British And Irish Literature – Bücher, CDs, MP3-CDs und mehr, Seite 6

Jenny C Mann
The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

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Christine Ferguson
Open Secrets

Open Secrets sheds new light on the fascinating popular fiction produced by key writers within Britain's occult revival, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins…

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Henry Hart
Seamus Heaney's Gifts

The first comprehensive examination of Heaney's preoccupation with gifts and gift-exchange. Drawing on extensive research in Heaney's papers, Hart presents a richly detailed study of Heaney's life and wor…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Oliver Buckton
The World Is Not Enough

The definitive history of the flamboyant life of Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond.This new biography of Ian Fleming presents a fresh and illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of…

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Chad Schrock,
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, his self-definition as an author, and the invention…

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Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water

All the lights were on at the Moon Under Water and the landlord, an Owl, was slowly pulling a pint to test his ale. Toothsome. It was Christmas Eve and the fire in the ancient grate gargled its flames . .…

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Peter Brooks
Henry James Comes Home

In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilde…

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Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell
Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…

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Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

A guide for today's classrooms, this collection from leading James Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of the often-challenging writer, helping both new and experienced …

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Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

A guide for today's classrooms, this collection from leading James Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of the often-challenging writer, helping both new and experienced …

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Caleb D Molstad
Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Through an analysis of vernacular metaphors of food and consumption for religious experience and theology in late-fourteenth and early fifteenth century England, Caleb D. Molstad explores what that langua…

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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Mary Butts

"Established and new scholars, publishers, printers, and artists enter into conversation exploring the work of British author Mary Butts. Taking its cue from Butts's experimental, rhythmic writing, t…

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Günter Leypoldt
Literature's Social Lives

This book draws from literary sociology to look at literature in a longue durée (from Romantic poetry to the Toni-Morrison novel). It proposes a new value theory, and sketches an institutional history of …

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John Keats, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth
Romantic Poets

This lovely collection of hundreds of verses from esteemed Romantic poets will stand out on your bookshelf.Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of t…

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Gabriele Lazzari,
New Global Realism

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book studies writing in En…

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Len McCluskey,
Poetry for the Many

Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, e…

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Michael DC Drout
The Tower and the Ruin

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth. In The Tower and the Ruin , Michael D.C. Drout explores Tolkien's genius, allowing us …

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Julia Ditter,
Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish li…

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