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Holy Feast and Holy Fast
The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Häftad, 1988
428 kr
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In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including …
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems
History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry
Häftad, 1992
460 kr
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Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, Jose Limon examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of …
Domestic Individualism
Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1992
353 kr
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Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for …
Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
American Literature at the Turn of the Century
Häftad, 1988
460 kr
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"The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism" discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these …
Dilemmas of Enlightenment
Studies in the Rhetoric and Logic of Ideology
Inbunden, 1993
886 kr
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Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory. While striving to …
Widening Gate
Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
Häftad, 1993
515 kr
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From the Preface: Bristol is the city that John Cabot sailed from and Thomas Chatterton dreamed, that Hugh Latimer preached to and Oliver Cromwell seized, that entertained Parliaments in the Middle Ages and rioted for Reform in the nineteenth century. Since the Norman Conquest, it has always had an …
Romancing the Past
The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France
Häftad, 1995
525 kr
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In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were …
Dearest Beloved
The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family
Häftad, 1995
525 kr
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The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne--for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness--was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected …
Carnal Israel
Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture
Häftad, 1995
262 kr
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Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those …
Writing and Rebellion
England in 1381
Häftad, 1996
441 kr
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In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and …
Resistant Structures
Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts
Häftad, 1997
493 kr
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Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity …
Mirror of Herodotus
The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History
Häftad, 2009
357 kr
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Herodotus' great work is not only an account of the momentous historical conflict between the Greeks and the Persians but also the earliest sustained exploration in the West of the problem of cultural difference. Francois Hartog asks fundamental questions about how Herodotus represented this …
Mexico at the World's Fairs
Crafting a Modern Nation
Häftad, 2018
357 kr
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This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris …
Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers
Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements
Av T. V. Reed
Häftad, 1992
575 kr
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T. V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action—and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements," and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and …
Trials of Authorship
Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare
Häftad, 2018
575 kr
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The English Renaissance has been the focus of intense interpretive activity. It has been a scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Trials of Authorship extends and challenges this …
Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530
Häftad, 2018
398 kr
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As a traditional site of historical criticism, medieval studies is particularly well placed to benefit from the recent reemergence of historicism in literary studies. But this new "critical historicism" differes from the traditional criticism in both method an interests, differences that are well …
Roads to Rome
The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism
Häftad, 1994
671 kr
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The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. Franchot …
Empire Nowhere
England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest
Häftad, 1992
706 kr
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What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks …
Behind the Scenes
Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre
Häftad, 1990
575 kr
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Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved …
Rabelais's Carnival
Text, Context, Metatext
Häftad, 1990
706 kr
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How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to Lent, occurs in Rabelais's Fourth Book, his last and most artfully crafted novel. Samuel Kinser argues …
Imaginary Puritan
Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
Av Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse
Häftad, 1992
575 kr
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Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who …
Loyola's Acts
The Rhetoric of the Self
Häftad, 1997
575 kr
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Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self offers a nuanced exploration of Iñigo López de Loyola's pivotal spiritual transformation and its rhetorical framing within the Christian tradition. Far from being a straightforward autobiography, the text, titled Acta, is positioned as a work of epideictic …
Rites of Knighthood
The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry
Häftad, 1989
575 kr
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The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry by Richard C. McCoy examines how the ceremonial culture of Elizabethan chivalry both mediated and exposed tensions at the heart of Tudor politics. Focusing on the careers of the Earl of Leicester, Sir Philip Sidney, and …
Inscribing the Time
Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England
Häftad, 1995
575 kr
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Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, and Twelfth …
Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers
Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements
Av T. V. Reed
Inbunden, 1992
1287 kr
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T. V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action—and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements," and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and …
Roads to Rome
The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism
Inbunden, 1994
1156 kr
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The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. Franchot …
Empire Nowhere
England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest
Inbunden, 1992
1329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks …
Behind the Scenes
Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre
Inbunden, 1990
936 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved …
Rabelais's Carnival
Text, Context, Metatext
Inbunden, 1990
1329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to Lent, occurs in Rabelais's Fourth Book, his last and most artfully crafted novel. Samuel Kinser argues …
Imaginary Puritan
Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
Av Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse
Inbunden, 1992
1287 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who …
