Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Ethics and enjoyment in late medieval poetry Ethics and enjoyment in late medieval poetry Jessica Rosenfeld "Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of… OL15415028W
Living death in medieval French and English literature Living death in medieval French and English literature Jane Gilbert "Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deat… OL16010964W
Exemplary epic Exemplary epic Ben Tipping The force of example was a distinctive determiner of Roman identity. In this study of the representation of certain central characters in Silius Italicus' 'Punica', Ben Tipping considers the virtues … OL16161478W
Damned if you do Damned if you do Margaret S. Hrezo,John M. Parrish viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm OL18574570W
Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century economics Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century economics Frederick Turner viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm OL19238454W
Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent Doug Aldridge Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism sp… OL21144206W
French existentialist fiction French existentialist fiction Terry Keefe Broadly dividing the fiction of Sartre, Camus and Beauvoir into three periods - pre-World War II, wartime, and post-war - the book shows how the moral perspectives of the authors, as illustrated in t… OL2720535W
Genre and ethics Genre and ethics Edward Tomarken "This book combines a literary critical version of genre with a pedagogical conception of ethics. It is comprised of eight chapters covering literature from the Renaissance to the present with an emp… OL3454944W
Lion, the witch, and the Bible Lion, the witch, and the Bible Robert Velarde 207 p. ; 21 cm OL5820231W
The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 16401770 The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 16401770 Scott Paul Gordon "Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Litera… OL6213595W
Shakspeare's Hamlet Shakspeare's Hamlet Strachey, Edward Sir In depth view and comparison of Hamlet to other works by Shakespeare's through the use of similar yet distinct critical analysis of Shakespeare's by other Commentators. OL7310694W
Darkest fear Darkest fear Harlan Coben 7th Myron Bolitar Novel Myron faces the most emotionally shattering case of his career. And it all begins when Myron’s ex-girlfriend tells him he is a father-of a dying 13-year-old boy. OL79341W