With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary.
Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary text of the sixteenth century.
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front.
This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture.
In der römischen Komödie gestaltet der Figurentypus des intriganten Sklaven sein Intrigenspiel aus einer gesellschaftlich untergeordneten Position heraus mit einer dichterischen Schaffenskraft und setzt sich sowohl mit seinem poetischen als auch gesellschaftlichen Handlungsrahmen auseinander.
This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands.
Die Arbeit macht zum ersten Mal die ganze Breite der frühen Sophoklesrezeption fassbar: Ein großes Spektrum an Gattungen und Autoren bezieht sich bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten, aber auch im weiteren Verlauf der Antike auf diesen athenischen Tragödiendichter.
Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and literature, etc.
The role of antioxidants and other nutritional agents in disease prevention is a widely discussed subject, attracting attention from professionals in all areas of medicine.