Studi letterari

Schools and universities are fast becoming managerial ”courts” of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling system protocols. Any teacher or academic yearning …

First Published in 2004. This work is concerned with kodae sos?l, particularly with investigating what kodae sos?l exist or have existed in texts in Korean in a traditional style. One aim of this cat …

First Published in 2002. This book is about the way medieval authors wrote about union with God and how they used language that refers to the senses to articulate their ideas about how a person can b …

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe”s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne”s Essays, Rabelais” comic fictions, Rons …

The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, b …

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision tha …

Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question ”what is Victorianism?” and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. Th …

Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume presents a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the …

Mary Butts was an important figure in inter-war modernist circles and one who reviewed and associated with some of the major literary figures of the era, from T.S. Eliot to Gertrude Stein. Despite he …

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writ …