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  • Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

    par Alexandra Coller ...
    Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that all three genres were, in fact, remarkably new, if dramatists’ intriguingly sympathetic portrayals of ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Modifié par Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    par C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Metamorphoses of Lucretia

    Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    par Anna Livia Frassetto ...
    The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes, permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses of Lucretia are ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Mind's Isle

    Imaginary Islands in English Fiction

    par Adrian Kempton ...
    Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past four centuries reveal the many ways in which they adapt, rewrite and refer back to these foundational ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory

    Transitions and Transformations

    Modifié par Marguerite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Ruud van den Beuken ...
    Collections Livre 79 - Reimagining Ireland
    Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

  • Crispin Ier

    La Vie et l'œuvre de Raymond Poisson comédien-poète du XVIIe siècle

    Modifié par A. Ross Curtis ...
    Collections series University of Toronto Romance Series
    Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin, while finding time to supply his troupe with short comedies in which he himself starred. This study is ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Cross-Cultural Affinities

    Emersonian Transcendentalism and Senghorian Negritude

    par Manyaka Toko Djockoua ...
    Collections Livre 48 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary, philosophical and religious trends which have impacted on the complex and elusive fields of Transcendentalism and Negritude. Focusing on the ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

    From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

    Modifié par J. A. Garrido Ardila ...
    Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Iago

    The Strategies of Evil

    par Harold Bloom ...
    Collections series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities.Few antagonists in all of literature have displayed the ruthless cunning and deceit of Iago. Denied the promotion he believes he deserves, Iago takes ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Measured Words

    Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

    par Arielle Saiber ...
    Collections series Toronto Italian Studies
    Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Writings on the Sober Life

    The Art and Grace of Living Long

    Alvise Cornaro (c.1484–1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly ambitious, he acquired a name for himself as a businessman, architect, and patron of the arts. Critically ill around age 40 – likely with diabetes and gout – he resolved to abandon his intemperate lifestyle. The strict rules regarding food and drink that he adopted ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD