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  • Truths, Half Truths and Bovine Scatology

    by Derek Hirst ...
    What better way to contemplate history than to start at the beginning, in the book of Genesis. The late Andy Rooney struck a chord with me that I have been grappling with for some time. In his article (June 3, 2011), he opined, and I quote: I dont think many people who get deep into the study of philosophy are that religious. I dont think the two subjects fit together well. Religion is believing. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

    Edited by Derek Hirst, Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

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  • A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

    by Michael Ferber ...
    This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we all frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold), and gives hundreds of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Fallen Glory

    The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

    by James Crawford ...
    "A narrative that spans seven millennia, five continents and even reaches into cyberspace. . . . I savored each page." —Henry Petroski, Wall Street JournalIn Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world's most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

    Allegories of Authority

    by Antony J. Hasler ...
    Series Book 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Baroque Art

    Power, drama, and the glory of the Counter-Reformation

    by Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl ...
    The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark ... Read more

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  • Engineers

    A History of Engineering and Structural Design

    by Matthew Wells ...
    This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

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  • Virgil in the Renaissance

    by David Scott Wilson-Okamura ...
    The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

    Edited by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with ... Read more

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