Literary studies: general Books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

A definitive introduction to New Testament textual criticism, this book includes a comparison of the major editions of the New Testament, detailed description and analysis of the manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, and discussion on the value of the...

The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly...

Ovid, Rome's most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid's claims to critical...

Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands of quotations both in and of Shakespeare's works which represent intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as literary value. Drawing on the insights...

Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and...

Euhemerism and Its Uses offers the first interdisciplinary, focussed, and all-round view of the long history of an important but understudied phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural history. Euhemerism - the claim that the Greek gods were...

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle...

Wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived, this Research Companion investigates Shakespeare's relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare's specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism's likeness and...

An Index To The Old English Glosses Of The Durham Hymnarium (1905) is a reference book written by Harvey W. Chapman. This book is a comprehensive index of the Old English glosses found in the Durham Hymnarium, a manuscript containing a collection of...

""A Select Collection of English Songs V1"" is a book compiled by Joseph Ritson and published in 1783. It is a collection of English songs from the medieval period to the 18th century. The book contains a wide variety of songs, including ballads,...

Preface Zelda Sayre, Belle The Courtship Celebrity Couple Travels Europe Once More Hollywood and Ellerslie Zelda as Artist: Writer and Dancer The Crack-Up, 1930 On the Way To Being Cured The Phipps Clinic and Baltimore Zelda as Patient The Crack-Up, 1936...

In prose and poetry the selections contained here reveal the personal experiences, feelings and angst of three English writers who lived through World War I.