Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism.

An exploration of the intersection of male-male sexual activities and subcultures with Italian humanism and university cultureEntertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language with classical reception, university culture, and Italian humanism.

An exploration of the intersection of male-male sexual activities and subcultures with Italian humanism and university cultureEntertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language with classical reception, university culture, and Italian humanism.

If every dog has its day, then the Renaissance period was it.

In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism.

Philippe de Vigneulles (14711528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux.

Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance.

By studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O.

Although there has been a general revival of interest in Ben Jonson's dramatic work in the past twenty years, little critical effort has been directed to his late playsdismissed by John Dryden as the "dotages" of an aging mind.

Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance.

Jorge Manrique was the greatest poet of fifteenth-century Castile and one of the three or four greatest in Spanish literature.

The Nouvelles Rcrations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Priers are here translated for the first time into modern English.

Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain.

George Herbert has always been regarded as a man of singular piety and a poet of uncommon technical ability.

The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H.

At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity.

Das Sonett konstituiert in seiner langen Geschichte immer wieder soziale Räume für spezifische Gemeinschaften – zwischen Lebenden, aber auch über die Jahrhunderte hinweg mit historischen Personen.

Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian allegorist whose work has a submerged but positive and elaborate pattern of Christian meaning.

Milton, the arch-Puritan and outspoken critic of the stereotyped rituals of the established churches, has been regarded by most scholars as a writer who is unlikely to have employed liturgical materials in his poetry.

In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure of the plays and the shapes the tragic characters give their lives by the way they encounter death.

Among the literary innovations of the seventeenth centurya period of rich development in English prosewas the resolve.

Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place.

In his earlier work on King Lear, Mr.

Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly world.

Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course.

Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage takes a fresh look at an old textual problem: Instead of arguing the case for one of the three early Hamlet texts as the one , the book presents a new analytical approach which allows us to see different Hamlet versions and the interpretations emerging from them side by side.

Richard Crashaw's use of rhyme is one of the distinctive aspects of his poetic technique, and in the first systematic analysis of his rhyme craft, Mary Ellen Rickey concludes that he was keenly interested in rhyme as a technical device.

This book, winner of the 1969 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, presents a new perspective in the criticism of Jacobean tragedy and a truer evaluation of this body of drama.

The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance, edited by Barbara K.

The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance, edited by Barbara K.

Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century.

Tauchen Sie ein in das faszinierende Leben eines der schillerndsten Künstler der Renaissance: Benvenuto Cellini.

Envy and jealousy are the emotions that fuel interpersonal rivalry, and interpersonal rivalry is a cornerstone of literature.

This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), and his connections with various traditions of far-right and fascist thought.

The To-day and To-morrow book series (1923-1931) was a unique publishing phenomenon - over 100 short, often brilliant, books choosing a particular subject, outlining its present state, and then speculating about its future.

Fuenteovejuna es una obra teatral del Siglo de Oro español, basada de un hecho histórico.

This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), and his connections with various traditions of far-right and fascist thought.