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  • Ekphrastic Medieval Visions

    A New Discussion in Interarts Theory

    de C. Barbetti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    de Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • King Arthur

    A Casebook

    Edición de Edward Donald Kennedy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

    de Kisha G. Tracy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle English literary texts and, furthermore, that this concept permeates other manifestations of memory as written by authors in a variety of genres. This study, through the framework of confession, identifies ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany

    de J. Frakes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing scholarly list of the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Medieval Motion Picture

    The Politics of Adaptation

    Edición de A. Johnston, M. Rouse ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Chaucer's Language

    de Simon Horobin ...
    The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than modern translation.Chaucer's Language- leads the reader ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

    Representations of Interspecies Communication

    Edición de Alison Langdon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    de V. Ferme ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages

    de John Flood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve was understood by Christians in antiquity and in the English Middle Ages, and it relates these ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives

    de Catherine E. Léglu ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. In this book, Catherine Léglu brings together, for the first time in English, prose and verse texts that are composed in Occitan, French, and Catalan-sometimes in a mixture of two of these languages. This ... Leer más

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