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  • English Translation and Classical Reception

    Towards a New Literary History

    Serier serie Classical Receptions
    English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical ... Læs mere

    707,24 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

    Redigeret af Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge ... Læs mere

    424,46 kr.

  • Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture

    Arden Critical Companion

    Redigeret af Neil Rhodes, Stuart Gillespie ...
    Serier serie Arden Critical Companions
    While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular ... Læs mere

    1.061,15 kr.

  • Shakespeare's Books

    A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources

    Serier serie Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, ... Læs mere

    349,86 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Food Fight

    From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

    Fortalt af Stuart Gillespie ...

    Uforkortet

    9 timer 43 min

    'Essential' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'Punchy' JULIAN BAGGINI'Gripping' TIM SPECTORFood is life but our food system is killing us.Our global food system lies in the tight grip of a handful of powerful players who are prioritising profit at any cost – despite rising obesity, ill-health and a worsening climate crisis – aided by governments who are letting them get away with it.Stuart Gillespie, a vetera... ... Læs mere

    298,61 kr.

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  • Soul of the Age

    The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

    How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare's plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a king? And why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned?Weaving a dazzling tapestry of Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues, Soul of the Age leads us on an ... Læs mere

    94,33 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Redigeret af Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    275,11 kr.

  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

    af Peter Brown ...
    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest ... Læs mere

    70,66 kr.

  • Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613

    Redigeret af Andrew J. Power, Rory Loughnane ...
    In fourteen specially commissioned chapters by leading Shakespeare scholars from around the globe, Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 provides an essential reappraisal of the final phase of Shakespeare's writing life. Arranged for the first time in the best-established chronological sequence, Shakespeare's last seven extant plays are discussed in detail in dedicated chapters, from Pericles to the other ... Læs mere

    416,60 kr.

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    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 ... Læs mere

    345,86 kr.

  • Poet of Revolution

    The Making of John Milton

    A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s ... Læs mere

    200,11 kr.

  • King John

    Third Series

    Serier serie The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of King John provides:- A clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship.- Detailed notes and commentary on ... Læs mere

    154,24 kr.