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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies
Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this introduction examines the...
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Language and Sexism
The issue of sexist language has been hotly debated within feminist circles since the 1960s. Previous books have tended to regard sexism in language...
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Metaphor in Discourse
‘Metaphor’ is the phenomenon whereby we talk and, potentially, think about something in terms of something else. In this book Elena Semino...
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The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin
Walter Burley Griffin (1876–1937) was a distinguished modernist American architect, landscape architect and town planner. His work attracted...
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Dominion of the Eye
Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art and Power in Early Modern Florence radically revises our ideas about the origins of rationally planned public...
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The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini
This Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early...
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Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary...
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The Art of Pliny’s Letters
In the first book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites a new reading of Pliny’s collection of private epistles: the...
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Structure and Form in the Babylonian Talmud
This book attempts to uncover the basic form and structure of the Babylonian Talmud, which is a centrally important text in Jewish studies. The...
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Hellenism in Byzantium
This is the first systematic study of what it meant to be Greek in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become...
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Rome’s Religious History
This book explores the way in which three ancient historians, writing in Latin, embedded the gods into their accounts of the past. Although previous...
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The Poetry of War
Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while...
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The Poetry of War
Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while...
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The Beginnings of Medieval Romance
Up to the twelfth century writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which...
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A History of the English Language
The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major...
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Penelope’s Web
Penelope’s Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women’s writing, feminist criticism,...
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Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science
Egyptian mummies have always aroused popular and scientific interest; however, most modern studies, although significantly increased in number and...
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Anglo-Saxon England: Paperback Set
A complete paperback set of Anglo-Saxon England, the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon...
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Pico della Mirandola: New Essays
This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della...
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Schizophrenic Speech
This book reviews our knowledge of the incoherent speech which can present as a symptom of schizophrenia. This is one of the most researched symptoms...
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The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
This volume makes available for the first time in English the most important of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s extensive writings on art and literature. The...
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A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than universal psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century...
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Anglo-Saxon England
This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving...
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