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This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and endin…

A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their mode…

Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducin…

Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local vers…

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and I…

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, fo…

The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century’s events, along with an exploration of the ways the…

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading te…

A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beg…

«Общественный строй, определенно складываясь, должен отчетливо наметить основные принципы; эти принципы должны лежать в его основе. Основные принципы …

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation w…

Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows…

A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, …

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing…

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore …

A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from…

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they wer…

Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent gen…

Д. Л. Мордовцев – беллетрист и историк, начиная с 50-х годов печатался в журналах «Отечественные записки», «Русское слово», «Дело». Его перу принадлеж…

This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. …

This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical …

The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume. Presents a study of …

«Посетив дом, где много лет жил, трудился, мыслил, творил М. А. Волошин, я был переполнен яркими, прекрасными, грустными и, сквозь грусть, радостными …

This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively fr…

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Pro…

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged w…

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical rece…

Книга Николая Переяслова «Живая кровь поэзии» посвящена современной русской и национальной литературе, разным поэтическим стилям и направлениям, а так…

«Стихотворения В. Л. Пушкина давно уже известны любителям Русской поэзии. Первые опыты его принадлежат эпохе преобразования, введенного в наш язык тво…

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon pe…

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the cr…

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today …

«Когда я думаю о безвременно почившем Ю. А. Сидорове, мне всё кажется, что он не умер, а – с нами; вот уже более года, как его от нас похитила смерть,…

A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the …

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights …

Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon l…

In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays…

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inabilit…

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, enga…

This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and wo…

Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton’s g…

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and …

В первых числах января 1840 года в Петербурге начал выходить новый журнал «Пантеон русского и всех европейских театров», который, по замыслу его иници…

«История художественной литературы не имеет своего философа, который подчинил бы эволюцию ее содержания каким-либо определенным законам и уловил внутр…