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  • Joinings

    Compound Words in Old English Literature

    de Jonathan Davis-Secord ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in Beowulf, creating slow-motion narrative at moments of significant violence; how their ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

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  • Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • U and I

    A True Story

    de Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination

    de Ebrahim Moosa ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim Moosa ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 40

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series

    Edición de Reinhold F. Glei, Wolfgang Polleichtner ...
    Series Libro 40 - 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 ... Leer más

    $113.99 USD

  • The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet

    de Piotr Spyra ...
    Original and engaging, this study presents the four anonymous poems found in the Cotton Nero MS - Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - as a composite text with a continuous narrative. While it is widely accepted that the poems attributed to the Pearl-Poet ought to be read together, this book demonstrates that instead of being analyzed as four distinct, though ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Three Cartularies from Thirteenth Century Auxerre

    de Constance Bouchard ...
    This edition presents the recently rediscovered episcopal cartulary of Auxerre, composed in the 1280s but assumed lost since the French Revolution. Along with confirmations by popes, quarrel settlements with counts, and agreements with the bishop’s tenants, the cartulary contains documents that were previously unknown, notably several papal decisions. Auxerre was unusually well documented for the ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

    Volume 2

    de George Corbett, Heather Webb ...
    Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Inscribed Power

    Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature

    de Ryan D. Giles ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the same time inserted into classic literary works in Spain. Giles’ insightful analysis of the intersection between amulets and literary texts offers fresh and original interpretations of well-known texts ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

    de Sahar Amer ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very ... Leer más

    $62.99 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

  • Through the Daemon's Gate

    Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs

    de Dean Swinford ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book tells the story of the early modern astronomer Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, which has been regarded by science historians and literary critics alike as the first true example of science fiction. Kepler began writing his complex and heavily-footnoted tale of a fictional Icelandic astronomer as an undergraduate and added to it throughout his life. The Somnium fuses supernatural and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD