(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...
A revised and expanded edition of David Darks influential first book Everyday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative no...Loe edasi...
Delve through a unique exploration of the philosophy underlying The Wheel of Time “The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten…” Robert Jorda...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487569020)
Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanquished by chivalrous knights in Medieval sagas...Loe edasi...
Charles Brittain, Harvey Yunis, Hayden Pelliccia, Jeffrey Rusten
Sari: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783487)
A collection of essays that illuminate and connect the shared concerns and conversation of philosophers, historians, and comic poets in late fifth- and early fourth-century BCE Athens--...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836244882)
In the first book-length study of this major contemporary author, Peter Morey traces the influence of Kamila Shamsies formative years, spent under a military dictatorship in 1980s Karachi, on writing with an acute sense of social justice and an awar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, ISBN-13: 9781837722679)
Dyma gyfrol gyfoethog o ysgrifaun ymwneud ag amrywiol agweddau ar lenyddiaeth Gymraeg a Cheltaidd, ac syn talu teyrnged i gyfraniad arbennig yr Athro Marged Haycock ir ddisgyblaeth. Cesglir ynghyd waith ysgolheigion blaenllaw ar bynciaun ymestyn or...Loe edasi...
Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and conditions on language and on the context of composition itself. They eliminated es and femin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810149281)
A comprehensive examination of how and why French authors turned to ludic methods to grapple with their political moment-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111197319)
The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urgency, and in antiquity as in the current day, id...Loe edasi...
The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold, paving the way for Weimar Classicism without walking it himself. Lessing is the pre-classicist of German literature, praised and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110770452)
Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new studies of these poems and the history of their collect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198934073)
This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham. Bokenhams version of the Legenda aurea was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, and is also important...Loe edasi...
What did Australians read? This book answers this question in terms of books rather than newspapers and considers the long nineteenth century, interpreted as running from 1788 to 1901. In the wake of this primary question, several others arise: ho...Loe edasi...
Giving Voice to Exile in Literature aims to provide undergraduate, graduate and professional readers with a nuanced understanding of how the unique status of exile, issues of displacement, complexities of cultural identity formation, the st...Loe edasi...
From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment—and how we can fight...Loe edasi...
The age of Enlightenment was also an age of development of sporting and physical activities. This book studies the forms of sociability induced and defined by such activities in the eighteenth century. By bringing together archival work and textual...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827057)
An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscripts Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete,...Loe edasi...
Fernando Lozano, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muniz-Grijalvo
Sari: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111706931)
Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contributions of the conquered regions gradually assimilate...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300181340)
A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were f...Loe edasi...
This book brings new perspectives and insights to the discipline of translation studies at a time when Western theories dominate its main discourse. By highlighting the significant contribution of Chinese scholar Qian Zhongshu, which encompasses a t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Exeter Press, ISBN-13: 9781804132142)
The earliest version of William Langlands Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his lifes work will take. This is the first critically considered edition of the A -text supported b...Loe edasi...
This book is a collection of papers on Frankish historiography in the Merovingian and early Carolingian periods, from the late sixth to early ninth centuries, and studies numerous individual texts, evaluating their witness to the events they descr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111694061)
As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111704722)
Three related texts about the spiritual lives of early Dominican sisters at Colmar’s Unterlinden convent – the Vitae sororum, composed in the 14th century by prioress Katharina von Gueberschwihr, and two 15th-century...Loe edasi...
These developments are presented in France and the Spanish-speaking world, while also considering Germany and England: While Montaigne, Pedro Mexía, Pérez de Oliva, Vives, and Gracián prioritize literature, Pascal contrasts the esprit de finesse w...Loe edasi...
This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media technology, translation studies, critical and psychoanalytic theory. Builds upon Antonin Artauds elaboration of the theatre as a plag...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032993775)
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Key features include: - Comprehensive coverage: Includes major theoretical schools such...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032993782)
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.Key features include:Comprehensive coverage: In...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198746300)
Walter Paters first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British writer, it was also described as the gold...Loe edasi...
