1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000798550203316

Autore

LUPERINI, Romano

Titolo

L' allegoria del moderno : saggi sull'allegorismo come forma artistica del moderno e come metodo di conoscenza / Romano Luperini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Editori riuniti, 1990

ISBN

88-359-3356-0

Descrizione fisica

352 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Gli studi

Disciplina

801.950904

Collocazione

VIII.3. 193 (VARIE COLL.1014/2)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790893103321

Autore

Dorsey Leroy G. <1959->

Titolo

We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple [[electronic resource] ] : Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism / / Leroy G. Dorsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8173-8731-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

973.91

973.91/1092

973.911092

Soggetti

African Americans - Cultural assimilation - History

Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation - History

Immigrants - United States - History

Americanization - History

National characteristics, American

Rhetoric - Political aspects - History - 20th century

Rhetoric - Political aspects - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations Political aspects

United States Race relations Political aspects



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Roosevelt's Americanism and the Myth of Origin; 2. Forging Americanism on the Frontier: Immigrants and The Winning of the West; 3. Red into White: Native Americans and Americanism; 4. Shaping the African American Image: Americanism and the ""Negro Problem""; 5. From Hero to Traitor to Good Citizen: Americanism and the Campaign against the Hyphen; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The turn of the 20th century represented one of the most chaotic periods in the nation's history, as immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans struggled with their roles as Americans while white America feared their encroachments on national identity. This book examines Theodore Roosevelt's public rhetoric-speeches, essays, and narrative histories-as he attempted to craft one people out of many. Leroy G. Dorsey observes that Roosevelt's solution to the problem appeared straightforward: everyone could become ""Americans, pure and simple"" if they embraced his notion of ""American



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789837703321

Autore

Verdegem Simon

Titolo

Plutarch's life of Alcibiades [[electronic resource] ] : story, text and moralism / / Simon Verdegem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, : Leuven University Press, c2010

ISBN

94-6166-009-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (499 p.)

Collana

Plutarchea Hypomnemata ; ; v.3

Disciplina

938.05092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-467) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF ALCIBIADESSTORY, TEXT AND MORALISM; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Ancient Works; 1.1. Plutarch's Lives; 1.2. Plutarch's Moralia; 1.3. Other works; 2. Modern Works and Series; 2.1. Modern Works; 2.2. Series; Introduction; 1. Moralism; 1.1. The Moralism of the Parallel Lives; 1.1.1. The moral purpose of the Parallel Lives; 1.1.2. Positive and negative examples; 1.1.3. Non-protreptic moralism; 1.1.4. Comparative moralism; 1.2. Alcibiades; 1.2.1. A turbulent life58; 1.2.2. A controversial figure; A. Historiography and biography; 1. Thucydides; 2. Xenophon's Greek History

3. Diodorus Siculus4. Cornelius Nepos; B. Rhetoric; 1. Isocrates' On the Team of Horses; 2. (Pseudo-)Lysias' Against Alcibiades I; 3. Pseudo-Andocides' Against Alcibiades; C. Socratic Literature; 1. Xenophon's Memorabilia; 2. (Pseudo-)Plato's Alcibiades I; 3. Plato's Symposium; 1.2.3. A negative Life?; 2. Story; 2.1. The Story-Text Distinction; 2.2. Constructing a Story: Plutarch and his Sources; 2.1.1. Plutarch: a creative writer; 2.2.2. The referential level for the Life of Alcibiades; A. Plato; B. Thucydides; C. Xenophon; D. Ephorus; E. Theopompus; F. Biography

2.2.3. Plutarch's Method of Work3. Text; 3.1. Plutarch's Narrative Techniques; 3.1.1. Time; 3.1.2. Narrator(s) and narrative(s); 3.1.3. Focalization; 3.1.4. Speech representation; 3.2. The Pairing with Coriolanus; 3.2.1. The order of the two Lives; 3.2.2. Plutarch's Coriolanus; 3.3. The relative chronology of the Parallel Lives; 1The



Proem (Alc. 1); 1. An Intriguing Beginning; 2. Making a Start; 2.1. Ancestry (Alc. 1.1); 2.2. Upbringing and Education (Alc. 1.2-3); 2.3. Physical Appearance (Alc. 1.4-5); 2.4. Speech (Alc. 1.6-8); 3. Conclusions; 2A Difficult Character (Alc. 2-9)

1. On Character Changes and Innate Passions (Alc. 2.1)2. Childhood Stories (Alc. 2.2-3.2); 2.1. Three Memorable Anecdotes (Alc. 2.2-7); 2.1.1. The lion on the wrestling ground (Alc. 2.2-3[6] ); 2.1.2. Much ado about a throw (Alc. 2.3[6] -4); 2.1.3. Too proud to play the aulos (Alc. 2.5-7); 2.2. Two Slanderous Stories from Antiphon (Alc. 3); 3. How to Distinguish Flatterers from a Friend (Alc. 4-6); 3.1. An Accumulation of Contrasts; 3.1.1. The influence of Socrates (Alc. 4.1-4 and Alc. 6); 3.1.2. Two ways to treat your lover (Alc. 4.5-5.5); 3.2. An Accumulation of Material

3.2.1. The influence of (pseudo-)Plato3.2.2. Alc. 4-6 and other Plutarchan writings; A. De ad. et am. 68c-71d; B. De aud. 46c-47b; C. Amat. 762b-f; 3.2.3. Four other elements; 4. Sayings and Doings of a Young Adult (Alc. 7-9); 4.1. Three Anecdotes (Alc. 7.1-3[8]); 4.1.1. Teaching two teachers a lesson (Alc. 7.1-2); 4.1.2. A question for Pericles (Alc. 7.3[4-8] ); 4.2. On the Battlefield (Alc. 7.3[9]-6); 4.3. Violence, Greed, and Marriage (Alc. 8); 4.4. A Wonderful Tale (Alc. 9); 5. Conclusions; 5.1. Plutarch's Sources; 5.2. Alcibiades' Character; 5.3. The Structure of the Text

5.4. The Reader's Appraisal

Sommario/riassunto

At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story an