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Pleasures of Literary Spatiality: Expanding and Contracting Settings by E.L. Risden 9781476694931
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £45.17Barring such illnesses as claustrophobia or agoraphobia, or situations such as medical isolation or incarceration, most people move naturally from smaller to larger spaces and back again without... -
Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry by Edward L. Risden 9780786435418
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.37This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions. It begins with three chapters... -
Shakespeare and the Problem Play: Complex Forms, Crossed Genres and Moral Quandaries by Edward L. Risden 9780786472437
Booksplease Price: £22.90Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises... -
Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature by E. L. Risden 9780786477784
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader's attention to the most... -
Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape by E. L. Risden 9780786498659
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and film making, yet criticism often places him at the margins of twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and... -
Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents by Edward L. Risden 9780786420735
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics. A chivalric romance placed in an Arthurian setting, it has... -
Hollywood in the Holy Land: Essays on Film Depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim Clashes by Nickolas Haydock 9780786441563
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59This collection of essays analyzes film representations of the Crusades, other medieval East/West encounters, and the modern inheritance of encounters between orientalist fantasy and apocalyptic... -
Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations by Nickolas Haydock 9780786463381
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear between 1999 and 2008? This book explores the growing... -
Studies in Medievalism XIX - Defining Neomedievalism(s) by Karl Fugelso
Booksplease Price: £82.05An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions. The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on... -
Studies in Medievalism XVIII - Defining Medievalism(s) II by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores... -
Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature by Jonathan Wilcox 9780859915762
Booksplease Price: £96.11Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature. Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of...