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  • The problem of literary value
    Robert J. Meyer-Lee
    This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary value’s inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally. ...
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    42,83 €

  • African American Women's Literature in Spain
    Sandra Llopart Babot
    This volume brings forward a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. Drawing from a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, it traces the translation history of literature produced by African American women, seeking to uncover changing strategies in translation policies as well as shifts in inter...
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    18,00 €

  • Love Through the Ages
    Rajesh Giri
    Love Through the Ages: The Impact of Famous Love Stories on Modern Relationships is an enchanting exploration of the profound influence that iconic love stories have had on our understanding and experiences of love in the present day. From timeless classics to contemporary tales, this book takes you on a captivating journey through the ages, uncovering the universal truths and ...
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    11,03 €

  • Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
    Phebe Lowell Bowditch
    This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism-in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to ...
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    47,81 €

  • Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
    Phebe Lowell Bowditch
    This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism-in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to ...
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    159,36 €

  • The Poetic Edda Six Cosmology Poems
    Maria Kvilhaug
    The Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. They contain a poetical, metaphorical lore about Cosmos and the fate of mortals on the path to immortality. A lore that is, despite having been transmitted in writing by medieval monks and scholars, deeply steeped in ancient Pre-Christian beliefs. ...
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    15,52 €

  • Courtly Love revisited in the Age of Feminism
    Antonia Southern
    Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade. Both can be taken seriously or ridiculed. In this incisive book, Antonia Southern tries to do both with both. Courtly Love focuses a feminist lens on fourteen authors, some well-known and some less so. They aimed variously to entertain, amuse, instruct...
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    143,02 €

  • The Reign of Constantine, 306-337
    Stanislav Doležal
    This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306-337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constantine’s career and many of his decisions in context. It traces events under the first Tetrarchy and then explores Constantine’s rise to power, his rule and reforms, and continuity and change with regard to his predecessors. It consi...
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    149,25 €

  • English Literary Criticism
    J. W. H. Atkins
    In England literary consciousness had its beginning in the middle ages, and this book, originally published in 1943, describes and illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of criticism. ...
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    57,14 €

  • Literary Criticism in Antiquity
    J. W. H. Atkins
    Originally published in 1934, this book contains the first volume of Atkins’ ’sketch’ of the development of ancient literary criticism. ...
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    57,19 €

  • Literary Criticism in Antiquity
    J. W. H. Atkins
    Originally published in 1934, this book contains the second volume of Atkins’ ’sketch’ of the development of ancient literary criticism. ...
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    59,13 €

  • The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism
    Mario Ferrero
    This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions. By applying economic models to the study of religious history and by viewing religious events as the result of rational choices under given environmental constraints, it offers a political economy perspective for the study of Indo-European polytheism. The book formally models the rivalry or...
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    122,03 €

  • Writing Plague
    Alfred Thomas
    Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to 'plague writing' from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human 'hardware' has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the h...
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    136,27 €

  • Sky and Earth
    Gaspare Polizzi / Giuseppe Mussardo
    700 years after Dante Alighieri’s death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both earthly and celestial worlds. If Polo was the 'ordinary genius' of the XIII century, the designation of 'sorcerer genius' must go to Alighieri, the man with encyclopedic wisdom, at ea...
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    39,57 €

  • Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth
    Robert Stuart
    Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien’s works for conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins b...
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    145,86 €

  • The Medieval Hospital
    Nicole R. Rice
    Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same time, hospitals were cultural spaces sponsoring the performance of drama, the...
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    138,88 €

  • Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
    This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of ’encounter’ to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text. ...
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    43,93 €

  • Greek Memories
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    48,37 €

  • Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
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    46,34 €

  • Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
    Curtis Runstedler
    This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines th...
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    157,16 €

  • Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
    Curtis Runstedler
    This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines th...
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    48,32 €

  • Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty
    Rebecca Usherwood
    This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons. It uses the conditions of the early to mid-fourth century to argue that the deconstruction of political legitimacy should be viewed, first and foremost, as a collective phenomenon, the result of the actions of a diverse range of people responding to political change. It also ...
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    148,82 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan Leitch
    This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet. ...
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    44,11 €

  • The Wounded Body
    This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ’cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, wh...
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    198,19 €

  • Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism
    Plínio Junqueira Smith
    This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for Pyrrho: its concept, its principles, its reason, its criteria, its goals. In the first part, the author traces ...
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    145,75 €

  • Difficult pasts
    Mimi Ensley
    Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance. ...
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    157,36 €

  • Erotic Medievalisms
    Elan Justice Pavlinich
    Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf, Lil Nas X’s 'Montero,' Patience Agbabi’s 'The Kiss,', direct sexual desires towards social justice. It is about sexual liberation from oppressive disciplines by means of representation in popular culture ...
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    214,24 €

  • Aspects of the Novel
    E.M. Forster
    Widely accepted as a pioneering work of literary criticism, Forster’s Aspects of the Novel provides the critical readers with fundamental conceptual tools to approach the study of novels. His lectures, compiled in this book, are invaluable for students and researchers who intend to pursue their critical studies on the genre of fiction, cutting across languages, cultures and lit...
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    16,39 €

  • The Poetic Edda
    Edward Pettit
    This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known ...
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    100,57 €

  • The Poetic Edda
    Edward Pettit
    This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known ...
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    100,33 €


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