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Anglo-Saxon (Beginnings through 1066)

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  • Interdisciplinarityby Joe Moran

    Routledge 2001; US$ 22.95

    This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplines, then reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines have come to seem irrelevant or exclusory. more...

  • John Donneby A.J. Smith

    Routledge 1995; US$ 48.95

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. more...

  • Sidneyby Martin Garrett

    Routledge 1996; US$ 225.00

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read these sources direct. more...

  • Chaucer's The Canterbury Talesby James L. Roberts

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000; US$ 5.99

    The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Join Chaucer's band of pilgrims on their journey in CliffsNotes on The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's narrators represent a wide spectrum of society with various ranks and occupations. From the distinguished and noble Knight, to the pious abbess, the honorable Clerk, the rich landowner, the worldly and crude Wife, and on down the scale to the low, vulgar Miller and Carpenter, and the corrupt Pardoner. Let this study guide reveal Chaucer's genius at understanding basic... more...

  • Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur)by John N. Gardner

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1967; US$ 5.99

    Written in the 15th century, this version of the legend of King Arthur is perhaps the most famous. Filled with stories of adventure and chivalry among the knights of the Round Table in Camelot, love, and magic, it sets the imagination in motion. more...

  • Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtlinessby Peter DeSa Wiggins

    Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 27.95

    Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of CourtlinessPeter DeSa Wiggins The influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a "poet of ambition," who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text -- Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier -- has never been fully explored. Courtier was Elizabethan England's approved repository of the complex social codes that governed the behavior of those desiring advancement at... more...

  • Foucault and Literatureby Simon During

    Routledge 1992; US$ 47.95

    Offering a critique of Foucault and the literary studies that have been influenced by him, Simon During takes in Foucault's studies of `transgressive' writing from Sade and Artaud to the French `new novelists' of the 1960s. more...

  • Spenser Encyclopediaby A.C. Hamilton

    Routledge 1991; US$ 558.00

    Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool. more...

  • John Donne: The Critical Heritageby A. J. Smith

    Routledge 1996; US$ 260.00

    This presents a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of the literary canon. Contains writings on Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Kipling, Yeats, Pound, Eliot and Hardy. more...

  • Geoffrey Chaucerby Derek Brewer

    Routledge 1995; US$ 47.95

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves. more...