Search Results - "Petrarch"

The future without a past the humanities in a technological society / by Russo, John Paul

Table of Contents: “…The future of the humanities in a technological society -- The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas -- The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling -- Belief and sincerity -- The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the new criticism -- The disappearance of the self : contemporary theories of autobiography -- Don Delillo : ethnicity, religion, and the critique of technology.…”
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The future without a past the humanities in a technological society / by Russo, John Paul

Table of Contents: “…The future of the humanities in a technological society -- The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas -- The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling -- Belief and sincerity -- The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the new criticism -- The disappearance of the self : contemporary theories of autobiography -- Don Delillo : ethnicity, religion, and the critique of technology.…”
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Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form / by Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance -- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes -- States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in the Canterbury tales -- Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse -- Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet -- Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.…”
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Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form / by Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance -- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes -- States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in the Canterbury tales -- Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse -- Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet -- Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.…”
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The sword and the pen women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. …”
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The sword and the pen women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. …”
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Making animal meaning

Table of Contents: “…Animal writes : historiography, disciplinarity, and the animal trace / Etienne Benson -- Mobility and the making of animal meaning : the kinetics of "vermin" and "wildlife" in southern Africa / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies / Analía Villagra -- The Renaissance transformation of animal meaning : from Petrarch to Montaigne / Benjamin Arbel -- On the trail of the devil cat : hunting for the jaguar in the United States and Mexico / Sharon Wilcox Adams -- Animal deaths and the written record of history : the politics of pet obituaries / Jane Desmond -- Golden retrievers are white, pit bulls are black, and chihuahuas are Hispanic : representations of breeds of dog and issues of race in popular culture / Meisha Rosenberg -- Interspecies families, freelance dogs, and personhood : saved lives and being one at an assistance dog agency / Avigdor Edminster -- Animal meaning in T.S. …”
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Making animal meaning

Table of Contents: “…Animal writes : historiography, disciplinarity, and the animal trace / Etienne Benson -- Mobility and the making of animal meaning : the kinetics of "vermin" and "wildlife" in southern Africa / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies / Analía Villagra -- The Renaissance transformation of animal meaning : from Petrarch to Montaigne / Benjamin Arbel -- On the trail of the devil cat : hunting for the jaguar in the United States and Mexico / Sharon Wilcox Adams -- Animal deaths and the written record of history : the politics of pet obituaries / Jane Desmond -- Golden retrievers are white, pit bulls are black, and chihuahuas are Hispanic : representations of breeds of dog and issues of race in popular culture / Meisha Rosenberg -- Interspecies families, freelance dogs, and personhood : saved lives and being one at an assistance dog agency / Avigdor Edminster -- Animal meaning in T.S. …”
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Classical constructions papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean /

Table of Contents: “…Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. …”
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Classical constructions papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean /

Table of Contents: “…Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. …”
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Answerable Style : The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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Answerable Style : The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome : Readings in Propertius and his Genre / by Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph), 1933-

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A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome : Readings in Propertius and his Genre / by Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph), 1933-

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