The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante 0691227187, 9780691227184

The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante 9780691227160

Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC,

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The Cultural Return 9780520951822

This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and

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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo 9781786498731

Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized W

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The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy 9781472548375, 9781441124760

To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy?

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Roman marriage: iusti coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian 9780198148906

This book explores the practicalities, cultural assumptions, and affective possibilities of marriage during the later Re

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Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian 0198149395, 9780198149392

This book explores the practicalities, cultural assumptions, and affective possibilities of marriage during the later Re

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Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics 9781442690295

Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inqu

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Scott, Byron and the poetics of cultural encounter 9781403994745, 1403994749

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounteris an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engag

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Frontiers of heresy: the Spanish Inquisition from the Basque lands to Sicily 9781139085144, 9780521374682, 9780521522595

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Rites of return: diaspora poetics and the politics of memory 9780231150903, 9780231150910, 9780231521796, 0231150903, 0231150911, 0231521790

The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past.Rites of Retu

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