Un regard passionné

In the preface to Stanzas, Agamben unambiguously provides the setting for his engagement with Friedrich Hölderlin: The name of Hölderlin – of a poet, that is, for whom poetry was a...

The introduction serves to explain the general thesis of the book and its place in the scholarship tradition by providing a brief review of literature in connection with Horace’s S...

As the sole purveyors of news and opinion, Reconstruction-era newspapers bent and spindled American public opinion with little regard for independent journalism and great regard fo...

This essay reassesses Chaucer’s influence on the Older Scots poem The Buke of the Howlat (c.1448), written by the Orkney poet Richard Holland (d. in or after 1483) in the mid-fifte...

This chapter looks at Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life (1870–1872), which is considered as his enduring contribution to Australian literature and to a broader liter...

Imaginez-vous à Athènes, vers 414 avant J.-C. Dans le théâtre de Dionysos sous l’Acropole. Gradins en bois, sol de terre battue, et pour seul décor un bâtiment rudimentaire, doté d...

In this chapter there are two primary categories to emerge with regard to the classification of minorities in the Middle East. The first comprises religious minorities, both early ...