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University of London Press Freethinkers Libertines and Schwärmer
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University of London Press The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos
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University of London Press Terrorism Italian Style
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University of London Press Word on the Street
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£25.64
University of London Press Writing and Muslim Identity
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University of London Press A Critical Encounter
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£28.49
Liverpool University Press Calderon The Painter of his Dishonour El pintor
Book SynopsisAlan Paterson presents Calderon's original text, from manuscript and printed sources, with a skilful verse translation into English of a remarkable play, in which Calderon develops the motif of marital honour in quite original ways.Table of Contents Bibliography of Cited Refernces Preface Introduction: I. Date and performance II. A plot summary III. The play IV. The Spanish text El Pintor de su deshonra - The Painter of his Dishonour Commentary on the play Text variants.
£24.99
Liverpool University Press Calderon Love is no laughing matter Aris
Book SynopsisAlthough Calderón's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his contemporaries in terms of plot structure and technical expertise; they also explore contemporary issues to an extent which has not been appreciated.Table of Contents Introduction I. Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) II. Calderon and the comic conventions of the Golden Age III. The precieuse ridicule and the Burador burlador IV. Staging V. Date and textual history of No hay burlas con el amor VI. Metre Select bibliography and abbreviations Play and commentary Act I -Jornada Primera Act II -Jornada Segunda Act III -Jornada Tercera Editorial emendations
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Liverpool University Press Christians and Moors in Spain Vol 2 Latin
Book SynopsisThe two previous volumes draw a fascinating picture of the confrontation between the Christians and Moors in Spain from the Christian side. This volume attempts to redress the balance by describing many of the same incidents from the Muslims' point of view.
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Liverpool University Press Buero Vallejo A Dreamer for the People Aris
Book SynopsisBuero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Antonio Buero Vallejo: a sense of balance Historical theatre and Un sonador para un pueblo The motin de Esquilache: re-ordering the evidence Public history, private dramas: the creation of character Whose history? Differences of interpretation "Ese eres tu": The spirit of tragedy A DREAMER FOR THE PEOPLE-Un sonador para un pueblo El decorado - The set Parte Primera - Part one Parte Segunda - Part two Notes to the play Illustrations
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Liverpool University Press Three Discovery Plays Auto Da Barca Do Inferno
Book SynopsisThe three plays edited and translated in this volume are strongly linked to what we now think of as the Portuguese Discoveries. All three are fundamentally concerned with the expansion of Portugal in Africa and India through either crusade or commerce.Trade ReviewLappins editions and translations satisfy various needs, those of the student of European drama, the comparativist and, naturally, the specialist in Portugese literature.'Table of Contents Acknowledgements Auto da Barca do Inferno Introduction Text and translation Notes Auto da India Introduction Text and translation Notes Exortacao da Guerra Introduction Text and translation Notes Abbreviations Bibliography A brief guide to pronunciation
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Liverpool University Press Cervantes The Complete Exemplary Novels Novelas
Book SynopsisOriginally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes.Table of Contents General Introduction Life and work The composition of the Exemplary novels Harmless entertainment Exemplarity Hidden mystery This edition Select Bibliography Lady Cornelia (La senora Cornelia) Introduction Text and translation The deceitful marrigae (El casamiento enganoso) and The dialogue of the dogs (El coloquio de los perros) Introduction Text and translation Notes to the stories Lady Cornelia The decietful marriage The dialogue of the dogs Map of Spain in the sixtheen century.
£104.02
Liverpool University Press The Physician of His Honour El Medico De Su Honra
Book SynopsisOne of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350¡1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives.Table of Contents Revisited Introduction The playwright The comedia The drama de honour Structure Characters The metaphor Historical Contexts and responses Staging and setting Translating and edited calderon The edition A word on the second edition Acknowledgement bibliography El medico de su honra- The Physician of His Honour Primera Jornada - Act One Segunda Jornada - Act Two Tercera Jornada - Act Three Appendix:Honor and Honra in The Physician of His Honour
£25.29
Liverpool University Press BarojaThe Road to Perfection Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisThe Road to Perfection (Camino de Perfección) was written in 1901 and published the following year. It marked a pivotal point in Pío Baroja's development as a writer and thinker. It tells the story of Fernando Ossorio, a young man who makes a spiritual and physical journey through parts of central Spain.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Select Bibliography The text and its varients Camino de Perfeccion/Road to Perfection Notes
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Liverpool University Press Galdos Dona Perfecta
Book SynopsisBenito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain.Trade ReviewWhittaker provides a smooth translation (this is a facing-page bilingual edition) and a comprehensive, insightful introduction. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.'Table of Contents Introduction: Themes Characters Galdós and the contemporary novel Translation Chronology: Galdós and his epoch Bibliographic note Bibliography Doña Perfecta Notes
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Liverpool University Press Galdos Dona Perfecta Hispanic Classics Aris
Book SynopsisBenito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain.Trade ReviewWhittaker provides a smooth translation (this is a facing-page bilingual edition) and a comprehensive, insightful introduction. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.'Table of Contents Introduction: Themes Characters Galdós and the contemporary novel Translation Chronology: Galdós and his epoch Bibliographic note Bibliography Doña Perfecta Notes
£104.02
Liverpool University Press Calderon Lifes A Dream Aris Phillips Hispanic
Book Synopsis"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams.
