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The Challenge of Keats
Two centuries after his birth in October 1795, John Keats occupies a secure place in the canon of great literature of the western world. But for much of the nineteenth century and even during periods of the twentieth century, his right to such a position was not so firmly established. On the bicentenary of Keats's birth, various Italian scholars, along with specialists from English-speaking countries, decided to take advantage of the occasion not only to render homage to a poet whose greatness now seems unchallenged but also to accept his continuing challenge to his readers. The contributors to this volume re-examine some of the harshest criticisms of Keats, from Byron onwards, and some of t...
John Clare's Romanticism
This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period – in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare’s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, ‘poesy’, and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.
The Shakespearean Name
This book comprises ten essays on Shakespearean drama, the majority of which focus on the problem of language and more particularly on issues pertaining to names and their meanings. Four of these essays deal specifically with Romeo and Juliet, and examine the work in different sets of terms: as a reply to the aspersions against Shakespeare contained in Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, as a representative site for a kind of archaeology of meaning, as an experiment in the poetics of identity, and as a meditation on the interrelation between rival conceptions of time. Other works subjected to extended analyses in independent essays are Richard II, Julius Caesar and Macbeth, all of which are interpreted as tragedies of language in which the paradoxes inherent in names and naming are enacted in the personal dilemmas of the protagonists. The final two essays in the volume, comparative rather than exegetical in approach, explore the intricate web of allusion linking The Tempest with Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Jonson's The Alchemist, and consider the contribution that all three plays make to the Renaissance exploration of the role played by art and knowledge in human life.
Encontras-me no Fim do Mundo
Jean-Luc Champollion é aquilo a que os franceses chamam um homme à femmes. O encantador proprietário de uma galeria bem-sucedida ama a arte e a vida, é muito sensível ao encanto das mulheres, que de bom grado lho retribuem, e vive num dos bairros da moda de Paris, em perfeita harmonia com o seu fiel dálmata Cézanne. Tudo corre bem até que, uma da manhã, Jean-Luc encontra no correio um envelope azul, e a sua vida muda para sempre. A missiva é uma carta de amor, ou melhor, uma das declarações de amor mais apaixonadas que o galerista já viu, mas não vem assinada: a misteriosa autora decidiu esconder-se e convida-o a descobrir quem é. Jean-Luc fica inicialmente confuso, mas decide...
Expressive Techniques
«This workbook aims at examining and practicing different writing techniques working on different text-types which mostly appear here in the form of articles, letters and brochures. Prior to the proper use of a writing technique, it is important both to recognize the purpose of the source text and to clarify the predominant function that the text vehicles. With regard to this, a complex but practical analysis is provided by Jakobson’s model of communication, which explains communication by means of six factors and related communicative functions».
Solar buildings
Oggi in tutto il mondo nel campo dell'architettura e dell'urbanistica si stanno studiando, sperimentando e realizzando sistemi basati sulle energie rinnovabili. Questo non è soltanto una risposta alla crisi energetica che coinvolge tutto il nostro pianeta ma anche un rinnovato senso etico dell'agire in forma economica e in armonia con l'ambiente, con l'adozione di soluzioni essenziali, prive di sprechi che vivano come esseri biologici stabilendo relazioni non di contrasto ma d'amicizia con l'ambiente. Questo atteggiamento si riallaccia a tradizioni plurimillenarie che dall'antica civiltà egizia trovano momenti straordinari in quella romana, islamica e nel rinascimento ma anche nei più umi...
The Rose and the Lotus
Raja Rao, one of the founding figures of Indian English literature, is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers a fresh critical investigation into both his short stories and his novels. Powerfully contradicting the long-held perception of Raja Rao as a mere metaphysical writer and the true bard of quintessential Indianness, projected by many critics of the first Commonwealth generation over three decades, Stefano Mercanti posits Rao’s fiction in terms of its dialogic interaction – the ‘partnership’ – between Western and Eastern cultural traditions and demonstrates how it evolves during the course of his oeuvre on both the philosophical and the political...
Con te fino alla fine del mondo
Adoro le donne che non riescono a dormire e di notte restano sveglie a sognare a occhi aperti!“Mon cher Monsieur, vi starete chiedendo chi è che vi scrive. Non ve lo dirò. Non ancora. Rispondetemi, e provate a scoprirlo. Forse vi aspetta un’avventura che farà di voi l’uomo più felice di Parigi. La Principessa.” Così comincia la lettera che stravolgerà la vita di Jean-Luc Champollion, l’affascinante proprietario di una galleria di successo in rue de Seine. Molto sensibile al fascino delle donne, che lo ricambiano volentieri, Jean-Luc vive in uno dei quartieri più alla moda di Parigi, in perfetta armonia con il suo fedele dalmata Cézanne. Tutto procede al meglio, tra vernissa...
