heinrich dialogues literature

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Heinrich Heine and Giacomo Leopardi: The Rhetoric of Midrash (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

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Delia Fabbroni-Giannotti Nisbet

Peter Lang Publishing, 2000

Exegitical Intrigue
In the Rhetoric of Midrash, many different exegetical methods are employed to derive deeper meaning from a text. It is an exegitical tradition implicated by pre-Talmudic prescriptions that through a flourish of esoteric imprecations allows the reader to become acquainted with the log of meanings that intersect within a given pasage of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). How are Heinrich Heine and ...

Operette Morali

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LEOPARDI

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2001

Enchanting Fables of Disenchantment
"Leopardi is one of the greatest of poets and prose writers, and like Kleist and Baudelaire, a truly original, devastating sensibility. Nothing is more overdue than a proper edition of Leopardi in English." -- Susan Sontag Fiabe che incantano. Melodie filosofiche di una strana saggezza che tradisce i metodi antichi in un dialogo strumentalizzato dal'epicentro del cuore stordito da illusioni ...

Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)

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Giacomo Leopardi, Giovanni Cecchetti

University of California Press, 1983

An Essential Masterpiece of Western Literature
Leopardi is the greatest Italian poet since Dante and Petrarch. He should be just as famous, however, for this prose work, which is a collection of short essays and philosophical dialogues. Cecchetti is an eminently qualified translator, and this California Press paperback gives you a marvelous opportunity to revel in what is indisputably a neglected (in English, at least) Major Work. If you like ...