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The Cambridge Companion to Carnap
Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading...
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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Petronius’ Satyricon, long regarded as the first novel of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a...
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Henry James and the Visual
In the decades after the Civil War, how did Americans see the world and their place in it? Kendall Johnson argues that Henry James appealed to his...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 7)
What scientific observations is Bede likely to have brought to bear on the Easter controversy? What interest did the Anglo-Saxons take in precious...
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Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought
Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany and later a US...
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Banished Voices
This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was...
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The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 6)
Work in this volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons’ literature, both Latin and vernacular, their study of Latin, their documents, art and...
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Aristotle on Homonymy
Julie K. Ward examines Aristotle’s thought regarding how language informs our views of what is real. First she places Aristotle’s theory in its...
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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 Companion to Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 5)
Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume: the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of...
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Anthropology, History, and Education
Anthropology, History, and Education contains all of Kant\'s major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a...
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Isaiah’s Christ in Matthew’s Gospel
Matthew’s Jesus is typically described as the humble, compassionate messiah. This book argues that this is, however, only half the story....
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The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 4)
The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a...
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Aristotle’s "De Anima"
Aristotle’s De anima is the first systematic philosophical account of the soul, which serves to explain the functioning of all mortal living...
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Author and Audience in Latin Literature
The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature...
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The Ethnography of Manners
This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne,...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 34)
Ideas about the whole sweep of Anglo-Saxon history and in particular the importance of combining skills from many disciplines are at the centre of...
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue...
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Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot’s engagement with desire,...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 11)
Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the...
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Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
Marina McCoy explores Plato’s treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic...
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