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  • Reading Shakespeare Reading Me

    par Leonard Barkan ...
    A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Michelangelo

    A Life on Paper

    par Leonard Barkan ...
    A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's artMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pietà, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Hungry Eye

    Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

    par Leonard Barkan ...
    An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and cultureEating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft.In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how ... En savoir plus

    $65.99 CAD

  • Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures

    par Leonard Barkan ...
    Collections series Essays in the Arts
    The skirmish between painting and poetry—from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and ShakespeareWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets—and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? In ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

  • Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson

    Laureations

    par Leonard Barkan, Frances Dolan, Heather Dubrow, Edwin M. Duval, Margaret Ferguson, Barbara Fuchs, Patricia Fumerton, Andrew Hadfield, Patricia Clare Ingham, Andrew McRae, Shannon Miller, James Nohrnberg, Michael O'Connell ...
    This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical debates including national identity, literary careerism, and studies of form. Analyzing not only early modern but also medieval literary texts, ... En savoir plus

    $134.99 CAD

  • Berlin for Jews

    A Twenty-First-Century Companion

    par Leonard Barkan ...
    What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for Jews. Part history and part travel companion, Leonard Barkan’s personal love letter to the city shows how its long Jewish ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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    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

  • Heretics and Heroes

    How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

    par Thomas Cahill ...
    Collections series The Hinges of History
    The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning NewsThis was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Inventing the Enemy

    Essays

    par Umberto Eco ...
    This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his " profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes" ( Booklist).In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers on an ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Geometry Of Love

    par Margaret Visser ...
    Visser spins a fascinating and detailed web of mythology, history, early Christian theology, Roman culture and contemporary practice as she unfolds the layers of meaning in the architecture of the small but ancient Christian church of St. Agnes in Rome. She enables the reader to discover the meanings expressed by any church, anywhere. The Geometry of Love was made into a prize-winning documentary ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD