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Thalia Delighting in Song
Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive and informed readings of poets from Homer to the tragedians. Thalia Delighting in Song assembles for...
Post-Apocalyptic Culture
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocalypse...
Thomas Hardy Reappraised
Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
As a writer who achieved major eminence in both fiction and poetry and whose engagement with these genres encompassed the period of transition from Victorianism to Modernism, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) enjoys a unique position in English Literary History. Michael Millgate, University Professor of English...
Mirror up to Shakespeare
Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1984
George Hibbard has always endorsed T.S. Eliot's idea that 'we must know all of Shakespeare's work in order to know any of it,' and this idea, implicit in the first essay in this volume, informs the whole collection, written in honour of one of Canada's leading Shakespearian editors and scholars.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth of sixteen he kills a man and is...
by Earle Birney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
These essays, written between 1937 and 1960, have remained classics of their kind. They include important discussions on irony—its native traditions and its occurrence in early English literature, an account of critics’ appreciation of Chaucerian irony prior to this century, and a detailed examination...
On Oligarchy
Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few, even as democratic movements worldwide allow for political power to be dispersed among the many. With their access to influence, the wealthy can shape and constrain the political power of the rest of the world. As the economic...
Heraclitus
Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The Phoenix Pre-Socratic series is designed for modern students of the Pre-Socratic philosophers. This volume provides the Greek text of Heraclitus with a new, facing page translation together with a commentary outlining the main problems of interpretation and the philosophical issues raised by Heraclitus'...
Playing God
Medieval Mysteries on the Modern Stage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Religious drama was one of the most vital art forms of the medieval era. In medieval mystery plays, God appeared as one of the characters, along with angels, saints, the devil, and others. Until very recently however, the revival of interest in medieval culture has not included drama, beacuse of a...
Regulating Girls and Women
Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil – the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential...
The Savage and Modern Self
North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate...
REED in Review
Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. The REED sessions were designed to allow critical reflection on the past, present, and future of the project...
Fools of Time
Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 1996
In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life...
by Barnabe Googe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
When at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay's, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects...