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Freedom and the Arts
"Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state.
The Poet and the King
The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as "the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of La Fontaine," is being offered for the first time in an English translation. La Fontaine, whose works are still memorized by French schoolchildren, is regarded by Fumaroli, and countless others, as the greatest French lyric poet of the seventeenth century. La Fontaine is best known, however, for his fables and Contes. Marc Fumaroli's grand study is almost as much about Louis XIV as it is about La Fontaine. He provides a detailed analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the king and his ministers to enforce an official cultural style. Fumaroli's wor...
A Biographical Bibliography
Knjiga je digitalizirana verzija kartotečnih listov o osnovnih podatkih raziskovalcev in obiskovalcev krasa, ki jih je vrsto let zbiral zgodovinar krasoslovja, Trevor Shaw. V njej je po abecedi razvrščenih nekaj nad 4600 oseb iz vsega sveta, najzgodnejša imena so še iz antike. Struktura gesel je zelo osnovna: imenu sledijo biografski podatki in kratke opis, ob koncu pa je izbrana bibliografija, kot vir tega zapisa.
Conscience and Conversion
A unique exploration of religious liberty in the aftermath of the French Revolution through the lens of individual conversion stories
