Anna Bonola 
Saggi di letteratura e linguistica [PDF ebook] 
(Dostoevskij, Mandel’štam e altri)

From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning – the ”immortality” of the subtitle …

A handbook in three volumes to a choice of essential books, writers and subjects in order to try to understand the world we live in, about "big questions" and possible answers, about books …

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by d …

What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature? This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresse …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling student and researche …

Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need t …

First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare”s day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and dra …

After the Meiji Restoration of 1868 Japan modernized rapidly, transforming itself perhaps more quickly than any other country in history. However, the change was not without its conflicts, many of th …

Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire. Bownas examines the many references to past empires in H …

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially …