Language and Literature

Language and Literature examines the relationship between linguistic structure and literary expression. It explores stylistics, discourse analysis, and interpretive methodologies. This category integrates linguistic theory with literary criticism.

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Aesthetics Aesthetica in nuce – Benedetto Croce Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce's Aesthetica in nuce is a compact but remarkably dense treatise on the philosophy of art, written…

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Aesthetics The Art of Recitation and Declamation (Die Kunst der Rezitation und Deklamation) – Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner's "The Art of Recitation and Declamation" (Die Kunst der Rezitation und Deklamation) represents a distinctive contribution…

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Aesthetics The Language of Fashion – Roland Barthes Roland Barthes

"The Language of Fashion" is a collection of Roland Barthes's writings on fashion and clothing as semiotic systems.

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Aesthetics The Pleasure of the Text (Le plaisir du texte) – Roland Barthes Roland Barthes

The Pleasure of the Text is a short, fragmentary essay published in 1973 that represents one of Roland…

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Cultural Studies The Fashion System (Système de la mode) – Roland Barthes Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes's The Fashion System represents one of the most ambitious and rigorous applications of structuralist semiology to…

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Contemporary Philosophy The Rustle of Language (Le bruissement de la langue) – Roland Barthes Roland Barthes

The book gathers together essays, lectures, and occasional pieces written primarily during the 1970s, representing Barthes's mature thought…

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Criticism Writing Degree Zero (Le degré zéro de l’écriture) – Roland Barthes Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes's Writing Degree Zero (Le degré zéro de l'écriture), first published in 1953, stands as one of…

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Criticism Criticism and Truth (Critique et Vérité) – Roland Barthes Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes published Critique et Vérité in 1966 as a direct response to a sustained attack on his…

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Education Etymologies (Etymologiarum libri XX) – Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies is a twenty-book Latin encyclopedia whose governing idea is that a word’s origin discloses…

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19th Century Lirika – Fyodor Tyutchev Fyodor Tyutchev

This volume is an Azerbaijani-language edition of the lyric poetry of Nizami Gəncəvi, the twelfth-century poet of Ganja.

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History Grammar of the Tuscan Language (Grammatica della lingua toscana) – Leon Battista Alberti Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti's Grammatica della lingua toscana represents one of the earliest systematic attempts to codify the grammatical…

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African Studies Views on the Francophonie (Regards sur la francophonie) – Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor

Senghor presents Francophonie as a shared civilization emerging from diverse peoples speaking French, not as a mechanism of…

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Art By the Way, It’s Always the Others Who Die (Übrigens sterben immer die anderen) – Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp

A transcription of Marcel Duchamp's fragmented private meditation on death, language, and the irreducibility of the self-other divide.

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18th Century Discourse Pronounced at the French Academy on Monday 19 January 1761 upon the Reception of Mr. Watelet (Discours prononcés dans l’Academie françoise, le lundi 19 janvier M.DCC.LXI. a la reception de m. Watelet) – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

This work is a printed record of the ceremonial addresses delivered at the Académie française on Monday, 19…

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18th Century Discourse on Style (Discours sur le style) – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The Discours sur le style is a short prose address by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, delivered upon…

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