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Reading The Renaissance - Culture, Poetics, And Drama

45,04€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
INGLÊS

Reading The Renaissance - Culture, Poetics, And Drama

45,04€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Sexuality And Gender In The English Renaissance - An Annotated Edition Of Contemporary Documents

de Lloyd Davis

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. A broad selection of religious sermons, moral handbooks, household manuals, midwifery and legal textbooks, ballads and chapbooks has been chosen.
INGLÊS

Sexuality And Gender In The English Renaissance - An Annotated Edition Of Contemporary Documents

35,76€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. A broad selection of religious sermons, moral handbooks, household manuals, midwifery and legal textbooks, ballads and chapbooks has been chosen.
INGLÊS

Reading The Renaissance - Culture, Poetics, And Drama

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 A pluralistic and comparative treatment of European literature from about 1485 to about 1660. Emphasizes boundaries such as those between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, and the Renaissance and its bracketing periods. Among the topics are ritual and text, boredom
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Low And High Style In Italian Renaissance Art

de Patricia Emison

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the Renaissance was that practiced most self-consciously and proudly. Yet it is one of the accomplishments of Renaissance art that heroic and epic subjects and style occasionally made way for less affirmative subjects and compositional norms, for improvisation away from the Vitruvian ideal. The limits of idealizing art, during the very period denominated as High Renaissance, is a topic that involves us in the history of class prejudice, of gender stereotypes, of the conceptualization of the present, of attitudes toward the ordinary, and of scruples about the power of sight Exploring the low style leads us particularly to works of art intended for display in private settings as personally owned objects, potentially as signs of quite personal emotions rather than as subscriptions to publicly vaunted ideologies. Not all of them show shepherds or peasants; none of them-not even Giorgione''s La tempesta -is a classic pastoral idyll. The rosso stile is to be understood as more comprehensive than that. The issue is not only who is represented, but whether the work can or cannot be fit into the mold of a basically affirmative art.
INGLÊS

Low And High Style In Italian Renaissance Art

de Patricia Emison

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the Renaissance was that practiced most self-consciously and proudly. Yet it is one of the accomplishments of Renaissance art that heroic and epic subjects and style occasionally made way for less affirmative subjects and compositional norms, for improvisation away from the Vitruvian ideal. The limits of idealizing art, during the very period denominated as High Renaissance, is a topic that involves us in the history of class prejudice, of gender stereotypes, of the conceptualization of the present, of attitudes toward the ordinary, and of scruples about the power of sight Exploring the low style leads us particularly to works of art intended for display in private settings as personally owned objects, potentially as signs of quite personal emotions rather than as subscriptions to publicly vaunted ideologies. Not all of them show shepherds or peasants; none of them-not even Giorgione''s La tempesta -is a classic pastoral idyll. The rosso stile is to be understood as more comprehensive than that. The issue is not only who is represented, but whether the work can or cannot be fit into the mold of a basically affirmative art.
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Margaret Cavendish - Sociable Letters

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 Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Duchess of Newcastle and one of the best-known women writers of the her time, is enjoying a revival in the wake of Aphra Behn''s canonization: She appears in the Norton Anthology ofEnglish Literature, her poetry will appear in a new edition, and Penguin has recently reprinted her science-fiction novel The Blazing World. This is an edition of her hilarious and rowdy letters, unavailable since their original publication in 1664 MargaretCavendish: Sociable Letters is a window into the world of 17th-century marriage and daily life displaying a pleasing blend of the comic, the ironic, and the serious. Along the way, the author provides us with the first detailed criticism of Shakespeare''s plays, which she defends against the Restoration distaste for low characters. She also comments on food, home remedies, the English Civil Wars, religious fanaticism, street entertainers, churchgoing as a way to find a husband, and winter sports This edition offers a full introduction to Cavendish''s life and works, a bibliography, and detailed notes, and takes account of hand-corrections made at the author''s behest
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Mapping The Faerie Queene - Quest Structures And The World Of The Poem

de Wayne Erickson

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
INGLÊS

Mapping The Faerie Queene - Quest Structures And The World Of The Poem

de Wayne Erickson

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Mapping The Faerie Queene - Quest Structures And The World Of The Poem

de Wayne Erickson

71,64€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
INGLÊS

Margaret Cavendish - Sociable Letters

de James Fitzmaurice

68,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Duchess of Newcastle and one of the best-known women writers of the her time, is enjoying a revival in the wake of Aphra Behn''s canonization: She appears in the Norton Anthology ofEnglish Literature, her poetry will appear in a new edition, and Penguin has recently reprinted her science-fiction novel The Blazing World. This is an edition of her hilarious and rowdy letters, unavailable since their original publication in 1664 MargaretCavendish: Sociable Letters is a window into the world of 17th-century marriage and daily life displaying a pleasing blend of the comic, the ironic, and the serious. Along the way, the author provides us with the first detailed criticism of Shakespeare''s plays, which she defends against the Restoration distaste for low characters. She also comments on food, home remedies, the English Civil Wars, religious fanaticism, street entertainers, churchgoing as a way to find a husband, and winter sports This edition offers a full introduction to Cavendish''s life and works, a bibliography, and detailed notes, and takes account of hand-corrections made at the author''s behest
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The Mirror Of Confusion - The Representation Of French History In English Renaissance Drama

de Andrew M. Kirk

71,64€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Mirror Of Confusion - The Representation Of French History In English Renaissance Drama

de Andrew M. Kirk

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
INGLÊS

Mirror Of Confusion - The Representation Of French History In English Renaissance Drama

de Andrew M. Kirk

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Perspectives On The Renaissance Medal - Portrait Medals Of The Renaissance

de Stephen K. Scher

81,10€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The papers in this book were delivered at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance".
INGLÊS

Sexuality And Gender In The English Renaissance - An Annotated Edition Of Contemporary Documents

229,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A range of 16th- and 17th-century texts are used to discuss gender and sexual relations in early modern England. The focus is on prevailing conceptions of sexuality and gender in Tudor and Stuart society, revealed through a selection of religious texts, manuals, ballads and legal texts.
INGLÊS

Perspectives On The Renaissance Medal - Portrait Medals Of The Renaissance

79,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 The papers in this book were delivered at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance".
INGLÊS

Perspectives On The Renaissance Medal - Portrait Medals Of The Renaissance

79,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 The papers in this book were delivered at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance".
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Same-Sex Desire In The English Renaissance - A Sourcebook Of Texts, 1470-1650

de Kenneth Borris

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The readings gathered here include many rare texts that have not been reprinted for centuries, excerpted from biblical commentary, legal writings, medical and scientific writings, popular encyclopedias, and literature, as well as continental vernacular and Latin sources never before available in English translation. The selections are assembled in ten chapters addressing particular discursive fields - Theology, Law, Medicine, Astrology, Physiognomics, Encyclopedias and Reference Works, Prodigious Monstrosities, Love and Friendship, the Sapphic Renaissance, and Erotica. Each chapter includes a substantial introduction summarizing its topic and its relation to early modern homoeroticism. The volume also poignantly addresses key issues in Renaissance thinking about sexual identity, and newly clarifies central problems and debates in the historiography of same-sex love.
INGLÊS

Same-Sex Desire In The English Renaissance - A Sourcebook Of Texts, 1470-1650

de Kenneth Borris

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 The readings gathered here include many rare texts that have not been reprinted for centuries, excerpted from biblical commentary, legal writings, medical and scientific writings, popular encyclopedias, and literature, as well as continental vernacular and Latin sources never before available in English translation. The selections are assembled in ten chapters addressing particular discursive fields - Theology, Law, Medicine, Astrology, Physiognomics, Encyclopedias and Reference Works, Prodigious Monstrosities, Love and Friendship, the Sapphic Renaissance, and Erotica. Each chapter includes a substantial introduction summarizing its topic and its relation to early modern homoeroticism. The volume also poignantly addresses key issues in Renaissance thinking about sexual identity, and newly clarifies central problems and debates in the historiography of same-sex love.
INGLÊS

The Mirror Of Confusion - The Representation Of French History In English Renaissance Drama

de Andrew M. Kirk

209,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
INGLÊS

Low And High Style In Italian Renaissance Art

de Patricia Emison

209,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 An examination of the idealised High Art, and the private, personal, Low Art of the Renaissance, which aims to draw conclusions about class prejudice, gender stereotypes, and attitudes towards the ordinary which motivate such distinctions. This is volume 8 in the GARLAND STUDIES IN THE RENAISSANCE series.
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Gender, Ethnicity And Market Forces - Observations Of Ethnic Chinese In Korea

de Sheena Choi

168,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book argues that the college choices of ethnic Chinese in Korea changed in relation to their political and legal status within Korean society and examines the reasons behind the changing educational trends.
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