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Virgil on the Nature of Things
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro-...
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The American Stage
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its 250-year history. The collection of essays, written...
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from...
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor...
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Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama
The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary...
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine
This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that...
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions
The first comprehensive look at fictive letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. It includes both embedded epistolary narratives in a...
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The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate - in...
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The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This book tackles questions about the...
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Fighting for Rome
The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in...
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Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906
Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period...
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A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories
This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are...
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Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete
This book presents a comprehensive study of the literature of the Cretan Renaissance and relates it to the historical, social and cultural context....
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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory...
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Relevance Relations in Discourse
This book uses Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory to show that connectivity in discourse is a pragmatic rather than a semantic matter: it...
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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century
The works of the seventh-century writer Virgilius Maro Grammaticus are among the most puzzling medieval texts to survive. Ostensibly a pair of...
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American Drama
In this book, Susan Harris Smith looks at the many often conflicting cultural and academic reasons for the neglect and dismissal of American drama as...
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The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his...
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The Syntax of Adjuncts
This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic...
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Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist
In 30-15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which range from erotic to learned to political and exhibit an unparalleled...
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The Revisionist Stage
This book explores the vision and talents of a controversial group of artists who, depending on one’s perspective, either revitalised or disfigured...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and...
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Markedness
Markedness refers to the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. This bias towards ‘marked’ elements is...
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