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The visible text: textual production and reproduction from Beowulf to Maus
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
'The Visible Text' offers an innovative new vision of literary history and the history of the book from Beowulf to present day graphic novels. Oxford...
A Perceforest reader: selected episodes from Perceforest: the prehistory of King Arthur's Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011
'Perceforest' is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, and...
Satyric play: the evolution of Greek comedy and Satyr drama
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, [2014]
From archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary, aesthetic, historical, religious, and...
Greek lives: a selection of nine Greek lives
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
In 'Greek Lives', Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to...
Movement in Renaissance literature: exploring kinesic intelligence
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed `kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response...
Combat trauma and the ancient Greeks
eBook. English.
Published
New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
First edition
This text applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what...
Once and future antiquities in science fiction and fantasy
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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...
Medical paratexts from medieval to modern: dissecting the page
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This collection establishes the term `medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. The...
Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art
eBook. English.
Published
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed...
