Renaissance Literature
Medieval and renaissance humanism
This work discusses humanist aspects of medieval and Renaissance intellectual life and thought and of their appropriation by modern history and literature. It charts the humanist representations of the scholarly enterprise, and the self-representation of the intellectual.
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The Discarded Image
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C. S. Lewis`s The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and the renaissance. It describes the `image` discarded by later ages as `the medieval synth...
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Grape Leaves
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Arab-American poetry is an especially rich, people-involved, passionate literature that has been spawned, at least until recently, in isolation from the American mainstream.
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Dictionary Of Native American Literature
This dictionary, produced by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literature, contains 40 critical-biographical essays on various writers spanning two time periods: the historical emergence of Native American writers (to 1800) and the Native American Renaissance (1967
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
Robert Matz analyzes the defense of literature in Renaissance England in the context of social transformations particularly affecting the aristocracy.
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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society.
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