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by Peter Hyland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the Sonnets; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakespeare...
How to Cook an Early French Peacock
De Observatione Ciborum - Roman Food for a Frankish King (Bilingual Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Is Anthimus' work the oldest European medieval cookbook? Well, it IS six centuries older than a twelfth century book that has recently been touted as exactly that. In fact, neither is exactly a cookbook; both are works on health which happen to include recipes.
No cookbook has survived from...
by Publius Ovidius Naso, Translator: Henry Thomas Riley
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid is one of the great book for those who love ancient & classical poem. Ovidius had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic...
Between State and Church
Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland Lithuania Germany Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to...
Reading the Middle Ages, Volume II
Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, c.900 to c.1500, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Spanning the period from c.900 to c.1500 and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this volume contains...
by 20830Press
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
The Polish national epic, one of the great works of European Romanticism, by Adam Mickiewicz. Its bucolic, patriotic, and folkloristic descriptions of life and war in early nineteenth century Poland have served as a focus of national literary identification since its first publication. I
by Ana Blandiana
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous...
The Bond of the Furthest Apart
Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson’s cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The “bond” of Sharon Cameron’s title refers to the astonishing...
by Laurence P. Senelick
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Although younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting body of criticism and theory which until recently has remained unknown or nearly inaccessible in the West. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics...
Hungry for Paris (second edition)
The Ultimate Guide to the City's 109 Best Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
If you’re passionate about eating well, you couldn’t ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano’s charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the fully revised and updated guide to this renowned culinary scene. Having written about Paris for almost every major food...
Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory
Comparatist Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes, first published in 2002, offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and work,...
by Inger Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was both a virtuoso and a paradox. Her fiction, drama, essays and children’s books won her wide acclaim in Denmark and other European countries, but it is her poetry – spanning a forty-year period – that best reveals her versatility and depth. Her poetry reflects...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was.