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The Arabic Literary Heritage
Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to...
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Digenis Akritis
Digenis Akritis is Byzantium’s only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of double descent on the frontiers between Byzantine and...
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Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
This collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous...
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The Nude in American Painting, 1950–1980
In the years following Willem de Kooning’s exhibition of the Woman paintings in 1953, a younger generation of American painters turned to the...
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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 26)
In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one...
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Slavic Prosody
In Slavic Prosody Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these...
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The Dynamics of Focus Structure
In this book, Nomi Erteschik-Shir develops a new theory of focus structure, integrating insights from syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics....
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Phonological Representations
Rewriting rules, derivations and underlying representations is an enduring characteristic of generative phonology. In this book, John Coleman argues...
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Dickens’ novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and...
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The Romance of the New World
This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined...
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A History of Augustan Fable
This book explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical antiquity to the end...
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The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800
Between 1700 and 1800 English prose became more polite and less closely tied to speech. A large scale feminisation of literary and other values...
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English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance
The turn of the nineteenth century, a time of exceptional creativity in Russia, was also a time of great receptivity to foreign cultural influences....
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Speculative investment and the popular novel can be seen as analogous in the early eighteenth century in offering new forms of ‘paper credit’;...
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King Henry
An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. This edition of Henry IV Part 1 is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series. Like every...
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Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare’s major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play’s...
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Romanticism and Colonialism
The relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics have been the subject of much critical investigation since the publication of...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare’s major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play’s...
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The Scottish Invention of English Literature
The Scottish Invention of English Literature explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the...
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Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
In this wide-ranging and original study, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton examines how Virgil - the poet as well as his texts - was mediated in early modern...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and...
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