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The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology
Once considered the largest and most extensive source of biographies in the English language, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology contains information on nearly every historical figure, notable name, and important subject of mythology from throughout the world prior to the 20th century. Spanning all fields of human effort-from literature and the arts to philosophy and science-and touching on topics from multiple areas of mythological study, including Norse, Greek, and Roman, this extraordinary reference guide continues to be one of the most thorough and accurate collections of biographical data ever created. Combining mythological and biographical entries into a single, compr...
A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture
This volume translates and examines a rare conspectus of architectural and decorative taste published at the very end of the eighteenth century. Baron Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz’s pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten Völker in Beziehung auf die innere Auszierung der Zimmer und auf die Baukunst) is little known today. Racknitz, a German aristocrat, traced an early global history of design and ornament through discussions of what he distinguished as twenty-four regional historical tastes. He included a diverse group of ancient classical civilizations, European nations and peoples, Eastern civilizations, and more exotic reaches of the world. This sensitive and informed translation by Simon Swynfen Jervis includes reproductions of the original color plates and essays on Racknitz’s biography, his publication, and the deeper German Enlightenment context, making this an essential volume for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, decorative arts, and garden design.
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New Theatre Quarterly 77: Volume 20, Part 1
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Böttiger und der archäologische Diskurs
Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem archäologischen Diskurs der Goethezeit und den literaturkritischen und literarhistorischen Positionen des Archäologen und Publizisten Karl August Böttiger (1760–1835)? Der Beantwortung dieser Frage dient eine Rekonstruktion des europäischen archäologischen Diskurses im Zeitraum von 1788 bis 1835 auf der Grundlage der Briefwechsel Böttigers mit Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) und dem französischen Archäologen Désiré Raoul-Rochette (1790–1854). Böttigers Beiträge verfolgend rekonstruiert Sternke die Konstituierung des archäologischen Diskurses in denen von Philologie, Journalismus, Klassizismus usw. Die Begründung der ersten archÃ...
