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  • Beowulf Unlocked

    New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

    de Allison Dennett, Yvette Kisor, Michael D.C. Drout, Leah Smith, Natasha Piirainen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem. Techniques of cluster analysis identify patterns of vocabulary distribution that indicate ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    de Hannah Priest, Kristina Hildebrand, Megan G. Leitch, Robert Rouse, Samantha J. Rayner, Yvette Kisor, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne0, Amy N. Vines1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Anna Caughey3, Cynthea Masson4 ...
    It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Tolkien and Alterity

    Edición de Yvette Kisor, Christopher Vaccaro ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, and the Orcs as ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edición de Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edición de Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Reading Shakespeare Historically

    de Lisa Jardine ...
    Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

    Emotions, ethics, dreams

    de Megan Leitch ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance

    1550–1700

    de Susan Wiseman ...
    Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Chaucer and the Subversion of Form

    Edición de Thomas A. Prendergast, Jessica Rosenfeld ...
    Series Libro 104 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Responding to the lively resurgence of literary formalism, this volume delivers a timely and fresh exploration of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Advancing 'new formalist' approaches, medieval scholars have begun to ask what happens when structure fails to yield meaning, probing the very limits of poetic organization. While Chaucer is acknowledged as a master of form, his work also foregrounds ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

    Allegories of Authority

    de Antony J. Hasler ...
    Series Libro 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England

    Literary Representations in Historical Context

    de Claude J Summers ...
    This new book significantly contributes to an increased understanding of the gay and lesbian experience as it illuminates important works of literature and clarifies the status of same-sex desire in English literature from 1500--1760. Homosexual themes can be found throughout the literature of the English Renaissance and Enlightenment, but only rarely are they direct and unambiguous. The essays ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD