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Book Synopsis Le Fate di AcquaBosco by : Swonild Ilenia Genovese
Download or read book Le Fate di AcquaBosco written by Swonild Ilenia Genovese and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogni foresta incantata, nel cui cuore si cela una splendida cascata rombante, è AcquaBosco, e tutte le valli ed i campi sono dimora delle Fate, creature fantastiche ed irreali. Comunque appaiano alle nostre menti sognanti, pazze, oscure, con colorate ali di farfalla o con ali trasparenti come vetro, queste splendide, fragili creature avvolte dal mistero, difficili da scorgere se non col potere della nostra mente, ammalieranno ancora a lungo noi uomini mortali e ci porteranno ad immaginarle e sognarle ancora e ancora, alimentando la nostra fantasia e allontanandoci dallo squallore della realtà e dalla monotonia della vita umana...
Book Synopsis Terrorists as Monsters by : Marco Pinfari
Download or read book Terrorists as Monsters written by Marco Pinfari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the chilling threats of the "ISIS vampire" to the view of al-Qaeda as the "Frankenstein the CIA created," terrorism seems to be inextricably bound with monstrosity. But why do the media and government officials often portray terrorists as monsters? And perhaps more puzzling, why do terrorists sometimes want to be perceived as such? This book, the first of its kind, examines the use of archetypal metaphors of monstrosity in relation to terrorism, from the gorgons of Robespierre's "reign of terror" to the dragons and lycanthropes of anarchism, the beasts and blood-licking demons of ethnonational terrorism, and the hydras and Frankenstein's monsters of Islamic jihadism. Marco Pinfari argues that politicians frame terrorists as unmanageable monsters not only in an effort at cultural "othering" and dehumanization, but also to secure popular backing for rule-breaking behavior in counter-terrorism. The book also explores the way that terrorists themselves impersonate monsters, showing that several groups have pursued such a tactic throughout the history of terrorism. It contributes to a number of ongoing public debates by highlighting how, even when actors like the Islamic State present themselves as mad and irrational, their tactics remain in essence rational. Pinfari also provides an original historical outlook on the roots of monster metaphors and discusses several types of terrorism, including state terrorism, left-wing terrorism, anarchism, ethnonationalist terrorism, and white supremacist groups. In unpacking the functions played by monster metaphors and by their impersonation, Terrorists as Monsters helps the reader understand the political processes that hide behind the fangs.
Author : Publisher :BoD – Books on Demand ISBN 13 :3385059763 Total Pages :210 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (85 download)
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Download or read book Pangea written by Leonardo Negri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Credo nella deperibilità dei versi! Lo spazio, il destino, il tempo... Un fior non è per tutte le farfalle né una farfalla per tutti i fiori. Versi che nascono, muoiono e nel loro essere poche anime impollinano...
Download or read book Est Antigoriu written by Claudia Zedda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Est Antigoriu è un viaggio in terra sarda, un mosaico di profumi, usi, tradizioni, folklore e sentimento isolano che dà forma all'isola esattamente come l'autrice la percepisce. E' lo stesso titolo a definire la terra sarda antica, nel fascino, nella cultura, nella gastronomia, nell'arte e nell'architettura, nei suoni e in quei sentimenti che sparpaglia come grano al vento, capace come s'è dimostrata di trattenere dell'antico solo il meglio. L'isola viene letta e riletta sotto diversi aspetti: con gli occhi di donna tradita, amata, protetta o esposta, con lo sguardo delle Dee che l'hanno abitata, rivivendo feste, attraversando malattie e cure, sognando della Sardegna di ieri e ripercorrendone la storia attraverso l'arte che al suo interno vide nascere, d'intreccio, di pittura, di foto.
