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    Wayne Booth, Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times by Antonio Sotgiu

    Published 2010-06-01
    “…Nel presente articolo Wayne Booth immagina un dialogo intercorso tra lui e il noto cri- tico inglese vissuto nel XVIII secolo Samuel Johnson, quest’ultimo mostra la sua indignazione nei confronti della reticenza dei critici contemporanei nell’esprimere giudizi di valore ben argomentati sulle opere letterarie. …”
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    Un’ordinata bellezza by Fortunato, Elisa

    Published 2016-09-01
    “…After tracing a map of the whole corpus of foreign works (philosophical, historical and scientific) published by the Italian publisher, the focus moves to the five English literature translations issued during the regime (Milton’s Aereopagitica; Huxley’s The Olive Tree; Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson; Well’s A Short History of the Word; More’s Utopia), with particular attention paid to Huxley’s The Olive Tree translated in 1939 by Ada Prospero Gobetti. …”
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    Revolution and Exploration: the English Translations of Rousseau and Humboldt by Helen Maria Williams by Paula Yurss Lasanta

    Published 2017-12-01
    “…British author Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) was a well-known figure in the eighteenth century literary circles, whose work was praised by Elizabeth Montagu, Samuel Johnson, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hester Piozzi or Alexander von Humboldt.  …”
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