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Studi e saggi eBook Series

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  • Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

    by Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta ...
    Series Book 157 - Studi e saggi
    This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi's and Samuel Beckett's pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett's monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two ... Read more

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

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  • What Art Is

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Read more

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  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

    by Günter Berghaus, Monica Biasiolo, Francesca Bravi, Sascha Bru, Silvia Contarini, Eleonora Conti, Patricia Gaborik, Laura Greco, Kyle Hall, Stefano Magni, Florian Mussgnug, Davide Podavini, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Beatrice Sica, Teresa Spignoli, Dirk Vanden Berghe, Federico Luisetti, Marjorie Perloff, Walter L. Adamson ...
    Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement, the events leading up to the movement, and the lasting impact it has had as well as the ... Read more

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  • The Pleasure in Drawing

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    The renowned philosopher contemplates the medium of drawing in "a book full of dazzling insights, imaginative curves and provocative renewals" (Sarah Clift, University of King's College).In 2007, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy curated an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. This book, originally written for that exhibition, explores the interplay between drawing and form—viewing the act of ... Read more

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  • Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures

    by Leonard Barkan ...
    Series series Essays in the Arts
    The skirmish between painting and poetry—from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and ShakespeareWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets—and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? In ... Read more

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  • The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film

    by Barbara Alfano ...
    The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As ... Read more

    PHP2,411.39

  • In Dante's Wake

    Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

    by John Freccero ...
    Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

    Edited by Peter Bondanella, Andrea Ciccarelli ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are ... Read more

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  • Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an overview and interpretation.The volume features Martin Heidegger on Van Gogh's ... Read more

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  • Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

    Cinema Year Zero

    by Giuliana Minghelli ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural production in the service of memorialization and comprehension for a nation that had neither a ... Read more

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  • The Madness of Vision

    On Baroque Aesthetics

    by Christine Buci-Glucksmann ...
    Translated by Dorothy Z. Baker ...
    Series Book 36 - Series in Continental Thought
    Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and ... Read more

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