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Divine Hiddenness: New Essays
For many people the existence of God is by no means a sufficiently clear feature of reality. This problem, the fact of divine hiddenness, has been a... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and... Les mer
The New York Concert Saloon
In this book Brooks McNamara explores the world of the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century. A... Les mer
English Corpus Linguistics
English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus... Les mer
Divine Hiddenness: New Essays
For many people the existence of God is by no means a sufficiently clear feature of reality. This problem, the fact of divine hiddenness, has been a... Les mer
Inventing Homer
How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth,... Les mer
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as... Les mer
The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870–1910
Dawkins examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the... Les mer
The Syntax of Hungarian
Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical features... Les mer
Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
Statius’ Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts... Les mer
Romani: A Linguistic Introduction
Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as Gypsies (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There... Les mer
Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion
Ovid’s poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these ‘insubstantial... Les mer
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts... Les mer
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American... Les mer
Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature
Paul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to the rejection of monarchism in the American... Les mer
New Essays on Billy Budd
Billy Budd is Herman Melville’s most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was... Les mer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald’s second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces - ‘May Day’ and ‘The Diamond as Big... Les mer
Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace
Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century... Les mer
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard
Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in... Les mer
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard
Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in... Les mer