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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “anne mctaggart”
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  • Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

    by Anne McTaggart ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míċeál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

    by Mehl Dieter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Romance of Adultery

    Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature

    by Peggy McCracken ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

    Becoming the Chosen People

    by Professor Samantha Zacher ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

    by M. Williams ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

    Edited by J. Harris, E. Scott-Baumann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500

    Volume One

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Dante and the Sense of Transgression

    'The Trespass of the Sign'

    by Professor William Franke ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory.Beyond suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an obsession with ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature

    by J. Ulin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Sean O'Faoláin, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Brendan Behan and Jamie O'Neill. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Arthurian Drama: An Anthology

    Edited by Alan Lupack ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    This anthology reproduces six plays based on stories of King Arthur from a variety of periods. Originally published in 1991, it offers a comprehensive discussion of Arthurian Drama in introduction and also provides an appendix listing printed scripts in English that address Arthurian legend. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

    by S. Livingston ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD