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  • Pleasures of Literary Spatiality

    Expanding and Contracting Settings

    by E.L. Risden ...
    Barring such illnesses as claustrophobia or agoraphobia, or situations such as medical isolation or incarceration, most people move naturally from smaller to larger spaces and back again without giving the process much thought. But paying attention to our own movement in space yields all sorts of sensory experiences from something relaxing to something terrifying or even astonishingly beautiful. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Medievalism: Key Critical Terms

    by Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Gwendolyn Morgan, Jonathan Hsy, Juanita Feros Ruys, Kathleen Biddick, Kevin Moberly, Kevin Murphy, Laura Morowitz, Lauryn S. Mayer0, Richard Utz2, Lisa Reilly3, Louise D'Arcens4, Professor M J Toswell5, Martha Carlin6, Martin Arnold7, Matthew Fisher8, Michael A Cramer9, Nadia Altschul0, Nadia Margolis1, Nils Holger Petersen2, Amy S. Kaufman3, Pamela Clements4, Tom Shippey5, Vincent Ferre6, William Calin7, Zrinka Stahuljak8, Professor Angela Jane Weisl9, Brent Moberly0, Carol L. Robinson1, Clare A Simmons2, David Matthews3, E L Risden4 ...
    The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Beowulf on Film

    Adaptations and Variations

    by Nickolas Haydock, E.L. Risden ...
    Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing number of films based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and furthers the ongoing consideration of filmic medievalism. Will the powerful influence of cinema affect the future reception of this great ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature

    by E.L. Risden ...
    A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader's attention to the most powerful elements of a story.Exile, for example, upsets a protagonist's hopes for a happy earthly life, emphasizing spiritual perception instead. Waking life interrupts dreams, just as dreams may ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition

    Essays on the Ancient Antecedents

    Edited by E.L. Risden ...
    The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics. A chivalric romance placed in an Arthurian setting, it has since received acclaim for its commentary regarding important socio-political and religious concerns. The poem's technical brilliance blends psychological depth and vivid language to produce an effect ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    by Anthony Bale, Robert Boenig, John Bugbee, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Romanus Cessario, Albecht Classen, Eva von Contzen, Raymond J. Cormier, Kate Dimitrova, John Garrison, Karen Green, Uwe Klaitter, Nicoletta Marcelli, Richard Marsden, Martin Ossikovski, Christoph Pieper, Wolfgang Polleichtner, José Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla, Michael Renemann, E L. Risden, Jacob Riyeff, Laura Smoller, George G. Weindhardt, Craig M Nakashian, Julius Kirshner, Paul M. Clogan, Z T. Kosztolnyik, Robert E. Lerner ...
    Series Book 36 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

    $123.99 USD

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    Enjoying poetry and novels can seem irrelevant and out of touch in a world of texting, tweeting, and blogging. But even in this technological age literature matters.Seasoned professor Louis Markos invites us into the great literary conversation that has been taking place throughout the ages and illuminates the wisdom to be found therein. He offers both a guide to studying and understanding ... Read more

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  • Romance

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural ... Read more

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  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic ...
    From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read ... Read more

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  • The Immaterial Book

    Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

    by Sarah Wall-Randell ...
    In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth’s Urania, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It offers a ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

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  • How To Read A Poem

    And Fall in Love with Poetry

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    From the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning poet and critic: "A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom." — The Baltimore SunHow to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry, feeling, and human nature. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous ... Read more

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