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  • A Theory of the Aphorism

    From Confucius to Twitter

    par Andrew Hui ...
    An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms—or philosophical short sayings—appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form. What are its origins? How did it develop? How do religious or philosophical movements ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

    par Andrew Hui ...
    Collections series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Study

    The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries

    par Andrew Hui ...
    A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    par Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $22.99 CAD Maintenant $18.99 CAD

  • Inventing the Renaissance

    The Myth of a Golden Age

    par Ada Palmer ...
    WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARDA New Yorker Best Book of 2025An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian A... ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    par Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    par Umberto Eco ...
    Traduit par William Weaver ...
    Collections series Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Modifié par Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... En savoir plus

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  • The Art of Conversation

    par Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... En savoir plus

    $31.00 CAD

  • Rome as a Guide to the Good Life

    A Philosophical Grand Tour

    par Scott Samuelson ...
    A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the vita beata—the good life. Philosopher Scott Samuelson offers a thinker's tour of the Eternal City, rooting ideas from this philosophical tradition ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    par Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus