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The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization ...
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A collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain ...
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in ...
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Excerpt from Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Vasari, and tell the tales as nearly as I can in his own words. His treatment ...
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