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Comic Provocations
By: Crocker, Holly A. (ed.)
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal bodies with which they come into contact. This volume addresses issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, and others to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity.
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Price: $69.95
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Companion to Ancient Epic
By: Foley, John
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
Epic was the master-genre of the ancient world: it was central to group identity, education, literature and culture.
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Price: $148.95
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A companion to Apollonius Rhodius
By: Papanghelis, T.D. (ed.); Rengakos, A. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
This collection of essays, on the author of the "Argonautica", covers a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural reception.
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Price: $256.00
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A Companion to Chaucer
By: Brown, Peter (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
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Price: $200.00
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A Concise Companion to Chaucer
By: Saunders, Corinne (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer’s major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally.:.; Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers.; Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer’s major works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales .; Essays highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work.; Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; gender and sexuality; and reading Chaucer aloud.; Designed so that each contextual essay can be read alongside one of Chaucer’s major works.
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Price: $79.95
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Critical Companion to Dante
By: Ruud, Jay
Published by: Facts On File Inc.
Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, continues to captivate readers. This work provides an information on his life and work. It covers Dante's canon, including his love poems in "La Vita Nuova" and his philosophical works.
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Price: $75.00
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Dante
By: Havely, Nick
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia . This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present.:.; Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career; his literary and cultural traditions; key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the Commedia ; and the reception and appropriation of his work by later readers, from the fourteenth century to the present.; Written by an expert Dante scholar.; Provides new translations of substantial passages from Dante’s poems and from the world of his contemporaries.; Includes explanatory diagrams of Dante’s 'other-worlds', and a section of illustrations by medieval and modern artists.; Builds a vivid and complex picture of Dante's imagination, intellect and literary presence.; Helpful bibliographies include relevant web resources.
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Price: $110.00
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Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
By: Ascoli, Albert Russell
Published by: Cambridge University Press
The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.
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Price: $79.00
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Dante and the Romantics
By: Braida, Antonella
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
The British Romantic poets were among the first to realise the centrality of the Divine Comedy for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and William Blake.
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Price: $85.98
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