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  • Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature

    Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

    The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emar**é, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in ... Read more

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  • The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the ... Read more

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  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

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  • Learning About Fiction

    Series series Language Arts
    If a boy flies or a dog goes to school, you're reading fiction. How else do you know? Quick, fun examples help you understand the make believe of fiction. ... Read more

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  • Women and Medieval Literary Culture

    From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century

    Edited by Corinne Saunders, Diane Watt ...
    Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic ... Read more

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  • Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge, and allow them to inhabit social roles that were as much ... Read more

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  • Reading Breath in Literature

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American ... Read more

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  • The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

    Classical to Contemporary

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, ... Read more

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