Literature: history and criticism

This book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities.

Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'.

In seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird.

The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the late Mark Fisher's work on "e;post-capitalist desire"e; and "e;acid communism.

Drawing on a selection of carefully curated autobiographical and fictional portrayals of the dementia experience, this book gives voice to some of the most pressing ethical issues that commonly arise in the context of a dementing disorder, and calls attention to various forms of narrative resistance in contemporary American literature on early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature.

Only a handful of his 1,000 published poems have previously been translated into English.

Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature, reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception.

Provides new insights into Cicero''s political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose.

An "e;astute, challenging, and far-reaching"e; look (Kirkus Reviews, starred) at how F.

Argues that Stoic thought on human responsibility and world fate plays a key role in the Aeneid''s characterisation and morality.

Traces the emergence of literary history, showing how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared heritage to produce a ''Persianate modernity''.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

A pioneering study of the aesthetic function of grotesque imagery in Roman love elegy.

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare''s work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.

Reveals the processes by which Ibsen''s drama, while firmly rooted in his Scandinavian origins, was appropriated by other European traditions.

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric''s relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography (''biofiction'').

This book highlights Ovid''s influence on important later Latin authors writing from the fourth to the sixth centuries in Europe and Africa.

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Shows how the scientific question, ''Are we automata?

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot''s poetic imagination.

Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Sidonius'' rich and varied letters recount the defining stories of Roman Gaul''s transition into the barbarian successor kingdoms.

Reveals that technology played a major role in modernism''s theory of the novel.