The english 'loathly lady' tales

This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology.

The centre and its compass

Collection of essays in honor of John Leyerle. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Leyerle has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval studies on this continent in the past thirty years. Essays reflect his broad academic interests and interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, int...

Rebels and rivals

The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer's tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies.

Piers plowman, volume ii, part 2: commentary, bibliography and indexical glossary

Volume 2 Part 2 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire editi...

Gavin douglas, the palyce of honour

At the end of the C15th, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. For all its comedy, it stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule. 2nd edition. Sui...

The gawain-poet and the fourteenth-century english anticlerical tradition

A fresh contextual reading of the four Middle English "Gawain" poems that situates them within the rich tradition of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism.

Chaucer and the poems of 'ch'

This particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes with by far t...

Vernacular poetics in the middle ages

Deals with the attitudes and assumptions about vernacular poetry from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. Collection of essays ranging from broad surveys of the changing conceptions of poetry to close studies of the emerging literary languages in France, Germany, Italy, England, and Scotland a...

Early english poetic culture and meter

Develops G. R. Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras, including his word-foot theory, concern for the late medieval context for alliterative meter, and the linguistics of punctuation and t...

Romance epic

The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic, the structure of the chansons de geste, school influences on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost chansons de geste, the evolution of the genre through c...

Piers plowman, three-book set: vol i (text), vol ii part 1 (textual notes) and vol ii part 2 (commentary and glossary)

3 volume set parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol I) alongside both the textual notes (Vol II, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol II, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire edition ava...

Vox feminae

Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of the image of a voice. This is not an attempt to completely cover the field but to offer an introduction and guide to those who are not familiar with woman's song, and ...

Generic composition in greek and roman poetry

Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation.

The well-read muse

Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos.

Lydgate's fabula duorum mercatorum and guy of warwyk

A romance that bears comparison to Chaucer's great works Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, is one of Lydgate's most accomplished works. In Guy of Warwick , Lydgate breaks with romance tradition, presenting the heroic English knight-pilgrim and his last great battle against the dread gia...

The digby mary magdalene play

Rare surviving example of the Middle English saint play. It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses. Fully annotated and glossed, an essential resource for the study o...

Drama and sermon in late medieval england

Investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed to be a close one, is addressed from historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of penance.

Thucydidean narrative and discourse

Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. This book brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new ...

Tretise of miraclis pleyinge

"A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge," usually believed to have been written between 1380 and 1425, is the longest and most significant piece of dramatic criticism in Middle English. It reflects the hostility of Wycliffite (or Lollard) authors toward dramatic representation and related activity, espec...

The morton w. bloomfield lectures, 1989-2005

The idea for the Bloomfield Lectures was…[to] reflect to some extent Morton Bloomfield's wide and varied interests—in literature, in the history of philosophy, in language studies, in Judaic studies.

Middle english legends of women saints

Presents a collection of saints' lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints’ leg...

A bibliographical guide to the study of troubadours and old occitan literature

New bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the 15th-century works of Jordi de Sant Jordi. Will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

Journeys toward god

Published in cooperation with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, this collection of essays explores the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and crusade, and the central role of these enterprises for the history of European society and thought.

Books most needful to know

Books Most Needful to Know" is the newest edition in the Richard Rawlinson Center's OEN Subsidia series. It includes essays covering topics such as Old English, Old Norse, Anglo-Latin literature, and Early Medieval Ireland.

Studies in honor of hans-erich keller

Essays on many aspects of medieval French and Occitan literatures and Romance linguistics in tribute to Hans-Erich Keller, one of our most productive and wide-ranging scholars. As a group, the essays reflect the state of the art of medieval French and Occitan studies and Romance linguistics, with...

Renaissance retrospections

From Shakespeare’s manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, essays explore the ways that early modern writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, int...

The recovery of old english

The eight essays in The Recovery of Old English consider major aspects of the progress of Anglo-Saxon studies from their Tudor beginnings until their coming of age in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Maiores philologiae pontes

Prominent scholars celebrate Michael Meier-Brugger's oeuvre by offering original studies primarily in Greek and Anatolian, spanning such topics as the Homeric question, newly discovered Indic names in Hittite sources, Medieval and Modern Greek phonology and much more.

The third gender and aelfric's lives of saints

"The Third Gender" considers Ælfric of Eynsham's treatment of gender as he translates Latin monastic saints' Lives for his Anglo-Saxon lay audience.

Poetry, place, and gender

The essays in this collection honor Helen Damico's extensive interests in Old Norse and later medieval literatures as well as her primary focus on Anglo-Saxon studies, embracing Old English poetry, archaeology, art history, paleography, liturgy, landscape, and gender.

Rabbi eliezer of beaugency, commentaries on amos and jonah (with selections from isaiah and ezekiel)

Introduction, translation, and critical notes to Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency: one of the most innovative exegetical projects of the twelfth-century Renaissance.

Aribo, de musica and sententiae

Music was central to the medieval church's public worship: it was the essential medium of the Mass and the Divine Office. This new critical edition presents the Latin text and the first English translation of Aribo's musical treatise. Addresses newly discovered manuscripts of the treatise, paying...

The agōn in classical literature

The multifaceted agōn – a ‘contest of words’ – is a force formulating classical literary tradition. This book reflects on facets of the agōn and its representations in classical literature across a variety of genres and ideological contexts, from Homer to lyric poetry, drama, law, rhetoric and hi...

Electra, ancient and modern: aspects of the reception of the tragic heroine (bics supplement 113)

Menander 'perikeiromene' or 'the shorn head'

Menander’s Perikeiromene, or the ‘Woman with shorn head’ tells the story of the soldier Polemon, who returns home from service to discover, as he thinks, that his girl, Glykera, has found another lover. Blindly jealous, he shears off her hair and goes off to drown his sorrows with companions. But...

Vanishing acts on ancient greek amulets

Erôs and the polis: love in context

The articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the link between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms; and the roles of sophro...

The afterlife of plutarch

Plutarch’s writings have had a varied reception history from when he was writing in the second century BCE down to today. This is one of the early volumes in the series of ‘Afterlives’ of the Classics, being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg.

The afterlife of inscriptions: reusing, rediscovering, reinventing, revitalizing ancient inscriptions (bics supplement 75)

The oxyrhynchus papyri vol. lxxxvii

This volume includes editions of 58 papyri and one text on parchment. Three are of exceptional interest: 5575 is an early copy of sayings of Jesus corresponding in part to the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke and in part to the apocryphal gospel of Thomas. Jesus is also the speaker in 5576 a...

Imagines italicae (3 vols) (bics supplement 110)

California gothic: the dark side of the dream

California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the Calif...

Gulf gothic

Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.

The gothic literature and history of new england

The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.

Hawthorne's histories, hawthorne's world

Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World  collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding the...

Poetics of race in latin america

Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, ...

Gothic appalachian literature

Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of the representation of economic, environmental, and political concerns.

Querido diego, te abraza quiela by elena poniatowska

A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate.

The (latin) american scene, present and future (im-)perfect

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs “Latin” and “Hispanic” in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish ...

The trial of treasure

A facsimile edition of a 1567 edition of this rare early play by an anonymous writer

Dreams and dialogues in dylan’s "time out of mind"

This book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.

American paraliterature and other theories to hijack communication

A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature. 

American literary naturalism

The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.

Nuclear gothic

Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic pr...

Ralph ellison and cinema

The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).

A theoretical approach to modern american history and literature

A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Am...

Pastoral cosmopolitanism in edith wharton’s fiction

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

Street-gang and tribal-warrior autobiographies

‘Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies’ describes the similarities between the autobiographies of warrior tribes and of street gangs. Gangbangers were so alienated from the larger society that they reinvented something very similar to tribal-warrior cultures right in the heart of America...

James baldwin review

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.

Humour, subjectivity and world politics

What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests a focus on comic practice illuminates the relationship between global politics, culture and the everyday. It offers a theoretically rich examination of humour's contribution to the making and unmaking of subjectivity, ide...

Humor 2.0

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogeco...

Rediscovering ancient egyptian literature through arabic poetics

A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterpartsThis book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan compares the stylistic Arabic literary device of...

Shakespeare's "the comedy of errors"

Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies.

Petrarch’s famous men in the early renaissance: the illuminated copies of felice feliciano’s edition

The afterlife of apuleius

Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, lingui...

Shakespeare, memory, and modern irish literature

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ‘dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which cont...

Prose merlin

Gives students of medieval Arthurian literature access to the Merlin section of the Old French Vulgate Cycle, an interconnected set of Arthurian works composed during the first half of the 13th century. Written in the latter half of the 15th century, it is a treasure trove of characters, incident...

Childe harold of dysna

A masterpiece by one of Yiddish literature’s true virtuosi, this satiric poem appears here for the first time in a complete English translation. A celebration of Yiddish language and an indictment of capitalist excess, Kulbak's protagonist journeys from small town Eastern Europe to the metropolis...

Greek wisdom literature in arabic translation

A critical edition based on the three known manuscripts, and translation of a gnomologium entitled Mukhtar min kalam al-hukama' al-arba`a, which contains sayings ascribed to Pythgagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. A paperback reprint of the original 1975 book, with a new Foreword, and with er...

Six scottish courtly and chivalric poems, including lyndsay's squyer meldrum

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society.

Black refigurations

Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including bo...

The portrayal of breastfeeding in literature

Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.

The sicilian puppet theater of agrippino manteo (1884-1947)

This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and ...

Ngugi wa thiong'o

Patrick William’s lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi’s writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and po...

The works of richard edwards

The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in the documentary evidence that might accomm...

Postcolonial manchester

Offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene.

Foucault’s theatres

This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy ‘theatrically’, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought.

Between two stools

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries.