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Emblem and Icon in John Donne's Poetry and Prose
Few literary lives have navigated the perimeters of success and misfortune as boldly as did that of John Donne. The tensions within his work are sometimes viewed as the outcomes of …
Essays in Self-Portraiture
"Essays in Self-Portraiture" is the first book-length study devoted entirely to comparing the written self-portrait of Montaigne with the painted self-portraits of another artist, …
Rewriting Texts Remaking Images
The twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions …
The Gift of Fire
Critics have complained that Christopher Marlowe's plays lack -wholeness- or -completeness-. This book presents a fresh alternative to familiar textual explanations, or to …
Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Reason of State, and War
Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Reason of State, and War: Counter-Reformation Spanish Political Thought (Volumes I and II) aims at understanding how Spanish thinkers in the …
Literary Texts & the Arts
Literary Texts & the Arts's sixteen essays explore numerous aspects of both the theoretical and applied relationships between textuality in the form of novels, plays, and poems and …
Eschatological Sanctuary in Exodus 15:17 and Related Texts
After crossing the Reed Sea, Moses and the Israelites celebrate Yahweh’s victory over the Egyptians in the «Song of the Sea» (Exod. 15:1-18). Much of the song rejoices over their …
Text/Countertext
"Text/Countertext: Postmodern Paranoia in Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, and Philip Roth" analyzes the psychological and structural dynamic of three postmodern novels: Samuel …
Gyoergy Lukacs and the Literary Pretext
This volume is an introduction to those works of Gyorgy Lukacs that have established him as a classic authority in literary criticism: his pre-Marxist "The History of the …
Text in the Natural World
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence …