Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “leah middlebrook”
Skip side bar filters

  • Amphion

    Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity

    by Leah Middlebrook ...
    A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition.Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to build walls for Thebes. While Amphion still presides over music and architecture, he was once fundamental to the concept of lyric poetry. Amphion figured the human power to inspire action, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Lyric

    New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain

    by Leah Middlebrook ...
    Series series Penn State Romance Studies
    Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on readings of representative poems by eight Peninsular writers, Imperial Lyric demonstrates that the lyric ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

    Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Literary Mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain

    by Otis H. Green ...
    Series Book 1 - Studies in Romance Languages
    The twelve essays in this fiorilegio of the work of Otis H. Green afford a representative view of the thought and scholarship of one of the world's foremost Hispanists. In each of them is developed some important facet of the intellectual milieu of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reflecting Otis Green's life-long and wide-ranging quest for evidence that would broaden our understanding of those ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

    The Story of a Lost Play

    by Roger Chartier ...
    How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain?Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Its plot is that of a ‘novella’ inserted into Don Quixote, a work that ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Aboriginal American Authors

    by Daniel Garrison Brinton ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Words

    Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

    by Roland Greene ...
    "The book's greatest achievement . . . is in demonstrating how these five words together animate the worlds of Renaissance thought and culture." — Comparative Literature StudiesBlood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exotic Nation

    Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza

    by Rubén Darío ...
    Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry*.* Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The War Trumpet

    Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543–1639

    Edited by Emiro Martínez-Osorio, Mercedes Blanco ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Reading Literature in Portuguese

    by Claudia Pazos Alonso ...
    "This collection brings together textual commentaries on thirty representative works of literature in Portuguese - either complete poems or extracts from longer works - ranging from the medieval lyric of the 13th century, through the poetry and drama of the Portuguese Renaissance, the great Realist novels of the nineteenth century, early twentieth century Modernism and post-1974 writings through ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Poetry of Things

    The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain

    by Mary E. Barnard ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects – ranging from books and tombstones to urban ruins, sculptures, and portraits – as ... Read more

    $38.99 USD