Book Synopsis When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less. Studies in honour of Stefania Nuccorini by : Dora Faraci
Download or read book When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less. Studies in honour of Stefania Nuccorini written by Dora Faraci and published by Roma TrE-Press. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume raccoglie una serie di quattordici saggi da parte di studiosi italiani e stranieri – colleghe e colleghi, allieve di un tempo, amici – che hanno inteso così onorare la figura personale e professionale di Stefania Nuccorini, Professore Onorario dell’Università di Roma Tre, e autorevole studiosa di lingua e linguistica inglese. I saggi esplorano ambiti di ricerca in cui si è distinta l’operosità scientifica di Stefania Nuccorini, definita “Master of Words” dalle colleghe e amiche di Roma Tre. In primis, passato, presente e futuro della lessicografia, con saggi sui glossari anglosassoni (Faraci), note d’uso nella storia della lessicografia inglese (Bejoint), learners’ dictionaries (Klotz) e e-lexicography (Pettini). Poi, studi di carattere lessicologico, con particolare riferimento alle collocazioni (Pinnavaia), agli anglicismi in italiano (Pulcini e Fiasco), ai verba dicendi in prospettiva comparativa e traduttiva inglese-italiano (Bruti), nonché all’uso di già nella traduzione audiovisiva dall’inglese (Pavesi e Zanotti). Di taglio didattico e transculturale sono due saggi su English as a Lingua Franca (Lopriore, Sperti) e un terzo sull’inglese come relay language (Nied Curcio). Completano la raccolta due saggi di carattere letterario e teatrale, relativi a Laurence Sterne (Ruggieri) e al Macbeth shakespeariano (Di Giovanni e Raffi), mentre si muove tra lingua e letteratura un saggio sulle pratiche stenografiche di Charles Dickens (Bowles). DOI: 10.13134/9rdp-3r87
Book Synopsis The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic by : Andrea Moudarres
Download or read book The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic written by Andrea Moudarres and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Book Synopsis The Etruscan World by : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Download or read book The Etruscan World written by Jean MacIntosh Turfa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, with many contributions available in English for the first time to allow the reader access to research that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated, The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.
Book Synopsis Italian English Illustrated Dictionary by : DK
Download or read book Italian English Illustrated Dictionary written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by subject and with an accompanying audio app, this is the essential reference for all Italian language learners. Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in Italian with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for Italian-language students. Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, Italian/English Illustrated Dictionary uses crystal-clear illustrations to show the meaning of over 10,000 words of Italian vocabulary. The words are shown in a visual context in themed sections covering practical or everyday topics (such as shopping, food, or study), providing learners with all the vocabulary they need for work, travel, and leisure. Learning Italian vocabulary is even easier with this visually stunning dictionary.
Book Synopsis Short Stories in Italian for Beginners by : Olly Richards
Download or read book Short Stories in Italian for Beginners written by Olly Richards and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when reading. What does this book give you? · Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary · Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently · Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability · Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun, and research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!' · Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including · A glossary for bolded words in each text · A bilingual word list · Full plot summary · Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Italian for Beginners will make learning Italian easy and enjoyable.
Book Synopsis La realtà- Poesie by : Erminia Passannanti
Download or read book La realtà- Poesie written by Erminia Passannanti and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La realtà ha una linea riflessiva più rivolta alla situazione politica planetaria, con la guerra in primo piano, sulla quale però l'autrice non si sofferma neppure, quasi a considerarla un semplice epigono di una pulsione di morte già da tempo latente, ed endemica ormai nella civiltà odierna. Questa tremenda intuizione, contro la quale pure avvertiamo un senso di ribellione, esprime un pessimismo della ragione: non dimentichiamo, infatti, che la poesia di Passannanti, pur con gli strumenti della poesia e non con quelli della logica, è sempre ben fondata nel concreto e nella ricerca, come le poesie meno recenti, incluse in questa silloge attestano (sulla scia di Pier Paolo Pasolini); una lucidità analitica che viene espressa, molto spesso, con una stringatezza dai toni amari e insieme glaciali, senza enfasi e senza retorica, anzi quasi in modo understated, con tensione continua verso il paradossale, il rimosso (collettivo e individuale), verso quello che è scomodo e che si vorrebbe tacere e neppure leggere.
