European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

5 best books like European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Ernst Robert Curtius): Course in General Linguistics, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, Maitreyi

Course in General Linguistics

Author	Ferdinand de Saussure
ISBN	0812690230

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been...

Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance

Author	Erwin Panofsky
ISBN	0064300250

Gran bel saggio, grande classico degli studi sull'iconologia (e della storia dell'arte in genere).Dopo una ricca introduzione dove Panofsky spiega la genesi dell'opera e il suo metodo di lavoro, si passa a una serie di saggi dedicati, nell'ordine, dine, a:

- Preistoria umana in due cicli...

Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures

Author	Noam Chomsky
ISBN	0262530708

"Language and Problems of Knowledge" is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0805202412

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...

Maitreyi

Author	Mircea Eliade
ISBN	9735004100

Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman á clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride...