Urania
Author | : C. Flammarion |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 1141725541 |
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Author | : C. Flammarion |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 315 |
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ISBN | : 1141725541 |
Author | : Giulia Bigolina |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226048799 |
Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—Urania also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women. Also included in this volume, the novella Giulia Camposampiero is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the Decameron. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as Urania, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.
Author | : William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780838751572 |
Reflecting Milton's knowledgeability in many fields, this collection investigates a wide variety of subjects fundamental to an understanding of the seventeenth century, including the importance of the writings of Thrice-Great Hermes, the profound influence of Aristotle on Milton's conception of the power of matter, and the issue of Milton's relations with the Presbyterian church.
Author | : Giulia Bigolina |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226048772 |
Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—Urania also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women. Also included in this volume, the novella Giulia Camposampiero is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the Decameron. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as Urania, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.
Author | : Azpiri |
Publisher | : Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : Erotic drawings |
ISBN | : 9781561632480 |
A collection of beautiful nudes by the great Spanish artist, famous on both shores. Gorgeous black & white pencils presented with text in three languages. Limited direct import from Europe!
Author | : Christopher Cooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Astrology |
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Author | : Sampson Arnold Mackey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Urania |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Astrology |
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Author | : Rahel Orgis |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317090497 |
Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth’s Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book thus has a dual focus, at once on narrative art and reader formation. It makes two original claims, the first being that the Urania is not the unorganized accumulation of stories critics have tended to present it as, but a work of sophisticated narrative structures i.e. a complex text in a positive sense. These structures are revealed by means of a circumspect narratological analysis of the formal and thematic patterns that organise the Urania. Such an analysis furthers our understanding of the reading strategies that Wroth encourages. The second claim is, then, that through the careful structuring of her text Wroth seeks to create her own ideal readership. More precisely, the formal and thematic structures of the Urania engage with readers’ expectations, inviting them to reflect on prominent thematic issues and respond to the text as what early modern prefaces term "good" readers. Combining narratological methods with a generic perspective and taking into account the work of book historians on early modern reading practices, this monograph provides a new approach to the Urania, supplementing the typically gender- or (auto)biographically-oriented interpretations of the romance. Moreover, it contributes to the study of early modern (prose) narrative and romance and exemplifies how historically contextualised narratological analysis may yield new insights and profit research on reading strategies.
Author | : Brendan Myers |
Publisher | : Arcana Elements |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781999395490 |
On a cold night in the year 1514, Urania, the Greek goddess of astonomy, inspires Nicolaus Copernicus to re-imagine the cosmos with the sun at the centre -- a crime for which Zeus banishes her from Olympus. Then Julian Augustus, former emperor of Rome and an agent of Zeus, offers her a bargain: Find one mortal who can grasp the immensity of the universe without going mad, or else live in exile forever. With help from Promethus, the Titan, and Kynisca of Sparta, the first woman to win at the Olympic Games, Urania works with Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, and other scientists of the Renaissance, hoping one of them can win the gamble for her. But Julian arranges for accidents, turns of fate, and even the Inquisition, to interfere with their work. Even Prometheus has an agenda of his own. As her search continues, Urania finds the consequences of winning to be worse than the price of losing.