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Seduction of the Mediterraneanby Robert Aldrich
Routledge 1993; US$ 44.95Through an exploration of forty figures in European culture, the author argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. more...
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literatureby Jennifer Richards
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book explores the early modern interest in conversation. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the philosopher Cicero. Recognising his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. more...
Rhetoric and Renaissance Cultureby Heinrich F. Plett
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2004; US$ 179.20Since Jacob Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit regarding the arts by concentrating on literary theor more...
Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europeby Julie Campbell
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 110.00Exploring interactions of early modern male and female writers, Campbell examines how the querelle des femmes influenced the perception of well-educated women who were part of literary circles in Italy, France, and England from approximately 1530-1650. To gain a better sense of how querelle language and issues were used for or against learned women writers, Campbell aligns selected works by female and male writers, pairing them to analyze how the woman writer responds, deflects, or rewrites the male writer's ideological script on women. more...
Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poetsby Marijke Spies; Ton van Strien; Henk Duits
Amsterdam University Press 2000; US$ 29.25A tribute to Marijke Spies on her retirement as professor of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch literature. more...
Erzählkulturby Rolf Wilhelm Brednich
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 182.00The volume presents 25 papers on the cultural analysis of narration and narratives. The selection concentrates both on comparative historical narratology and on contemporary narratology as an analysis of consciousness. The authors come from a number of European countries and from North America, and the papers, in German and English, provide exemplary studies from the broad field of research into narrative analysis as a cultural study. The papers all focus on the ?homo narrans?, the human narrator, whose repertoire is influenced more and more by modern media. more...
The Handbook to Literary Researchby W. R. Owens; Delia da Sousa Correa
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 35.95This unique student resource is specifically designed for those beginning an MA in Literature, providing an introduction to research techniques, methodologies and information sources relevant to the study of literature at postgraduate level. more...
Making Publics in Early Modern Europeby Bronwen Wilson; Paul Yachnin
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 39.95Offers a look at how people, things, and fresh forms of knowledge created 'publics' in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. more...
Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeareby Joan Fitzpatrick
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as read in the works of a range of European authors, including Shakespeare, from the late medieval period to the mid seventeenth century. The essays are international and interdisciplinary in their approach; they incorporate the perspectives of historians, cultural commentators, and literary critics who are leaders in the field. more...
Weichteil- und Viszeralchirurgie bei Hippokratesby Mathias Witt
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 108.00Contrary to a widely held belief, Hippocratic surgery did not just cover orthopaedics, it also included therapy for serious injuries to soft tissue. This was generally forgotten, since Hippocrates? central text on the matter was lost in the Early Middle Ages. The work presented here attempts to reconstruct the lost text from quotes and references in ancient authors, and so provides an insight into a forgotten chapter of the earliest medical literature in the West. more...









