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Baiae: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano; Translated by Rodney G. Dennis; Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.; Hardcover 2006

The Ballad and Oral Literature: Joseph Harris, Editor; Paperback 1991 / Hardcover 1991

Benjamin's -abilities: Samuel Weber; In this book, Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language—and one of the most penetrating and comprehensive accounts of Benjamin’s work ever written.; Hardcover 2008

Death in Quotation Marks: Svetlana Boym; Hardcover 1991

Delirious Milton: Gordon Teskey; The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective, the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective, the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world.; Hardcover 2006

Essays in Honor of James Edward Walsh: Edited by William H. Bond; A collection of 15 essays in honor of James Edward Walsh, Keeper of Printed Books at Houghton Library, on his sixty-fifth birthday. The book includes a tribute by William H. Bond and contributions by Paul Raabe, Philip Hofer, Eckehard Simon, Rodney G. Dennis, Karl S. Guthke, Eugene Weber, Ruth Mortimer, Eleanor M. Garvey, Anne Anninger, Hugh Amory, John Lancaster, Roger E. Stoddard, and many more.; Paperback 2005

Famous Women: Giovanni Boccaccio; Edited and translated by Virginia Brown; After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.; Hardcover 2001

Fictions of Romantic Irony: Lilian R. Furst; This book makes a new approach to romantic irony by envisaging it in a broad European context in relation both to earlier concepts of irony and to traditional uses of irony in narration. Through an analysis of six major European narratives of the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century it illustrates the reciprocal interplay of theory and practice, and the complex and central role that irony assumes as a shaping aesthetic factor. Using a wide perspective and an original synchronic disposition of texts within its historical framework, it identifies the distinctive philosophical and literary features of romantic irony.; Hardcover 1984

Humanist Educational Treatises: Edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf; The disciplines now known as the humanities emerged during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational reform movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and scholars. This volume contains four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from these efforts: Pier Paolo Vergerio, "The Character and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth"; Leonardo Bruni, "The Study of Literature"; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), "The Education of Boys"; and Battista Guarino, "A Program of Teaching and Learning."; Hardcover 2002

In Defence of the Imagination: Helen Gardner; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Invectives: Francesco Petrarca; Edited and translated by David Marsh; Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. His four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives.; Hardcover 2004

Invectives: Francesco Petrarca; Translated by David Marsh; Petrarca, one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Petrarch’s four Invectives, written in Latin, were inspired by the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The new translations in this volume include the first English translation of three of the four invectives.; Paperback 2008

Language in Literature: Roman Jakobson; Krystyna Pomorska, Editor; Stephen Rudy, Editor; This book is the first comprehensive presentation in English of Jakobson's major essays on the intertwining of language and literature: here the reader will learn how it was that Jakobson became legendary. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language in literature--a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

Letters, Volume 1, Books I-IV: Angelo Poliziano; Edited and translated by Shane Butler; Angelo Poliziano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' Medici. His correspondence gives us an intimate glimpse of the revival of classical literature from the pen of a man at the very center of the Renaissance movement. This volume illuminates his close friendship with the philosopher Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence concerning the composition and reception of his Miscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology. It also includes his famous and moving letter on the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.; Hardcover 2006

Love as Passion: Niklas Luhmann; Jeremy Gaines, Translator; Doris L. Jones, Translator; This book takes us back to when passionate love took place exclusively outside of marriage, and Luhmann shows by lively references to social customs and literature how a language and code of behavior were developed so that notions of love and intimacy could be made the essential components of married life. This intimacy and privacy made possible by a social arrangement in which home is where the heart is provides the basis for a society of individuals--the foundation for the structure of modern life. Love is now declared to be unfathomable and personal, yet we love and suffer--as Luhmann shows--according to cultural imperatives.; Hardcover 1987

Marxism and Literary History: John Frow; Frow's book is a novel contribution to Marxist literary theory, proposing a reconciliation of formalism and historicism in order to establish the basis for a new literary history. Through a critique of his forerunners in Marxist theory, Frow seeks to define the strengths and the limitations of this tradition and then to extend its possibilities in a radical reworking of the concept of discourse.; Hardcover 1986

The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: Gísli Sigurdsson; Translated by Nicholas Jones; This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures.; Paperback 2004

Melancholy and Society: Wolf Lepenies; Jeremy Gaines, Translator; Doris L. Jones, Translator; Judith N. Shklar; In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class. His larger topic is, in fact, modernity in general.; Hardcover 1992

The Mobilization of Intellect: Martha Hanna; France went to war in 1914 not only in the trenches but also in the mind. When President Poincaré called upon the intellectual elite to contribute to the war effort with "their pens and their words," the union sacrée of scholars and writers--including Henri Bergson, Pierre Duhem, Ernest Lavisse, and Emile Durkheim--united French intellect against German Kultur. This is the first study of the power of French pens and words during and after the Great War.; Hardcover 1996

Momus: Leon Battista Alberti; Edited and translated by Sarah Knight; Edited by Virginia Brown; Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the first full translation into English.; Hardcover 2003

Monstrous Imagination: Marie-Hélène Huet; Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Moscow Diary: Walter Benjamin; Richard Sieburth, Translator; Preface by Gershom Scholem; Gary Smith, Editor; The life of the literary critic and philosopher Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey included an eventful trip to the Soviet Union. His stunning account of that journey is unique among his writings for the frank, merciless way he struggles with his motives and his conscience.; Paperback 1986 / Hardcover 1986

On Histories and Stories: A. S. Byatt; In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, A.S. Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing her own translation of historical fact into fiction, or exploring the recent European revival of interest in myth, folklore, and fairytale, Byatt's abiding concern here is with the interplay of fiction and history.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

PHCC, 18/19, 1998 and 1999: Edited by Michael Linkletter; Edited by Diana Luft; Edited by Hugh Fogarty; Edited by Ian Richmond; Edited by Pat Malone; Edited by Laura Radiker; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Hardcover 2007

Pascal: Robert J. Nelson; The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic thinker in academic quarrels. Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.; Hardcover 1982

Platonic Theology, Volume 1, Books I-IV: Marsilio Ficino; Translated by Michael J. B. Allen; Edited by James Hankins; Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.; Hardcover 2001

Platonic Theology, Volume 2, Books V-VIII: Marsilio Ficino; Translated by Michael J. B. Allen; Edited by James Hankins; Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.; Hardcover 2002

Platonic Theology, Volume 3, Books IX-XI: Marsilio Ficino; Translated by Michael J. B. Allen; Edited by James Hankins; Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.; Hardcover 2003

The Practice of Diaspora: Brent Hayes Edwards; A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations through which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international alliances.; Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 1, 1981: Edited by James E. Doan; Edited by Cornelius G. Buttimer; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 10/11, 1990 and 1991: Edited by William J. Mahon; Edited by Phillip Freeman; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 12, 1992: Edited by Barbara Hillers; Edited by Jerry Hunter; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006 / Hardcover

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 12, 1992: Edited by Barbara Hillers; Edited by Jerry Hunter; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006 / Hardcover

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 13, 1993: Edited by Barbara Hillers; Edited by Pamela Hopkins; Edited by Jerry Hunter; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 14, 1994: Edited by A. Hopkins; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 15, 1995: Edited by Kathryn Chadbourne; Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 16/17, 1996 and 1997: Edited by Kathryn Chadbourne; Edited by Heather Larson; Edited by Pat Malone; Edited by Laura Radiker; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in professional academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by a team of students in the department, grown in size, and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Hardcover 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 20/21, 2000 and 2001: Edited by Hugh Fogarty; Edited by Diana Luft; Edited by Charlene Shipman; Edited by Benjamin Bruch; Edited by Kathryn Izzo; Edited by Katharine Olson; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Hardcover 2007

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 3, 1983: Edited by John T. Koch; Edited by Jean Rittmueller; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 4, 1984: Edited by Paul Jefferiss; Edited by William J. Mahon; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 5, 1985: Edited by Paul Jefferiss; Edited by William J. Mahon; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 6/7, 1986 and 1987: Edited by Brian R. Frykenberg; Edited by Kaarina Hollo; The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.; Paperback 2006

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 8/9, 1988 and 1999: Edited by William J. Mahon; Hardcover 2006

Real and Imagined Worlds: Morroe Berger; Hardcover

Renaissance Genres: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Editor; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

The Secular Scripture: Northrop Frye; Frye discerns in the innumerable romantic narratives of the Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of action taking the form of a cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance as a whole is thus seen as forming an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God.; Hardcover 1973 / Paperback

Selections from Cultural Writings: Antonio Gramsci, Editor; David Forgacs, Editor; Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Editor; William Boelhower, Translator; Though he died as Benito Mussolini's prisoner, leaving only newspaper articles and fragmentary notes, Antonio Gramsci is now seen as the most significant Marxist thinker since Lenin. This volume is the first English translation of his writings on culture, organically and coherently edited from his journalism and his Prison Notebooks.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991

Short Epics: Maffeo Vegio; Edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam; Edited and translated by James Hankins; Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works.; Hardcover 2004

Silvae: Angelo Poliziano; Edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi; Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well as of his contemporaries writing in Italian.; Hardcover 2004

Six Memos for the Next Millenium: Italo Calvino; "Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function."- Italo Calvino; Hardcover

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods: Umberto Eco; In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

A Social and Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe: Gerold Ambrosius; William H. Hubbard; This comprehensive single-volume source of information on the social and economic transformations in Europe over the past hundred years, fills a critical gap in our knowledge. It examinations population trends, social structures, and economic structures, and offers an integrative overview of changes in both the organization of the economy and the role of the state in economic management.; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1989

Strange Dislocations: Carolyn Steedman; Strange, deformed, and piercingly beautiful, the child acrobat Mignon sprang onto the public stage in 1795. No child at all, but a figment of Goethe's fiction, Mignon appeared and reappeared in countless forms and guises over the next century. The meaning of this compelling creature is at the center of Carolyn Steedman's book, a brilliant account of how nineteenth-century notions of childhood gave birth to the modern idea of a self.; Hardcover 1998

The Taming of Romanticism: Virgil Nemoianu; Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values.; Hardcover 1984

Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare: Angus Fletcher; This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.; Hardcover 2007

Twilight of the Literary: Terry Cochran; In Western thought, the modern period signals a break with stagnant social formations, the advent of a new rationalism, and the emergence of a truly secular order, all in the context of an overarching globalization. Terry Cochran links these developments with the rise of the book as the dominant medium for recording, preserving, and disseminating thought.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2005

The Unknown Distance: Edward Engelberg; Engelberg argues that Conscience and Consciousness have slowly drifted apart from their once nearly identical meanings: inward knowledge of oneself. This process of separation, he shows, reached a critical point in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the age of "dualisms." He demonstrates from a wide range of examples in literature and philosophy how such a division shaped the attitudes of important writers and thinkers.; Hardcover 1972

Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante: Peter Dronke; Hardcover

The World Republic of Letters: Pascale Casanova; Translated by M. B. DeBevoise; In this book, Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

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