Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for investigating knowledge of the plant world in early modern literature, Kelley traces the Ovidian ......
Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptations From the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadership and community, love and romance, and other perennial concepts. The tales and their history of adaptation affirm that societies across ......
Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptations From the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadership and community, love and romance, and other perennial concepts. The tales and their history of adaptation affirm that societies across time ......
Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how a cluster of rarely studied guides to the religious life helped forge a new identity in late medieval England. Lifting passages wholesale from texts originally intended only for holy virgins walled up in cells, these treatises turned Christlike shame and scorn for the world
A guide to teaching the Odyssey through contemporary questions and approaches Famous for its characters-the clever, unscrupulous Odysseus; the resilient, proud Penelope; and their young son, Telemachus, beginning his own life's journeys-the Odyssey is also well known as a set of fantastic tales and as a reflection of the ethos of Bronze Age ......
A guide to teaching the Odyssey through contemporary questions and approaches Famous for its characters-the clever, unscrupulous Odysseus; the resilient, proud Penelope; and their young son, Telemachus, beginning his own life's journeys-the Odyssey is also well known as a set of fantastic tales and as a reflection of the ethos of Bronze Age ......
The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli
Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian poets, bringing their verse and expression to English readers. Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy produced a wide range of literature, from the courtly love of the Sicilian School, to the spiritualized love of the dolce stil nuovo ......
The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli
Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian poets, bringing their verse and expression to English readers. Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy produced a wide range of literature, from the courtly love of the Sicilian School, to the spiritualized love of the dolce stil nuovo ......
The Trickster Tales of Al-?ariri in an Age of Commentary
An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqamat of al-?ariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories Before World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqamat of ......