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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Renjian cihua is a masterpiece of literary criticism written by Wang Guowei (1877–1927), a scholar of the Chinese classics who lived during the late Qing and early Republican periods. Since its publi …

This volume addresses the issue of freedom in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. This is all the more challenging in that Deleuze-Guattari almost never use the term freedom, preferring instead, …

The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. T …