English Mythography in Its European Context, 1500-1650
ISBN: 9780198807704 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were indispensable tools of literary engagement during the European Renaissance. This volume focuses on neglected English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647, revealing a unique English take on the genre and unfolding the significant role myth played in broader culture.
Mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were indispensable tools of literary engagement during the European Renaissance. This v...
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Thomas Browne: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780198797654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1018 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). The edition introduces students to one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging of writers in Renaissance England and includes an Introduction and full commentary notes.
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605...
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Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800
ISBN: 9780198705574 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an edition of over 300 never-before-printed English translations of ancient Greek and Latin verse, selected from the surviving manuscripts of a 200-year period. They reveal a far broader, deeper, and richer culture of classical translation than previously apparent, with radical implications for classical reception and literary history.
This is an edition of over 300 never-before-printed English translations of ancient Greek and Latin verse, selected from the surviving manuscripts of ...
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Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne
ISBN: 9780198814078 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines how literature was central to the debates about royal succession and political culture of the early eighteenth century. It reshapes our understanding of writers such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison, as well as our understanding of political, literary, and material cultures of the time.
This volume examines how literature was central to the debates about royal succession and political culture of the early eighteenth century. It reshap...
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Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780198704102 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary r...
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The Autos Sacramentales of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Natural Philosophy and Sacramental Theology
ISBN: 9780198816829 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume surveys the work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America. Focussing on her three religious plays, it analyses the role of early scientific ideas in her literary works.
This volume surveys the work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America....
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Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
ISBN: 9780198816874 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers. The volume shows how late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space.
This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers....
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The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1791-1840
ISBN: 9780199658060 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second of two volumes of The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Presenting all of her journal and diary entries written between 1791 and 1840 that were not included in the series of later journals, the volume completes the modern editing of Burney's surviving journals and letters.
This is the second of two volumes of The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Presenting all of her journal and diary entries written be...
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Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625
ISBN: 9780198812487 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bible was read across a variety of writers and genres.
This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bib...
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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism
ISBN: 9780199660896 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries. All the major Romantic writers are covered alongside lesser known writers.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its...
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The Works of Henry Vaughan: Introduction and Texts 1646-1652; Texts 1654-1678, Letters, & Medical Marginalia; Commentaries and Bibliography
ISBN: 9780198726234 / Angielski / Twarda / 1616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first newly prepared, complete edition of Henry Vaughan's poetry and prose for over a century. It includes a biography of Vaughan, a substantial history of developments in scholarship, and bibliographical descriptions of each of the volumes published in the author's lifetime. The texts reproduce original spelling and punctuation.
This is the first newly prepared, complete edition of Henry Vaughan's poetry and prose for over a century. It includes a biography of Vaughan, a subst...
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The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan
ISBN: 9780199581306 / Angielski / Twarda / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook brings together thirty-eight original essays on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. The chapters span Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress.
This Handbook brings together thirty-eight original essays on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. The chapters spa...
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Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
ISBN: 9781501716911 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create...
In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to esta...
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275,44 zł |
Manuscript Matters: Reading John Donne's Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780198821861 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manuscript Matters explores seventeenth-century responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts including his religious and satiric poetry and his prose paradoxes and problems.
Manuscript Matters explores seventeenth-century responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts including his religious and satiric poetry and hi...
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395,25 zł |
Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England
ISBN: 9780812251296 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635
ISBN: 9780812250824 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Descartes's Fictions: Reading Philosophy with Poetics
ISBN: 9780198831891 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the figures of Guez de Balzac and...
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's wri...
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The early Spenser, 1554-80: Minde on honour fixed'
ISBN: 9781526142580 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brink shows that Spenser began as the protege of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .
Brink shows that Spenser began as the protege of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transi...
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Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780812251524 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Staging Doubt
ISBN: 9783110660555 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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559,98 zł |