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  • The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art

    by Mary Clemente Davlin ...
    Probing spatial questions about God posed by Piers Plowman, the author of this interdisciplinary study turns to pictorial evidence-the use of religious space and relationships within such space in English art of the same period. The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art is not only a study of the sense of God and of the relationship between God and creatures in the great religious poem, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Understanding Dante's Divine Comedy

    by Mary C. Davlin ...
    Narrated by Mary C. Davlin ...
    Series series Learn25: Literature

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    Dante Alighieri is indisputably one of the world''s greatest poets. His epic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, has been frequently referred to as the supreme work of Italian literature and a staple in the Western Christian tradition.Now, you can explore Dante''s life and masterwork with a truly gifted Catholic professor as your guide. In this 12-lecture series, Dante''s Divine Comedy, Sr. Mary ... Read more

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  • All Things Considered

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox." Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques. Chesterton is best known for creating the priest-detective Father Brown and the popular book Orthodoxy. ... Read more

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  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century

    by Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of ... Read more

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  • Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing

    by Patrick R. Query ...
    While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervenes in instances when the individual and the nation negotiate identity. He examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting, and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Within the ... Read more

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  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    by Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Read more

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  • Personal Disclosures

    An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century

    by David Booy ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    The seventeenth century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of extended autobiographical narrative and deliberate self-fashioning for public consumption. Recent anthologies of women's writing, drawing to some extent on this rich but relatively little-known archive, ... Read more

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  • Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633

    by Donna B. Hamilton ...
    In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

    Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

    Edited by Andrea Ruthven, Belén Martín-Lucas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741–1790

    Actress, Philosophe and Feminist

    by Felicia Gordon, P.N. Furbank ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens an exciting new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and, most strikingly, entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, published a treatise entitled Vues législatives pour les femmes (Legislative Views for Women), which ... Read more

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  • British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840

    by Maureen McCue ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr ... Read more

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