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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “susannah chewning”
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  • The Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group

    Edited by Susannah M Chewning ...
    Series series Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
    This book brings together the most current interpretations of the Wooing Group from scholars currently working on the fields of medieval spirituality, gender, and the anchoritic tradition, providing literary, theological, linguistic, and cultural context for the works associated with the Wooing Group (a collection of texts in English written by an unknown author in the late twelfth to early ... Read more

    $36.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in the Age of Gower

    A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager

    by Susannah Chewning, Natalie Grinnell, Peter Nicholson, Richard Firth Green, Roger A. Ladd, Russell Peck, Stephanie L. Batkie, William Rogers, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Andrew Galloway0, Brian Gastle1, David A. Roberts2, Derek Pearsall3, Martha W. Driver4, Matthew Matthew Irvine5, Michael Kuczynski6 ...
    The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture

    The Word Made Flesh

    Edited by Susannah Chewning ...
    As distinct from the many recent collections and studies of medieval literature and culture that have focused on gender and sexuality as their major themes, this collection considers and serves to re-think and re-situate religion and sexuality together. Including 'traditional' works such as Chaucer and the Pearl-poet, as well as less well known and studied texts - such as alchemical texts and the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses

    by A. D. Melville ...
    Translated by E. J. Kenney ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • All Things Considered

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    All Things Considered G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton is a collection of essays dealing with various topics, such as human nature, current affairs, science and religion. It is a highly entertaining and insightful compilation of musings on a wide variety of topics. All Things Considered is a collection of essays about odds-and-ends of the era. His first essay is on the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Northlands

    Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas

    by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough ...
    In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • 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

  • All the Greek Verbs

    by N. Marinone ...
    All the Greek Verbs has established itself as an indispensable guide for all learners of Greek. In a clear and simple format, the book sets out over 13,000 verb forms, which are listed alphabetically, and referred to the verbs from which they derive. Poetic and dialect forms are differentiated and grammatical tables set out standard endings and inflexions, making it easy for the student of Greek ... Read more

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  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Antigone, Interrupted

    by Bonnie Honig ...
    Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical ... Read more

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