The concept of dilettantism has not always been associated with amateurism or superficiality. It played a significant role in French and German critical writing from the late eighteenth century until the fin de siecle, embracing notions such as apprenticeship, fruitful error, pa…
The concept of dilettantism has not always been associated with amateurism or superficiality. It played a significant role in French and German critical writing from the late eighteenth century until the fin de siecle, embracing notions such as apprenticeship, fruitful error, pa…
The concept of dilettantism has not always been associated with amateurism or superficiality. It played a significant role in French and German critical writing from the late eighteenth century until the fin de siecle, embracing notions such as apprenticeship, fruitful error, pa…
"The poetic is an abiding yet elusive qualification within the discursive system of twentieth-century French literature. No longer amenable to formal assignment, its recurrences delimit a shifting, multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual (self- ) invention. This stud…
The history of literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo. In this historicized reading of Foscolo's correspondence, Parmegiani reveals the rich and complex relations between the Italian writer and the literatu…
The history of literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo. In this historicized reading of Foscolo's correspondence, Parmegiani reveals the rich and complex relations between the Italian writer and the literatu…
"Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanization, French utopian thinkers of the 19th century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. This study considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge upon prose writing."--Source in…