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A proposito di Jane Austen. Orgoglio e pregiudizio compie 200 anni

Tue, 7 May 2013 18:32:16 PST

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Jane Austen si racconta

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 21:30:38 PST

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La vita di Jane Austen, ricostruita in gran parte attraverso le sue lettere. In esse troviamo un ritratto della classe medio-alta di quel tempo e vivaci descrizioni degli stili di vita e delle persone che ha incontrato nel corso della sua esistenza. Problemi di famiglia, eventi mondani, balli, flirt e giudizi tranchant e sarcastici su uomini e donne. Jane Austen ci racconta tutto questo con una p ...

The Marriage Plot

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:29:55 PST

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The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard ...

La chiave a stella

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:29:58 PST

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Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi

Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:34:33 PST

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Sei interventi, tenuti tra il 1992 e il 1993 alla Harvard University, nei quali Eco, partendo dall'esperienza del lettore, si propone di indagare lediverse aspettive e modalità con cui si leggono i romanzi.

Io Tiresia. Metamorfosi di un profeta

Wed, 5 Dec 2012 2:26:39 PST

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The Classical Tradition

Wed, 5 Dec 2012 2:25:45 PST

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A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949.

Middlesex

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 1:53:34 PST

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'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974 ...My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license ...records my first name simply as Cal.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and t ...

Almanacco Bur 2010. Resistenza del classico

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 1:14:57 PST

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Poems

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:51:56 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Poems by T. S. Eliot

Orientalismo

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:31:09 PST

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Muovendo dall'accezione più ampia del termine - orientalismo come insieme delle discipline accademiche che studiano usi, costumi, letteratura e storia dei popoli orientali - Said affronta l'idea della diversità ontologica tra Oriente e Occidente ispiratrice di tante pagine di autori diversi e lontani,da Eschilo a Victor Hugo, da Dante a Marx, chiudendo l'indagine sul complesso di istituzioni crea ...

Come funzionano i romanzi

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:30:58 PST

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"Mi auguro che questo libro ponga domande teoriche ma offra risposte pratiche o, per dirla in altri termini, rivolga domande da critico ma fornisca risposte da scrittore."

Il canone occidentale

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:30:10 PST

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Midnight's Children

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:26:08 PST

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Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other "midnight's children" - all born in the initial hour of India's independence ...

The Children's Book

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:01:27 PST

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But all these had really wanted love and marriage. None had wanted anything so — so destructive — as to be a doctor. Why had Dorothy never said anything ot ...

Neither Here Nor There

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:45:45 PST

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L'ombra del vento

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:39:24 PST

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Una mattina del 1945 il proprietario di un modesto negozio di libri usati conduce il figlio undicenne, Daniel, nel cuore della città vecchia di Barcellona al Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati, un luogo in cui migliaia di libri di cui il tempo ha cancellato il ricordo, vengono sottratti all'oblio. Qui Daniel entra in possesso del libro "maledetto" che cambierà il corso della sua vita, introducendolo ...

Cittadini a 5 stelle

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:31:37 PST

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Federico Pizzarotti, il nuovo sindaco di Parma, racconta quella che chiama la "vittoria dei cittadini" intervistato da Matteo Incerti, giornalista che dal 2005 segue il movimento lanciato da Beppe Grillo. Un viaggio tra pensieri, idee, aneddoti, per capire che quanto accaduto non è frutto del caso o di un'ondata di qualunquismo, ma del sogno di un nuovo modo di fare politica, che metta al centro, ...

Ecocucina

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:02:41 PST

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Lo sapevate che utilizzando le parti dei cibi che siamo abituati a scartare è possibile risparmiare anche il 20% sulla spesa? Il comune modo di cucinare genera una grande quantità di scarti alimentari: si eliminanon bucce, foglie, gambi che non solo sono commestibili, ma spesso sono anche più saporiti e ricchi di nutrienti delle parti considerate "nobili". Grazie a questo libro scoprirete come o ...

Casa pulita naturalmente

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 0:26:44 PST

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Da accurate indagini risulta che i livelli di contaminazione chimica presentinelle abitazioni sono fino a 70 volte superiori a quelli dell'aria aperta eche il 90% di tutti gli avvelenamenti accidentali si verifica in casa.Inoltre, dei 4 milioni di prodotti chimici per la pulizia della casa creatidal 1915 a oggi, solo di 1 su 5 sono stati testati i potenziali effettitossici. Eppure, secondo numero ...

