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Secrets of the Oracle
A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written.
Wisdom...
Looking Into Providences
Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or ‘designs’ that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the ‘trials,’...
by Vladimir Propp, Paul J. Perron, Jean-Patrick Debbèche
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The...
For Humanity's Sake
The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity.
For...
From Plato to Lumière
Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust,...
Margaret the First
A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Margaret Cavendish was one of the most original, loveable and eccentric of women writers. Pepys called her "mad, ridiculous, and conceited" but when she paid her famous visit to London in 1667 he ran all over town to see her. And many of her other contemporaries were no less fascinated....
by Jo Ann Cavallo
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516)....
Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati
The Reprehension of Vice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’
Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty...
Canada's 1960s
The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
The acclaimed and accessible Hidden in Plain Sight series showcases the extraordinary contributions made by Aboriginal peoples to Canadian identity and culture. This collection features new accounts of Aboriginal peoples working hard to improve their lives and those of other Canadians, and serves...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2005
The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and...
Charlotte Lennox
An Independent Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense...
Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana
The Encounter between the LoDagaa and 'the World on Paper'
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium...
Exploiting Erasmus
The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Desiderius Erasmus' humanist works were influential throughout Europe, in various areas of thought including theology, education, philology, and political theory. Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies...