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Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics

DOWNLOADExcrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics (The New Middle Ages) By Susan Signe MorrisonThis interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer’s literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations—material (including privies, dung on fields, and

Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World

DOWNLOADSexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources (Interpreting Ancient History) by Laura K. McClure (Editor)This book explores the fascinating world of sex and gender roles in the classical period. It provides readers with essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world. They are accessible to general readers whilst also

Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society

DOWNLOADSexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society: A Sourcebook by Marguer JohnsonThis volume contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions, and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the material

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

DOWNLOAD 1DOWNLOAD 2The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Alex Preminger, Terry V.F. Brogan, Frank J. Warnke (Editors) The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in

Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence

DOWNLOADThe Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetryby Harold BloomHarold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of thise

Faulkner and Love

DOWNLOADFaulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Artby Prof. Judith L. Sensibar "We know a lot about William Faulkner''s drinking, his philandering, his struggles with race, sexuality and history. We know much less about why Faulkner was so spectacularly talented and so spectacularly troubled. Judith Sensibar''s magisterial new book tells how the fraught, obsessive relationships with the women

Ancient Literary Criticism

DOWNLOADAncient Literary Criticism (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Andrew Laird The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. While there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and

Hans-Georg Gadamer - Truth And Method

DOWNLOADTruth And Method (Continuum Impacts) by Hans-Georg Gadamer This is Gadamer's most influential work, his magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, theology, the theory of law and classical scholarship, it is undoubtedly one of the most important texts in twentieth century philosophy.

Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography

DOWNLOADAncient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (Hardcover)by Ruth Morello, A. D. Morrison (Editors) The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on

Jacques Derrida - The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

DOWNLOADThe Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably. What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it

Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia

DOWNLOADEuripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia by Gary S. MeltzerBranded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the demise of Greek tragedy. Despite this reputation, his drama has a fundamentally conservative character. It conveys nostalgia for an idealized age that still respected the gods and

Harold Bloom - Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

DOWNLOADGenius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold BloomProduct DescriptionAmerica's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time.A monumental achievement of scholarship, GENIUS examines 100 of the most creative and literary minds in history.

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice

DOWNLOADDeconstruction: Theory and Practice (New Accents) by Christopher Norris In this third, revised edition, Norris builds upon his 1991 afterword with an entirely new postscript, reflecting upon recent critical debate. The postscript includes an extensive list of recommended reading, complementing what was already one of the most useful bibliographies available.

Deconstruction And Criticism

DOWNLOADDeconstruction And Criticism (Question What You Thought Before)by Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Harold Bloom, Paul De Man (Authors)This is the book that introduced deconstruction as a tool for literary and cultural theorists throughout the English-speaking world, and set the ball rolling for the subsequent controversies over the use of theory to study liuterature

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

DOWNLOADThe Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Steven Connor (Editor) Offering a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism, this Companion features examinations of the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include

Semiotics: The Basics

DOWNLOADSemiotics: The Basics by Dani Chandler This up-dated second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. With a revised introduction and glossary, extended index and suggestions for further reading, this new edition provides an increased number of examples including computer and mobile phone technology,

Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections

DOWNLOADMimesis and Its Romantic Reflections by Frederick Burwick In this study, Frederick Burwick probes the origins - philosophical, aesthetic and literary - of developing subjectivist mimesis in the literature and theory of the Romantic period. He draws on the theories of Aristotle, Kant, Schiller, Thomas De Quincey, and others.

Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism

DOWNLOADDesert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism by William Harmless In the fourth century, the deserts of Egypt became the nerve center of a radical new movement, what we now call monasticism. Groups of Christians-from illiterate peasants to learned intellectuals-moved out to the wastelands beyond the Nile Valley and, in the famous words of Saint Athanasius, made

Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature

DOWNLOADGale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature by Anne Marie Hacht This new 4-volume set covers world authors from many periods and genres, building a broad understanding of the various contexts in which literature can be viewed - from the biographical to the literary and historical.

Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

DOWNLOADKant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto EcoHow do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. Basing his ideas on common sense, Eco

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