Immer wieder wird in der Forschung darauf hingewiesen, dass Raumkonzeption und Grenzziehung von hoher Bedeutung für Statius' >Thebais< seien. Auch das große Interesse des Textes an Religion und Ritual wird öfters hervorgehoben. Beide Aspekte wurden allerdings bisher nur im Ansat…
The first full length study of Patrick McCabe's work, We Won't Make It Out Alive, examines the mental instability and carefully constructed childhoods that McCabe has crafted for his various characters--the one eyed quasi Al Pacino, the sequin studded transvestite, the bachelor …
by Greenberger, Robert, Scott, Melanie, Manning, Matthew K., Irvine, Alexander, (Alexander C.), Cowsill, Alan, Wiacek, Stephen, Jones, Nick, (Author at DK Publishing, Inc.), Walker, Landry Q., (Landry Quinn), Beatty, Scott, Manning, Matt/ Wiacek, Stephen/ Scott, Melanie/ Jones, Nick/ Walker, Landry Q., Kortae, Steven
Provides a guide to all of the superheroes and archvillains of the DC universe, featuring more than one thousand different characters, including images from the original comic books, from the past eighty years of DC Comics.
This is the first volume dedicated to the topic of characterisation in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the Latin novel from the second century CE. The subject has not been ignored in recent scholarship on individual characters in the work, but the lack of an earlier general overview of…
"Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, Merlin the "…
In The Heart of Achilles, Graham Zanker addresses the task of reconstructing the ethical thought-world in which the characters of the Iliad live and move. It is only against this background, Zanker argues, that we can convincingly place the ethical status of the heroes and their…
From the backyard to outer space, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts has been charming the world for more than 70 years. In this celebration of Schulz and his beloved work, explore rarely seen sketches, influential comic strips, and collectors' artifacts. Pore over evolving artworks of…
From the backyard to outer space, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts has been charming the world for more than 70 years. In this celebration of Schulz and his beloved work, explore rarely seen sketches, influential comic strips, and collectors' artifacts. Pore over evolving artworks of…
From the backyard to outer space, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts has been charming the world for more than 70 years. In this celebration of Schulz and his beloved work, explore rarely seen sketches, influential comic strips, and collectors' artifacts. Pore over evolving artworks of…
"Jews were expelled from England in 1290, about half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer's birth. But Jews and their culture continued to play in important role in the English Christian imagination throughout the late Middle Ages, in the work of Chaucer and his contemporaries. How…
"An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall."--Publisher's description.
