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Before he was a writer Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570 he fought at the battle of Lepanto was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life He understood the costs of heroism the fragility of fame and the power of the military culture of brotherhoodIn Heroic Forms Stephen Rupp connects Cervantess complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare Examining Cervantess plays and poetry as well as his prose Rupp demonstrates how Cervantess works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era epic tragedy pastoral romance and picaresque fiction
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Cervantes and the Humanist Vision sold for 35 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
This book sets the Novelas ejemplares in the mainstream of Christian Humanism and shows that their narrative forms manifest the breadth of the Christian Humanist vision as much as does the more overtly revolutionary Don QuixoteOriginally published in 1983The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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A heroic history of novelreading itself The AtlanticIn the early seventeenth century a crippled graying almost toothless veteran of Spains wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book It was the story of a poor nobleman his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures That book Don Quixote went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible making its author Miguel de Cervantes the single mostread author in human history Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller though He invented a way of writing This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction and how fiction changed the world The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantess life and the world he lived in showing how his influences converged in his work and how his workespecially Don Quixoteradically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world Finally it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art politics and science and how the world today would be unimaginable without itWilliam Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel
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The term anamorphosis from the greek ana again and morphe shape designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500s and 1600s Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins or from one side to the other A Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible and indeed requires oblique readings as in anamorphosis
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The term anamorphosis from the greek ana again and morphe shape designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500s and 1600s Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins or from one side to the other A Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible and indeed requires oblique readings as in anamorphosis
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A highly and colorfully illustrated companion to an exhibit showing at the Museum from October 1998 to January 1999 Focusing on the output of the most innovative and celebrated armorer of Milan explores the new fashion of armor design that emerged in the second quarter of the 16th century and was based on the forms and ornament found in classical art Describes all the pieces signed by Negroli identifies lost works and attributes additional works to him Includes armor by other members of his family and pieces that demonstrate his influence Annotation c by Book News Inc Portland Or
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A highly and colorfully illustrated companion to an exhibit showing at the Museum from October 1998 to January 1999 Focusing on the output of the most innovative and celebrated armorer of Milan explores the new fashion of armor design that emerged in the second quarter of the 16th century and was based on the forms and ornament found in classical art Describes all the pieces signed by Negroli identifies lost works and attributes additional works to him Includes armor by other members of his family and pieces that demonstrate his influence Annotation c by Book News Inc Portland Or
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Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of twentieth century physics Born at the very beginning of the century it attained a definitive form by 1932 yet continued to evolve throughout the century Its applications remain fully a part of modern life It should thus come as no surprise that literature on the history of quantum theory is vast but author Robert D Purrington approaches the story from a new angle by examining the original physics papers and scientific studies from before the creation of quantum mechanics to how scientists think about and discuss the subject today The Heroic Age presents for the first time a detailed but compact and manageable history of the creation of quantum theory and shows precisely where each important idea originated Purrington provides the history of the crucial developmental years of quantum theory with an emphasis on the literature rather than an overview of this period focusing on personalities or personal stories of the scientists involved This book instead focuses on how the theoretical discoveries came about when and where they were published and how they became accepted as part of the scientific canon
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The early literature of AfricanAmericans is an important part of our cultural heritage and here collected in one volume are three of the most significant of these works The Heroic Slave Clotel and Our Nig These form a milestone collection of the pioneering novels of AfricanAmerican literature
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Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of twentieth century physics Born at the very beginning of the century it attained a definitive form by 1932 yet continued to evolve throughout the century Its applications remain fully a part of modern life It should thus come as no surprise that literature on the history of quantum theory is vast but author Robert D Purrington approaches the story from a new angle by examining the original physics papers and scientific studies from before the creation of quantum mechanics to how scientists think about and discuss the subject today The Heroic Age presents for the first time a detailed but compact and manageable history of the creation of quantum theory and shows precisely where each important idea originated Purrington provides the history of the crucial developmental years of quantum theory with an emphasis on the literature rather than an overview of this period focusing on personalities or personal stories of the scientists involved This book instead focuses on how the theoretical discoveries came about when and where they were published and how they became accepted as part of the scientific canon
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Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972 calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of common people and less immodest in their erections of heroic selfaggrandizing monumentsThis revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original on the Las Vegas strip and Part II Ugly and Ordinary Architecture or the Decorated Shed a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl The final part of the first edition on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch is not included in the revision The new paperback edition has a smaller format fewer pictures and a considerably lower price than the original There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firms work
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Heroic sweeping melodies form the basis of this celebratory work highlighting achievement and longevity The constant rhythmic drive is augmented
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This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smolletts translation of Cervantess Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smolletts own intentions It includes Francis Haymans twentyeight illustrations engraved for the original edition Smolletts explanatory notes and his prefatory Life of CervantesSmolletts Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and was for many years the most popular Englishlanguage version of Cervantess masterpiece However soon after the start of the nineteenth century its reputation began to suffer Rival translators literary hucksters and careless scholars initiated or fed a variety of charges against Smolletteven plagiarism For almost 130 years no publisher risked reprinting itRedemption began in 1986 when the distinguished Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes in his foreword to a new albeit flawed edition of Smolletts translation declared it to be the authentic vernacular version of Don Quixote in English Fuentess opinion was in accord with that of the preeminent Cervantist Francisco RodrÃguez MarÃn who decades earlier had declared Smolletts Don Quixote to be his preferred English versionMartin C Battestins introduction discusses the composition publication and controversial reception of Smolletts Don Quixote Battestins notes identify Smolletts sources in his Life of Cervantes and in his commentary provide crossreferences to his other works and illustrate Smolletts originality or dependence on previous translations Also included is a complete textual apparatus a glossary of unfamiliar terms and an appendix comparing a selection of Francis Haymans original illustrations with the engraved renderings used in the book
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Don Quixote and the Poetics of the Novel is a probing and sophisticated analysis of the literary form of Cervantess masterpiece which offers challenging implications for critical theory and practice In the course of reconstructing the design of Don Quixote Felix MartinezBonati provides a persuasive account of the texts inconsistencies and implausibilitiesIn response to the classic question whether Don Quixote is true to life MartinezBonati defines it as an unrealistic allegory of realism He maintains that Cervantess novel presents an ironized universe of literature that plays with the contradictions of traditional wisdom and the variety and limitations of literary forms including those of verisimilitude Drawing on Aristotles Poetics on the idealist and romantic traditions that originate in Kant Schiller Schelling Hegel and Coleridge and on contemporary critical theory MartinezBonati describes the stylistic matrix of Don Quixote as a combination of semirealism romance fantasy and comedy and he offers an interpretation of the historical and existential meaning of such a configuration He provides fresh insights into the character of Cervantess imagination the composition and unity of Don Quixote and its generic structure rhetorical force and metafictional intentionalityDon Quixote and the Poetics of the Novel will be welcomed by Hispanists comparatists and others with an interest in literary theory Renaissance studies and the development of the novel
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This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language a justification of suicide a refutation of time the nature of dreams and the intricacies of linguistic forms Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal Coleridge Cervantes Hawthorne Whitman Valéry Wilde Shaw and Kafka With extraordinary grace and erudition he ranges in time place and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad from ancient China to modern England from world revolution to contemporary slang
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