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The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower

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9 For discussion of this in Gower's Vox see Sylvia Federico, New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 7–18; for Brembre, see Sylvia Federico, “Two Troy Books: The Political ...
The Post-Historical Middle Ages

The Post-Historical Middle Ages

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E. Scala, Sylvia Federico ... ISBN 978-0-230-62155-8(eBook) DOI 10.1057/ 9780230621558 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The post- historical Middle Ages / edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico. p. cm.—( The ...
English and American Studies: Theory and Practice

English and American Studies: Theory and Practice

Martin Middeke

Literary Studies Scala, Elizabeth, and Sylvia Federico. “Getting Post-Historical.” Introduction. The Post-Historical Middle Ages. Eds. Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 1–11. Scanlon, Larry. Introduction.
Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca: ...

Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca: ...

Rupert C. Allen

Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies by Federico García Lorca. Translated by James GrahamLujan and Richard O'Connell. New York: New Directions, 1963 . . Obras completas. Madrid: Aguilar, 1967. . Three Tragedies of Federico García  ...
A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar ... Faber Ltd Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA This ebook edition first published in 2012 All rights reserved © Sylvia Nasar, 1998 The right of Sylvia Nasar to be identified as author of this work has ...
Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600

Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600

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Sylvia Federico has shown how important in late fourteenth-century and fifteenthcentury England was '[t]he right to wield ... [the] precedent' of Troy, 'to reground and rejustify political motive in relation to an imagined antiquity'.4 The Lydgate of ...
New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages

New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages

Sylvia Federico

Here, she examines how and why people fantasised about Troy and to what end, looking in particular at the works of such writers as Chaucer, the Gawain -poet, John Gower and John Lydgate.
Fragments: Past and Present in Chaucer and Gower

Fragments: Past and Present in Chaucer and Gower

Malte Urban

... and the Confessio Amantis shows, but his specific use of this material has so far not attracted widespread critical attention.3 Sylvia Federico's recent monograph on the Troy myth in the late Middle Ages raises a number of interesting points, ...
Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

E. R. Truitt

Sylvia Federico has linked the popularity of the tale of the Trojan War in late fourteenth- and early fifteenthcentury England to the monarchy's desire for a connection to the Trojan past, and a way to use that connection to project an imperial ...
Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of ...

Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of ...

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Most essays in Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico's 2009 collection of essays, The Post-Historical Middle Ages, argue for the importance of history even as the field returns to more formalist analyses of texts.13 The two most popular threads ...
A Companion to Federico García Lorca

A Companion to Federico García Lorca

Federico Bonaddio

Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations.
The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: 'worldly ...

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: 'worldly ...

Sylvia Federico

Several other monks were sent away at the same time, and were then recalled by the new It 137 Clark, 'Thomas Walsingham Reconsidered', pp. 840–1. 138 On the relative privileges of graduate versus non-graduate monks at St Albans, see ...
The Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing.
Federico García Lorca:

Federico García Lorca:

Federico Bonaddio

A study of Lorca's poetic trajectory.
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry.
Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

Janet Malcolm

Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes Janet Malcolm ... Excerpt from unpublished material from Sylvia Plath's journals in Smith Archive. Selected excerpts from 17 pages from Letters Home by Sylvia Plath: Correspondence1950–1963 by Aurelia  ...
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca

The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

A reissue of a landmark poetry volume with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner W. S. Merwin. Bilingual.
The Texas Holiday Cookbook

The Texas Holiday Cookbook

Dotty Griffith

ChefSylvia Casares (photo by Kim Coff man) Houston Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen grew out of Sylvia Casares's love forthe South Texas cuisine she grew up on in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Sylvia started her first restaurant in Rosenberg, ...
Federico Dezzani - Blog. Anno 2016

Federico Dezzani - Blog. Anno 2016

Federico Dezzani

Non figurano proprio Anne Alexande e Maha Abdelrahman, i due docenti di Regeni a Cambridge, tra i firmatari? Ed invece, no! Il presunto muro d'omertà innalzato dalle autorità egiziane, si trasforma in una fortezza inespugnabile in ...
Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in ...

Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in ...

Federico Finchelstein

In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally.
From Fascism to Populism in History

From Fascism to Populism in History

Federico Finchelstein

In this fascinating book, Federico Finchelstein shows with historical erudition and theoretical insight how populism’s long, globally connected history combines the national, transnational, and supranational, and how populism can (and ...
Blood Wedding: (Bodas de Sangre)

Blood Wedding: (Bodas de Sangre)

Federico García Lorca

Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men.
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, ...

The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, ...

Federico Finchelstein

Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism, 163–77. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. “Una enérgica homilía de Mons. Bolatti,” La Nación, October 8, 1976. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 80. “Este gobierno militar tiene mandato,” La Nación, May 27  ...
Matteo Renzi e Nicolas Sarkozy: anatomia di una scalata al ...

Matteo Renzi e Nicolas Sarkozy: anatomia di una scalata al ...

Federico Dezzani

Federico Dezzani. di prendere parte alle operazioni (e di concedere l'uso delle basi) senza l'avvallo ONU 144;ilministro degli EsteriEmma Bonino è moltoattiva sulpiano internazionale perla riapertura deirapporti diplomatici ed economici con  ...
Sylvia Earle: Extraordinary Explorer and Marine Biologist

Sylvia Earle: Extraordinary Explorer and Marine Biologist

Rebecca Rowell

This title is a brief, yet informative, biography on Sylvia Earle.
Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath

This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.
Black Jaguar Green Jade: A Maya Mystery

Black Jaguar Green Jade: A Maya Mystery

Sylvia L. Andrews

A Maya Mystery Sylvia L. Andrews. Black Jaguar, Green Jade A Maya Adventure by Sylvia Andrews SylvanArts Press Indianapolis Copyright 2012 by Sylvia Andrews Sylvanarts Press www.sylvanartspress.com ISBN 1481020609.

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