Book Synopsis Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder by : Nassos Papalexandrou
Download or read book Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder written by Nassos Papalexandrou and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period’s key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually possesses the body of a lion and the head of an eagle. In particular, bronze cauldrons bore griffin protomes—figurative attachments showing the neck and head of the beast. Crafted in fine detail, the protomes were made to appear full of vigor, transfixing viewers. Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder takes griffin cauldrons as case studies in the shifting material and visual universes of preclassical antiquity, arguing that they were perceived as lifelike monsters that introduced the illusion of verisimilitude to Mediterranean arts. The objects were placed in the tombs of the wealthy (Italy, Cyprus) and in sanctuaries (Greece), creating fantastical environments akin to later cabinets of curiosities. Yet griffin cauldrons were accessible only to elites, ensuring that the new experience of visuality they fostered was itself a symbol of status. Focusing on the sensory encounter of this new visuality, Nassos Papalexandrou shows how spaces made wondrous fostered novel subjectivities and social distinctions.
Book Synopsis Metamorphic Readings by : Alison Sharrock
Download or read book Metamorphic Readings written by Alison Sharrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's focus on transformation and transgression connects in many ways with contemporary culture and society, modern research perspectives have developed correspondingly. Metamorphic Readings presents the state of the art in research on this canonical Roman epic. Written in an accessible style, the essays included represent a variety of approaches, exploring the effects of transformation and the transgression of borders. The contributors investigate three main themes: transformations into the Metamorphoses (how the mythic narratives evolved), transformations in the Metamorphoses (what new understandings of the dynamics of metamorphosis might be achieved), and transformations of the Metamorphoses (how the Metamorphoses were later understood and came to acquire new meanings). The many forms of transformation exhibited by Ovid's masterpiece are explored—including the transformation of the genre of mythic narrative itself.
Book Synopsis The Art of Discovery by : Maren Elisabeth Schwab
Download or read book The Art of Discovery written by Maren Elisabeth Schwab and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries to come. The Art of Discovery tells the stories of the Renaissance antiquarians who turned material remains of the ancient world into sources for scholars and artists, inspirations for palaces and churches, and objects of pilgrimage and devotion. Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton bring to life some of the most spectacular finds of the age, such as Nero’s Golden House and the wooden placard that was supposedly nailed to the True Cross. They take readers into basements, caves, and cisterns, explaining how digs were undertaken and shedding light on the methods antiquarians—and the alchemists and craftspeople they consulted—used to interpret them. What emerges is not an origin story for modern archaeology or art history but rather an account of how early modern artisanal skills and technical expertise were used to create new knowledge about the past and inspire new forms of art, scholarship, and devotion in the present. The Art of Discovery challenges the notion that Renaissance antiquarianism was strictly a secular enterprise, revealing how the rediscovery of Christian relics and the bones of martyrs helped give rise to highly interdisciplinary ways of examining and authenticating objects of all kinds.
Book Synopsis Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios by : Nicholas J. Molinari
Download or read book Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios written by Nicholas J. Molinari and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Potamikon, presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.
Download or read book COLORIAMO L'ORIENTE written by Ruben Fais and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Raphael’s Ostrich by : Una Roman D’Elia
Download or read book Raphael’s Ostrich written by Una Roman D’Elia and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific, literary, religious, poetic, and satirical texts and images, D’Elia demonstrates the rich variety of ways in which people made sense of this living “monster,” which was depicted as the embodiment of heresy, stupidity, perseverance, justice, fortune, gluttony, and other virtues and vices. Because Raphael was revered as a god of art, artists imitated and competed with his ostrich, while religious and cultural critics complained about the potential for misinterpreting such obscure imagery. This book not only considers the history of the ostrich but also explores how Raphael’s painting forced viewers to question how meaning is attributed to the natural world, a debate of central importance in early modern Europe at a time when the disciplines of modern art history and natural history were developing. The strangeness of Raphael’s ostrich, situated at the crossroads of art, religion, myth, and natural history, both reveals lesser-known sides of Raphael’s painting and illuminates major cultural shifts in attitudes toward nature and images in the Renaissance. More than simply an examination of a single artist or a single subject, Raphael’s Ostrich offers an accessible, erudite, and charming alternative to Vasari’s pervasive model of the history of sixteenth-century Italian art.
