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Emblem, iconography, and drama
Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.
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Introduction to english renaissance comedy
Introduction to English Renaissance comedy explores the interconnected themes of politics, magic and sex in a number of representative comedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It ranges across the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline periods, covering both public and private theatres, emphas...
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Possible worlds: jorge luis borges's (pseudo-) translations of virginia woolf and franz kafka
'In this well-conceived study, Rebecca Maria Dewald delves into the hierarchy between the perception of original texts and that of translations, and explores why this hierarchy is so often upheld, as well as possible alternatives to this limiting hierarchy. In her well-researched work, Dewald foc...
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Dialogues on beckett
‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.
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H.g. wells and all things russian
‘H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.
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The renaissance discovery of violence, from boccaccio to shakespeare
This study looks at key Renaissance texts in the novelle collection, the humanist satire, epic-romance, and vernacular tragedy. It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events, like the Sack of Rome, and developments in the history of violence per se.
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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.
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Transnationalism and translation in modern chinese, english, french and japanese literatures
Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
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Translation theory for literary translators
This book analyses how practicing literary translators can benefit from translation theory.
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Subaltern narratives in fiji hindi literature
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first serious study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi. The book makes a case for a subaltern voice speaking and argues that subaltern writing constitutes the silent underside of world literature whose canon it silently challenges and subverts.
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A cultural history of the punisher
A close reading of one of the most murderous characters in popular culture. First introduced in 1974, the Punisher has inspired three movies, a Netflix series, and more than one thousand comics and graphic novels. His stories have celebrated, interrogated, and satirized the politics of vengeance....
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Invisible presence
The most complete study of women in French-language comics to date - and the first published in English. Taking a two-pronged approach of historical and case-study analysis, and with a chronological span of over a century, it is the fullest examination thus far of female depiction in Francophone ...
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Children’s picture books and contemporary egyptian society
A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through children’s picture books published in Egypt in the post-2000 era Children’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they ar...
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International lgbtq+ literature for children and young adults
This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) ...
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Affect and realism in contemporary brazilian fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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Colombian gothic in cinema and literature
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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Traslados/translations
Provides an investigation of some of the enduring preoccupations of one of the UK's foremost Latin Americanists. This title features essays that reflect a number of Jason Wilson's many research interests.
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Universality and utopia
This book explores the intersection between philosophical and literary universalism in Latin America, tracing its configuration within the twentieth-century Peruvian socialist indigenista tradition, following from the work of José Carlos Mariátegui and elaborated in the literary works of César Va...
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Caribbean literature after independence
Earl Lovelace was one of the greatest Trinidadian writers. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and an indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the post-Independence state. This book assesses Lovelace's fiction and also his role in Caribbean letters.
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Alice munro
This is the first full-length study of Alice Munro's work to be published in Britain. Highlights Munro's distinctive storytelling methods where everything becomes both 'touchable and mysterious'.
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Literature and transformation
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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Radical realism, autofictional narratives and the reinvention of the novel
This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived ex...
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Prizing scottish literature
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider...
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Consumerism and prestige
This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.
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Reading by numbers
‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.
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Books, readers and libraries in fiction
This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...
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Patrick white beyond the grave
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist ...
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The concept of the book: the production, progression and dissemination of information
If we push the definition of a ‘book’ beyond the traditional form of the codex to encompass cuneiform tablets, papyri, as well as the printed and digital book- just what is the essence of its purpose? The volume analyses the role of the book as a tool of communication. It covers an impressive tim...
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Australian literature in the german democratic republic
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.
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Pursuits of settler belonging in contemporary australian memoirs
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethi...
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Australian patriography
This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others.
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Transpacific connections: literary and cultural production by and about latin american nikkeijin
Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspiratio...
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Globalization, nationalism and the text of ‘kichaka-vadha’
This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
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Locating the anglo-indian self in ruskin bond
This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
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The mahatma misunderstood
“The Mahatma Misunderstood” is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.
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Postliberalization indian novels in english
“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the reception of these works at a global level.
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The soushén hòujì
An annotated translation of the entire Míng version of the Soushen houji (Latter Notes on Collected Spirit Phenomena) attributed to the celebrated poet Tao Qian (365-427), a compilation of stories known as zhiguai (records of the anomalous) documenting strange and unusual phenomena the author obs...
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Philology and criticism
The first book to present a comprehensive review of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition, with overviews of stemmata (textual trees), how the logic of the stemmata determined editorial choices, and an in-depth analysis of the edition’s strengths and drawbacks. An invaluable asset to any scholar worki...
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Judah and samaria in postmonarchic times
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Autorschaft und autorisierungsstrategien in apokalyptischen texten
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On dating biblical texts to the persian period
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Between canonical and apocryphal texts
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Is jesus athene or odysseus?
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The vocabulary of the septuagint and its hellenistic background
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The sentences of sextus and the origins of christian ascetiscism
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Inscriptions from lisht
This volume incorporates all of the inscribed material associated with more than one hundred burial chambers and graves found at Lisht North and Lisht South, two sites excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1907 until 1934 and from 1984 to 1991.
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Theory does not exist
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
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On john gower
The topics addressed in these ten essays also provide grounds of another kind to assess the foci of contemporary Gower studies. As well as place, the political element in Gower's writings has been subject to fruitful recent scrutiny; and again, there are important linkages and overlaps among thes...
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The uses of manuscripts in literary studies
Judson Boyce Allen loved his work and encouraged other scholars by his enthusiasm for theirs. He had an unusually wide range of interests, from the specialized study of manuscripts through the interpretation of particular literary texts to the broadest issues of literary theory.
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The wisdom of poetry
A collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits.
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The french balades
Gower's "Traitié" and "Cinkante Balades" are the only extant formes fixes ("fixed forms," that is, fourteenth-century French lyrics, essentially the balade, rondeau and virelai, developed as literary styles from thirteenth-century dances) that we can be assured were written by a native Englishman...
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The hero recovered
The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark brings together studies concerning heroes and heroisms in Old English, Old Icelandic, Middle English, and modern literature as a tribute to the scholarship and teaching of George Clark. The thirteen essays in this collection ...
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Beowulf at kalamazoo
This is a collection of essays designed to capitalize on the success of Seamus Heaney' prize-winning translation of Beowulf, which bridges the gap between the ivory tower where most who study Beowulf reside and lay readers drawn to the poem because of Heaney's reputation, the reviews or even perh...
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European erotic romance
European Erotic Romance casts new light on the publication, translation and politicisation of three ancient Greek novels, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon and An Ethiopian Story, and their impact in Renaissance England.
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Swans and amber
From papyrus rolls, copied and recycled through the centuries, hundreds of short extracts written by Greek poets in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. survive. This lovely collection, translated into English by a leading classicist, presents a selection of ca. 100 poems by 17 authors with useful hist...
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The disperata, from medieval italy to renaissance france
This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subvert...
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Sovereignty and salvation in the vernacular, 1050-1150
Texts of interest because they represent a kind of writing - at the intersection of ecclesiastical and secular power, drawing on the whole range of medieval Latin learning – that is not found elsewhere in the European Middle Ages. Usefull in teaching as they illustrate a great number of character...
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Der welsche gast (the italian guest)
A remarkable product of an important period in German literature and indeed in medieval European culture; it may be argued with considerable justification that Der Welsche Gast is the most significant didactic work of the German High Middle Ages.
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Nicholas of lyra, literal commentary on galatians
A new critical edition of the Latin text of Nicholas of Lyra's literal commentary on Galatians, with a facing English translation.
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Ava's new testament narratives
Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127.
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Early latin commentaries on the apocalypse
Many commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the seventh and eighth centuries. The introduction highlights the unique features of each commentary and the interrelationship of the three texts.
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The glossa ordinaria on the song of songs
Translated with an introduction and notes by Mary Dove. In this translation of glosses on the Song of Songs, Mary Dove offers a readily accessible and inexpensive resource for students and scholars.
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Nicholas of lyra's apocalypse commentary
Surveys of the history of biblical exegesis and, in particular, the history of Apocalypse commentaries rarely fail to allude to Nicholas of Lyra O.F.M. (1270–1349) as the greatest biblical exegete of the fourteenth century.
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The seven seals of the apocalypse
This book illustrates this vastness of medieval interpretive tradition on the seven seals. It includes fifteen texts from the sixth through the fifteenth century.
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Commentary on the book of jonah
Haimo of Auxerre's Commentary on the Book of Jonah was probably written as a study text for scholars in the monastery.
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Medieval exegesis in translation
This book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical interpretation.
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Catalogue of the manuscripts in the dom edmond obrecht collection of gethsemani abbey
The Trappist abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky owns the eclectic Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of manuscripts, which contains not only medieval manuscripts but materials of interest for the study of the French Revolution. Most items are of Cistercian origin, but other monastic tradition...
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Mummings and entertainments
This book presents a large sampling of the dramatic texts of John Lydgate, the preeminent poet of fifteenth-century England. These verses are, as Claire Sponsler notes in her introduction, 'of great importance for literary and theatrical history.'
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The floure and the leafe, the assembly of ladies, the isle of ladies
An asset to any study of gender in medieval England; three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. Incl. contextualizing introductions and helpful glosses; also an extensive glossary for the entire volume. Useful to not only beginning students of Middl...
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The trials and joys of marriage
The disparate texts in this anthology, produced in England between the late thirteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, challenge, and in some cases parody and satirize, the institution of marriage. The texts bridge generic categories.
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The middle english breton lays
First vol. to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.
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The life of saint katherine
In telling the story of the life of the virgin martyr Katherine, Capgrave uses many of the tropes that mark the enormously popular genre of hagiography as it was written throughout the Middle Ages. Incl. digressions on just and unjust rule; on child care; on medieval English feasts, jousts and pa...
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Lancelot of the laik and sir tristrem
This new edition makes available to students of English romance and of the Matter of Britain two significant Middle English Arthurian romances. With introductions, glosses, notes, and glossary, a very accessible edition for students.
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Confessio amantis, volume 1
The complete text of John Gower's poem is a three-volume edition, including all Latin components-with translations-of this bilingual text and extensive glosses, bibliography and explanatory notes. Volume 1 contains the Prologue and Books 1 and 8, in effect the overall structure of Gower's poem.
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Three middle english charlemagne romances
An excellent introduction to the tradition of romances dealing with the matter of France-that is, Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers. This is a valuable introduction to Charlemagne romances and is accessible to beginners in Middle English because of contextualizing introductions and glosses for eac...
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Poems and carols (oxford, bodleian library ms douce 302)
The Audelay manuscript also contains unique copies of other alliterative poems of the ornate style seen in "Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Pistel of Swete Susan."
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Sentimental and humorous romances
A unique collection of Middle English romances, each with a different view of society, ranging from a tale of oriental wonders ("Floris and Blancheflour") to excellent examples of the burlesque ("The Tournament of Tottenham" and "The Feast of Tottenham").
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Confessio amantis, volume 2
The complete text of John Gower's Confessio Amantis 3-volume edition, including all Latin components - with translations - of this bilingual poem and extensive glosses, bibliography, and explanatory notes. Volume 2 contains Books 2, 3, and 4.
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Three purgatory poems
Through these fourteenth-century Middle English poems, readers can experience something of the controversies that surfaced and resurfaced even after Aquinas had articulated his doctrine of the Communion of Saints
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