DRAMA / Type / Historical

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The article analyzes Mykola Zerov’s translation of Juliusz Słowacki’s drama Mazepa in the context of the formation and development of European literary “Mazepiana.” It examines the genesis of Ivan Mazepa’s image in European culture¬–from Voltaire’s historiographical account and Lord Byron’s Romantic interpretation to its subsequent artistic transformations in nineteenth-century literature, visual arts, and music. Th…

Reference · Wikidata

scholarly article published in April 2018

Book · DOAB

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types and the radically changing characteristics attributed to them. From the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration to the onset of formal human scie…

Full text · Open Library

**The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale** is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espion…

Image · DPLA

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