Ira B. Nadel 
Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound [EPUB ebook] 

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. …

The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities. In this b …

This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imper …

Why and how did people read literature on North America by explorers, travellers, emigrants, and tourists? This is the central question Robin Jarvis takes up as he addresses a significant gap in scho …

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 …

Why have vampires become such a feature of modern culture? Can vampire-like conditions be explained by medical research? Is there a connection between vampirism and Freud? The Psychology of Vampires …

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 …

In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, ”displacing” them from their original settings-in time and space, in point …