Les propos spectacle

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 20
• Ce volume étend à l'analyse du texte théâtral et du spectacle une théorie pragmatique centrée sur la parole et les silences interactionnels. Les répli... Lees meer

The Tournament and Literature

Mary Arlene Santina

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 49
• Beautiful ladies, dashing chevaliers , injuries, and death; how were these part of the literary tournament? This schematic analysis examines these and... Lees meer

Rhyme in Gace Brulé's Lyric

Susan Becam

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 34
• Bécam's study of rhyme repetition corroborates evidence that courtly love songs share common features, but also demonstrates that Gace Brulé re-create... Lees meer

Hero-Ego in Search of Self

Judy Anne White

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 26
• In Hero-Ego in Search of Self , Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf . Building upon... Lees meer

Perun

Mark Yoffe, Joseph Krafczik

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 43
• The fame of nineteenth-century Russian folklorist Aleksandr Afanas'ev is primarily based upon his work as a collector and editor of Russian folk tales... Lees meer

The Myth of the Reine Margot

Robert Sealy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 15
• The Divorce Satyrique is an anonymous biographical sketch of Marguerite de Valois. Although a proclaimed satire, the document was accepted as historic... Lees meer

Two Natures Met

Jeannie Sargent Judge

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 65
• Two Natures Met addresses the spiritual conflicts depicted in George Herbert's The Temple from the perspective of Herbert's engagement with the myster... Lees meer

Suicide in French Thought from Montesquieu to Cioran

Zilla Gabrielle Cahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 41
• Suicide stems in large part from the human condition and, as such, is not a problem that can be solved. Former draconian and punitive laws against it ... Lees meer

Rhetorical Subversion in Early English Drama

Douglas W Hayes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 64
• This book centers on the uses and abuses of language in early English drama. It examines a number of plays alongside classical and sixteenth-century r... Lees meer

De proies et d'ombres

Nadine Bordessoule-Gilliéron

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 31
• Cette étude souligne le lien entre l'imaginaire de la chasse et sa pratique sociale. D'une part, les poètes tracent de nouvelles voies vers l'assertio... Lees meer

«Le Roman de Jaufre»

Nikki L Kaltenbach

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 30
• The thirteenth-century Occitan narrative, Le Roman de Jaufre , is a complex work. While on the surface it is a parody of Arthurian romances, it also c... Lees meer

Understanding Plague

Randal P Garza

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 68
• The outbreak of the plague in 1347, commonly referred to as the Black Death, was the source of numerous socio-economic changes in the later Middle Age... Lees meer

Language and Human Action

Richard A Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 12
• Certainly the most elaborate single extant monument of Renaissance French prose literature, Michel de Montaigne's Essais presents a subject matter tha... Lees meer

Petrarca Y Alvar Gómez

Roxana Recio

• Hardcover | Spaans | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 28
• La traducción de principios del siglo XVI realizada por Alvar Gómez de Ciudad Real alcanzó notable difusión en su tiempo, pero la crítica moderna no l... Lees meer

Montaigne

Pierre Leschemelle, William J Beck

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 18
• Pierre Leschemelle's third book of criticism of Montaigne is clearly a synthesis of his many years of reading, writing and speaking about the essayist... Lees meer

Unsung Women

Carol Nappholz

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 13
• Many poems of the women troubadours, or trobairitz as they are more commonly called, are known to have been lost or destroyed. But more may have survi... Lees meer

La chanson de Croissant en prose du XVe siècle

• Paperback | Frans | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 57
• Cette édition critique du remaniement en prose de la chanson de Croissant est fondée sur le texte de tous les imprimés antérieurs à 1550 qui sont au n... Lees meer

Beasts of Time

Edward Risden

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 8
• Over time the reputation of Beowulf as a poem continues to rise. Extant in only one manuscript, yet perhaps the most studied of English poems, it repr... Lees meer

Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night

N Grace Aaron

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 66
• Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night is a comprehensive appraisal of the traditional critical perspectives of mystici... Lees meer

Prophet Margins

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 67
• While poets have traditionally inhabited cultural margins, prophets have brought poetic language to the center of cultural debate, not foretelling the... Lees meer

Le Huon de Bordeaux en prose du XVe siècle

• Paperback | Frans | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 27
• Il existe en ancien et en moyen français trois versions de cette oeuvre : une version en vers héroïques de 1216, une version en vers dodécasyllabiques... Lees meer

Chaucer's «Troilus and Criseyde»

Helen Ruth Andretta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 29
• Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde invites philosophical speculation because of its Boethian and nominalist elements. This study comprehensively ... Lees meer

Market Pledge and Gender Bargain

Sharon Collingwood

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 23
• Although commercial activity is frequent in the Farce, little work has been done on the economic elements of this bourgeois genre. This study uses a k... Lees meer

Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail

Kathryn Karczewska

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the Humanities | nr. 37
• The Holy Grail is one of the most enduring of medieval symbols, exercising a profound fascination on the imagination even to this day. This study reco... Lees meer