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User's Guide to Melancholy(2021) LUND, MARY ANN (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards saVezava: Trda47,52 € -
Women Are Up to Something(2021) LIPSCOMB, BENJAMIN J.B. (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DIRECTOR OF THE HONORS PROGRAM, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DIRECTOR OF THE HONORS PROGRAM, HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda53,21 € -
Native American Literature(2018) TEUTON, SEAN (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES; DIRECTOR, AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES; DIRECTOR, AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, MADISON, WI)North American Indigenous literature reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales. Sean Teuton tells its story, from when oral narrative first inspired Indigenous writers in English, thrVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Dante(2015) HAINSWORTH, PETER (EMERITUS FELLOW, LADY MARGARET HALL OXFORD),ROBEY, DAVID (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF READING, AND EMERITUS FELLOW, WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD)This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of reference for modern writers and their readers. Exploring and explaining The Divine Comedy, they also discuVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hebrew Bible as Literature(2016) LINAFELT, TOD (PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, THEOLOGY DEPARTMENT, PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, THEOLOGY DEPARTMENT, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)This book offers a thorough and lively introduction to the Hebrew Bible's two primary literary modes, narrative and poetry, foregrounding the nuances of plot, character, metaphor, structure and design, and intertextual allusions.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Fairy Tale(2018) WARNER, MARINA (WRITER, HISTORIAN, CULTURAL CRITIC, AND NOVELIST; FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD)Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan's Labyrinth. Exploring pervasive themes of folklore, myth, the supernatural, imagination, and fantasy, Warner highlights the impact oVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Nostalgic Imagination(2020) COLLINI, STEFAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historVezava: Mehka48,07 € -
Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England(2022) ULLYOT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspiratioVezava: Trda153,22 € -
Romantic Autopsy(2021) HEGELE, ARDEN (LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical featuVezava: Trda142,68 € -
Bibliophobia(2022) CUMMINGS, BRIAN (ANNIVERSARY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF YORK AND FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY)Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing and of books to give readers a fascinating account of why books matter and how they impact on our lives.Vezava: Trda76,99 € -
Dragon in the West(2021) OGDEN, DANIEL (PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)The Dragon in the West is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history of the image and idea of the dragon. A creature popular in contemporary fiction and cinema, Ogden reveals how the dragon was known to the ancient Greek and Roman worlVezava: Trda72,22 € -
Why Women Read Fiction(2022) TAYLOR, HELEN (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and figures from literary publishing, reviewing, and festivals, this accessible volume offers an overview of the coVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
What is American Literature?(2022) STAVANS, ILAN (LEWIS-SEBRING, PROFESSOR IN LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO CULTURE AND FIVE COLLEGE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY PROFESSOR, AMHERST COLLEGE)An engaging, thought-provoking, and polemical volume on what makes American literature what it is today.Vezava: Trda33,97 € -
Horror(2021) JONES, DARRYL (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN)Fear is one of the most primal emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? Delving into the darkest corners of horror literature, films, and plays, Darryl Jones explores its monsters and its psychological chilVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
William Shakespeare(2015) WELLS, PROF STANLEY (HONORARY PRESIDENT, THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST)In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world's greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world Shakespeare lived in and all of his major works, to show how andVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Charles Dickens(2019) HARTLEY, JENNY (EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON)Jenny Hartley introduces Charles Dickens's life and works, looking at the vitality of his characters and the energy which surges through his writing. Examining the themes running through his books, she considers the institutions which influenced his workVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Land of the Green Man(2019) LARRINGTON, CAROLYNE (OFFICIAL FELLOW AND TUTOR IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE. PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK)Vezava: Mehka26,24 €
