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Télécharger le livre :  A Guide to Byron's Verse in Fifty Poems
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A Guide to Byron's Verse in Fifty Poems


Richard Lansdown


This book extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry--as opposed to his life and legend--by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, narrative poems set in the Middle...

Parution : 2025-07-16
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric
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The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric


Camilla Caporicci


Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Akiva the “Holy of Holies” among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of...

Parution : 2025-04-23
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric
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The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric


Camilla Caporicci


Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Akiva the “Holy of Holies” among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of...

Parution : 2025-01-29
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature


Matthew C. Augustine , Steven N. Zwicker


The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot,...

Parution : 2024-11-06
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature


Matthew C. Augustine , Steven N. Zwicker


The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot,...

Parution : 2024-10-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetry Circuit
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The Poetry Circuit


Peter B. Howarth


Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to confessional, to contemporary Spoken Word. But the creative impact that public...

Parution : 2024-09-17
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetry Circuit
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The Poetry Circuit


Peter B. Howarth


Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to confessional, to contemporary Spoken Word. But the creative impact that public...

Parution : 2024-09-17
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750
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Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750


Diana Berruezo-Sánchez


In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. From the sixteenth to the...

Parution : 2024-09-11
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750
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Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750


Diana Berruezo-Sánchez


In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. From the sixteenth to the...

Parution : 2024-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959
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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959


John M. Bowers , Peter Steffensen


Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted with both Tolkien's own annotations and new notes from the authors, this...

Parution : 2024-09-10
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959
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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959


John M. Bowers , Peter Steffensen


Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted with both Tolkien's own annotations and new notes from the authors, this...

Parution : 2024-09-10
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music
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Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music


Stephanie Oade


One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...

Parution : 2024-08-24
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music
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Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music


Stephanie Oade


One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...

Parution : 2024-08-19
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetry and the Built Environment
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Poetry and the Built Environment


Elizabeth Fowler


Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to...

Parution : 2024-07-19
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Read Middle English Poetry
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How to Read Middle English Poetry


Daniel Sawyer


How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad


Jonathan L. Ready


The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad


Jonathan L. Ready


The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing...

Parution : 2024-06-24
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetry and the Built Environment
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Poetry and the Built Environment


Elizabeth Fowler


Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to...

Parution : 2024-05-28
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Read Middle English Poetry
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How to Read Middle English Poetry


Daniel Sawyer


How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and...

Parution : 2024-04-22
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance
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Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance


Casey Schoenberger


"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a...

Parution : 2024-04-05
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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