Zbirka: Od 1500 do 1800
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Hamlet: Poem Unlimited(2003) BLOOM, HAROLDUncovers the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character, making us question the very nature of theatrical illusion.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Robert Burns(2006) BURNS, ROBERTAimed at poetry lovers, this work presents a collection of the Scottish Bard's songs and poems.Vezava: Trda16,82 € -
Theaters of Pardoning(2019) MEYLER, BERNADETTEFrom Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination.Vezava: Mehka57,03 € -
Blake and the Failure of Prophecy(2021) COGAN, LUCYThis monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced withVezava: Trda145,91 € -
Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night(2018)This guide is ideal for use in the classroom or for revision, providing insight into characterisation, contexts and critical views, along with activities that prompt a closer analysis of the writer's language and techniques.Vezava: Mehka18,28 € -
Women (Re)Writing Milton(2021)This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious and socVezava: Trda132,24 € -
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism(2004) ALEXANDER, GAVINIncludes George Puttenham's "Art of English Poesy", Samuel Daniel's "Defense of Rhyme", and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and George Gascoigne.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Domestic Georgic(2021) KADUE, KATIEInspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Vezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Four Revenge Tragedies(2008)The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Each of the four plays here defines the problems of the revenge genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while regiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist(2018) FAVERTY, FREDERIC E.Originally published in 1951, this book makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of ""racialism"" current during his lifetime. Frederic Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, AVezava: Mehka52,12 € -
Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline(2018) ALKON, PAUL KENTProvides a reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. After its publication, Alkon's book became the standard reading of Johnson's essays, contrasting them with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons, as moral writings, and one of tVezava: Mehka83,13 € -
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820(2019)Scholars of eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and Enlightenment theatre will welcome this book as it uncovers the considerable contribution made by Irish actors and playwrights to Georgian English theatre. It connects Irish patriotism with new historioVezava: Trda152,40 € -
Tasso's Art and Afterlives(2017) LAWRENCE, JASONTraces the impact of the great Italian poet’s neglected masterpiece across a broad spectrum of arts from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, focusing on, among many others, the works of Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Daniel, Van Dyck, Poussin,Vezava: Trda129,20 € -
Family of Love(2022)The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times. -- .Vezava: Trda136,80 € -
Mughal Arcadia(2021) SHARMA, SUNILMughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts of the world. Sunil Sharma explores the rise and decline of Persian court poetry in India and the invention of an enduring idea ofVezava: Trda71,20 € -
John Donne in Context(2019)Short, lively, and eminently readable chapters, written by leading experts in early modern studies, illuminate various aspects of Donne's life, work, career, and reputation. These engaging chapters are supplemented by a chronology of Donne's life and workVezava: Trda158,48 €
