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An introductory overview of the works of one of America's most important and complex novelists. more...

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For centuries, accounts of King Arthur and his court have fascinated historians, scholars, poets, and readers. Each age has added material to reflect its own cultural attitudes, but no era has supplemented the earlier versions more than the poets of the Medieval Revival of nineteenth-century England. This book examines how Arthurian legend was read and rewritten during that period by four enduring writers: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, William Morris, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. While other works have looked at Arthurian legend in light of nineteenth-century social conditions, this volume focuses on how these poets approached love and death in their works, and how the legend of Arthur shaped their vision.||An introductory chapter traces Arthurian legend from its inception. The chapters that follow are each devoted to a particular author's use of Arthurian material in an exploration of love and death. For Tennyson, love leads to trust, and when trust is shattered, death soon follows. Arnold, on the other hand, advocates moderation, so that the loss of a loved one produces neither debilitating agony nor only a mild melancholy. Morris concentrates on the differences between physical and spiritual love, while Swinburne presents a world tormented by love and in which death is the only release. more...

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Previous attempts to critique the canonical approach of Brevard Childs have remained largely theoretical in nature. One of the weakness of canonical criticism, then, is its failure to have generated new readings of extended biblical passages. Reviewing the hermeneutics and the praxis of Childs' approach, Lyons then turns to the Sodom narrative (Gen 18-19) as a test of a practical exegesis according to Childs' principles, and then to reflect critically upon the reading experience generated. Surprisingly, the canonical reading produced is a wholly new one, centred around the complex, irreducible-even contradictory-request of Abraham for Yahweh to do justice (18:23-25). more...

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Provides information on Carian, one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. This book covers the major topics of research on Carian: the direct and indirect sources of Carian inscriptions, the history of the decipherment, the Carian alphabet, and the phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic features of the language. more...

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Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian cultural and social conventions through readings of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism. Maureen Moran argues that Catholic sensationalism provided a rich imaginative resource for Victorians of all denominations (and none) through which a range of cultural contradictions and conflicts could be explored and alternative identities proposed. Previous studies of Catholicism in the period have focused on notions of the exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implacable anti-English enemy. However, extreme representations of Catholic counterculture also fulfil a more subversive function, mirroring and deconstructing domestic norms and revealing ambivalence about cherished ideals of public and private life. Considering the work of authors including Charles Kingsley, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, George Eliot, Grace Aguilar, Mary Ward, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Francis Thompson, this lively account shows the centrality of the sensational modelling of Catholicism to secular debates about imperialism, gender and sexuality, the role of the law and the body, the power of the emotions and the pleasures of aesthetic sensuality. more...

Price: $85.00