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In theory literary scholars habitually disclaim the relevance of authorial intentions but in practice they resort to the
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Authors throughout history have relied on the emotional make-up of their readers and audiences to make sense of the beha
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Table of contents : List of Illustrations vii List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xv Intr
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Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieva
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Sir Bevis of Hampton' is one of the most widespread and important Middle English romances. This book - the first ev
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This volume developed from a selection of the forty-odd papers presented at the 11th Biennial "Romance in Medieval
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An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book t
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The Old English poem known popularly as the "Descent into Hell", found on folios 119v to 121v of the Exeter Bo
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Benoît de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie", dating to around 1165, is, along with the "Roman de Thèbe
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This is the book that demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others with practical advic
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Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fict
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An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such
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Concentrating on major figures of women in 'The Faerie Queene', together with the figures constellated around
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First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing. First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs’ pyres bl
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A beautifully illustrated collection of profiles of more than 80 goddesses and other powerful women retold for children
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Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest, Hrot
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