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns
Book SynopsisA collection of twenty Burns songs, scribed in calligraphy and decorated with watercolours of the flowers and grasses which inspired him. The songs include "Ae Fond Kiss" "Afton Water" and "Auld Lang Syne". The author's careful research and dedicated craftsmanship have produced a book no true lover of Burns can resist.Trade ReviewLoving calligraphy and watercolour sketches are used to illustrate the greatest Burns songs. The book has a pastoral, handwrought labour of love feel to it. THE SCOTSMAN In watercolour and calligraphy, this presentation of 'Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns' is delicate and sensitive, the realisation of a dream conceived in youth...' SCOTTISH BOOK COLLECTOR
£18.95
Quercus Publishing The Book of Legendary Lands
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages.Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our time Los Angeles Times From the epic poems of Homer to contemporary science fiction, from the Holy Scriptures to modern mythology and fairy tale, literature and art are full of illusory places we have at some time believed are real, and onto which we have projected our dreams, ideals and fears. Umberto Eco leads us on an illuminating journey through these legendary lands - Atlantis, Thule and Hyperborea, the Earth''s interior and the Land of Cockaigne - and explores utopias and dystopias where our imagination can confront concepts that are too incredible, or too challenging, for our limited real world. In The Book of Legendary Lands the author''s text is accompTrade ReviewEco's book is a reminder that writers and readers once travelled widely and magnificently, without ever leaving their homes or their heads, to places that retained their truth in our imaginations long after mundane reality overtook them. * The Times *It was love at first sight, What a stunning, great explosion of colour! Wonderful. * Big Issue in Scotland *Prolonged scrutiny of such seductive utopias would turn anyone into a believer. * Radar, The Independent *Presented by Eco in light and witty prose, these legendary places are made more vivid by many well-chosen illustrations and historic texts. * New Statesman *Eco is our witty and erudite travel guide through these fantastical and theoretical worlds. * Catholic Herald *You'll soon realise that the same sparkling intelligence that characterises Eco's "serious" writing is also at work here. * Times Literary Supplement *Placing ancient and medieval texts beside contemporary stories, films beside poems, comics beside novels, it is a journey that is both erudite and enjoyable, and one that only Eco could have created. * PSYCHIC *
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Quercus Publishing Bookshops
Book SynopsisA lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can''t travel right now, but we can travel in books. MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books. A bookshop in Carrion''s eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people and their ideas, a setting for world changing en
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Oldcastle Books Ltd Crime Fiction A Readers Guide
Book SynopsisAre you a lover of crime fiction looking for new discoveries or hoping to rediscover old favourites?Then look no further. There are few contemporary crime fiction guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from America, Britain and all across the world, but the award-winning Barry...Trade ReviewEssential reading for anyone seeking clues * Guardian *This guided meander through the field of crime fiction offers many pleasures of surprise and discovery -- Emma Kareno * Times Literary Supplement *Essentially a crime writing equivalent to the much-missed Halliwell's Film Guide and all the better for it -- Sarah Hughes * i news *Forshaw's magnum opus... a work to savor * The Rap Sheet *This is a feast of a book, full of nourishment and spice -- Natasha Cooper * Literary Review *
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Seagull Books London Ltd Readings
Book SynopsisThroughout her distinguished career, the author has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. In this book, she elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations.Trade Review"A celebrity in academia... [Spivak] creates a stir wherever she goes." (New York Times)"
£19.47
Seagull Books London Ltd Suspended Passion
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Book of Sleep
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states-metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence-be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity. My concern was not to create a literary product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as a methodology for thinking, El Wardany explains. In this volume, sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape a question. The Book of Sleep is a generous and generative attempt to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities and constrictions.
£12.34
University of Exeter Press Dynamis Ed Jean Rohou
Book SynopsisRohou interprets Dynamis as an orthodox tragi-comedy that reflects both the political concerns of the late 1640s and the developments in dramaturgy which had taken place over the previous decade or so. Rohou is most helpful in pointing out, in footnotes and a brief glossary, differences between Du Ryer's language and modern usage.Trade Review Table of ContentsFrontispice Introduction Bibliographie Dynamis Glossaire
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University of Exeter Press Mustapha Et Zeangir Exeter French Texts
Book SynopsisAn historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.Trade Review Table of ContentsFrontispice, II; Introduction, VII; Bibliographie sommaire, XXIII; Mustapha et Zeangir; Notes, 71.
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University of Exeter Press Topographical Writers In SouthWest England Exeter
Book SynopsisA collection of original essays by distinguished historians on the works of topographical writers who described and recorded the landscape of South-West England in the period c. 1540-1900.Trade Review "This book is primarily for historians, and will be an important addition to local-studies libraries in the South West. Furthermore, it will be of interest to historical geographers. In his introduction, Brayshay describes the works of South West topographers as "eclectic, whimsical, sometime cryptic but always devoted". Perhaps this description would apply equally well to this thoroughly readable selection of essays." (The Geographical Journal, 1998) "The scope of the volume is quite broad, and . . . the authors are all acknowledged authorities on their subjects and regions, and taken together they present a comprehensive and detailed picture of the topographical descriptions of south-west England from about 1539 (Leland's first tour) to the late nineteenth century . . . This volume deserves to be on the shelf of all those who are interested in the history of southwestern England, and its moderate price is a further recommendation." (Agricultural History Review, Vol. 45, No. II) "The value of this informative and absorbing book is enhanced by the list (compiled by Ian Maxted and the editor) of works on the topography of the region, a contribution which fittingly concludes a volume which deserves a readership far beyond the west country." (History, Volume 83, No. 269, January 1998) ". . . the volume firmly sets both the county survey and the development of a more scientific approach to landscape in their historical setting, and should be on the shelves of anyone whose research includes the South West." (Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997) Table of ContentsContents: John Leland's itinerary in south-west England in 1542, John Chandler; the Devon and Cornwall topographers, Joyce Youings; the antiquarian and topographical writings of Lysons, Malcolm Todd; Somerset topographical writers, 1700-1900, Robert Dunning; Dorset antiquarian and topographical writers, J.H. Betty; the scientific gaze - agriculture improvers and the topography of south-west England, Sarah Wilmot.
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University of Exeter Press Stendhals Italy Themes of Political and Religious
Book SynopsisThe essential thrust of this book is an examination of the origins and development of the satirical element of Stendal's writing in Italy, which culminates with the creation of what many critics consider to be his finest achievement, the novel La Chartreuse de Parme.Trade Review ". . . The work as a whole becomes a kind of Resistance text containing - to pursue the author's comparison - a contrebande message for its contemporary reader, an exhortation to consider the impact of political and spiritual repression not just in Italy but in Europe generally. The links with earlier works, through which Stendhal's view of Italy has already been traced with considerable firmness and cogency, are constantly kept in play and the satirical content of La Chartreuse is thereby restated and reinforced." (Journal of European Studies) Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press The West Country as a Literary Invention Putting
Book SynopsisIs the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing.Trade Review “Trezise convincingly demonstrates with clarity and in painstaking detail that certain authors were highly influential in creating the perception of a West Country that has held sway since Victorian times and in contributing to a sense of region and place . . . a bonus is provided in the numerous entertaining and informative digressions from the central purpose of the book.” (The Devon Historian, Vol. 63, Oct 2001) “This book is a valuable contribution to topoliterary studies and the social history of the region.” (The Totnes Historian, No. 4, 2001/02) “Eight meaty chapters . . . a tour de force of scholarly research . . . I do seriously recommend this book.” (The Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society Newsletter, No 35, 2001) “An exhaustive account . . . probably the most comprehensive single account of the development of the cinema in the nineteenth century.” (Sight and Sound, February 2001) “At last we have a well-crafted critical volume which considers the construction of the “West Country” in literature . . . His research is very thorough in each of the writers considered—so much so that this work is likely to be the definitive regional assessment of these works for some time to come . . . Throughout this brilliant volume Trezise has reassessed many of the classic texts and writers whom we associate with the region. This book has been long overdue. Its research and readability—not to mention its innovation in dealing with a neglected literary landscape—make it one of the essential purchases of the new millennium.” (Cornish History Network Newsletter, December 2000, Issue 9) “A penetrating and challenging examination of the effect of certain landscapes on several writers of eminence and significance, and of the subsequent (and often unforeseen and unintended) effect of these writers on the very landscapes of which they write . . . Simon Trezise’s book will cause us to re-examine some old and favourite authors in a new light.” (Western Morning News, Nov 7, 2000) “The literary and topographical range of this study is comprehensive. Six essays, each devoted to a West Country author, take us from Thomas Hardy at Egdon Heath to Virginia Woolf contemplating the Godrevy Lighthouse . . . Sabine Baring-Gould is summarized as “the amanuensis of West Country people”, and on the evidence of this book, the same could be said of Simon Trezise.” (Times Literary Supplement, December 1, 2000) “Fascinating . . . this is a densely-packed book, animated by enthusiasm and buttressed by meticulous research.” (New Welsh Review, Spring 2001, No 52, 82-3) Table of ContentsContents: Keywords - region, topography, provincial, landscape, chronotope; Parson Hawker's Inventions - Trelawney, Cruel Coppinger and the Cornish King Arthur; Westward Ho! or Charles Kingsley's inventions - Elizabethans viewed through Victorian spectacles; tales from the telling house - the many authors of Lorna Doone; from the West Country into Wessex - Thomas Hardy; Sabine Baring-Gould - novels and folk songs of Devon and Cornwall; conclusion - from the Victorians to the 20th century.
£71.25
University of Exeter Press The West Country As A Literary Invention Putting
Book SynopsisIs the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing.Trade Review “Trezise convincingly demonstrates with clarity and in painstaking detail that certain authors were highly influential in creating the perception of a West Country that has held sway since Victorian times and in contributing to a sense of region and place . . . a bonus is provided in the numerous entertaining and informative digressions from the central purpose of the book.” (The Devon Historian, Vol. 63, Oct 2001) “This book is a valuable contribution to topoliterary studies and the social history of the region.” (The Totnes Historian, No. 4, 2001/02) “Eight meaty chapters . . . a tour de force of scholarly research . . . I do seriously recommend this book.” (The Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society Newsletter, No 35, 2001) “An exhaustive account . . . probably the most comprehensive single account of the development of the cinema in the nineteenth century.” (Sight and Sound, February 2001) “At last we have a well-crafted critical volume which considers the construction of the “West Country” in literature . . . His research is very thorough in each of the writers considered—so much so that this work is likely to be the definitive regional assessment of these works for some time to come . . . Throughout this brilliant volume Trezise has reassessed many of the classic texts and writers whom we associate with the region. This book has been long overdue. Its research and readability—not to mention its innovation in dealing with a neglected literary landscape—make it one of the essential purchases of the new millennium.” (Cornish History Network Newsletter, December 2000, Issue 9) “A penetrating and challenging examination of the effect of certain landscapes on several writers of eminence and significance, and of the subsequent (and often unforeseen and unintended) effect of these writers on the very landscapes of which they write . . . Simon Trezise’s book will cause us to re-examine some old and favourite authors in a new light.” (Western Morning News, Nov 7, 2000) “The literary and topographical range of this study is comprehensive. Six essays, each devoted to a West Country author, take us from Thomas Hardy at Egdon Heath to Virginia Woolf contemplating the Godrevy Lighthouse . . . Sabine Baring-Gould is summarized as “the amanuensis of West Country people”, and on the evidence of this book, the same could be said of Simon Trezise.” (Times Literary Supplement, December 1, 2000) “Fascinating . . . this is a densely-packed book, animated by enthusiasm and buttressed by meticulous research.” (New Welsh Review, Spring 2001, No 52, 82-3) Table of ContentsContents: Keywords - region, topography, provincial, landscape, chronotope; Parson Hawker's Inventions - Trelawney, Cruel Coppinger and the Cornish King Arthur; Westward Ho! or Charles Kingsley's inventions - Elizabethans viewed through Victorian spectacles; tales from the telling house - the many authors of Lorna Doone; from the West Country into Wessex - Thomas Hardy; Sabine Baring-Gould - novels and folk songs of Devon and Cornwall; conclusion - from the Victorians to the 20th century.
£17.50
University of Exeter Press Les Tromperies Exeter French Texts Pierre de
Book SynopsisPierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific writers of comedy in the sixteenth century. Les Tromperies formed part of the second collection of adaptations written by Lavirey.Trade Review “This volume brings to one hundred the number of texts published by Exeter University Press in the highly regarded Textes Littéraires series edited by Keith Cameron. Well produced and attractively presented, this modern edition of Pierre de Larivey’s Les Tromperies is in all respects a worthy successor to the other volumes in the series.” (Modern Literary Review, Volume 96 No. 3, 2001) “This well-presented and informative edition contains one of the nine plays the prolific Larivey adapted from an Italian original . . . [and] with its concisely formulated scholarship provides a very useful insight into Italian and French Renaissance comedy.” (French Studies, Issue LIV No. 3, 2000) Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press New Directions In Celtic Studies SouthWest
Book SynopsisThe primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings together in one volume a wide range of perspectives.Trade Review "This volume will be of interest to the local historian for a number of reasons. Firstly, for the way in which the authors break out of the antiquarian mind-set with which Celtic scholars have, perhaps unfairly, been associated. Next, because of the way in which they represent Celticity and Cornishness as something for which people have an affinity, regardless of their ethnic origins . . . Finally, they remind local historians that, in researching the past, they are also re-defining the present and helping to re-shape the culture and identity of the future." The journal of the Cornwall Association of Local Historians, Spring 2001 Table of ContentsContents: Part 1 Popular culture, representation and Celtic "lifestyles": reading the record bins, Shannon Thornton; stone circles and tables round - representing the Celts in film and television, Leslie Jones; pre-packaged Breton folk narrative, Antone Minard; contemporary Celtic spirituality, Marion Bowman. Part 2 The Celtic diaspora: pagans, pipers and politicos -constructing Celtic identity in a festival context, Amy Hale and Shannon Thornton; the Celtic revival in Australia, Philip Payton; creative ethnicity - one man's invention of Celtic identity, Deborah Curtis. Part 3 Celtic praxis: provision of Manx language -tuition in schools in the Isle of Man, Brian Stowell; the Gaelic economy, Roy Pedersen; rural tourism and identity in Western Ireland and Brittany, Moya Kneafsey; conclusion, Colin H. Williams.
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University of Exeter Press New Directions in Celtic Studies SouthWest
Book SynopsisThe primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings together in one volume a wide range of perspectives.Trade Review "This volume will be of interest to the local historian for a number of reasons. Firstly, for the way in which the authors break out of the antiquarian mind-set with which Celtic scholars have, perhaps unfairly, been associated. Next, because of the way in which they represent Celticity and Cornishness as something for which people have an affinity, regardless of their ethnic origins . . . Finally, they remind local historians that, in researching the past, they are also re-defining the present and helping to re-shape the culture and identity of the future." The journal of the Cornwall Association of Local Historians, Spring 2001 Table of ContentsContents: Part 1 Popular culture, representation and Celtic "lifestyles": reading the record bins, Shannon Thornton; stone circles and tables round - representing the Celts in film and television, Leslie Jones; pre-packaged Breton folk narrative, Antone Minard; contemporary Celtic spirituality, Marion Bowman. Part 2 The Celtic diaspora: pagans, pipers and politicos -constructing Celtic identity in a festival context, Amy Hale and Shannon Thornton; the Celtic revival in Australia, Philip Payton; creative ethnicity - one man's invention of Celtic identity, Deborah Curtis. Part 3 Celtic praxis: provision of Manx language -tuition in schools in the Isle of Man, Brian Stowell; the Gaelic economy, Roy Pedersen; rural tourism and identity in Western Ireland and Brittany, Moya Kneafsey; conclusion, Colin H. Williams.
£71.25
University of Exeter Press Le Comte dEssex Exeter French Texts CX
Book SynopsisThis is a volume in the series Textes litteraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has traversed four centuries.Trade Review 'Wendy Gibson has provided a clear and helpful Introduction, . . . Her annotations and footnotes are both erudite and illuminating.' (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 24 No 1, 2003) Table of ContentsFrontispice Introduction Le Texte Bibliographie Le Comte D'Essex; Au Lecteur Extrait du Privilege du Roy Acteurs Acte premier Acte II Acte III Acte IV Acte V Notes
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University of Exeter Press From Goethe to Gide Feminism Aesthetics and the
Book SynopsisFrom Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide.Trade Review Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors Introduction 1. Errant Strivings: Goethe, Faust and the Feminist Reader, Gail K. Hart 2. Hospitality and Sexual Difference in Rousseau's Confessions, Judith Still 3. Gender and Genre: Schiller's Drama and Aesthetics, Lesley Sharpe 4. Male Foibles, Female Critique and Narrative Capriciousness: On the Function of Gender in Conceptions of Art and Subjectivity in E.T.A., Hoffmann Ricarda Schmidt 5. Varieties of Female Agency in Stendhal, Ann Jefferson 6. Heine's 'Madchen und Frauen': Women and Emancipation in the Writings of Heinrich Heine, Robert C. Holub 7. Mundus Muliebris: Baudelaire's World of Women, Rosemary Lloyd 8. Flaubert's Cautionary Tales and the Art of the Absolute Mary Orr, Patricia Howe 9. Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History, Jann Matlock 10. Karl Rossmann, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up: The Flight from Manhood in Kafka's Der Verschollene, Elizabeth Boa 11. Andre Gide and the Making of the Perfect Child, Naomi Segal Postscript Notes Bibliography of Secondary Literature 1. General Works 2. Works on Specific Authors Index
£71.25
University of Exeter Press From Goethe To Gide Feminism Aesthetics and the
Book SynopsisFrom Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide.Trade Review Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors Introduction 1. Errant Strivings: Goethe, Faust and the Feminist Reader, Gail K. Hart 2. Hospitality and Sexual Difference in Rousseau's Confessions, Judith Still 3. Gender and Genre: Schiller's Drama and Aesthetics, Lesley Sharpe 4. Male Foibles, Female Critique and Narrative Capriciousness: On the Function of Gender in Conceptions of Art and Subjectivity in E.T.A., Hoffmann Ricarda Schmidt 5. Varieties of Female Agency in Stendhal, Ann Jefferson 6. Heine's 'Madchen und Frauen': Women and Emancipation in the Writings of Heinrich Heine, Robert C. Holub 7. Mundus Muliebris: Baudelaire's World of Women, Rosemary Lloyd 8. Flaubert's Cautionary Tales and the Art of the Absolute Mary Orr, Patricia Howe 9. Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History, Jann Matlock 10. Karl Rossmann, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up: The Flight from Manhood in Kafka's Der Verschollene, Elizabeth Boa 11. Andre Gide and the Making of the Perfect Child, Naomi Segal Postscript Notes Bibliography of Secondary Literature 1. General Works 2. Works on Specific Authors Index
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University of Exeter Press John Betjeman and Cornwall The Celebrated
Book SynopsisQuintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition.Trade Review 'In time, perhaps, books about Betjeman will be as frequent as books about [T.S.] Eliot, if less solemn.' William Plomer, writing in the Guardian, 7 April 1961 'I was one of the 8,000-strong 'Betjemaniacs' gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate. Situated high above Polzeath, with tremendous views out to the azure Atlantic and the great headland of Pentire, Carruan was, with its exhilarating sense of space, an inspirational choice for this great event. I stood in the pasty-queue with the Archbishop of Canterbury, watched the poetic performance of Bert Biscoe, and browsed among the bookstalls in the hope of finding second-hand copies of rare Betjeman books to add to my collection. Here was that Patrick Taylor-Martin volume that had eluded me for years, and Betjeman's Britain - compiled by Candida Lycett Green, Betjeman's daughter - together with more recent editions of old favourites.' Philip Payton, in the preface to John Betjeman and Cornwall 'All Betjeman addicts should add this to their Christmas list.' The Betjeman Society Newsletter, Dec 2010, No. 80 ‘Payton’s masterful new book’ ‘John Betjeman and Cornwall is a brilliant assessment of Betjeman’s Cornish imagination and an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly re-evaluation of Betjeman.’ English Studies 93.1, February 2012 ‘…as meticulously researched and documented as we have come to expect’ ‘Betjeman remains endearing and elusive- and challenging. It is the value of Prof. Payton’s scholarly book that he extends our perspectives and expands the debate.’ Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Volume XL- Part IX, Spring 2011, John Hurst Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Preamble: 'The Sky Widens to a Sense of Cornwall' 1. 'That Bold Coast-line Where he was Not Born': John Betjeman as 'foreigner' 2. 'Into Betjemanland': Imagining North Cornwall 3. 'The Oldest Part of Cornwall': Hawker, Baring-Gould and 'Betjeman Country' 4. 'Caverns of Light revealed the Holy Grail': Betjeman and The Secret Glory 5. 'A Longing for Ireland': Sean O'Betjeman and the 'Anglo-Celtic Muse' 6. 'I'm Free! I'm Free!': Cornwall as Liberation 7. 'Jan Trebetjeman, The Cornish Clot': John Betjeman Goes Native Epilogue: 'When People talk to me about "The British"...I Give Up' Notes Further Reading Index
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University of Exeter Press John Betjeman and Cornwall The Celebrated Cornish
Book SynopsisQuintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of ‘Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Trade Review 'In time, perhaps, books about Betjeman will be as frequent as books about [T.S.] Eliot, if less solemn.' William Plomer, writing in the Guardian, 7 April 1961 'I was one of the 8,000-strong 'Betjemaniacs' gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate. Situated high above Polzeath, with tremendous views out to the azure Atlantic and the great headland of Pentire, Carruan was, with its exhilarating sense of space, an inspirational choice for this great event. I stood in the pasty-queue with the Archbishop of Canterbury, watched the poetic performance of Bert Biscoe, and browsed among the bookstalls in the hope of finding second-hand copies of rare Betjeman books to add to my collection. Here was that Patrick Taylor-Martin volume that had eluded me for years, and Betjeman's Britain - compiled by Candida Lycett Green, Betjeman's daughter - together with more recent editions of old favourites.' Philip Payton, in the preface to John Betjeman and Cornwall 'All Betjeman addicts should add this to their Christmas list.' The Betjeman Society Newsletter, Dec 2010, No. 80 ‘Payton’s masterful new book’ ‘John Betjeman and Cornwall is a brilliant assessment of Betjeman’s Cornish imagination and an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly re-evaluation of Betjeman.’ English Studies 93.1, February 2012 ‘…as meticulously researched and documented as we have come to expect’ ‘Betjeman remains endearing and elusive- and challenging. It is the value of Prof. Payton’s scholarly book that he extends our perspectives and expands the debate.’ Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Volume XL- Part IX, Spring 2011, John Hurst Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Preamble: 'The Sky Widens to a Sense of Cornwall' 1. 'That Bold Coast-line Where he was Not Born': John Betjeman as 'foreigner' 2. 'Into Betjemanland': Imagining North Cornwall 3. 'The Oldest Part of Cornwall': Hawker, Baring-Gould and 'Betjeman Country' 4. 'Caverns of Light revealed the Holy Grail': Betjeman and The Secret Glory 5. 'A Longing for Ireland': Sean O'Betjeman and the 'Anglo-Celtic Muse' 6. 'I'm Free! I'm Free!': Cornwall as Liberation 7. 'Jan Trebetjeman, The Cornish Clot': John Betjeman Goes Native Epilogue: 'When People talk to me about "The British"...I Give Up' Notes Further Reading Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Alliterative Revival
