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Polish Manuscripts
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Polish Manuscripts
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Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular culture, and postmodern theories of language as a potentially aggressive, injurious act. Although Habermas places satirists like Swift and Pope in the public sphere, this book investigates their participation in clandestine strategies of attack in a world understood to be harboring dangerous secrets. Authors of anonymous pamphlets as well as major figures including Behn, Dryden, Manley, Swift, and Pope, share at times what Swift called the writer's "life by stealth."
Foreign Correspondence
Though writers and readers have long agreed that travel does not only broaden the mind, but that it is also useful to report on such an experience, the question of what to report on and how has remained a matter of debate. To think of travel and travel writing as “foreign correspondence” is to apply, metaphorically, a phrase that has its own complex and overlapping history in journalism, politics, and international culture. The chapters of this volume focus on this notion, seen here as a dual problematic oscillating between the private and the public, whether as letters or other forms of writing sent from abroad. From Mandeville’s notorious Travels to fin de siècle Hispanic writing, t...
Яркий закат Речи Посполитой: Ян Собеский, Август Сильный, Станислав Лещинский
Герои этой книги – три короля Речи Посполитой во второй половине XVII – первой половине XVIII века. Анализ индивидуальных качеств, государственной и военной деятельности Яна Собеского, Августа Сильного и Станислава Лещинского органично вплетается в канву столетий барокко и Просвещения. Переходное, противоречивое, бурное и динамичное время, совпавшее с упадком Польши, во многом опр...
