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  • Outlaw Rhetoric

    Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

    de Jenny C. Mann ...
    A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Studies

    Volume 51

    de James R. Siemon, Diana E. Henderson, J.F. Bernard, Beatrice Bradley, Christie Carson, Christopher D'addario, John Drakakis, Evyan Dale Gainey, Martin Harries0, Brooke Harvey1, Jill Ingram2, Yu Jin Ko3, Hannah Korell4, Unhae Park Langis5, Anna Lewton-Brain6, Julia Reinhhard Lupton7, Jenny C. Mann8, Gail Kern Paster9, Laurence Senelick0, Laura Seymour1, Justin P. Shaw2, Bailey Sincox3, Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.4, Nicholas Utzig5, Denise A. Walen6, Paul Yachnin7, John Yargo8, Laurie Maguire9 ...
    Series series Shakespeare Studies
    Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • The Trials of Orpheus

    Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime

    de Jenny C. Mann ...
    A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    de C. S. Lewis ...
    This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth–century reader how to read and understand old books and manuscripts. Highlighting works by Spenser, Dante, Malory, Tasso, and Milton, Lewis provides a refreshing update to medieval and Renaissance criticism, and equips modern ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edición de Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Homer

    Edición de Robert Fowler ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    Edición de William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

    Edición de Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Arts of Dying

    Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

    de D. Vance Smith ...
    People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

    Edición de Charles Martindale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

    Edición de Jonathan Post ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Improbability of Othello

    Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood

    de Joel B. Altman ...
    Shakespeare's dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to believe—governs human affairs, not certainty. Yet negotiating the space of probability is fraught with difficulty. Here, Joel B. Altman explores the ... Leer más

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