Literature
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Of and About Ageing [Paperback]
Laura Tommaso(Author)
$21.99ISBN: 9788869772603
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature | Language
In navigating different representations from a discursive and linguistic perspective, the book offers new vistas on the role of language in the personal and societal ageing experience addressing debates on ageism, anti-ageing, age care, active age... .... Learn More -
Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts [Hardback]
Liam Lewis(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843846222
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
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Federico García Lorca: The Poetry in All Things [Hardback]
Federico Bonaddio(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781855663541
Published by : Tamesis Books
Series: Icons of the Luso-Hispanic World
Volume: 1
Feted by his contemporaries, Federico García Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936: poet, playwright, political martyr, gay icon, champion of women, defender of the oppressed. This book shows just why his fame has endured, t... .... Learn More -
The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality [Hardback]
Brian O Murdoch(Author); Brian Murdoch(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640141179
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 227
Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure... .... Learn More -
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany [Hardback]
Thomas C. Fox(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140622
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 226
This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German J... .... Learn More -
Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance [Hardback]
Victoria Flood(Editor); Megan G. Leitch(Editor); Victoria Flood(Contributor); Megan G. Leitch(Contributor); Helen Fulton(Contributor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843846208
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
Volume: 24
Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic a... .... Learn More -
John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century [Hardback]
Christopher Joby(Author); Matthew Woodcock(Editor); Raphael Lyne(Editor); Sean Sean Keilen(Editor); Jane Grogan(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843846147
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Volume: 40
John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), the eldest son of Flemish migrants, was a man of many parts: Dutch and English poet, translator, military author, virtuoso networker, successful merchant and hosier, Dutch church elder and militia captain. This f... .... Learn More -
Ælfrician Homilies and Varia: Editions, Translations, and Commentary [2 volume set] [Hardback]
Robert K. Upchurch(Editor); Aaron J. Kleist(Editor); Aaron J Kleist(Editor)
$165.00ISBN: 9781843845447
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts
Volume: 13
Ælfric of Eynsham stands supreme as a distinguished homilist, translator, and moralist -one whose writings were sought by the most powerful churchmen and landed warlords of his day. In his sermons, the dead are raised to life, innocents are ... .... Learn More -
Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from Ancrene Wisse to the Parson's Tale [Hardback]
Krista A. Murchison(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843846086
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The 'bestseller list' of medieval England would have included many manuals for penitents: works that could teach the public about the process of confession, and explain the abstract concept of sin through familiar situations. Among these 'bestsell... .... Learn More -
The Forest of the Hanged [Paperback]
Liviu Rebreanu(Author)
$24.99ISBN: 9781592111138
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Series: Classics of Romanian Literature
Volume: I
This classic Romanian novel lends valuable psychological insight into the tragic situation confronting minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I. It is the story of Apostol Bologa, a middle-class Romanian officer serving in the ... .... Learn More
