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  • Otherworldly John Dryden

    Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays

    by Jack M. Armistead ...
    Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Rather, it manifests throughout his career in occult materials drawn from many traditions, including but going well beyond the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Complete Essays

    by Michel De Montaigne ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience.He discusses ... Read more

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  • Moral Play and Counterpublic

    by Ineke Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate ... Read more

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  • Christening Pagan Mysteries

    Erasmus in Pursuit of Wisdom

    by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism. It acknowledges that it was a feat for him to challenge the obscurantism of late medieval schooling by restoring classical studies. It recognizes that his editions of Greek and Latin authors alone fix his place in the history of scholarship. But ... Read more

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  • Petrarch's 'Fragmenta'

    The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

    by Thomas E Peterson ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. However, award winning author Thomas E. Peterson argues that Petrarch’s Fragmenta is an ordered and coherent work unified by narrative and theological structures.By concentrating on the poem’s reliance on ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • An Collins and the Historical Imagination

    by W. Scott Howard ...
    The first edited collection of scholarly essays to focus exclusively on An Collins, this volume examines the significance of an important religious and political poet from seventeenth-century England. The book celebrates Collins’s writing within her own time and ours through a comprehensive assessment of her poetics, literary, religious and political contexts, critical reception, and scholarly ... Read more

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  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 43

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

    Edited by Reinhold F. Glei, Maik Goth Goth ...
    Series Book 43 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Petrarchism at Work

    Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare

    by William J. Kennedy ...
    The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Tropologies

    Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600

    by Ryan McDermott ...
    Series series ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
    Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative” demands that words be turned into works—books as well as deeds. Beginning with Augustine, ... Read more

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  • Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book

    Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England

    by Lindsay Ann Reid ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through the study of a particular set of Ovidian narratives-namely, those concerning the protean heroines of the Heroides and Metamorphoses. In the late medieval and Renaissance eras, Ovid’s poetry stimulated the vernacular ... Read more

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  • The English Boccaccio

    A History in Books

    by Guyda Armstrong ...
    The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'

    by Marilyn Migiel ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron.Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD