Filter by
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. II
The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776602066
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I
The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776648057
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Sisters and the English Household: Domesticity and Women's Autonomy in Ninete…
Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Eng…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783088454
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Sinesio di Cirene nella cultura tardoantica: Atti del convegno internazionale…
"In a discourse on the great confrontation between pagan and Christian culture at the sunset of the ancient world, the testimony of Sinesio is certainly significant: 'testimony' we say, since that of Sinesio was not a strong contribution in one or the other of the two fields, but a mediated message, with adhesions in both, but with an unfinished, or ambiguous one, which must be assumed, and pos…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788867055494
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's "The Real Life of…
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov's most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian's passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov's infatuation with Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man, which reflects the m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618117106
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-…
Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two philosophers—Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, and the work of filmmaker Claire Denis. In an accessible and engaging manner, it offers new readings of Denis' films, situating them within larger feminist, postcolonial and queer debates about …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781474409520
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 777 HOL t
Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen
Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey’s minorities, Aesthetics of Displacement argues that there is a particular aesthetic continuity among the otherwise unrelated films. Ozlem Koksal focuses on films that bring taboo issues concerning the repression of minorities into visibility, arguing that the changing political and social conditions determin…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501306464
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.43 KOK a
A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe?…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781845454180
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.43 GEM f
Wag the Dog: A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age
Wag the Dog became a media event and a cultural icon because it inadvertently short-circuited the distance that is supposed to separate reality and fiction. The examination of the historical and social context in which it was produced, exhibited and received worldwide enables the author to illuminate a series of changes in the way a fiction film reflects and interacts with reality, urging us to…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501307270
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.43 THA w
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781408179680
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 ESC e
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography