250 results for '"DANTE"'

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand...

Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante’s masterpiece, begun with Inferno and continued with Purgatorio. In Paradiso, Dante has been purified by his...

In this trenchant science-fiction screen treatment written in the mid-1970's, William S. Burroughs predicts a coming health care apocalypse: a horror show straight out of Dante, brought to a boil by...

Robinson brilliantly uses examples from the arts, history, and folklore to elucidate Einstein's monumental theory. The author's triumphs of analysis include clarifying the abstract concepts of time...

From praise for the 1965 edition:Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion...

Already considered a classic of Holocaust literature, The Seventh Well is a novel of total absorption, a heroic achievement, and one destined for literary transcendence. Fred Wander demonstrates that...

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this...

Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's work, in a continuous study of the vital currents...

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have...

Georg Büchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play about...

"Were Merwin not one of America's most admired poets, he would still be as famous as translators get." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In the foreword to his new translation [of Purgatorio],...

Vedanta is the most encompassing and open of the six orthodox systems of Hinduism and is considered the quintessence of Eastern thought and mysticism. An important part of modern intellectual...

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality-urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life,...

A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.A classic of...

Créditées d'une image favorable, tantôt perçues comme héroïnes tantôt comme victimes, les descendantes d'immigrants nord-africains, plus conventionnellement nommées " les beurettes ", sont loin...

Defining the status of the Jews in France before 1940, emphasizes the distinct and inferior position of the "foreign Jews" who immigrated from Eastern Europe and Greece during the 1920s-30s...

A vivid, intimate, and largely unseen photographic chronicle of one week in the life of jazz icon Billie HolidayIn 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer...