Literary studies: general Books

Dell'origine Della Poesia Rimata Di Giammaria Barbieri Modenese... explores the origins of rhymed poetry as understood by Giammaria Barbieri, a significant figure in Italian Renaissance literary circles. This work, examined through the lens of historical...

"Lucretius Epicurean And Poet" by John Masson delves into the life and works of the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius. This book provides a detailed examination of Lucretius's philosophical views, rooted in Epicureanism, and explores how these ideas...

Eine detaillierte Untersuchung der handschriftlichen Studien zu Boethius' Werk "De Consolatione Philosophiae" von Georg Schepss. Dieses Werk beleuchtet die historische und philosophische Bedeutung von Boethius' einflussreicher Schrift und bietet tiefe...

This volume provides an introduction to John Lydgate's "Nightingale Poems," offering valuable insights into the context and significance of these works within the landscape of medieval English literature. Otto Glauning's Einleitung explores the themes,...

Index Verborum Quae In Senecae Fabulis Necnon In Octavia Praetexta Reperiuntur... is a comprehensive index of words found in Seneca's plays and the Octavia Praetexta. Compiled by William Abbott Oldfather, Arthur Stanley Pease, and Howard Vernon Canter,...

Histoire de la littérature française à l'étranger, depuis le commencement du XVIIe siècle, by Pierre André Sayous, explores the reception and influence of French literature abroad from the 17th century onwards. This...

There is no English novelist whose reputation has fluctuated so violently as that of George Meredith. First published in 1971, this volume of essays reassesses the works of George Meredith. Despite his unevenness, the essays demonstrate that Meredith was...

Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain gathers twelve essays by international scholars focusing on the translation of Petrarch's vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) into English, from the Tudor age to the mid-seventeenth century (and beyond)...

The Odeon, a new volume of essays by the celebrated poet and critic Daniel Tobin, takes its title from the classical Greek and Roman buildings designed for the presentation of musical and poetic compositions. Organized around the question of...

This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to...

Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the...

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from...

Contemporary Galician literature is a central pillar of Galician cultural production and a key driver of the consolidation of Galicia's identity in the twenty-first century, yet it remains largely invisible outside of the borders of Spain. In Translation...

Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attention to her poems, prose writings and plays reveals Günderrode's remarkable engagement with the...

In "The Quantity and Music of the Greek Chorus Discovered," William Willis Moseley and Michael McN. Walsh delve into the intricate relationship between quantity and music in ancient Greek choral performances. This scholarly work offers insights into the...

This is Volume 3 of the complete works of Flavius Josephus, a crucial figure in understanding the history of the Jewish people and the Roman Empire during the first century CE. Josephus, a Jewish scholar and historian who lived through the tumultuous...

This edition of "The Clerk's Tale" is meticulously presented from Manuscript Dd. 4. 24, housed in the University Library, Cambridge. Edited by W.A. Wright, this volume offers readers a direct connection to Chaucer's timeless narrative. "The Clerk's...

Il volgarizzamento delle Favole di Galfredo [Anonymus Neveleti], dette di Esopo, Volume 1, presents a meticulously preserved and presented Italian translation of Aesop's Fables. This volume offers invaluable insights into the transmission and adaptation...

L'Edició maguntina de Ramón Lull amb un apéndix bibliogràfic dels manuscrits i impresos Lulians de Maguncia és un estudi exhaustiu sobre l'edició de les obres de Ramon Llull a Maguncia, acompanyat d'un apèndix...

De Aristotelis didascaliis, written in Latin by Günther Jachmann, explores the teachings and influence of Aristotle. This work delves into the historical context and philosophical underpinnings of Aristotle's doctrines, offering insights into his...

Confesion del amante por Joan Goer presents a Spanish translation of John Gower's renowned Middle English poem, "Confessio Amantis." This edition, meticulously compiled by Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld, draws from the literary estate of Hermann Knust and is...

"Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca. Edita Consilio et Auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae pt 1-3, Volume 14" presents a scholarly edition of ancient Greek commentaries on the works of Aristotle. Compiled and edited under the auspices of...

Aristotele e aristotelismo nella storia dell'estetica antica, origini, significato, svolgimento della "Poetica" esplora in profondità l'influenza di Aristotele e dell'aristotelismo sulla storia dell'estetica antica. Augusto Rostagni analizza le...

"Spenser's Faerie Queene," edited by Thomas J. Wise and illustrated by Walter Crane, is a timeless edition of Edmund Spenser's epic poem. This sixth volume presents a captivating journey through allegorical landscapes and chivalrous adventures. Spenser's...

This is a new edition of Volume 2 of Edmund Spenser's epic poem, "The Faerie Queene," accompanied by critical and explanatory notes by Ralph Church. Spenser's masterpiece, an allegorical romance celebrating the virtues of Queen Elizabeth I, remains a...

This is Volume 2 of a complete English translation of Martial's Epigrams. Martial, a Roman poet of the 1st century AD, is best known for his witty and satirical epigrams, short poems that often offer pointed observations on Roman society and daily life...

La lirica greca di Ettore Romagnoli offre un'analisi approfondita e appassionata della poesia lirica greca. Romagnoli, rinomato studioso della classicità, esplora le opere di poeti come Saffo, Alceo e Pindaro, contestualizzandole nel loro ambiente...

Alexiadis Libri XV, Volume 1, offers a deep dive into the historical narrative of the Byzantine Empire. Penned in ancient Greek, this work provides invaluable insights into the political, social, and military events of the Komnenian dynasty. Authored by...

Commodiani Carmina presents the works of Commodianus, an early Christian Latin poet, meticulously edited by Bernhard Dombart. This edition, originally published in 1887, offers a valuable resource for scholars of early Christian literature and late...

Diese Sammlung enthält eine Auswahl der berühmten "Canterbury Geschichten" von Geoffrey Chaucer in deutscher Übersetzung. Die "Canterbury Geschichten", ein Eckpfeiler der mittelalterlichen englischen Literatur, präsentieren eine lebendige Vielfalt...

Explores the coevolution of Absolute idealist philosophy and British fiction from the Romantic period forward.Absolute Fiction examines the principal form of idealism in the modern period, Absolute idealism, which posits that mind and matter must be...

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth century.What if increased visibility of marginalized identities-a goal of much socially committed lyric poetry in the United States-does not...

A metatextual look at the metafictional universe of one of the greatest American writers of all time.

This work includes the complete authoritative text with biographical & historical contexts, critical history and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives.

This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work, with full details of how, when and where each work by him came to be written, many details of which have only recently come to light and are often not known to scholars...

Shakespeare's Entrails explores the connections between embodiment, knowledge and acknowledgement in Shakespeare's plays. Hillman sets out a theory of the emergence of modern subjectivity in the context of a world that was increasingly coming to see the...

This book focuses on Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, it demonstrates the interconnectedness of their friendships and creativity, giving information about literary composition and artistic output, publication and exhibition, and details literary and...

Criticism has largely emphasised the private meaning of 'Romantic Satanism', treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan's solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic...

What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and...

This book offers an unparalleled depth of historical research by surveying the extraordinary richness of literary culture in a single year. Paul Salzman examines what is written, published, performed and, in some cases, even spoken during 1621 in Britain...

Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern...

With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various...