(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541415)
Oscar Wildes Paris explores Wildes connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile and death, examining his self-fashioning in the city, its impact on his career, and his eventual absorption into Parisian cultural hist...Loe edasi...
Sari: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145558)
Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there remain many aspects that neither medicine nor physics can fully explain. The Catholic Church continues to pronounce individuals as saints because scientifi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111579900)
Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica ranks not last among the most importat works of ancient scholarly literature which we wish we could read in its original, full redaction. It was Phrynichus’ magnum opus, and the high status of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781501520341)
Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City analyzes depictions of non-elite, working women in relation to specific London neighborhoods and sites in early modern drama and culture from primarily the late sixte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111624167)
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for American cultural and political attitudes of a gi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145435)
The epigraphic database Clauss Slaby (EDCS) was founded and developed 40 years ago by Manfred Clauss and Wolfgang Slaby at the University of Eichstätt. Today, it is the largest and most important digital tool for epigraphic research worldwide, provi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765131138)
A work of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism that offers original readings of early canonical works of the Western tradition.In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustines Confessions ...Loe edasi...
Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Peter L. Rudnytsky trains his critical eye on canonical works from St. Augustines Confessions to Miltons major poems. Arguing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the latent content of the Fall, Rudnytsky...Loe edasi...
There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortre...Loe edasi...
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a characters gentility and delicacy, or critically of anothers indolence and impertinence? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a persons air and ...Loe edasi...
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a characters gentility and delicacy, or critically of anothers indolence and impertinence? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a persons air and ...Loe edasi...
The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpecte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198981466)
This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within specific literary genres, and how generic tre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198962519)
Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martials dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early...Loe edasi...
This book aims at providing scholars with a reference tool on prominent intellectual and erudite Lodovico Antonio Muratori, featuring contributions of both distinguished and young international scholars on his vast production, that spans fr...Loe edasi...
This book revises the view of printed ephemera as a trivial or disposable by giving a history of its role in eighteenth-century culture. It explores how tickets, playbills and posters became a way of facilitating social interaction and, for collecto...Loe edasi...
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American...Loe edasi...
The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of...Loe edasi...
