Literature
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The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary [Hardback]
Liz Herbert McAvoy(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845980
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: Volume 4
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular... .... Learn More -
Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts [Hardback]
Kathryn Maude(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845966
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: Volume 18
From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women's writing. How, then, can we access these women's experiences?
This book argues that by analysing texts deliberately written for and addressed dire... .... Learn More -
Nature: A Literary Heritage [Hardback]
Marie Addyman(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843846024
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Heritage Matters
Volume: Volume 23
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Anneliese's House [Hardback]
Lou Andreas-Salomé(Author); Frank Beck(Author); Raleigh Whitinger(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141018
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the women question." In recent years,... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 28 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140950
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 28 features articles on several of... .... Learn More -
The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage [Hardback]
Muriel Cormican(Editor); Jennifer Marston William(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140745
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Volume: Volume 5
The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze (hooks), and the postcolonial gaze (Said). This... .... Learn More -
Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature [Hardback]
Jessica Ortner(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140226
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singu... .... Learn More -
How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville [Hardback]
Kevin J. Hayes(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640141100
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
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Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity [Hardback]
Juliette Vuille(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845898
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: Volume 17
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The Face in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390 [Hardback]
Alice Hazard(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843845874
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Gallica
Volume: Volume 45
In medieval French literature, faces feature heavily as markers of identity, mood, class, status, and even humanity. The information that they convey can be strategically concealed and revealed, but they are always understood to be legible.
Th... .... Learn More