La mia vita a impatto zero

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 0:46:02 PST

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Ufficio di scollocamento

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 1:40:31 PST

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È una notizia, non una provocazione: il primo Ufficio di scollocamento è nato all'inizio del 2012 da un'idea elementare degli autori di questo libro. Il lavoratore infelice e frustrato, che si sente un estraneo in gabbia, è anche poco produttivo. Aiutarlo a scollocarsi è un vantaggio per la collettività e un'occasione per la persona. Non è un discorso da salotto, è un tema politico. Gli autori s ...

Journal 1942-1944

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 3:35:43 PST

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Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:49:17 PST

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Smettila di incasinarti!

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:52:38 PST

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged

Sat, 9 Jul 2011 21:26:43 PST

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This book brings together 33 writers, past and present, on just what it is about Jane Austen that continues to delight, amuse, console and provoke us. Here Jay McInerny confesses to serial crushes on most of Austen's heroines, and celebrates her belief in true love. Amy Hecherling reveals how she transformed "Emma" into the hit romantic comedy "Clueless", and Martin Amis muses on "Pride and Preju ...

Shakespeare

Wed, 6 Jul 2011 0:29:28 PST

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Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:35:47 PST

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Prepariamoci

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:46:15 PST

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Mai tante crisi tutte insieme: clima, ambiente, energia, risorse naturali, cibo, rifiuti, economia. Eppure la minaccia della catastrofe non fa paura a nessuno. Come fare? Ci vuole una nuova intelligenza collettiva. Stop a dibattiti tra politici disinformati o in conflitto d'interessi. Se aspettiamo loro sarà troppo tardi, se ci arrangiamo da soli sarà troppo poco, ma se lavoriamo insieme possiamo ...

Thomas Hardy

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:35:36 PST

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Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This seminal biography, by our leading biographer, covers Hardy's illegitimate birth, his rural upbringin ...

The White Devil

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 1:11:58 PST

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"Merchant of Venice"

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 3:38:32 PST

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The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated ...

Jules e Jim

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 1:17:31 PST

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 1:16:34 PST

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La seconde édition des Fleurs du mal, privée des six "pièces condamnées" en correctionnelle pour immoralité, paraît en 1861. Romantiques par la mélancolie à l'ombre de laquelle ils s'épanouissent, parnassiens par leur culte du Beau et la rigueur de leur composition (ils sont dédiés à Théophile Gautier), ces poèmes illustrent la théorie des correspondances horizontales entre les éléments visibles ...

A Portrait of Lancaster

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 1:03:39 PST

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American skin

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:05:58 PST

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Una guida fondamentale e imperdibile per tutti gli amanti del Boss. Non si era mai visto un libro così preciso, completo, competente. Qualunque cosa cerchiate su Bruce Springsteen la troverete: dalla data di un concerto, anche la più remota e dimenticata, al brano musicale raro e minore, ai personaggi che hanno attraversato il suo mondo, a tutti i progetti che hanno coronato la sua carriera. Ques ...

The Brontes

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:20:49 PST

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Modern Love

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:19:05 PST

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This poem is a work of 50 verses, or poems, all of 16 lines, spoken by the narrator who painfully discovers how unreal and idealistic his ideas about women are. This title is part of the Syrens series of miniature classics.

Le silence de la mer et autres récits

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:59:25 PST

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La Porte Etroite

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:58:36 PST

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Poesie d'amore del '900

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:57:58 PST

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L'amore, che nel mondo classico era considerato la divinità più antica e misteriosa, è da sempre un tema privilegiato della poesia. [...]

Le lettere d'amore del profeta

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:30:51 PST

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Il sistema periodico

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:44:06 PST

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Une mort très douce

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:04:30 PST

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Jane Austen an Unrequited Love

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 4:05:13 PST

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The first book to reveal the identity of the mystery lover Jane Austen met in Devon in 1802

Jane Austen

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:19:50 PST

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'Tanner...demonstrates the value of close reading...he can see what has rarely been noticed.' Bruce Stovel, The International Fiction Review '...characteristically witty and effective...offers fascinating and occasionally brilliant readings of some of the finest novels in English.' Carolyn Wilkerson Bell, Magill's Literary Annual 1987

The Lost tradition

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:19:25 PST

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When we seek the literature of mothers and daughters, we are looking for a lineage not traced in any genealogy. We are tracking our roots back to ancient ...

Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 4:04:14 PST

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Un importante manuale che offre un quadro vasto e analitico della storia della letteratura e della cultura inglese dalle origini a oggi. Nel rispetto della progressione storica, il testo apre una prospettiva ampia e approfondita che include anche le interpretazioni più recenti, attribuendo pari dignità alle molte differenti voci della cultura inglese. La Prima parte indaga il contesto storico nel ...

The Watsons

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:12:01 PST

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Estetica della letteratura

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 18:28:51 PST

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Imagining Characters

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:33:07 PST

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In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The results are nothing less than an education in ...

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:32:47 PST

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Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory provides a completely fresh and original introduction to literary studies. Bennett and Royle approach their subject by way of literary works themselves (a poem by Emily Dickinson, a passage from Shakespeare, a novel by Salman Rushdie), rather than by way of abstract theoretical ideas and isms. In 32 short chapters they focus on a range of famili ...

Literary Theory

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:31:16 PST

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Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:30:12 PST

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The Age of Revolutions and its aftermath is unparalleled in English literature. Its poets include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; its novelists, Jane Austen and Scott. But how is it that some of these writers were apparently swept up in Romanticism, and others not? Studies of Romanticism have tended to adopt the Romantic viewpoint. They value creativity, imagination and o ...

Notes from a Small Island

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:29:48 PST

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Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate: "I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." That com ...

Poesías completas

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:30:19 PST

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Presagios (1923) fue el libro que lo situó en un lugar destacado dentro de la generación del 1927, formada por Vicente Aleixandre y Rafael Alberti entre otros. Le siguiron Seguro azar (1929). Fábula y signo (1931). Pedro Salinas (1891-1951), en palabras de Jorge Guillén, fue un 'poeta del alma'. Sus poesía amorosa resuena y traspasa el cambio de siglo: 'Tú vives siempre en tus actos./Con la pun ...

Poemi di Alberto Caeiro

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:17:26 PST

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Il romanzo di formazione

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:37:13 PST

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Nel secolo d'oro della narrativa europea, da Goethe a Puskin, da Stendhal aJane Austen, da Manzoni a Dickens e Flaubert, la gioventù saleprepotentemente alla ribalta della scena letteraria: è la gioventùproblematica e inquieta che nasce dallo sfaldarsi delle società tradizionali,divenendo figura simbolica alla quale la cultura occidentale si affida perrappresentare l'i ...

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 5:05:30 PST

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This is a completely new type of dictionary that will help students write and speak natural-sounding English.

Corso di linguistica generale

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 5:05:07 PST

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Edizione arricchita dalle ricerche testuali di Godel e di Engler e corredatadel puntuale 'Commento' di Tullio De Mauro, diventato ormai parte integrantedel testo anche nell'edizione francese e nelle versioni in altra lingua.Ferdinand de Saussure (Ginevra, 1857-1913) non completò mai il Cours al qualeaveva atteso a partire dai suoi vent'anni. Nella forma attuale esso è laricostruzion ...

Routledge Companion to Critical Theory

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:08:37 PST

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The Routledge Companion of Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time. By exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines "theory" encourages us to develop a deeper understanding of how we approach the written word. This book defines what is generically referred to as "critical theory," and guides readers through some of th ...

The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:07:28 PST

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Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies-related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Routledge Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major voices in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the his ...

The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:06:45 PST

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What is "deconstruction"? What authors are considered "postmodern novelists"? The Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought combines a series of 14 in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet truly readable guide to the complex world of postmodernism. Following full-length articles on Postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism, lifesyles, televisi ...

Mythologies

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:56 PST

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A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:39 PST

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Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, and modern cu ...

The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:22 PST

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Distinguished international contributors examine the major figures in Critical Theory, including Adorno, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers. They survey the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, and reveal the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical sc ...

Don Juan

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:25:39 PST

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:25:05 PST

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1900. Byron is regarded as the ultimate Romantic and whose name has become synonymous with brooding passion. Although his private life was considered shocking, his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is considered one his poetic masterpieces. See other Byron works available from Kessinger Publishing.

Beppo

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:22:24 PST

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Testo originale a fronte

Manfred

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:21:59 PST

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Composto tra il 1816 e il 1817, quando Lord Byron dovette fuggiredall'Inghilterra inseguito dallo scandalo dei suoi rapporti con la sorellastraAugusta, il dramma Manfred è incentrato sulla figura di un eroe faustiano,esperto di scienza e di magia, tormentato dal rimorso per una colpainconfessabile: l'incesto con la sorella Astarte, cui Manfred ha spezzato ilcuore. Ambientato tra i castelli ...

The Spanish Tragedy

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:20:39 PST

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This version of Kyd's work does not include the modernized spellings, etc.

Byron and Spain

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:20:02 PST

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This study considers the relation between Byron's texts and Spain. It is both an illustration of Byron's journey to Iberia and an examination of Byron's images of Spain in poetry, prose and letters. Byron's treatment of Spain is subject to many of the distinctive pressures of Romantic culture, showing an involvment with nationalism, imperialism, and the exotic as well as an acute sense of the pol ...

Tom Stoppard

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 0:18:15 PST

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For well over thirty years, Tom Stoppard has consistently held his position as one of England's most admired dramatists. And for this edition of Faber Critical Guides, Jim Hunter examines four of Stoppard's finest works in the context of his entire oeuvre. Hunter writes, "Stoppard's plays present a unique interplay between fun today and the most basic and serious challenges to human understanding ...

Byromania

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 0:53:48 PST

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This collection of essays, by leading Byronists, explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic, from the poet's self-representations to his ...

Le Garzantine – Simboli

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 0:53:28 PST

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Dizionario di mitologia e dell'antichità classica

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 0:52:31 PST

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Practical English Usage

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 0:51:38 PST

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An excellent guide to the problem areas of English.

Romantic Biography

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 2:23:56 PST

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Romantic biography lives - despite the so-called "death of the author", popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. This work brings together Romantic biographers and critics to consider some of the key questions surrounding this publishing phenomenon. What precisely is Romantic biography? What is the relationship between it and Romantic writings more gener ...

The Cambridge Companion to Byron

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 2:16:48 PST

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Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron s ...

Spoken and Written Language

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 2:15:53 PST

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This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing systems, to a comparative treatment of spoken and written language, contrasting the prosodic features and grammatical intricacy of speech with the high lexical density and grammatical metaphor or writing.

Byron's Heroines

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 2:14:32 PST

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This study is a feminist critique of the archetypal male Romantic poet, Lord Byron. The heroines of the narrative and dramatic verse are considered, not from a biographical perspective, but by relating these feminine stereotypes to contemporary ideologies of sexual difference. The concern of this book is not merely to unmask the way canonical texts by men legitimize patriarchal power structures, ...

Lord Byron e le maschere della scrittura

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 3:31:46 PST

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Biography

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:11:54 PST

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For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues to confound biographers today? Above all, how is it that biographies and autobiographies play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Wes ...

Le donne e la scrittura

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:35:33 PST

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Virginia Woolf ebbe una grande reputazione come critica: le sue recensioni e le sue riflessioni apparivano regolarmente sulle più prestigiose riviste letterarie. Con estremo rigore ma anche con la leggerezza di chi non vuole incappare in rivendicazioni e ideologie, Virginia Woolf inventò a ogni passo un nuovo modo di fare critica letteraria, accostando la qualità della scrittura a dettagli biogra ...

Virginia Woolf, Women and Writing

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:35:20 PST

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Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women's writing in particular. This spectacular collection of essays and other writings does justice to those efforts, offering unique appraisals of Aphra Beh ...

Jane Austen

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 4:55:31 PST

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Elizabeth Jenkins presents this biography of Jane Austen, providing insight into the subject and her works.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:18:24 PST

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Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors: the seemingly commonplace, man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier, Francis T ...

The Jane Austen Book Club

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:14:48 PST

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Six people five women and a man meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable under the guidi ...

Jane Austen

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:14:34 PST

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Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of Natio ...

Becoming Jane Austen

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:06:35 PST

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Jane Austen was a great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton. Jon Spence's new biography focuses its attention away from the wider literary and intellectual currents that informed her writing and instead concentrates on the immediate influences on her life and ...

Jane Austen

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:06:24 PST

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The prizewinning novelist Carol Shields, whose novels have themselves been compared to the works of Jane Austen, gives us a beautifully written, perceptive look at the life of one of the finest and most popular English novelists of all time. Jane Austen spent the first 25 years of her life in Steventon and the last eight in nearby Chawton, and did most of her writing in these two places. She neve ...

Literary Lives

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 1:24:13 PST

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This book meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' loves by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body, or illness.

Mapping Lives

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 1:04:21 PST

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Why biography? This collection of essays on the problems and functions of biography, and particularly the biography of writers, thinkers and artists, investigates a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture and society. In the last century, it has been a controversial subject, as old models of biographical writing were attacked and superseded, while critics and theorists ques ...

A Companion to Jane Austen

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:50:43 PST

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Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. * Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship * Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculati ...

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:42:04 PST

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This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century nove ...

Jane Austen

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:40:11 PST

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Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers: * an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Austen's texts, including film adaptations, from publication to the present * an in ...

The Literary Tourist

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:11:16 PST

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You've already read the book -- why visit the place? Yet thousands every year make pilgrimage to literary graves, houses, and landscapes located across Britain. This book, available in paperback for the first time, tells the story of how readers started visiting sites with bookish associations, describing the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain around authors f ...

Body Parts

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:16:10 PST

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As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in connection with their works; the new and changing ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and a ...

Janeites

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:14:40 PST

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Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. Jane Austen has long been considered part of a great literar ...