A Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Szent-Györgyi concerns himself with the underlying forces and conditions that have prevented the realization of the higher possibilities of the American Dream, and, by extension, of all mankind. He addresses himself especially to the youth of the world in his attempt to show how man, the more he progresses technologically, seems the more to regress psychologically and socially, until he resembles his primate ancestors...
This is an annotated edition of a unique Spanish translation of Guido de Colonna's Latin version of the Old French Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure. The editor has provided a useful critical apparatus, including a source study and a glossary.
This study examines the thematic unity of Les tragiques as the resolution of disorder, interprets its form as a fusion of generic tragedy and the epic, draws a parallel between the poem and the Book of Revelation, and treats aspects of structure and style as tragedy and Apocalypse. It also relates Les tragiques to the literary context of the time.
This study offers an investigation of the various facets of Spanish Traditionalism--political, religious, literary, cultural, and stylistic--through the works of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, one of the most complex authors of the Spanish Golden Age. Each chapter in the volume opens with a general history of the discreet facet of traditionalism that it treats. By this structure, the book is able to present a new approach to the understandin...
The author identifies the existentialist thinkers. After a review of the criticism (most of which does not consider Ortega an existentialist), the themes chosen are traced in his works, pointing out the ways in which he coincides with or differs from the usual existentialist treatment and attitudes. The body of the work is followed by an annotated bibliography of representative Ortegean criticism.
A photographic reprint of the rare edition, first published in 1912, of the `Fulda Sacramentary' (Gottingen, UB, Cod. theol. 231), a 10th-century manuscript written at Fulda which represents a distinct recension of the Gregorian Sacramentary, possibly connected with the scholarly activities of Hrabanus Maurus (d.856). The Fulda Sacramentary was richly illuminated, it is also a rich repository of prayers and mass formulas, and its ample content...
Para las poblaciones indígenas la llegada de Colon al Caribe en 1492 significó una transformación y reestructuración de su mundo, incluyendo cambios a niveles culturales, sociales, económicos y políticos. En este trabajo se proponen modelos interpretativos sobre la transformación del paisaje indígena al colonial, a través de la aplicación de una investigación arqueológica regional que integró los conceptos de taskscape y paisajes en conflicto ...
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- I LOVE AND LIMITATIONS: THE PLAY AND ITS CRITICS -- II THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: A STUDY OF CHARACTERIZATION IN THE PLAY -- III WORLD IMAGERY, COMEDY, AND BAWDRY: THEIR FUNCTIONS IN THE LOVE THEME -- IV THE NATURE OF LOVE AS A DRAMATIZED THEME IN THE PLAY -- V THE QUESTION OF LOVE AND THE LOVE-ACT: SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT STRUCTURE -- VI LOVE AND THE PLAY: TOWARDS SOME CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF...
Die 1876 von Wilhelm Braune als Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts begründete Reihe wird seit 1961 in einer neuen Folge fortgeführt. Je nach Eigenart und Bedeutung der Autoren und Werke finden Gesamtausgaben ebenso Aufnahme wie Auswahlausgaben oder Einzelwerke, für die ihrer Bedeutung und Überlieferung wegen eine kritische Edition erforderlich ist.
Frontmatter -- INHALTSVERZEICHNIS -- 1. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Über den deutschen Roman (Nachlaß) -- 2. Johann Heinrich Merck: Über den Mangel des epischen Geistes (1778) -- 3. Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel: Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie nebst Beylagen A, B, C (1778-1781) -- 4. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Vorbericht zu "Eduard Allwills Papiere" (Erstfassung im Teutschen Merkur, 1776) -- 5. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Brief an J.G. Ham...
