Literary studies: general Books

"An impressive book by an authoritative interpreter of Christine de Pizan, written with brilliance and wry humor."--Lori J. Walters, Harry F. Williams Professor of French, Florida State University"An impressive piece of scholarship: a nuanced and erudite...

Foys argues that early medieval culture did not favor the representational practices privileged by the modern age and that five hundred years of print culture have in effect shut off modern readers from interpretations of text and image that would have...

This book argues that far from preaching traditional, otherworldly ideals, the authors or these religious works were deeply engaged in the social, political, and spiritual issues that characterized the Holy Roman Empire at a time of radical...

Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the...

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami's power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing...

Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to...

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with...

Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection traces Du Maurier's role as a participant in the wider...

The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts...

""El Sue�����o de Luciano Samosatense, que es la vida de Luciano: y la Tabla de Cebes, Philosopho Thebano"" es un libro escrito por Lucianus y Kebes en el a�����o 1778. El libro cuenta la historia de Luciano Samosatense, un hombre que sue�����a con la...

Le livre ""Le Drame Chr�����tien au Moyen �����ge"" (1878) de Sepet, Marius est une �����tude approfondie sur le th����������tre m�����di�����val chr�����tien. L'auteur explore l'histoire, la structure et les th�����mes de ces pi�����ces, ainsi que leur...

""Diog�����ne d'Apollonie"" est un livre �����crit par Jules Auguste Soury en 1898. Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Diog�����ne d'Apollonie, un philosophe grec du 5�����me si�����cle avant J�����sus-Christ. Diog�����ne d'Apollonie �����tait connu pour ses...

Das Buch ""Diodorstudien"" wurde im Jahr 1891 von Frederick Leopold Schoenle ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich dabei um eine umfassende Studie �����ber den griechischen Historiker Diodorus Siculus und seine Werke. Schoenle untersucht dabei...

Dracontii Presbyteri Hispani, Carmen Epicum Hexaemeron: Ab Eugenio II (1794) est liber poematicus auctore Blossio Aemilio Dracontio, presbytero Hispano. In hoc libro, Dracontius describit creationem mundi, secundum narrationem Hexaemeronis, sex dies in...

Don Coblero Or The Mock Baron: A Burlesque Poem (1763) is a satirical work by F. J. that parodies the conventions of chivalric romance and aristocratic society. The poem tells the story of Don Coblero, a bumbling and pretentious would-be baron who is...

""Documents Illustrative Of The History Of Scotland V1: From The Death Of King Alexander The Third To The Accession Of Robert Bruce, 1786-1806"" is a historical book written by Joseph Stevenson. This book is the first volume of a series of documents that...

Tha De Orygynale Cronykil Of Scotland V1: Be Androw Of Wyntown (1795) le Macpherson, David na sgr�����obhadh air an eachdraidh na h-Alba. Tha e a' toirt s�����il air eachdraidh na h-Alba bho �����ineanach gu 1420. Tha e air a sgr�����obhadh le Androw of...

""Della Storiografia E Della Filosofia Della Storia Presso I Greci"" ����� un libro scritto da Ettore Pais nel 1889. Questo testo analizza la storiografia e la filosofia della storia nella Grecia antica. Pais esplora le opere di autori come Erodoto,...

""Dalle Novelle di Canterbury"" (1897) di Chaucer, Geoffrey ����� una raccolta di racconti scritti in inglese medio nel XIV secolo. La storia ����� ambientata durante un pellegrinaggio a Canterbury, dove un gruppo di viaggiatori si riunisce e decide di...

Females of the Present Day: Considered as to Their Influence on Society is a book written by an anonymous author who identifies herself only as ""A Country Lady."" Published in 1831, the book explores the role of women in society and their impact on the...

Fabula Josephi Et Asenethae Apocrypha est liber qui a Gustav Oppenheim anno MDCCCLXXXVI editus est. In hoc libro, fabula de Josepho et Asenetha, quae apocrypha dicitur, ex libro syriaco in linguam latinam versa est. Fabula haec de Josepho, filio Jacob,...

Einhards Jahrb�����cher ist eine historische Abhandlung von Einhard, einem bedeutenden Gelehrten und Berater des Kaisers Karl des Gro�����en. Das Buch wurde erstmals im Jahr 830 ver������ffentlicht und enth�����lt eine detaillierte Beschreibung der...

Early England Up To The Norman Conquest is a historical book written by Frederick York-Powell in 1876. The book provides a comprehensive account of the early history of England, starting from the prehistoric times to the Norman Conquest. It covers the...

""Early England And The Saxon-English: With Some Notes On The Father Stock Of The Saxon-English, The Frisians"" is a historical book written by William Barnes and published in 1869. The book explores the early history of England and the Anglo-Saxon...

Dissertatio Litteraria Continens Observationes Ad Scholia In Platonem (1884) est opus auctore Wolf, Friedrich Heinrich Elias. In hoc libro, auctor observationes continet ad scholia in Platonem. Platonis philosophia est una ex philosophiis antiquis maxime...

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings.

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.

This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton's legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton's most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The book offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in...

Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction.

This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes we tend to understand in scientific terms had implications for, and were implicated by, changes in literary structure, revealing that the...

Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women's Autobiographical Literature examines women's autobiographical works published in Poland after the year 2000 in a broader cultural context.

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the...

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In...

Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee's body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and...

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately 1,200 years of literature. This is a book on "medieval literature" that foregrounds language as the agent for cultivating...

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book...

Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures...

Resilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been undertaken as an important object of study within the field of the humanities. Understanding narrative in its broad sense as...

Interest in Martin Heidegger was recently reawakened by the revelations, in his newly published 'Black Notebooks', of the full terrible extent of his political commitments in the 1930s and 1940s. The revelations reminded us of the dark allegiances...

In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature offers a timely investigation of the value of dialogue in contemporary American culture. Using Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action to read the work of Frank O'Hara,...

This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed - yet eminently readable - historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on...

This book focuses on the projection of the hero's masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces or challenges patriarchal ideas about gender. In the...