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View book details for Nurturing the Love of Music
Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music
The third volume of Vincent Lenti's history of the Eastman School of MusicNurturing the Love of Music is the third volume of Vincent Lenti's history of the Eastman School of Music, being preceded by For the Enrichment of Community Life: …
First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work.FINALIST IN THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART BOOK AWARDS 2020 The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval culture. But with the …
The study shows how the 1641 Irish Rebellion played an integral role in politicizing the English people and escalating the political crisis of the 1640s.The 1641 Irish Rebellion has long been recognized as a key event in the mid-17th century …
View book details for The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy
Prophecy, Paradox, and <I>Translatio</I>
Ideas of translation and adaptation in the middle ages investigated through the lens of the Merlin tradition.The medieval figure of Merlin is intriguing, enigmatic, and riddled with contradictions. Half human, half devil, he possesses a supernatural knowledge that allows him …
View book details for A Companion to Pablo Neruda
Evaluating Neruda's Poetry
The making of a great Chilean poet.Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and …
First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution.Thomas Kyd (1558-94) is best known as author of The Spanish …
A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech in Old English poetry.Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest, Hrothgar's words of advice, Satan's laments, Juliana's words of defiance, …
View book details for The Wings of Atalanta
Essays Written along the Color Line
Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading African-American (and American) literature.This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne …
This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales.Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. …
Bedfordshire wills 1480-1519These are the 194 wills in Latin in the earliest surviving register of wills proved in the Court of the Archdeacon of Bedford. The register is held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service at ABP/R 1. …
View book details for Forgotten Dreams
Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog
Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the …
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La correspondencia de Cesar Vallejo es la mejor puerta de entrada documental a su biografia. Esta edicion recoge todas las cartas que se conocen escritas por Vallejo y dirigidas a el; ademas, esta se enriquece con notas aclaratorias que permiten …
View book details for Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature
Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity
Investigates why the question of women's complicity in National Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination, examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the role of women in the Third ReichIn recent years, historians have revealed the …
View book details for The Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Beyond
Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work.Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and moviegoers know Arthur Conan …
View book details for Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Cinema
Life and Works
Rocco focuses on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's relations with the world of cinema and gives us the first detailed study of the author's wide-ranging filmography.A unique and indeed indispensable addition to the critical literature on a writer of world importance. Gerald …
View book details for Grete Meisel-Hess
The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis
This first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism.Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist …
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era.Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over …
View book details for El imperio de la virtud
<I>Grandeza mexicana</I> (1604) de Bemardo de Balbuena y el discurso criollo novohispano
Terukina ofrece una nueva biografia de Bernardo de Balbuena y analiza la compleja matriz interdisciplinaria de Grandeza mexicana (1604). Terukina offers an updated biography of Bernardo de Balbuena and analyzes the complex interdisciplinary matrix within which Grandeza mexicana (1604) is …
View book details for Thirteenth Century England XVII
Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2017
Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century.The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a …
View book details for Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film
Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture.For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented …
View book details for Looking for the "Harp" Quartet
An Investigation into Musical Beauty
This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores -- with insight, patience, and humor -- profound issues at the essence of our experience. …
An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images.The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a …
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Index to the acclaimed six-volume set of The Entring Book of Roger Morrice.Index to the acclaimed six-volume set of The Entring Book of Roger Morrice.
View book details for Adapting the Eighteenth Century
A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices
A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century textsThe eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels, novels to plays, and …
View book details for Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Tawney's <I>Agrarian Problem</I> Revisited
Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain.This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations …
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