Literary studies: general

J.R.R. Tolkien Pocket Guide

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J.R.R. TOLKIEN: POCKET GUIDE A new guide to the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien, the premier British fantasy author of the 20th century, and…

Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

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The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating…

Literary Trials

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught…

Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught…

Marriage as a Fine Art

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“We found so much to say, to share, to learn…. For it wasn’t just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced…

Naturalizing Africa Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature

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The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this book, Cajetan Iheka analyzes how African literary texts have engaged…

Pindar’s Eyes Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry

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Pindar’s Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE.…

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis

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Over the years, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible…

Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens

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Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour,…

Readings On the Paradiso of Dante: Chiefly Based On the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This…

Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages

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For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night. In late…

Revolution of the Ordinary Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

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This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy-a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley…