(Izdošanas datums: 28-Oct-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Modern Language Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781603295192)
While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad vi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Feb-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691188744)
Saint Augustine famously "e;wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,"e; and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgils Aeneid and other classical texts...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Feb-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691188744)
Saint Augustine famously "e;wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,"e; and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgils Aeneid and other classical texts...Lasīt vairāk
The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narrativ...Lasīt vairāk
The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narrativ...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucers...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucers...Lasīt vairāk
Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way - not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema en...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Nov-2015, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580441902)
Medieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the twelfth century these introductions were anthologised, referred to now as Accessus ad auctores. They served as the first handbooks of liter...Lasīt vairāk
The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study wi...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial inte...Lasīt vairāk
The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth of Morgan la Fey reveals her true identity through a comprehensive investigation of the famed enchantress evolution - or devolution...Lasīt vairāk
Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the ess...Lasīt vairāk
Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval Engl...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-2014, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Modern Language Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781603291958)
Chaucers Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies hav...Lasīt vairāk
This collection uses the concept of story to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature,...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature. Conne...Lasīt vairāk
Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed the emergence of the individual. The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renai...Lasīt vairāk
