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Property Law in Renaissance Literature
©2005 Conference proceedings -
Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation
The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes©2013 Monographs -
Italian World Heritage
Studi di letteratura e cultura italiana / Studien zur italienischen Literatur und Kultur (1300-1650)©2019 Edited Collection -
Imago Triumphalis
The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Italian Renaissance Rulers©2004 Monographs -
Italian Perceptions of the Ottomans
Conflict and Politics through Pontifical and Venetian Sources©2011 Monographs -
Contemporary Critical Concepts and Pre-Enlightenment Literature
ISSN: 1074-6781
"Writers who worked before the beginning of rationalist universalism's triumphal period which may be ending now-explored issues of consciousness, ideology, and culture that recent criticism and critical theory, using various specialized vocabularies of concepts, have returned to the center of literäry and social criticism. These early modern figures often anticipated some of our clilemmas; How to manipulate an apparently quite mutable world and, at the same time, preserve belief in an immutable "centered" self? How to reconcile rationalist universalism with personal and cultural stability? Rene Descartes's postulate of man as the master and proprietor of an increasingly built world is fundamentally incompatible with his effort to underwrite man as a stable philosophical subject. Man's technical and linguistic mastery devours his "transcendent subjectivity." Students of literature are now using the ideas of what Larry Riggs calls "post-enlightenment thinkers"-Max Horkheimer, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Rene Girard, and others-to elucidate the implicit and explicit debates about rationalism that are embedded in literary works. This trend is most usefully seen as a renewal of contact with preoccupations that were quite current in medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century European literature. To date, however, innovative criticism has focused an more recent literature. Some post-structuralists-most notably Jacques Lacan-have tried their hand at interpreting early works. Their ideas are interesting, but their knowledge of the periods in question is often weak. Manuscripts on Elizabethan and Restoration theater, French, Italian, and German writers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, and die seventeenth-century French dramatists and moralists are welcome. "
3 publications
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Il teatro «pre-classicista» nelle corti padane
©2022 Monographs -
«Dreaming again on things already dreamed»
500 Years of Orlando Furioso (1516–2016)©2019 Edited Collection -
Keen and Violent Remedies
Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's "Novellino</I>©2000 Monographs -
Politics, Patriotism and Language
Niccolò Machiavelli’s «Secular Patria» and the Creation of an Italian National Identity©2005 Monographs -
From «Beowulf» to Caxton
Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts©2011 Edited Collection -
Errances et Cohérences dans les anamorphoses et les trompe-l’oeil en France
enjeux et pouvoirs de 1470-1600©2023 Monographs -
Studies in the Humanities
Literature - Politics - SocietyThe Studies in the Humanities series welcomes manuscripts discussing various aspects of the humanities. The series' emphasis is on medieval and Renaissance literatures with a focus on Western civilizations and cultures. Submissions deal-ing with linguistics, history, politics, or sociology within the same time frame and geographical bounds are also encouraged. Manuscripts may be submitted in English, French, or Italian. The Studies in the Humanities series welcomes manuscripts discussing various aspects of the humanities. The series' emphasis is on medieval and Renaissance literatures with a focus on Western civilizations and cultures. Submissions deal-ing with linguistics, history, politics, or sociology within the same time frame and geographical bounds are also encouraged. Manuscripts may be submitted in English, French, or Italian. The Studies in the Humanities series welcomes manuscripts discussing various aspects of the humanities. The series' emphasis is on medieval and Renaissance literatures with a focus on Western civilizations and cultures. Submissions deal-ing with linguistics, history, politics, or sociology within the same time frame and geographical bounds are also encouraged. Manuscripts may be submitted in English, French, or Italian.
54 publications
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European Voices in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill
©2016 Edited Collection -
A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio – A Study of Their Times and Works – (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) – Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa©2016 Monographs -
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and the German Romantics
©2005 Monographs -
The Shaping of English Poetry
Essays on 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Langland, Chaucer and Spenser©2010 Monographs