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Calvino's Combinational Creativity
Calvino’s Combinational Creativity examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, the volume asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature even as it investigates the intersection of his work with poets, writers, and literary movements. Each chapter explores a different aspect of Calvino’s creativity. Natalie Berkman examines Calvino as a reader of Ariosto and provides an analysis of mathematical combinations inspired by Vladmir Propp in Il castello dei destini incrociati. Discussing the poetic and scientific influence of the Argentine ...
Different Lives
Internationally acclaimed biographies are mostly written by Anglophone biographers. How does biography function as a public genre in the rest of the world? Different Lives offers a global perspective on the biographical tradition by seventeen scholars of fifteen different countries.
Cicero and Roman Education
Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.
The Reception of East Slavic Literatures in the West and the East
This volume, edited by scholars from diverse backgrounds, stems from the original convergence of various geo-cultural viewpoints on the reception of East Slavic cultures and literatures (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Soviet): European viewpoints are juxtaposed with those of the Japanese, Chinese, Israeli areas. The volume offers a broad look at the history of the perception of these literatures in Europe, Italy, and East Asia (with special attention to their reception in Japan and China). Contacts, influences, meditations, and difficulties in the perception of literary and cultural phenomena are the subject of original comparative analyses. The vitality with which Slavic-Eastern literatures have found echoes in very distant environments, but also the evolution of the self-perception of Ukrainian literature over time, are among the topics.
Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography
Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives, exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the four...
Morality in the Marketplace
In this essay, Paul van Geest pleads for a renewal of the old ties between economics and theology as scientific disciplines, so as to arrive at a deeper and richer anthropological fundament for economic research.
The Spirituality of Saint Augustine
Augustine has put an important mark on later Christian thinking. Moreover, he composed a lot of writings: more than eight hundred sermons, some three hundred letters, and a hundred works in which he unfolds his theological vision. This book presents some basic thoughts on the spirituality of this great church father. In different ways the author clarifies in which sense the spirituality of Augustine can be a breath of fresh air for our times. The conversion experience that Augustine went through ultimately became the experience of a growing trust in God who first loved us. Step by step, Augustine unfolded Christ in his many sermons and writings as a humble physician, mediator, and shepherd. Augustine developed a spirituality of togetherness: inner life is intrinsically linked to community life and apostolate. The spirituality of the Church as the Whole Christ is expressed in the loving care of the poor and vulnerable. His lived experience of the value of friendship and hospitality, the precious treasure of faith in Christ, the humble Physician, his concept of the Pilgrim-Church, and his vision of Mary, the dignity of the earth remain invaluable for the twenty-first century.
Reflections on Leadership and Institutions in Africa
This book contains different reflections on leadership and institutions in Africa. Drawing from different ideological and methodological orientations, the book highlights how leadership and institutions have shaped and continue to shape the trajectory of Africa’s political and economic development. The book explores different epochs in Africa’s history, from the era of colonialism to the period of nationalist movements, and up to post-colonial Africa. Essays in the volume engage with major actors and important institutions that defined each era. By presenting various reflections and representations of leadership and institutions in Africa, this book attempts to make the connection betwee...
Sconfinando
Sconfinando nasce dal viaggio, dal tentativo di superare i confini geografici, e nel viaggio accompagna il lettore alla scoperta di quattro continenti sulle tracce del poeta che prima di lui li ha visitati; i testi di Giovanni Ferri traggono spunto da spazi reali e sono arricchiti da intuizioni profonde su Africa ed Estremo Oriente, intessuti di riflessioni sul passato e il presente dell?Italia e dell'Europa, venati di ironia sulle idiosincrasie statunitensi.È anche un altro il senso dello sconfinare, quello dell?autore che, con questa sua prima collezione di poesie, attraversa e supera il suo linguaggio specialistico, quello dell?economista, che pure traspare a volte a impreziosire i componimenti e le riflessioni. Perché la poesia non è solo fatta di lirismo, ma anche di sguardi penetranti, di comprensione dei meccanismi, anche economici, alla base di ogni cultura.
La bontà delle malerbe
Per secoli le erbe spontanee hanno fornito cibo, condimento e medicina alle popolazioni locali. La pubblicazione che ha curato Felice Suma rappresenta un prezioso contributo per conoscere, tutelare e valorizzare le risorse naturali del nostro territorio nel rispetto della tradizione rurale di questi bellissimi luoghi da fruire e preservare. Facciamone un buon uso!
