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The Parliamentary Dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe

Autore: Karolina Borońska-hryniewiecka , Lucy Kinski

Numero di pagine: 198

This book offers a comprehensive and timely analysis of the parliamentary dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) – an unprecedented experiment in which parliamentary representation met transnational citizen participation in the European Union (EU). Across twelve chapters, the book investigates the CoFoE as an opportunity structure for both the European Parliament (EP) as the “host” of the process, and national as well as regional parliaments, as the “guests” in this process, to fulfil and revitalise their key functions in EU multi-level democracy. The book also provides a valuable source of insights for representatives in national parliaments and the newly elected European Parliament (2024–2029), to hopefully prompt them to rethink their relationship with citizens in the ever-evolving transnational democratic space of the EU. Bringing together both academics and practitioners, this book will be of key interest to anyone interested in parliamentary representation, citizen participation, and democratic legitimacy in the EU and beyond. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative...

Advances in Transition-Metal Mediated Heterocyclic Synthesis

Autore: Daniel Sole , Israel Fernandez

Numero di pagine: 368

Advances in Transition-Metal Mediated Heterocyclic Synthesis provides an overview of recent catalytic reactions involving transition metals to produce heterocyclic compounds. The book is organized according to the type of transformation used to achieve the synthesis of the heterocyclic systems (mainly aza- and oxa-heterocycles). As such, it covers recent applications on the synthesis of heterocycles, also describing the details of the novel transformations in a didactic manner to motivate readers in search of new catalytic processes. The editors have included state-of-the-art strategies, including transition-metal reactions involving unsaturated systems (reactions of allenes, new gold(I)-catalyzed reactions, and Prins reaction). Chapters highlight the versatility of organopalladium chemistry dealing with carbonylative transformations, C-H activation reactions, coupling processes, and the control of the ambiphilic character of organopalladium species. Finally, the book discusses new reactions leading to heterocycles based on C-H activation processes catalyzed by other metals (Rh, Ru, Co). Written by an outstanding team of authors who are leading experts in organometallic chemistry...

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End

Autore: T. Bose , R. N. Colbeck

Numero di pagine: 569

The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

Catalytic Carbonylation Reactions

Autore: Matthias Beller

Numero di pagine: 289

In this book, leading experts from academia and industry offer a comprehensive presentation and discussion of the major reaction types of carbon monoxide. The authors highlight important carbonylation reactions such as hydroformylation, alkoxy-carbonylations, co/olefin-copolymerization, Pauson-Khand reactions and others. They illustrate applications in organic synthesis and give industrial examples. This volume is designed to provide graduate students and researchers with essential information on the use of carbon monoxide in organic synthesis.

Discovering Child Art

Autore: Jonathan David Fineberg , Jonathan Fineberg

Numero di pagine: 306

This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art, served as central metaphors for artistic spontaneity and honesty, and provided a window into the fundamental human qualities explored by modern artists. The volume complements editor Jonathan Fineberg's groundbreaking new book, The Innocent Eye (Princeton, 1997), in which he showed how many of the greatest masters of modern art collected and were directly influenced by children's drawings. Contributors here both expand on Fineberg's themes and take the study of children's art in new directions. They examine, for example, the influence of child art on such artists as Kandinsky, Klee, Larionov, and Miró; the diverse styles of children's art; the influence of Romantic ideas on perceptions of children's art; the conception of giftedness versus education in children's drawings; and the relationship between children's art and primitivism. The book offers unique glimpses into the working processes of great modern artists, presenting, for ...

Good Girls, Good Germans

Autore: Jennifer Drake Askey

Numero di pagine: 214

Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls.The age of nationalism in nineteenth-century Germany generally conjures up images of the Prussian military, Fürst Otto von Bismarck, and Hohenzollern kings who welded together a nation out of disparate principalities through war and domestic social policy. Good Girls, Good Germans looks at how girls and young women became "national" during this period by participating in the national community in the home, in state-sponsored Töchterschulen, and in their reading of Mädchenliteratur. By learning to subordinate desires for individual agency to the perceived needs of the national community -- what Askey calls "emotional nationalism" -- girls could fulfill their class- andgender-specific roles in society and discover a sense of their importance for the progress of the German nation. Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, Good Girls, Good Germansdemonstrates how the top-down construction of a national identity, especially in girls'...

The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914

Autore: Anna Richards

Numero di pagine: 248

In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.

Eight Plays

Autore: Arthur Schnitzler

Numero di pagine: 474

New translations of works by the master playwright, including scenes and entire works not available elsewhere

A Companion to Medieval Pisa

Numero di pagine: 639

Presenting medieval Pisa in a multidisciplinary study, A Companion to Medieval Pisa provides a comprehensive overview of the city at the time of its greatest fame and prosperity. The volume addresses central aspects of the city’s history: its geomorphology and orientation towards the Mediterranean Sea; its ancient past; the archaeological basis for the study of the medieval city and its built environment; Pisa’s urban and port infrastructure; its social organization and political and economic history; its cultural achievements in the visual and literary arts; and the legacy of the medieval past for the city today. Contributors are: David Abulafia, Monica Bini, Veronica Rossi, Stefano Bruni, Antonio Alberti, Gabriele Gattiglia, Alma Poloni, Giuseppe Petralia, Gabriella Garzella, Ewa Karwacka Codini, Cédric Quertier, Michele Campopiano, Michel Balard, Fabio Redi, Olimpia Vaccari, Mauro Ronzani, Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, Ottavio Banti, Marco Collareta, Karen Rose Mathews, Cristina Cagianelli, and Franco Cardini.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Autore: Karen Baker , Jerrold Brandell

Numero di pagine: 259

Since Freud’s publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with them. Contemporary psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic social work clinicians often find themselves responding to misapprehensions and distortions about psychoanalytic theory and treatment created or promoted in popular culture. Furthermore, clinical practices are subject to the disruptive influence of managed mental health care and, with the ascendancy of biological psychiatry, an increasing reliance on psychoactive drugs in the treatment of children, often in the absence of sound research support. In this book, expert international contributors explore developmental, theoretical and clinical themes in work with children. Focusing on diverse populations and varied treatment settings, they present compelling clinical cases and research that, collectively, demonstrate the efficacy and relevance of psychoanalytic ideas in the context of play therapy. This book was originally published as a...

The Typo_In the Name of God

Autore: William Lower

Numero di pagine: 418

15th-century satire? Or today’s Inquisition 2.0? When master manuscript illustrator Antonio Strozzi discovers a blasphemous typo in a Gutenberg Bible, it ignites chaos in 15th-century Florence. He and his assigned guard, Gabriele, are swept into a world where faith, power, and forbidden desires collide. Amid schemes, swordplay, and ecclesiastical intrigue, this satirical adventure revels in irreverence and wit. "The Typo: In the Name of God" is a hilarious, poignant tale of error, resistance, and the enduring human need for love, laughter, and a little heresy. As the printing press threatened to erase centuries-old creative professions, Antonio’s journey mirrors today’s anxieties over AI and creative automation. The Inquisition’s shadow looms, echoing the rise of religious extremism and political theocracy in our own time. History may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

A History of Virginia Wines: From Grapes to Glass

Autore: Walker Elliott Rowe

Numero di pagine: 136

A fascinating history of Virginia wines, documenting the wine industry's very foundation in this state. Go beyond the bottle and step inside the minds, and vines, of Virginia's burgeoning wine industry in this groundbreaking volume. Join grape grower and industry insider Walker Elliott Rowe as he guides you through some of the top vineyards and wineries in the Old Dominion. Rowe explores the minds of pioneering winemakers and vineyard owners, stitches together an account of the wine industry's foundation in Virginia, from Jamestown to Jefferson to Barboursville, and uncovers the fascinating missing chapter in Virginia wine history. As the Philip Carter Winery motto explains, "Before there was Jefferson, there was Carter. " Rowe goes behind the scenes to interview migrant workers who toil daily in the vineyards, makes the rounds in Richmond with an industry lobbyist and talks shop with winemakers on the science and techniques that have helped put the Virginia wine industry on the map. Also included are twenty-four stunning color photographs from professional photographer Jonathan Timmes and a foreword by noted wine journalist Richard Leahy.

What's Irish for Encore?

Autore: Amy Blythe

Numero di pagine: 330

Anne is a TV star with big regrets and very little direction. Desperate to shake off her guilt, she goes to confession. And only after does she recognize the priest. Ciaran is in trouble with his superiors for marching in support of gay marriage, but he's in no real danger from the woman who left him heart-broken at seventeen. Anne's clearly in the middle of a crisis and, as a priest, he can't turn her away. The attraction between them is as strong as ever, but Anne's only in Dublin for the theater festival—such a short time. Reconnecting could satisfy their curiosity and give a little closure, or that's the plan. Before long, the pair come to rely on one another. While rumours mount, it becomes clear how badly Ciaran is needed in his church, and Anne would never ask him to give up the precious community she's seen there. How can you be sure when leaving is the most loving thing to do?

Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Grail

Autore: Otto Rahn

Numero di pagine: 526

Who was the amazing Otto Rahn? How come if Rahn was such an amazing man has hardly anyone outside specialist pre-WW2 history circles ever heard of him? But is he really such an unknown? The story lines of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade mirror Rahn’s incredible adventures in the South of France in the early 1930s.

What's Italian for Yummy?

Autore: Amy Blythe

Numero di pagine: 321

Determined to prove herself as a pastry chef, Summer Wilkes arrives in Rome. She wants to build a reputation, this time without piggy-backing on anyone else's success. Everything seems possible, thanks to her charming new neighbor, a roof-top bar, and a sizzling kiss. Finn is impatient to get back on the rugby field after yet another knee injury. Summer is the perfect distraction, except that she loathes rugby and everything that comes with it. Keeping his career a secret seems like the safest move at first. But then he tastes Summer's cakes. And Summer's pastries. And Summer.

The House of Condulmer

Autore: Alan M. Stahl

Numero di pagine: 225

How a lower patrician Venetian family strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries The House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian family in the wake of the Black Death, as they strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The Condulmers experienced mixed fortunes in their efforts at social mobility. Exiled after their participation in a failed revolt against the Venetian state, they nevertheless managed to accrue a great deal of wealth in the period before the Black Death. In the aftermath of the plague, which ravaged Venice and wiped out many lines of the family, the fortune of the Condulmers was concentrated in two main branches, whose members are the subject of this book. Through original research drawing on hundreds of unpublished archival sources, Alan M. Stahl traces the careers and changing personal circumstances of five members of the Condulmer family: Jacobello, who used his civic participation and donations to achieve noble status for himself and his descendants but impoverished himself and his family in the process; Vielmo, a moneychanger who paraded...

Barker: Plays Seven

Autore: Howard Barker

Numero di pagine: 245

The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Und, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, 12 Encounters With a Prodigy, Christ's Dog and Learning Kneeling. Howard Barker is Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist. There has been a recent resurgence of presentations of his plays in Britain, with particularly acclaimed productions at the Arcola theatre and the Hackney Empire in recent years. He has a sizable following on the European mainland.

Gestural Imaginaries

Autore: Lucia Ruprecht

Numero di pagine: 353

Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.

Hyperthermia In Cancer Treatment: A Primer

Autore: Gian F. Baronzio , E. Dieter Hager

Numero di pagine: 382

Following an introductory overview, Hyperthermia In Cancer Treatment: A Primer comprehensively describes the biological reasons for associating hyperthermia with radiation and chemotherapy and the biological and clinical effects of hyperthermia on cancerous and normal tissues. The volume’s 20 chapters are arranged in three principal parts: physical and methodological studies, biologic principles, and clinical studies.

Verdi

Autore: Michel Orcel

Numero di pagine: 238

Le centenaire de la mort du grand compositeur italien, Verdi, né en 1813 et mort le 27 janvier 1901, était l'occasion idéale pour raconter d'une façon nouvelle la vie d'un génie qui, ayant conquis le coeur du peuple italien dont il était issu, se révéla un des protagonistes majeurs du Risorgimento et de l'histoire artistique de l'Europe moderne. L'oeuvre de Verdi qui sans cesse en devenir s'est élevée du mélodrame romantique jusqu'aux raffinements morbides ou pétillants de la « Conversation en musique » de l'opéra d'avant guerre, exigeait que soit repris sur de nouvelles bases le récit d'une vie qui est à la fois l'histoire d'une âme particulièrement secrète, d'une imprévisible ascension artistique et d'un engagement moral et politique. Michel Orcel nous donne une relecture originale du théâtre musical de Verdi qui utilise les clés les plus actuelles (la psychanalyse notamment) et tente de montrer comment, au rebours de Wagner, son grand rival, le compositeur italien s'élève de l'humain au mythe, en passant par la stylisation archétypale des pulsions. Se fondant, non seulement sur les documents d'époque et les découvertes les plus récentes, mais sur...

D'Annunzio le magnifique

Autore: Maurizio Serra

Numero di pagine: 374

Une vie " inimitable " entre Italie et France. On a du mal à concevoir que Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) fut l'écrivain-personnage le plus entouré, le plus imité, le plus jalousé de son temps. Une légende noire et rose a fleuri autour de cet homme hors norme. Car D'Annunzio n'a pas été seulement un immense poète, romancier, auteur dramatique, séducteur, aviateur, héros de la guerre, condottiere, Comandante pendant les " Cinq cents jours " de Fiume, puis exilé volontaire dans son palais du Vittoriale sur le lac de Garde. Il fut, du début à la fin, un poète de l'action, que le mouvement soulève, que le repli paralyse et que l'inertie tue. Non pas un aventurier, mais un véritable prince de l'aventure, précurseur des Lawrence d'Arabie, Saint-Exupéry, Malraux, et autre Romain Gary, qui se sont tous inspirés de lui.

Towards Emancipation

Autore: Carol Diethe

Numero di pagine: 228

Focusing on feminism in Germany, Towards Emancipation examines some of the most influential women writers of the nineteenth century, from the late-Romantic writers, such as Bettina von Arnim and Johanna Schopenhauer, to writers who were active in the 1848 Revolution, such as Malwida von Meysenbug and Johanna Kinkel. The heart of the book is devoted to the leading proponents of emancipation, Hedwig Dohm, Helene Bohlau and the prolific Louise Otto-Peters, yet it also includes mainstream writers whose attitudes towards the movement range from lukewarm (the enormously popular Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Gabriele Reuter) to downright hostile (Lou Andreas-Salome and Franziska zu Reventlow).

Top Dog

Autore: Po Bronson , Ashley Merryman

Numero di pagine: 262

New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids," "Creativity Crisis," and "Losing Is Good for You"). In Top Dog, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal what's truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. It's baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first, they were great competitors. Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags. It's in briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this game-changing talk is all...

French Books III & IV (FB) (2 vols.)

Autore: Andrew Pettegree , Malcolm Walsby

Numero di pagine: 1964

French Books III & IV complete a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all books published in France in the first age of print. It lists over 40,000 editions printed in France in languages other than French during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries together with bibliographical references, an introduction and indexes. It draws on the analysis of over 3,000 collections situated in libraries throughout the world. French Books will be an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. I & II please go to French Vernacular Books.

Women Artists in Expressionism

Autore: Shulamith Behr

Numero di pagine: 312

A beautifully illustrated examination of the women artists whose inspired search for artistic integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde culture Women Artists in Expressionism explores how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art during the late Wilhelmine and early Weimar periods in Germany. Their stories challenge predominantly male-oriented narratives of Expressionism and shed light on the divergent artistic responses of women to the dramatic events of the early twentieth century. Shulamith Behr shows how the posthumous critical reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker cast her as a prime agent of the feminization of the movement, and how Käthe Kollwitz used printmaking as a vehicle for technical innovation and sociopolitical commentary. She looks at the dynamic relationship between Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Münter, whose different paths in life led them to the Blaue Reiter, a group of Expressionist artists that included Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Behr examines Nell Walden’s role as an influential art dealer, collector, and artist, who promoted women Expressionists during the First World War, and discusses how Dutch artist Jacoba van...

Was the Real Thomas Mann an Antisemite?

Autore: Alexander Raviv

Numero di pagine: 132

Examines four novellas by Thomas Mann, into which he overtly or covertly placed Jewish characters: "The Will for Happiness", "Gladius Dei", "Tristan", and "The Blood of the Walsungs". Argues that these novellas show Mann as an antisemite. His early collaboration with the voelkisch-nationalist periodical "Das zwanzigste Jahrhundert", to which he contributed a number of essays touching on the "Jewish question", and some other details of his biography corroborate this impression.

The Blue Rider

Autore: Matthias Mühling , Annegret Hoberg , Anna Straetmans

Numero di pagine: 444

»Das ganze Werk, Kunst genannt, kennt keine Grenzen und Völker, sondern die Menschheit.« So schrieben es Franz Marc und Wassily Kandinsky 1911 für ihren Almanach Der Blaue Reiter. Dieses programmatische Jahrbuch etablierte den Blauen Reiter (ca. 1911–1914) als einen der ersten transnationalen Künstler*innenkreise. Und dieses Credo inspirierte das Lenbachhaus dazu, das Werk der beteiligten Künstler*innen – unter ihnen Gabriele Münter, Alfred Kubin, Maria Marc und Elisabeth Epstein – nicht nur ästhetisch und historisch, sondern in seinen geistigen, sozio-ökonomischen sowie politischen Zusammenhängen zu betrachten. Denn nicht nur mit Worten, sondern auch mit Bildern und Taten setzte sich der Kreis des Blauen Reiter für ein globales, gleichberechtigtes Kunstverständnis ein. Gefangen in der Zeit der kolonialen Weltordnung vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg, gelang es allerdings auch ihnen nicht, eine emanzipatorische Praxis von Kunst jenseits nationaler Zugehörigkeit sowie tradierter Hierarchien und Gattungen umzusetzen.

