1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786865503321

Autore

Cavaliero Roderick

Titolo

Genius, power and magic : a cultural history of Germany from Goethe to Wagner / / Roderick Cavaliero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : I.B.Tauris, , 2013

ISBN

0-7556-2132-8

0-85773-328-1

0-85772-204-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

943.07

Soggetti

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

Germany Civilization

Germany Intellectual life 18th century

Germany Intellectual life 19th century

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 (pages 365-370) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Fitzboodle in Pumpernickel -- A German panorama -- Genius : Germans in search of god -- Genius : Germans in search of man (1) -- Genius : Germans in search of man (2) -- Potentates and patrons (1) -- Potentates and patrons (2) -- The Catholic south -- Magic : musical Germany -- Pumpernickel discovered -- Revolution across the Rhine -- The return of "Pumpernickel" -- Romance on the Rhine -- The Tales of the Hoffmen -- Harmony and dissonance -- Butterflies or maggots -- "Pumpernickel" by binoculars -- Power over genius and magic.

Sommario/riassunto

"Before unification in 1871, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread, somewhat lacking in cultural cohesion. Yet between the end of the Thirty Years War and unification under Bismarck, Germany became the land of philosophers and poets, writers and composers. Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith and its artistic exports - including the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn and the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Schiller and Kant.



Providing a comprehensive and highly-readable account of Germany from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 'Genius, Power and Magic' is fascinating reading for anyone interested in European history and the extraordinary cultural legacy of this golden age."--Amazon.com.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960157503321

Autore

Landau Idan

Titolo

Control in generative grammar : a research companion / / Idan Landau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-61038-4

1-107-23521-9

1-107-60268-8

1-139-62526-8

1-139-61596-3

1-139-60878-9

1-139-06185-2

1-139-61224-7

1-299-25769-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Control (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Infinitival constructions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Background -- 2. Control theories: a typology -- 3. Empirical arguments for PRO -- 4. Predicting the distribution of PRO -- 5. The phenomenology of obligatory control -- 6. Adjunct control -- 7. Non-obligatory control -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to refer to some linguistic or contextual referent (e.g. 'Bill preferred __ to remain silent' is understood as 'Bill preferred that he himself would remain silent'). This dependency is the subject matter of control theory.



Extensive linguistic research into control constructions over the past five decades has unearthed a wealth of empirical findings in dozens of languages. Their proper classification and analysis, however, have been a matter of continuing debate within and across different theoretical schools. This comprehensive book pulls together, for the first time, all the important advances on the topic. Among the issues discussed are: the distinction between raising and control, obligatory and nonobligatory control, syntactic interactions with case, finiteness and nominalization, lexical determination of the controller, and phenomena like partial and implicit control. The critical discussions in this work will stimulate students and scholars to further explorations in this fascinating field.