Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521862299
Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.
Author : Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521733081
A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.
Author : Rachel Jacoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521844304
A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139867326
Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have fundamentally altered the very meaning of Langland's art. This Companion thus critically surveys traditional scholarship, with the aim of recuperating its best insights, and it ventures forth into newer areas of inquiry attuned to questions of social setting, institutional context, intellectual and literary history, theory, and the revitalized fields of codicology and paleography. By proceeding through chapters that offer cumulatively wider views as well as stand-alone analyses of topics most crucial to understanding Piers Plowman, this Companion gives serious students and seasoned scholars alike up-to-date knowledge of this intricate and beautiful poem.
Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495512
The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central figures in the group: among others, the Rossettis, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. This is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms. The Companion explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521768748
Revised and updated to include Miller's late work and the key productions and criticism since the playwright's death in 2005.
Author : Scott DeGregorio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825429
As the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede is a key figure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. This Companion, written by an international team of specialists, is a key introductory guide to Bede, his writings, and his world. The first part of the volume focuses on Bede's cultural and intellectual milieu, covering his life, the secular-political contexts of his day, the foundations of the Latin learning he inherited and sought to perpetuate, the ecclesiastical and monastic setting of early Northumbria, and the foundation of his home institution, Wearmouth-Jarrow. The book then considers Bede's writing in detail, treating his educational, exegetical and historical works. Concluding with a detailed assessment of Bede's influence and reception from the time of his death up to the modern age, the Companion enables the reader to view Bede's writings within a wider cultural context.
Author : Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827874
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107159628
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982600X
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed. These specially commissioned essays examine Keats's specific poetic endeavours, his striking way with language, and his lively letters as well as his engagement with contemporary cultures and literary traditions, his place in criticism, from his day to ours, including the challenge he poses to gender criticism. The contributions are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats's life, a chronology, a descriptive list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source-reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats's letters, a glossary of literary terms and a guide to further reading.