Book SynopsisInformative study of the 14th-century revival of alliterative poetry which culminated in the major masterpieces of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Piers Plowman.The revival of alliterative poetry in the fourteenth century, which culminated in the major masterpieces of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Piers Plowman, poses many problems for the historians of literature. As a result, the poems have tended to be studied in isolation, and their poetic context and use of an established tradition have been largely ignored. This book assesses the alliterative revival as a poetic movement, and restores the poems to their literary context. In particular, it offers an evaluation of the obscure origins of the revival, and on the type of audience for whom the poems were intended.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Traditional Romance and Tale How Stories Mean
Book SynopsisThis stimulating and controversial book suggests an original approach to the study of traditional literature, focussing on medieval romance and on folktale [especially fairytale]. Although a number of new and striking interpretations of such stories are offered, the emphasis is on how they 'work' - how stories mean, rather than what individual stories mean. Dr Wilson observes that such stories have survived for many centuries, though they are conspicuously lacking in everyday logic. She argues that since the story-telling experience is one of re-creation and creation on the part of both story-teller and audience, and since the process of following the story demands imaginative identification of teller and audience with hero or heroine, then it is possible to examine the story from the protagonist's - and the audience's - own exploratory dream. Dr Wilson then discusses the magical and pictorial structures and processes of such stories. This is a literary study, relatively short, non-technical, highly condensed, richly suggestive. It concentrates on stories as artistic entities; psychological and psychoanalytical insights are subordinate to the literary aim. Although original, this book takes its place alongside much other work in related fields of literary, psychological, folklore, anthropological and sociological studies, which recognises the supreme imaginative significance of traditional stories and examines the multiple ways in which they convey meaning.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucers Language and the Philosophers Tradition
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to explore the various kinds of association found in Chaucer's lexical usage, and so to alert the reader to the wider implications of particular words and phrases. By concentrating on the `architecture' of the language, Dr Burnley offers what is in some respects an antidote to the skilled contextual glossing of the editor, whose activities may often obscure important connections. Such connections are vital to the interpretation of anywork as a whole, and awareness of them is what distinguishes the scholar from the student who can `translate' Chaucer perfectly adequately without being aware of deeper meanings. Even apparently simple words such as cruel, mercy and pity can often carry subtle echoes and overtones. Dr Burnley is particularly concerned with words which carry some conceptual association, and thus with moral stereotypes inherited from classical and earlymedieval philosophy, which formed the currency of both secular and religious ideals of conduct in the Middle Ages. His prime concern is to identify the themes and symbols and their characteristic language, and thus to provide a firm basis for critical investigation in Chaucer's literary use of this material.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Symbolic Stories Traditional Narratives of the
Book SynopsisAnalysis of the structure of traditional stories and fairytales, bringing out their shared characteristics, and showing why they remain so powerful and resonant today.Many famous stories, from the Old Testament, medieval romance and folktale, to Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies and even some great novels, present apparent inconsistencies or absurdities when judged as plausible representations of 'reality'. Yet the experience of many generations of readers and listeners is that such stories take a powerful hold on the imagination and memory, and create a strong impression on coherent significance. Symbolic Stories shows why the structure of these tales is so significant, and why they are repeated, both in the original and with variations, down the ages. Professor Brewer reveals new aspects of the stories themselves by elucidating the implicit and symbolic meanings that lie below the literal narrative. The stories discussed are those that are especially concerned with the processes of growing up and coming to maturity. They are told from the point of view of the emerging individual as he or she passes through the rites de passage that allow disengagement from parents, self-realisation, the establishment of new relationships, and integration with society. The bookdemonstrates certain characteristic themes and structures in these traditional stories, but is far from reducing them to a single formula. One of the main purposes is to show how selected stories of great artistic value establishtheir own individual meanings within the general pattern. There are new interpretations of the famous romances, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth, and of other romances. Shakespeare'sremarkable portrayals throughout his career of various aspects of the family drama are discussed, and the essence of a new theory of tragedy and comedy is suggested. The extreme type of traditional story in Europe is seen as the fairy tale, which is analysed to show how fundamentally such narrative differs from the novel, but Mansfield Park and Great Expectations are explored in detail to show their equivocal relationships to the tradition. The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the structure of narrative, whether from the point of view of literature, psychology or folklore. The late Professor Derek Brewer was Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge and Reader in Medieval English Literature in the University of Cambridge. He published numerous books and articles, especially on Chaucer, but on all periods of English literature.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Aspects of Malory
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory, an author who has always been enjoyed by the common reader, but is still sometimes underestimated by the critics. Despite an increasing number of articles onMalory, there is a need for a general survey of recent research, which Aspects of Malory provides. The volume opens with a note by the late Professor Vinaver on Malory's prose, and three essays on Malory's Englishness andhis English sources, including an essay by P. J. C. Field which argues for an English rather than a French origin for the Tale of Gareth. This is followed by two essays on Malory's French sources, by Jill Mann and Mary Hynes-Berry. Terence McCarthy re-exasmines the sequence of the tales, and three further essays look at the scribal and textual tradition of Malory's work, in particular the relationship between the Winchester MS, Caxton's printed version, and the history of the MS. Finally, Richard R. Griffith reconsiders the authorship question, and proposes a long-forgotten Thomas Malory as the most likely candidate. There is a bibliography of recent research compiled byProfessor Takamiya. .`Full of sound scholarship'. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chaucers Dream Poetry Sources and Analogues
Book SynopsisThis volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodernreader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as someminor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Theme of Government in Piers Plowman
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Alliterative Morte Arthure A Reassessment of
Book SynopsisEssays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem.The present volume grew from a nucleus of four papers given at the Twelfth International Arthurian Conference at Regensburg in 1971 on the alliterative Morte Arthure, increasingly recognised as one of the great masterpiecesof medieval English literature. These lectures sought to reappraise the poem and its somewhat enigmatic historical and cultural context, and are presented here in a much revised and expanded form. Unlike most volumes of theiskind, the contributions form an integrated whole, the result of lengthy discussions among the collaborating scholars over the past year. The topics range from the poem's place among chronicles and Arthurian romances to the date, audience and attitude to contempary problems, notably that of war. pecific fields such as heraldry and laments for the dead are examined in detail, while the linguistic structure of the poem is the subject of two essays.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Syntax and Style in Chaucers Poetry
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to give an outline of structural features of Chaucer's poetic syntax that are relevant to the study of style, and to define some general tendencies in his construction of sentences. What emerges is a fondness on Chaucer's part for discontinuity in the order of words and phrases and for certain forms of expression which have a wider application t:han their modern counterparts. In order that Chaucer's usage may be seen in its historical context, comparative material is drawn from the writings of his contemporaries - Langland, Gower, and the Gawain-poet - and from the body of early English rhyming romances now taken to represent an influent:ial nativepoetic tradition. I In an introductory chapter Dr Roscow questions the familiar description of Chaucer's syntax as colloquial, and argues for attention to a wider range of literary functions in studying the relationship between syntax and style in nedieval poetry
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Early Plays of Robin Hood
Book SynopsisDavid Wiles argues that the prolific Robin Hood plays of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were the Spring equivalent of the Christmas mumming tradition.Robin Hood was the subject of many fifteenth and sixteenth century folk-plays, of which only traces remain. As a result, the ballads, many of which have survived, have usually been regarded as the main-spring of traditions about the famous outlaw. David Wiles however, argues that the dramatic tradition was equally, if not more, important. He sees the plays, associated with Whitsun revels, died out much earlier, and so must be reconstructed from fragmentaryscripts and the tantalising glimpses afforded by sources such as churchwardens' accounts. Robin Hood emerges as an emblem both of the Spring and of rebellion; as a Summer king, the player of Robin Hood flouted and parodied regular authority. With such a background, the plays ceased to be an acceptable part of parish life after the Reformation, and the games were suppressed, while the myth of Robin Hood was manipulated and made respectable.
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