FCC Record

Autore: United States. Federal Communications Commission

Numero di pagine: 766

The Jews in Sicily, Volume 16 Notaries of Trapani (end), Erice (Monte San Giuliano), Mazara, Termini Imerese, Corleone and Sciacca

Autore: Shlomo Simonsohn

Numero di pagine: 704

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the eighth of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication, most appearing here for the first time. While some documents are discussed at...

SEC Docket

Autore: United States. Securities And Exchange Commission

Numero di pagine: 1176

Mentoring in Nursing through Narrative Stories Across the World

Autore: Nancy Rollins Gantz , Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir

Numero di pagine: 1045

The book explores how mentoring, theoretical background of mentoring and how mentoring is used by nurses in all arenas where they work in health care, education, research, policy, politics, and academia in supporting nurses with their professional and career development. Over 300 mentors and mentees, from a wide range of countries across all continents, share their stories of mentoring reflecting on their development in leadership, clinical practice, education, research and politics. The book describes various types of mentoring including more traditional types of mentoring as well as virtual, online and peer mentoring. During the mentorship trajectories the nurses address an inclusive collection of issues that they are faced with and share supporting strategies. The book highlights the importance of mentoring for nurses to support their personal, and professional leadership development. Also, it emphasizes the importance of mentoring for when nurses engaged in variety of projects that could entail or encompass evidence-based clinical practice, development within education, research in the clinical arena, policy formation, political affairs, or cultural inclusion that present...

The Jews in Sicily

Autore: Šelomō Simonsohn

Numero di pagine: 745

A compilation of documents, found in various libraries and archives, pertaining to the history of the Jews in Sicily. Each entry gives a brief description of the contents of the document in English, the date and the source of the document, and the original Latin text. Volumes includes indexes of persons, geographical names, and subjects. For antisemitism, see the subject index under badge, Jewish; jurisdiction, over Jews; persecution and harassment (of Jews); taxes. A significant number of documents issued by the king or members of the nobility instruct local authorities or clergymen to stop molesting or harassing the Jews.-- See: Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

Autore: Gaetana Marrone , Paolo Puppa

Numero di pagine: 2258

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

The New Grove Book of Operas

Autore: Stanley Sadie

Numero di pagine: 766

This book combines meticulous scholarship with a lightness of touch that will delight the opera-goer. The fascinating illustrations bring an amusing dimension showing how opera has been staged from its beginnings to modern 'deconstructed' productions. The operas are listed in alphabetical order. In addition to a full synopsis of every plot, there is a cast list and a note of the singers in the original production, as well as information about the origins of the work and its literary and social background. Each contribution concludes with a brief comment on its place in operatic history. There is also a listing by composer, a glossary and indexes of the names of operatic characters and the first lines of arias; so if you are not sure which opera Gilda or Agathe, sings in, or are apt to confuse Vespina with Despina, your problem is quickly solved.

Les femmes en mouvement – L’univers sentimental et intellectuel des romancières du début du XIXe siècle

Autore: Fabienne Bercegol , Cornelia Klettke

Numero di pagine: 404

Ce volume se consacre tout particulièrement à une série de romancières dela génération nées dans les années 1760 et 1770, dont certaines, longtemps oubliées, se retrouvent aujourd’hui au centre de l’intérêt de la recherche. Selon le système d’une écriture du mouvement, on peut distinguer plusieurs types de déplacements, d’échanges, de transports intérieurs. Si les déplacements prennent, pour certaines, la forme de trajets diplomatiques et de voyages à vocation touristique, ils sont pour beaucoup des voyages contraints, provoqués par les violences de l’Histoire qu’il faut fuir en terre d’exil. L’expérience traumatisante de l’émigration et du déracinement qu’elle implique travaille en profondeur les romans du tournant du siècle. Le mouvement dans un deuxième sens nous conduit à mettre au jour l’intense et diverse circulation des idées et des œuvres à travers l’Europe du début du XIXe siècle.

Germaine de Staël in Germany

Autore: Judith E. Martin

Numero di pagine: 355

Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler, Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim, Ida Hahn-Hahn, and Luise Mühlbach. These authors drew a significant impetus from Staël's exemplary life and writings, especially her influential novels of political and artistic heroines, Delphine (1802) and Corinne, or Italy (1807), referring to them in order to authorize their own discourses on art and politics, and to buttress their identity as writers in a period when female authorship generated intense controversy. Taking references to Staël and her texts as a starting point opens fresh perspectives on German women's novels, while at the same time revealing their authors' participation in the broader European women's literary tradition. Whereas several novels from the first decade of the century echo Delphine by uniting domestic fiction with political themes, Staël's epoch-making novel of female poetic genius, Corinne, left a more lasting literary legacy in a tradition of...

Alphabetical Index of the Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Providence

Numero di pagine: 734