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Shakespeare and the Nature of Love
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary,...
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Guy Davenport - Postmodernism and After
Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a...
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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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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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Shakespeare and the American Nation
Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had...
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The Composition of Old English Poetry
This book offers an imaginative way of understanding the relationship between syntax and metre in Old English verse. It challenges the view that Old...
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Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England
Howard Marchitello’s study of narrative techniques in Renaissance discourse analyses imaginative conjunctions of literary texts, such as those by...
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Textual Performances
This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare’s...
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The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays
This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late...
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Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model...
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Persius and the Programmatic Satire
A critical study of Persius’ poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how...
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The Subversive Oratory of Andokides
Oratory was a vital element in the Athenian democracy. In this study Anna Missiou analyses the ideological content of the speeches of the...
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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
The employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean poet - an adherent of a system not only materialist, but overtly hostile to myth...
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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 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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The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central...
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century...
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Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of...
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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays
David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is...
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Mellomrom: Tolv tekster om oversettelse
Mellomrom - tolv tekster om oversettelse er første bok i en serie av antologier om oversettelse. Tolv forfattere, oversettere og litteraturvitere...
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The Uberreader
For twenty years Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly...
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The Conflict of Interpretations
This collection brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In...
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Contemporary Poetics
Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics,...
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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose...
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