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  • Pleasures of Literary Spatiality
    E.L. Risden
    Barring 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 giving the process much thought. But paying attention to our own movement in space yields all sorts of sensory experiences from something relaxing to something terrifying or even ast...
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    108,77 €

  • Book of Hours, Book of Days and Nights
    E. L. Risden / ELRisden
    This volume assembles poems produced over the last thirty-five years by writer/scholar E. L. Risden. Samples re-surface from earlier books and chapbooks: On Shakespeare, In Sonnets (Cambridge Scholars Press), A Second City Street Prophet Sings the Blues and Through a Glass Darkly (Mellen Poetry Press), The Streets of Harmon Falls (The Troy Book Makers), Light on Stone (Cassandr...
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    22,46 €

  • Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature
    E.L. Risden
    A 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 powerful elements of a story. Exile, for example, upsets a protagonist’s hopes for a happy earthly life, emphasizing spiritual perception instead. Waking life interrupts dreams, ...
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    43,00 €

  • Tolkien’s Intellectual Landscape
    E L Risden / E.L. Risden
    The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and filmmaking. Often disparaged by critics, Tolkien’s fiction created a market for the 'fantasy trilogy' and his academic work represents an innovative contribution to the field of philology. In the 20th century, his fiction bridged the gap between 'learned' and 'popular' readerships. Today the fan...
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    28,26 €

  • Beowulf on Film
    E L Risden / E. L. Risden / Nickolas Haydock
    Why 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 number of films based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and furthers the ongoing consideration of filmic medievalism. Will the powerful influence of cinema affect the future recep...
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    42,88 €

  • Shakespeare and the Problem Play
    E.L. Risden
    Shakespeare’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 the most complex questions. He aimed to build good plays, not simple fulfillments of genre demands. To him 'good plays' meant leaving his audience with problems to consider. This bo...
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    42,84 €

  • A Living Light
    E. L. Risden / Edward L. Risden / ELRisden
    A Living Light explores some of the major events in the life of Hildegard of Bingen: mystic, physician, composer, and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Middle Ages. In the form of a dramatic novella, it telescopes to such life-changing events as the courageous recording of her visions, the Church’s acceptance of her accounts of prophetic experience, the formation of her ...
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    20,58 €

  • Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry
    E.L. Risden
    This 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 on ancient poetry (including The Iliad and The Odyssey, the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Aeneid and the Bhagavad Gita). Subsequent chapters take up the main subject of th...
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    57,52 €

  • Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition
    E L Risden
    The 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 since received acclaim for its commentary regarding important socio-political and religious concerns. The poem’s technical brilliance blends psychological depth and vivid language t...
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    42,88 €