Richard Hunter 
Critical Moments in Classical Literature [PDF ebook] 
Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare »s reception by major American writers and poets. …

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer »s poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer »s distinctive poetic strategies by …

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante »s  »second love »; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative  »master vision » which  »supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace ». All his life, Newman reflected on this  »master vision ». Hi …

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America »s great modernist writers and the nation »s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore exp …

Reinterpreting Badiou »s philosophy in light of both his persistent, reverent invocations of the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan, and his long-term engagement with Samuel Beckett, Badiou, Poem and Subj …

How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Es …

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a key …

Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relat …

This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It unpreceden …