English | January 5, 2020 | ISBN: 0143425897 | EPUB | 416 Pages | 1.9 MB The most popular devotional text recounting the adventures of the Hindu god Ram The Ramcharitmanas, composed by the poet-saint Tulsidas in the sixteenth century during a dynamic period of religious reform, was...

English | April 4, 2017 | ISBN: 0884485315 | EPUB | 320 Pages | 4.8 MB Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who...

English | October 6, 2014 | ISBN: 0786495030 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.34 MB William Langland’s 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator’s quest to live a good life,...

English | April 15th, 2009 | ISBN: 0199538727 | 225 pages | PDF | 10.70 MB The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap...

English | ISBN: 1472446267 | 2017 | 222 Pages | PDF | 2 MB Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script...

English | 2006 | ISBN: 0865166072 | PDF | 330 Pages | 37.0 mb Charles Rowan Beye’s critically acclaimed interpretive introduction to the epic poetry and poets of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Assyria is here reprinted in an expanded second edition with a new preface, new chapter on...

English | 21 Dec. 2004 | ISBN: 0253344573 | 256 Pages | PDF | 2.07 MB Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault’s “archaeology of knowledge” and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes...

English | August 2nd, 2018 | ISBN: 1788160304 | 320 Pages | EPUB | 0.64 MB David Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie,...

English | Jan. 27, 2003 | ISBN: 0521812410 | 270 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Jane Stabler presents this examination of Byron’s poetic form in relationship to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies in the Romantic period, Stabler asserts that Byron’s poetics developed in...