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  • La Cort d'Amor

    A Critical Edition

    by Matthew Bardell ...
    The Cort d'Amor is a late 12th-century allegorical romance in Occitan which fuses a variety of lyric and narrative genres together and which predates the Roman de la Rose by some 50 years. In this edition, Matthew Bardell highlights the work's intertextuality with Andreas Capellanus' De Amore to show how the Occitan work presents a dialogue between gendered approaches to love whilst parodying the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Zibaldone

    by Giacomo Leopardi ...
    Translated by Kathleen Baldwin, Richard Dixon, David Gibbons, Ann Goldstein, Gerard Slowey, Martin Thom, Pamela Williams ...
    A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth centuryGiacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. (Jonathan Galassi's translation of Leopardi's Canti was ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Pause and Effect

    An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West

    by M.B. Parkes ...
    From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly debates among writers, literary critics, philosophers, linguists, rhetoricians, palaeographers and all those who study the use of language. To ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The History Of Scepticism From Erasmus To Descartes

    by Richard Popkin ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medieval Nonsense

    Signifying Nothng in Fourteenth-Century England

    by Jordan Kirk ...
    Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period's theologically motivated commitment to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Werewolf - Lycanthropy

    by Montague Summers ...
    What lies behind humanity's oldest fear – the man who sheds his skin and runs as a wolf? A learned and unsettling survey of the belief that spanned the ancient world and the Christian centuries alike.Taken from Montague Summers' The Werewolf (1933), this volume examines lycanthropy at large: its nature, its literature, and the evidence Summers marshalled from classical authors, chronicles, and ... Read more

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  • Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance

    by Katelijne Schiltz ...
    Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles, which they embedded within the music and lyrics of their compositions. This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the period. Katelijne Schiltz focuses on the compositional, notational, practical, social and theoretical aspects of musical riddle ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Songs of the Women Troubadours

    Edited by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, Sarah White ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Literature
    This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts. English versions facing Occitan texts ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Parrots and Nightingales

    Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry

    by Sarah Kay ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known but was more transformative. Writers outside Occitania quoted troubadour songs word for word in ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • The Romance of Flamenca

    Edited by E. D. Blodgett ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Literature
    Variously described as a comedy of manners, a psychological romance, and a type of fabliau, the 13th-century narrative Flamenca is the best medieval romance written in Occitan. Its uniqueness springs from qualities that anticipate the preoccupations of modern-day narrative. Not content with being a love story fraught with risk and intrigue, the poem is layered with responses to the troubadour ... Read more

    $437.99 CAD