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During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham brings these precarious historical positions to bear on readings of Arthurian literature in Sovereign Fantasies, a provocative work deeply engaged with postcolonial and gender theory. Ingham argues that...
| Автор | Patricia Clare Ingham |
Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division: the seventeenth-century texts of fellow-feeling...
| Автор | Katherine Ibbett |
For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, circumstances changed between 1750 and 1800 as parallel evolutions in theater and justice brought them...
| Автор | Yann Robert |
The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on «Piers Plowman» places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of...
| Автор | Traugott Lawler |
Cuando la dulce Loretta Santana firmó el contrato como mayordomo temporal de Griffin Jones, el adinerado playboy se encontró con algunos inesperados problemas: su nuevo mayordomo era mujer y, además, estaba embarazada de ocho meses…Loretta solo quería trabajar durante un mes antes de que naciera el bebé, que sería en Navidad, pero se vio atrapada por los encantos de su jefe…
| Автор | Charlotte Maclay |
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive,...
| Автор | Daphne Lamothe |
During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news...
| Автор | Eliza Richards |
Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his «angelic» role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the...
| Автор | Claire M. Waters |
Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: Santa Claus's Partner A Captured Santa Claus Tommy Trots Visit to Santa Claus How the Captain made Christmas
| Автор | Thomas Nelson Page |
Terra natal dos meus pais e avós, Portugal foi desde sempre o destino das nossas férias de verão. À medida que me fui deixando seduzir, fui ficando rendida aos encantos do nosso país. Amante de poesia desde criança – paixão herdada dos meus avô e bisavô, inspirei-me nas minhas viagens por terras lusas para escrever estas estórias e poemas.
| Автор | Sabrina Vieira Fialho |
Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of commercial binding, most published literary texts did not stand on shelves in discrete, standardized units. They were issued in loose sheets or temporarily stitched—leaving it to the purchaser or retailer to collect, configure, and bind them....
| Автор | Jeffrey Todd Knight |
Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander , share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on...
| Автор | Jenna Lay |
Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions....
| Автор | Rebecca Lemon |
Ein fesselnder Romantasy-Roman: Jorani ist zwanzig und kommt aus Berlin. In ihren Ferien fährt sie zu ihrer amerikanischen Verwandtschaft und verbringt die Zeit bei ihrer Tante in South Dakota. Schnell verliebt sie sich in Rin, und als dieser ihr noch zur Hilfe eilt, als sie von der Dorfgang angegriffen wird, ist es endgültig um sie geschehen. Doch Rin hat ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis: Er ist in Wahrheit ein Kentaur…-
| Автор | Sarah Nikolai |
Rodney Graeme is a war hero. When he returns home, the whole town comes to greet him. Everyone including his sweetheart Jessica, who had left him for a richer man while he was away. Jessica's husband is now using Rodney's feelings for his wife to his own advantage and all of a sudden Rodney finds himself caught up in an espionage plot.
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they are found. Yet in Lyric Tactics , Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and...
| Автор | Ingrid Nelson |
During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a nexus of concerns over how the material might embody the sublime and how the absent might be made present. For Kimberly Johnson, the question of how exactly Christ can be present in bread and wine is fundamentally an issue of representation, and one that bears directly upon the mechanics of poetry. In Made Flesh , she explores the sacramental conjunction of text with materiality and word with flesh...
| Автор | Kimberly Johnson |
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial issues through two problematic authority figures, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The Pardoner dares to assume official roles to which he has no legal claim and for which he is quite unsuited....
| Автор | Alastair Minnis |
Dieses E-Book entspricht 200 Taschenbuchseiten … Acht explizite SM-Erlebnisse der besonderen Art … Vom Kopfkino zum realen Subspace. Von der Lust, seinen Körper zu spüren. Vom Abtauchen in eine Welt der Sinne. Durch das Dunkel des Tunnels, bis hinter den Horizont. Schaffst du es, dorthin zu kommen, wirst du es erleben … Diese Ausgabe ist vollständig, unzensiert und enthält keine gekürzten erotischen Szenen.
| Автор | Alexandra Gehring |
Spannung pur aus Schweden! Im nördlichen Schweden gründet Janna eine feministische Wohngemeinschaft. Um weibliche Nachkommen zu sichern, beschließt Jannas Freund, ein kleines Mädchen zu entführen. Schnell bereut er seine Tat und will das Mädchen zurückbringen, doch Janna stellt sich ihm in den Weg. Für den Erhalt ihrer Gemeinschaft ist sie bereit, alles zu tun – auch wenn sie dafür töten muss…-
| Автор | Inger Frimansson |
Between 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and they significantly shaped the perceptions of Chaucer that would hold sway for centuries to come. But it is the stories behind these editions that are the focus of Megan L. Cook's interest in The Poet and the Antiquaries . She explores how antiquarians—historians, lexicographers,...
| Автор | Megan L. Cook |
The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three...
| Автор | Ralph Hanna |