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Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text and how they mediate embodied life and material presence.

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Provides students with an introduction to literature and its context from the 7th to 15th centuries, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion and philosophy, society and politics, art and culture; major works and genres including religious literature, history writing, drama, Chaucer and Langland; and more.

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Provides students with an introduction to literature and its context from the 7th to 15th centuries, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion and philosophy, society and politics, art and culture; major works and genres including religious literature, history writing, drama, Chaucer and Langland; and more.

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Dr. Meisami discloses previously neglected stylistic qualities and ethical purposes in medieval Persian court poetry, and shows that court poets were also moral instructors who examined and celebrated the values they shared with their audiences. The book also takes into account the close relationship between Persian and Arabic court poetry. Origin

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This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the central theme of the political, constitutional, and institutional history of France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest pri

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Examines the early narratives of Australian 'discovery' and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant with the British nineteenth-century rediscovery of chivalric ideals and aesthetic, spiritual and architectural practices and models; and more.

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"Revised with a new preface by the author for a new edition and annotated by Lady Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Charles Napier, John Murray, John Galt, William Harness, Robert Southey, Lady Caroline Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, E.J. Trelawny, William Fletcher, Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and others who knew the poet personally."

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Offers a portrait of academic life in the nineties. This title presents an exploration of the uses and abuses of literary and cultural criticism that offers a running commentary on identity politics and poses serious questions about the state and future of the academy.

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An analysis of the relationship between memory, history and the protocols of mourning in key novels by Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami. >

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An analysis of the relationship between memory, history and the protocols of mourning in key novels by Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, David Mitchell, and, Haruki Murakami. It explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, and various losses.

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This book examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work The Battle of Monte Cassino. Melchior Wankowicz was famous for creating his theory of reportage. This book offers a critical examination of Wankowiczs work informed by her experiences as his private secretary.

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Melody's got secrets - dirty, dark, and sick-to-the-bottom-of-your-stomach secrets that she's hidden away from for years. John, the boyfriend, thinks he knows Melody, but he doesn't know the half of it. And, Ashley turns up at Melody's door on a mission to reveal everything. This is a drama of a family's secrets and lies, reunion, and revenge.

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With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in Japan, it presents a variety of attitudes from the traditional to the new.

Following the introduction, the volume opens with a chapter by Kenzaburo Ohashi on Melville's reception in Japan.

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Readers interested in Melville's writing and philosophy as well as researchers of 19th century literature, culture, and religion will appreciate this book.

This volume begins with a master index that lists all religious allusions and their location throughout Melville's works.

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In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction of the cruelty and malice of God, consistently satirized Christian doctrine. He endeavors to show that Melville resorted to literary deceptions that could simultaneously hoodwink and satirize the point of view of his orthodox readers. Th

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Argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model.

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This monograph offers a new interpretation of Melville's work (focusing on Moby-Dick, Pierre and Benito Cereno) in the light of scholarship on globalization from critics in 'new' American studies.