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This book examines the fall of the angels tradition in early medieval sermons, saints lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical and secular power.

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Presents essays by leading writers and academics examining the staging of Greek drama. This book presents a collection of twelve essays by leading academics, writers and theatre practitioners examining the representation of ancient Greek heroines in their original contexts.

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Undertakes a comparative analysis of the works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, placing the fiction and non-fiction of both writers in relation to the broader cultural, social and political contexts of London from 1979.

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Presents critical readings of 8 contemporary German novels that feature historically documented women as their main protagonist, and that reconstruct women's lives by combining source material and invention. This book examines how historical events are used to substantiate ideological positions, and how this problematic aspect is considered.

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Surveys work done on the mythic or archetypal approach in general and on such mythic figures in literature as Orpheus, Oedipus, Cain and Faust, covering work on myth in classical literature and in major periods in British and American literature.

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The texts assembled in this bibliography demonstrate the ways in which literary theory and criticism make and remake themselves in an effort to challenge and understand the boundaries that exist between language and literary study. The volume surveys works from a range of discourses and genres.

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This collection responds to the call within the discipline of classical receptions to foster dialogue across cultures and geographies to show the results of the colonially framed traditional approach to classical studies. It also responds to an important development in Hispanic and Lusophone studies: a turn to relational approaches such as transatlantic, transnational, and global analyses.

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Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood takes a critical look at the representations and lived experiences of migrant, refugee, and otherwise displaced mothers. This volume explores literature, film, and original ethnographic research about migrant motherhood through theoretical lenses ...

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Offers an in-depth exploration of the libellus - or little book - of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this book, the author fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic writer.

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This book studies the novels of writer Mark Helprin in relation to Dantes Divine Comedy by demonstrating that Helprins novels are both popular works of literature and serious explorations of philosophical and political themes. In the end, Helprins novels offer a robust defense of liberal democracy, while advocating for ancient virtue.

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Leading poets, critics and theologians explore the writing of a new poetic liturgy and how a creative work can confront issues of faith and 'Englishness'.

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An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by restriction to pious subject matter, by the doctrine that only silent women are virtuous, by criticism that praised women as patrons or muses and ignored t

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Focusing on the most important and useful resources for modern researchers and students of English literature, Bracken identifies and describes a substantial portion of the currently available reference sources in British and American literature - dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, periodicals, and so forth.

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This book uses a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France to show how the collective memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. It incorporates trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, examining a diverse group of writers and bringing to the fore the unique perspective of each.