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Language Classification
How are relationships established between the world’s languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary...
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The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person’s body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to...
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Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic
James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher, and a composer – Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel, and Beethoven – developed an idea of...
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Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
Dictionaries tell stories of many kinds. The history of dictionaries, of how they were produced, published and used, has much to tell us about the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These...
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These...
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Functional Categories
In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The...
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Functional Categories
In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The...
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Syntactic Anchors
One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin
Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin
Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal...
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Fitzgerald: The Lost Decade
During the last six years of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an Esquire author. Between 1934 and 1940, Fitzgerald sold some forty-five pieces of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo
With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired...
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The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo
With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired...
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The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner
Nobel laureate William Faulkner is one of the most distinctive voices in American literature. Known for his opaque prose style and his evocative...
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The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for...
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Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
Toni Morrison’s fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. La Vinia Jennings reveals the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for...
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Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), was a pivotal book in his career. A trenchant satire of the Jazz Age, it is...
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Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic
Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as ‘the man who defined truth’. His work on the concepts of truth...
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The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner
Nobel laureate William Faulkner is one of the most distinctive voices in American literature. Known for his opaque prose style and his evocative...
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and...
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Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms
Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic...
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Kantian Ethics
Allen Wood investigates Kant’s conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings....
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