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  • W. B. Yeats
    A. G. Stock / AGStock / Stock A. G. / Stock AG.
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    37,07 €

  • Formulaic Diction and Thematic Composition in the Chanson de Roland
    Stephen G. Nichols Jr. / Stephen GNichols Jr.
    This study shows that the Chanson de Roland is clearly the work of an individual creativity that could, by deliberate repetition of important parts and careful arrangement of the order of events, transcend speech limitations to hint at the complex reaction and subtle character development of the protagonist. ...
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    38,05 €

  • The Reappearing Characters in Balzac’s Comédie Humaine
    Arthur Graves Canfield
    Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis of nearly six-hundred reappearing characters shows that some appear only briefly, in no significant role; others play important parts; and some become principals in later action. ...
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    38,28 €

  • Obsessive Images
    Joseph Warren Beach
    Obsessive Images was first published in 1960. 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.As Mark Schorer comments, this is 'the last, unfinished work of a distinguished, well loved critic, poet, and professor.' After the death of Jos...
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    85,69 €

  • The Elements of Drama
    J. L. Styan / JLStyan
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    95,88 €

  • Thomas J. Wise
    Thomas James Wise (1859-1937), though destined to receive in his own lifetime practically every honor the world of letters could bestow, is remembered today as perhaps the greatest malefactor in all of literary history. From 1934 to 1957 various enquiries have implicated him first in the manufacture of more than fifty predated 'original' editions of eminent Victorian authors, t...
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    27,07 €

  • Anna Livia Plurabelle
    Fred Higginson
    Anna Livia Plurabelle: The Making of a Chapter was first published in 1960. 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.This volume traces the development of 'Anna Livia Plurabelle,' the most famous chapter in James Joyce’s book Finne...
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    57,90 €

  • The Peregrine Muse
    Robert J. Clements
    These essays illustrate how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered throughout Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers: Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even up until those as modern as Rilke. 3 ...
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    38,63 €

  • Natural History of the West Indies
    Sterling A. Stoudemire
    Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo’s Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire’s translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of ...
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    38,58 €

  • Truth and Symbol
    Karl Jaspers
    To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. ...
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    43,66 €

  • Milton and This Pendant World
    George W. Whiting / George WWhiting
    Milton and This Pendant World is an interpretation of the great English poet 'in an age increasingly skeptical, in a culture dominated by the assumptions of the natural and historical sciences and by the illusions of progress and enlightenment.'Those are the words of the author of this book, George Wesley Whiting, an eminent and devoted Miltonian. Believing that Milton has a vi...
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    37,55 €

  • The Sandburg Range
    CARL SANDBURG
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    22,01 €

  • The Works of Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser
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    58,19 €

  • Aspects of the Novel
    E M Forster
    E. M. Forster’s guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India, Howards End, and A Room With a View) takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as...
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    13,08 €

  • The Early Cuadro de costumbres in Colombia
    Frank M. Duffey / Frank MDuffey
    This study traces the development of the sketch of manners (cuadro de costumbres), beginning in 1838 until the end of the century. Although the Colombian sketch is not in general distinguished artistically, its scope and variety of subject produce a richly detailed picture of the life, people, and institutions of mid-century Colombia. The author shows the influence of the Span...
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    38,71 €

  • The Book of the Wiles of Women
    John Esten Keller
    First rendered into Spanish from Arabic in 1253, this book became the inspiration for many great books of European literature. Keller’s translation of this collection of Jewish and Islamic folklore will be of value to folklorists and students of Spanish and comparative literature, and will also interest anyone who likes lively tales. ...
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    38,31 €

  • They Tell of Birds
    Thomas P. Harrison / Thomas PHarrison
    Thomas P. Harrison here combines a lifelong interest in birds with a professional study of literature. This book, a study of birds as they are presented by four great English poets, inquires into the extent and sources of their knowledge of birds and analyzes the methods by which they adapted that knowledge for poetic purposes. The interrelationships of their poetry are also di...
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    26,90 €

