Author: Nicholas Patruno Nicholas Patruno provides an analysis into the language used by Giovanni Verga with ample documentation that sets the ground for future work on the author. This volume is unique in that it focuses on Verga's early works. The study considers three aspects of language that structure the volume: phonology, morphosyntax, and lexicon.

Author: Edited by Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own homes with graffiti.Items and activities as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, everyday speech, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food preparation look decidedly less familiar when seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, such scholars as Judith Brown, Frances Dolan, Richard Helgerson, Debora Shuger, Don Wayne, and Stephanie Jed illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in just such common matters of everyday life during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent.Organized around the categories of materiality, women, and transgressionand constantly crossing these categoriesthe book promotes and challenges readers' thinking of the everyday. While not ignoring the aristocratic, it foregrounds the common person, the marginal, and the domestic even as it presents the unusual details of their existence. What results is an expansive, variegated, and sometimes even contradictory vision in which the strange becomes not alien but a defining mark of everyday life.

Author: Torrey James Luce In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for example, are the ways predilections of a particular age color one's reading of a complex author and why a reexamination of these influences is necessary to understand both the author and those who have interpreted him. All of the essays were first prepared for a colloquium on Tacitus held at Princeton University in March 1990. The resulting volume is dedicated to the memory of the great Tacitean scholar Sir Ronald Syme.The contributors are G. W. Bowersock (Tacitus and the Province of Asia), T. J. Luce (Reading and Response in the Dialogus), Elizabeth Keitel (Speech and Narrative in Histories 4), Christopher Pelling (Tacitus and Germanicus), Judith Ginsburg (In maiores certamina: Past and Present in the Annals), A. J. Woodman (Amateur Dramatics at the Court of Nero), Mark Morford (Tacitean Prudentia and the Doctrines of Justus Lipsius), Donald R. Kelley (Tacitus Noster: The Germania in the Renaissance and Reformation), and Howard D. Weinbrot (Politics, Taste, and National Identity: Some Uses of Tacitism in Eighteenth-Century Britain).Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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.

Author: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis The book description for The Poetry of Hart Crane is currently unavailable.