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  • Studies in Honor of Mario A. Pei
    This volume, presented to Professor Pei on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia, contains sixteen studies by his former students in the fields of Romance philology and medieval literature. ...
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    44,86 €

  • Higher, Hidden Order
    David Lee Rubin
    Opening a new perspective on Malherbe’s major poems, this volume focuses on their design and meaning. In his introduction, Rubin defines and illustrates 'implied comparison.' There follows a series of explications which recover each poem’s values from analogies concealed in images or motif patterns. The work concludes with a description of formal constants and variables in the ...
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    38,75 €

  • Camus’ Hellenic Sources
    Paul Archambault
    Paul Archambault explores the evolution of Camus’ attitude toward Hellenism and Christianity as seen through his writing. The author considers problems as disparate as Camus’ use and misuse of Aeschylus and the Presocratics, his ambivalent appraisal of Socrates, the 'Plotinian' nature of his aesthetics, his identification of Christianity with Augustinian theology, and the Gnost...
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    38,54 €

  • From Vulgar Latin to Old Provençal
    Frede Jensen
    This study examines the Old Provencal language on the basis of philological interpretations of a few selected texts, both prose and poetry. The secondary source material includes a razo and two vidas from the troubadour biographies, as well as three poems selected from the works of Bernart de Ventadorn, the Countess of Dia, and Giraut de Bornelh. The linguistic commentary is ex...
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    38,67 €

  • Golden Age Drama in Spain
    Sturgis E. Leavitt
    This volume contains sixteen articles that have been previously published in various journals and homage volumes but are now almost inaccessible, if not entirely forgotten. Two of these articles deal with the Golden Age drama in general, and the others concern rather unusual aspects of the theatrical production of the period. 3 ...
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    38,74 €

  • Structure and Ideology in Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato
    Andrea di Tommaso
    The Innamorato, predecessor to Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, has been known in the English-speaking world since the sixteenth century, in both Italian and English translations. The present study was the first in English to be devoted exclusively to an examination of this Renaissance epic, which is one of the major poetic creations of the Italian Quattrocento. ...
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    38,69 €

  • Studies in Honor of Alfred G. Engstrom
    This volume was presented to Professor Engstrom in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. Its sixteen studies, contributed by colleagues, friends, and former students, move from the late Urban T. Holmes’s article on the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, with articles encompassing various aspects of French, Spanish, and Italian literatures. ...
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    44,83 €

  • Songs from a Strange Land
    John Goldingay
    Most of Scripture tells us about God. The Psalms tell God about us? ...
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    12,52 €

  • Faulkner’s Revision of Sanctuary
    Gerald Langford
    Was Sanctuary really a 'cheap idea,' as Faulkner himself called it, a book 'deliberately conceived to make money'? The question has teased the reading public since its publication. Many readers have had their worst suspicions about Faulkner’s work confirmed by his statement, but most serious critics have discounted the disparagement, emphasizing instead Faulkner’s further state...
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    27,51 €

  • A Companion to Greek Tragedy
    John Ferguson
    This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context-important for both Athenian and modern audiences-and he displays a keen, discriminating critical competence in dealing with the plays as literature.Ferguson is ...
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    80,44 €

  • Narrative Consciousness
    George H. Szanto / George HSzanto
    Comparatively little critical attention has been devoted to narrative technique in modern fiction, and formal analysis of the work of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet in particular has for the most part been limited to short studies in journals, many of these in languages other than English. The criticism written in English has dealt primarily with theme with metaphysics and m...
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    33,71 €

  • Mexico in Its Novel
    John S. Brushwood / John SBrushwood
    Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation’s novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a people to come to grips with and understand what has happened and is happening to them.Written in a clear and graceful style, this ...
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    40,30 €

  • The Pop Culture Tradition
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    19,43 €

  • A Shavian Guide to the Intelligent Woman
    Barbara Bellow Watson
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    17,39 €

  • The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
    Thomas Browne
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    29,45 €

  • Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism
    John G. Gager
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    17,70 €

  • A Bibliography of James Joyce, 1882-1941
    John J. Slocum / John JSlocum
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    95,72 €

  • George Eliot
    Gerald William Bullett / UNKNOWN
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    82,23 €

  • The Playwright’s Art
    Roger M. Busfield / Roger MBusfield / UNKNOWN
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    82,33 €

  • Dostoevsky
    Konstantin Mochulsky / Michael A. Minihan / Michael AMinihan
    Konstantin Mochulsky’s critical biography is, in the words of George Gibian, 'the best single work in any language about Dostoevsky’s work as a whole.' Through its close and insightful analysis of individual writings, relating them to his personal life and fortunes, it provides a sustained account of Dostoevsky’s evolution as a novelist. Already established as a modern classic ...
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    99,50 €

  • Dead Souls
    Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol / George Reavey
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    22,95 €

  • Emily Dickinson
    Richard Volney Chase
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    95,30 €

  • Amphitryon & Two Other Plays
    Plautus / Titus Maccius Plautus
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    15,82 €

  • Menaechmus Twins and Two Other Plays
    Titus Maccius Plautus / Lionel Casson
    Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers is the story of two twin brothers, Menaechmus and Sosicles, who are separated at age seven when their father takes Menaechmus on a business trip. ...
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    17,40 €

  • The Selected Papers of Wolfgang Kohler
    Wolfgang Kohler
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    23,87 €

  • DARK LUCY
    Philip King
    Set ’60s, this psychological thriller moves from a room in a vicarage to the living room of Dark Lucy’s cottage. Set over three acts the suspense andtension will have the audience gripped with a horrid fascination of the reveal. ...
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    18,60 €

  • The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
    Joseph Smith
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    107,67 €

  • Amor and Psyche
    Erich Neumann / Ralph Manheim
    The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius’s second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual study of feminine psychology. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, he shows how the contest between the mortal maid Psyche and the great g...
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    43,52 €

  • Classic English Short Stories 1930-1955
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    20,37 €

  • Shakespearean Metadrama
    James L. Calderwood / James LCalderwood
    Shakespearean Metadrama was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In a new approach to Shakespeare criticism, the author interprets five of Shakespeare’s early plays as metadramas, dramas that are not on...
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    72,10 €