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Graham Greene
An Approach to the Novels
Inbunden, 1999
2896 kr
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This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its "literary" interpretation into his fiction; and it defines two phases of Greenes novels through the changing relationship between …
Hungarian Folktales
The Art of Zsuzsanna Palk-
Av Linda Degh
Inbunden, 1995
2594 kr
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First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó’s tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palkó was named …
Textual Transgressions
Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography
Inbunden, 1997
2594 kr
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Both an intellectual autobiography and a chronicle of the ideological and methodological upheaval in textual studies during the last two decades, this book presents provocative essays by one of the foremost textual scholars of our day. As founder and executive director of the interdisciplinary …
Gay and Lesbian Poetry
An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo
Häftad, 1995
999 kr
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First published in 1995. This anthology focuses on European languages, but also includes Arabic and Hebrew poetry of medieval Spain, arranged chronologically and accompanied by commentary about the poets' lives and work.
Challenge of Periodization
Old Paradigms and New Perspectives
Inbunden, 1996
2896 kr
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In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: …
Women in Medieval Western European Culture
Inbunden, 1998
2594 kr
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This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in …
King Arthur's Modern Return
Inbunden, 1998
2594 kr
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The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian …
Gore On Stage
The Plays of Catherine Gore
Inbunden, 1999
2896 kr
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It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England. It is less well known that Mrs. Gore's 200-volume output included eleven extremely popular, if not always …
Arthurian Name Dictionary
Inbunden, 1998
3541 kr
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This text presents a comprehensive dictionary of characters, places, objects and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Information is drawn from significant Arthurian sources between Gildas's "De Excidio Britanniae" (c.540) and Tennyson's 19th-century …
Sheba's Daughters
Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic
Inbunden, 1998
2896 kr
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Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of …
Ghost Stories by British and American Women
A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
Av Lynette Carpenter, Wendy K. Kolmar
Inbunden, 1998
2890 kr
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Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, …
King Arthur's Modern Return
Häftad, 2014
1064 kr
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The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian …
Ghost Stories by British and American Women
A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
Av Lynette Carpenter, Wendy K. Kolmar
Häftad, 2014
1047 kr
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Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, …
Hungarian Folktales
The Art of Zsuzsanna Palk-
Av Linda Degh
Häftad, 2015
1030 kr
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First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó’s tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palkó was named …
Gore On Stage
The Plays of Catherine Gore
Häftad, 2015
946 kr
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It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England. It is less well known that Mrs. Gore's 200-volume output included eleven extremely popular, if not always …
Graham Greene
An Approach to the Novels
Häftad, 2015
946 kr
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This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its "literary" interpretation into his fiction; and it defines two phases of Greenes novels through the changing relationship between …
Sheba's Daughters
Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic
Häftad, 2015
1064 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of …
Challenge of Periodization
Old Paradigms and New Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
946 kr
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In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: …
Women in Medieval Western European Culture
Häftad, 2016
946 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in …
Textual Transgressions
Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography
Häftad, 2016
946 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Both an intellectual autobiography and a chronicle of the ideological and methodological upheaval in textual studies during the last two decades, this book presents provocative essays by one of the foremost textual scholars of our day. As founder and executive director of the interdisciplinary …
