Author: Mariana Starke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Travels in Europe Between the Years 1824 and 1828
Author: Mariana Starke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Anglo-Florentines
Author: Diana Webb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350136026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This book looks at the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many others were shopkeepers, merchants and even engineers. Some achieved a more profound knowledge of the country (and its language) than others, but all were affected to some degree by the momentous events which led to Italian unification.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350136026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This book looks at the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many others were shopkeepers, merchants and even engineers. Some achieved a more profound knowledge of the country (and its language) than others, but all were affected to some degree by the momentous events which led to Italian unification.
Pompeii in the Public Imagination from Its Rediscovery to Today
Author: Shelley Hales
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199569363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A collection of essays exploring the different ways in which the ruined city of Pompeii has been a major source of inspiration to Western imaginations. Creative and popular, as well as scholarly approaches are covered, including an interview with the novelist Robert Harris, and the volume is fully illustrated, with several images in full colour.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199569363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A collection of essays exploring the different ways in which the ruined city of Pompeii has been a major source of inspiration to Western imaginations. Creative and popular, as well as scholarly approaches are covered, including an interview with the novelist Robert Harris, and the volume is fully illustrated, with several images in full colour.
Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity
Author: Andrea de Jorio
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215062
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
It also deals with numerous issues important for any semiotics of gesture, such as the question of the relationship between physical forms and meaning, the problem of how to present a description of the gestural repertoire of a community in a consistent manner, the importance of context for the interpretation of gesture, how gestures may be combined, and how they develop as metaphorical expressions."--Jacket.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215062
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
It also deals with numerous issues important for any semiotics of gesture, such as the question of the relationship between physical forms and meaning, the problem of how to present a description of the gestural repertoire of a community in a consistent manner, the importance of context for the interpretation of gesture, how gestures may be combined, and how they develop as metaphorical expressions."--Jacket.
American Guides
Author: Wendy Griswold
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635783X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. With an eye to this market and as a response to unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. They produced the Project's American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. The series unintentionally diversified American literary culture's cast of characters--promoting women, minority, and rural writers--while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635783X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. With an eye to this market and as a response to unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. They produced the Project's American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. The series unintentionally diversified American literary culture's cast of characters--promoting women, minority, and rural writers--while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes.
Travels in Europe Between the Years 1824 and 1828
Author: Mariana Starke
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022504714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This travelogue provides a fascinating glimpse into Europe in the early 19th century, with a focus on Sicily. Written for fellow travelers, it includes practical information and insightful historical accounts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022504714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This travelogue provides a fascinating glimpse into Europe in the early 19th century, with a focus on Sicily. Written for fellow travelers, it includes practical information and insightful historical accounts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Fatal Gift of Beauty
Author: Manfred Pfister
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051839432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonn�eit presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051839432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonn�eit presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Language and Civilization
Author: Teresa J. Kirschner
Publisher: Peter Lang D
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
One folded ill. in pocket of v. 1; three fold. ill. in pocket of vol. 2.
Publisher: Peter Lang D
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
One folded ill. in pocket of v. 1; three fold. ill. in pocket of vol. 2.
Representational Tactics in Travel Writing and Translation
Author: Paola Daniela Smecca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description