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1. Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment.

1. Jules Verne

De reis naar de maan

Jules Verne voorzag een reis naar de maan ruim honderd jaar voordat deze plaats vond. Verne schreef niet alleen vanuit zijn fantasie, maar baseerde zijn verhalen ook op de stand van de technische ontwikkelingen in zijn tijd. Hij bracht uren door in bibliotheken om zijn boeken zo goed mogelijk te onderbouwen en vervolgens borduurde hij verder op deze kennis met een intelligente logica.

1. Daniel Behar

Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Examines a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria.

Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence

This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection interrogating the writings of the writer and public intellectual Vernon Lee (1856-1935) on intelligence. It brings together 13 academics from the UK, Europe, Australia, China, and North America and from disciplines including literature, philosophy, history and cultural studies, to examine Lee’s writing (both creative and critical) on intelligence and its implications for the future. Drawing inspiration from Lee’s Proteus, or the Future of Intelligence (1925), chapter authors examine Lee’s harnessing of intelligence as both concept and process in areas as diverse as material culture, the built environment, gender, ethics and values, ecology, non-violent pacifism, and science. In doing so, they showcase the astonishing prescience and relevance of much of Lee’s writing for us in the 21st century.

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Selected Poems

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest artists of the German Romantic period. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher. Christopher Middleton (1926–2015) was a British poet and translator whose books include The Anti-Basilisk and Jackdaw Jiving: Selected Essays on Poetry and Translation.

Life Writing as World Literature

At its most measured, Life Writing as World Literature explores the challenges of enacting the transnational without reifying the nation, of advocating for the relational and collaborative without erasing individual agency, and of embracing the aesthetic while insisting on the citational. At its most ambitious, it suggests that life writing might usefully ‘blow up the very notion of World Literature.’ A valuable addition to the related projects of worlding literature and articulating lives.