5 títulos para "Maiorino Giancarlo"

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Maiorino, Giancarlo

At the Margins of the Renaissance

Maiorino, Giancarlo

Published anonymously in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces the adventures not of a nobleman or ancient hero, but rather of an ordinary man who struggles for survival in a cruel, corrupt society after growing up...

The Portrait of Eccentricity

Maiorino, Giancarlo

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Maiorino, Giancarlo

"Titology," a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the pages that follow. While the term has been used in the literary community for thirty years, this book...

The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts

Maiorino, Giancarlo

This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, an...