This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.
This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.
Jakob Spengler ist erst 15 Jahre alt, als er vom Waldrand aus zusehen muss, wie Söldner sein Dorf zerstören und alle Bewohner ermorden- darunter seine gesamte Familie. Die Gesichter der vier Anführer brennen sich für immer in sein Gedächtnis. Reisende Fremde nehmen ihn mit, zuer…
Revenge in Attic and later tragedy
Revenge in Attic and later tragedy
In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great…
