Scrittori non si nasceIl linguaggio della narrativa

Scrivere: modi problemi e aspetti e Il linguaggio della narrativa: questi i titoli della lezione e della conferenza tenute da Pontiggia nel 1986 e nel 1988, in cui uno dei massimi scrittori della nostra letteratura mette in risalto quanto la parola scritta, per il suo margine d'imprecisione e aleatorietà, trova la sua espressività grazie a percorsi complessi e specifici. Le due brevi lezioni …

Afterlives of Romantic IntermedialityThe Intersection of Visual, Aural, and V…

Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual …

Dislessico famigliareCronache (s)connesse di una famiglia straordinariamente …

Giampaolo era considerato uno studente pigro, svogliato, addirittura poco dotato, ma la verità era un'altra: il suo cervello, semplicemente, funzionava in modo diverso. All'epoca non si parlava di dislessia e disturbi dell'apprendimento, mentre oggi questi temi sono all'ordine del giorno. Eppure, quanto ne sappiamo davvero sull'argomento? È quello che si è chiesta Gloria nel momento in cui h…

African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture. …

Chris Claremont

Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular comics for over a decade and, eventually, a multibillion-dollar film franchise. While Claremont's influence on popular culture is becoming more widely…

On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of RealityA Collectio…

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences, along with Logic (Theoretic) and Ethics, which are the three different modes of representing reality. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic represent…

Diabetes Cookbook For Canadians For Dummies

Practical and delicious recipes for people with prediabetes and diabetes looking to stay healthy and satisfied Diabetes Cookbook For Canadians For Dummies helps you manage your condition while eating well. Inside, you'll find easy-to-follow recipes for every meal, to the point information from the latest Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines, and guidance on treatments and lifestyle cha…

Delicious GeographyFrom Place to Plate

This entertaining book takes us on a fascinating exploration of the world of food. Take a journey with the dynamic father and daughter duo, geographer Gary Fuller and chef Tracy Reddekopp, as they travel around the globe to trace the enduring links of geography and food. Food and its preparation and enjoyment define the major cultural regions of the world and how these regions have changed over…

Hospital aestheticsDisability, medicine, activism

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Red AestheticsRodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein

Red Aesthetics offers a new way to think about art and politics, focusing on the revolutionary work of Aleksandr Rodchenko, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergei Eisenstein between the wars. Todd Cronan shows how these three artists' photographs, dramas, films, and writings—centered on class conflict—differ from current left orthodoxies rooted in empathy. Writing against liberal pieties, Cronan conten…