du traitre alcoolique dans The Tenant of Wildfell Hall de A. Bronte