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WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

In this first volume, the reader will find a collection of articles written by scholars who have read, studied, and analyzed the work of Graham Greene. This volume includes the following articles:“Reflections” byJudith Adamson“Shades of...

"So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These...

“In one of his final publications, Geoffrey Hill asserts his commitment to ‘the strangeness and the power of poetry’. The words accord with many readers’ responses to Hill’s own poetry. It is generally seen as...

In Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114) and affirms the rather unstable, yet malleable, character of the vernacular tongue, which is tied both to natural variation and to pleasure...

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour's psychological, bodily and material agency. Breaking away from scholarly preoccupations with...

This substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes.Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative...

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but what is it that makes the poem so particularly involving? And why might videogames help us understand this better? Drawing on new theories...

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in...

Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion, as a fin-de-siècle cure for middle-class neuroses. The...

Forty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from Hélène Cixous to Colm Tóibín, have acknowledged the transformative influence of her writing on their...

This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), focussing specifically on their representation of women. De Francisci argues...

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film...

Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton's dramatic works as responses to James I's governance. Through examining Middleton's poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean...

Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato is a book written by Friedrich Schleiermacher in 1836. The book provides an in-depth analysis of Plato's dialogues, and Schleiermacher's interpretation of them. The author examines each dialogue...

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving...

While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South...

Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and...

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical...

Le livre ""Oeuvres A. De Longperier V5, Moyen Age Et Renaissance, Part 2, 1858-1868 (1883)"" de Schlumberger, G. est un recueil d'�����uvres de l'historien et arch�����ologue fran�����ais Antoine De Longperier. Cette cinqui�����me partie du livre se...

""Sredniowieczna Poezya Lacinska W Polsce"" to trzytomowe dzie�����o autorstwa Aleksandra Brucknera, opublikowane w 1894 roku. W ksi���������ce przedstawiona zosta�����a poezja �����aci�����ska z okresu �����redniowiecza w Polsce. Autor omawia w niej...

Le livre ""Oeuvres De Jean Racine V2: Avec Les Variantes Et Les Imitations De Auteurs Grecs Et Latins (1807)"" de Jean Racine est une compilation de ses �����uvres compl�����tes. Cette deuxi�����me �����dition comprend des variantes et des imitations des...

The Classical Reader is a collection of lessons in both prose and verse from esteemed English and American writers, compiled by Francis William Pitt Greenwood and originally published in 1826. The book includes works from authors such as William...

""Speculum Tragicum Regum, Principum, Et Magnatum Superioris Soeculi Celebriorum Ruinas Exitusque Calamitosos Breviter Complectens"" est liber Ioannis Dickenson, editus anno 1603. In hoc libro describuntur ruinae et exitus calamitosi regum, principum, et...

Specimens of Old Christmas Carols is a collection of traditional English Christmas carols compiled by Thomas Wright and originally published in 1841. The book contains 42 carols, some dating back to the 15th century, and includes lyrics, sheet music, and...

""Notes On The Book Of Job: With A New Version (1879)"" is a book written by William Kelly. The book is a comprehensive study of the biblical book of Job, which is part of the Old Testament. The author provides a new version of the book of Job, along...

Sulpitii Severi Opera Omnia est liber qui continet omnes scripta Sulpitii Severi, scriptoris Christiani saeculi IV. In hoc libro, legentibus erunt historiae vitae sanctorum et narratio de persecutionibus Christianorum. Praeterea, adiuncti sunt...

Das Buch ""Den Beyerske Robenson Det Er En Meget Merckvaordig Historie Om Hertug Ernst"" von Anonymous, ver������ffentlicht im Jahr 1766, erz�����hlt eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte �����ber Herzog Ernst. Das Werk beschreibt die Abenteuer des Herzogs, der...

Criticism and Medieval Poetry is a book written by A. C. Spearing in 1873. The book explores the relationship between medieval poetry and literary criticism. Spearing delves into the works of various medieval poets such as Chaucer, Langland, and Gower,...

Ben Jonson's The Fountain of Self-Love: Or Cynthias Revels is a play that was first performed in 1601. It is a satirical comedy that mocks the vanity and self-absorption of the courtiers and social climbers of the time. The play is set in the court of...

""Babylonian Letters of the Hammurapi Period"" is a book written by Arthur Ungnad and originally published in 1915. The book is a collection of letters written in cuneiform script during the reign of Hammurabi, the sixth king of the Babylonian Empire...