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Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience.

This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and signi?

The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies.

Die Arbeit untersucht die volkssprachliche Entwicklung des Philomela-Mythos vom 12.

As its compiler Thomas Bentley writes, The Monument of Matrones (1582) is a 'domesticall librarie plentifullie stored and replenished'.

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war and its attendant trauma.

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history.

Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c.

Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first comprehensive study of the complex and developing relationship between the two areas.

Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'.

Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "e;the Arab.

Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today.

The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars.

Discover the wonders of God's unconditional love with this official workbook to the New York Times bestselling book, The Love Stories of the Bible Speak.

This book is not merely a study of Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne.

Between the Lines examines the role of three women poets of African descent--Frances Harper, Cristina Ayala, and Auta de Souza--in shaping the literary history of the Americas.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is now recognised as a figure of canonical importance to the history of philosophy.

This book re-evaluates the relationship between Renaissance dramatists and literary posterity by examining their work in relation to post-Reformation ideas about memorialization.

Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power.

Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c.

The first English commentary on De Oratore in more than a century, examining Book III in depth.

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding.

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve s story that fascinates us?

From the Revolutionary War forward, Irish immigrants have contributed significantly to the construction of the American Republic.

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point towards new possibilities in creative and critical thought.

Exploring a range of subjects from the human genome project to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, the poetry of Jorie Graham to feminist Christian art, the contributors pose questions around the theme 'Body and Voice'.

This book discusses modern technologies for utilizing various types of agricultural waste as a direct means of properly managing its abundance.

1989/90 markiert den Beginn einer neuen politischen, geschichtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Ära in Europa.

Seit den frühen 1980er Jahren hat sich die Forschung zur Kulturgeschichte des Geruchssinns vom Nischenansatz zu einem gewichtigen Zweig der Historiografie entwickelt, der auch die Medien, Projekte, Themen und Tropen der Kunst, Musik und Literatur in ein neues Licht rückt.

Originally published in 1990.

Plato's philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre.

This book is an interdisciplinary comparative investigation of activist, artistic, literary, and academic discourse-expressive work promoting ecological justice, ending racism, and representing self and community through virtual realism-a cultural poetics of environmental justice.

An overview of the history of the novel with practical tips and examples for studying fiction.

This work is a pioneer study in an area of literary investigation which is now beginning to attract increased attention in the Commonwealth and in the United States.

Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh.

This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact-to perform, to stage, to represent-human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future.

Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Two, consists of seven volumes of writings as follows: Volume 1: An Collins Volume 2: Alicia D'Anvers Volume 3: 'Eliza' Volume 4: Amey Hayward Volume 5: Anne Killigrew Volume 6: Elizabeth Major Volume 7: Elizabeth Singer [Rowe]

This book presents a number of studies which focus on the [voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis.

Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE.

Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present.

Trumpism and the racially implied Islamophobia of the "e;travel ban"e;; Brexit and the yearning for Britain's past imperial grandeur; Black Lives Matter; the public backlash against Merkel's refugee policies in Germany.