  • American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream
    Charles Child Walcutt
    American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream was first published in 1956. 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.The literary concept of naturalism perpetually contradicts itself, oscillating between the transcendental affirmat...
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    86,02 €

  • The New Apologists for Poetry
    Murray Krieger
    The New Apologists for Poetry was first published in 1956. 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.The author’s purpose is to clear the ground for a systematic aesthetics of poetry consistent with the insights of our most influent...
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    71,93 €

  • Of Sondry Folk
    R. M. Lumiansky / RMLumiansky
    Two hundred years before Shakespeare observed that 'all the world’s a stage,' another writer with a flair for drama realized the same fact. This writer was Geoffrey Chaucer.Chaucer, however, presented his dramatic efforts through the medium of short stories, and he is regularly referred to as one of the world’s great storytellers. Yet there are certain questions which arise tim...
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    37,55 €

  • Romance Trends in 7th and 8th Century Latin Documents
    Frieda N. Politzer / Frieda NPolitzer / Robert L. Politzer / Robert LPolitzer
    Robert L. Politzer, in collaboration with his wife, Frieda N. Politzer, created a study of the vulgarisms in the Merovingian documents in France and the Lombard documents in Italy. The results support what has been generally believed about the progress of Vulgar Latin in those areas. ...
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    38,08 €

  • Samuel Pepys in Paris and Other Essays
    Urban T. Holmes Jr. / Urban THolmes Jr.
    Three annotated essays are examined and conjectures are made as to events probably occurring during the period. The essays are 'Samuel Pepys in Paris,' 'Medieval Gardens,' and 'A Twelfth-Century Schoolmaster.' ...
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    38,22 €

  • Answerable Style
    Arnold Stein
    Answerable Style was first published in 1953. 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.By the use of both new and traditional techniques of critical analysis, Arnold Stein presents in this volume of six essays a fresh interpretatio...
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    57,61 €

  • The Life and Works of the Troubadour Raimbaut D’Orange
    Walter Pattison
    This scholarly work presents all the can be gleaned from history and literature concerning the twelfth-century Provencal troubadour-prince, Raimbaut d’Orange. There is a section on Raimbaut’s historical background, another providing an analytical study of his poetry, and a third giving the Old Provencal texts of the poems with variants, English translations, and notes. Texts of...
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    73,28 €

  • Literature through Art
    Helmut A. Hatzfeld
    Winner of the 1949 Language Association Oxford Award, Literature through Art, first published in 1952, sketches the history of French literature in terms of its relations to the fine arts, using pictures to interpret literature and literary texts to interpret art. 3 ...
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    44,71 €

  • What Happens in Hamlet
    J. Dover Wilson / JDOVER WILSON / John Dover Wilson
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    43,98 €

  • The Kumulipo
    Martha Warren Beckwith
    Beckwith examines the culture and folklore surrounding the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation chant which vividly narrates the creation of the world and the first humans.The Kumulipo is rich in references to other creation lore of Hawaii, invoking its Gods and rituals, and the society and culture of the Hawaiian Islands. Before she proceeds to translate and narrate the actual text...
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    12,36 €

  • Liturgy and Allegory in Chrétien’s Perceval
    Sister M. Amelia Klenke / Sister MAmelia Klenke
    Author Sister M. Amelia Klenke suggests that the presence of liturgy and allegory in Perceval may possibly indicate that Chretien was experiencing spiritual growth. Her premise for such an analysis is Urban T. Holmes’s assertion that Chretiens work deals with the conversion from Judaism to Christianity. This study hence concerns itself with the presence of Dominican liturgy in ...
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    38,91 €

  • Paris en 1830
    The Swiss writer and poet Juste Olivier was an eyewitness to the political and literary events in Paris during the July Revolution of 1830. His Journal is a keenly observed record of the Parisian intelligentsia of that period. ...
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    44,41 €

  • Romance Studies Presented to William Morton Dey on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday by His Colleagues and Former Students
    This honorary edition of twenty-six annotated articles was presented to Professor William M. Dey on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by his colleagues and former students. Professor Dey’s vita and bibliography are also included. 3 ...
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    44,97 €


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