Modern Humanities Research Association - Böcker

Containing nine fictional writings by the French painter, Odilon Redon (1840-1916), this is the first edition of the text that has been established from a transcription made by Andre Mellerio as the original manuscript was unavailable.

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Presents the anonymous fifteenth-century French translation of Alan of Lille's Liber Parabolarum. The 1492 print by Antoine Verard survives in fewer than a dozen copies.

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, famous for her novels, aphorisms, novellas, and diary writing, authored twenty-six plays. The plays selected for this volume are one-act comedies dating from late 1880s to 1900. In each play, a man and a woman who loved...

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Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) is best known as the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte who played a key role in the 18th Brumaire coup d'tat that brought his brother to power in 1799. He was subsequently named Minister of the Interior of the Empi...

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Today the Prsident Hnault (1685-1770) is perhaps best remembered for his Abrg chronologique de l'histoire de France. In addition, this acadmicien wrote several plays including Franois II, roi de France, a five-act tragedy depicting 'la jalousie de...

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'L'Istoire de la Chastelaine du Vergier et de Tristan le Chevalier', compose en prose au XVme sicle et conserve dans un unique manuscrit, est un remaniement anonyme de 'La Chastelaine de Vergi', ce court pome du XIIIme sicle au succs incontestable...

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A companion volume to Letzte Chancen, this edition will introduce readers to two virtually unknown tragedies by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Maria Stuart in Schottland. Historische Tragdie; and Marie Roland. Trauerspiel in fnf Aufzgen. Marie von Eb...

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Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies. Yet there has been a tendency for the poet's views on matters of politics to be seen by critics as a self-contained, discrete area for study. This edition o...

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Composed in Nicosia in 1288 by Jehan de Journi, an educated crusader knight, La Disme de Penitanche is a versified manual designed to help the laity prepare themselves for confession. It is a fascinating mixture of the learned and the popular, dra...

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This anonymous play was written and published in obviously very limited numbers, as it is very hard to find, and all indications are that it was not performed - the preface mentions "directors who would like to undertake its production". It is bas...

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This critical edition of the biggest box-office hit of seventeenth-century France finally makes the text of the play available more easily to students and scholars The text will be of interest to anyone studying seventeenth-century French theatre ...

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Louise von Franois (1817-1893) was a German writer of realist fiction and a contemporary of Fontane, Storm and Meyer. Her most famous novel, 'Die letzte Reckenburgerin' (1871), was regarded as one of the most innovative novels of the nineteenth ce...

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This satirical poem, known popularly as the Miliade because of its thousand-verse length (in octosyllabic verse), was printed anonymously around 1636. The poem's endurance and plentiful and specific political references make it a lively commentary...

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Given the outstanding popularity of Ovid in Europe throughout the Middle Ages, disappointingly few translations of his works into French have survived and even fewer have been carefully studied. This edition is an attempt to remedy this situation ...

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This volume presents a full transcription of the three extant manuscripts of Angelo Beolco's Prima oratione, delivered to Cardinal Marco Cornaro in 1521 at his villa in Asolo subsequent to his entrance as bishop of Padua. Praising the new bishop o...

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The bibliography records doctoral and selected masters' theses (over 3,300 in all) from British and Irish universities in the field of Russian, Soviet and East European studies. This is broadly interpreted to include all disciplines in the humanit...

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This copiously annotated bibliography documents and examines the whole range of commentary on Strindberg's works and activity in many fields besides the plays for which he is internationally best known. These include his prose fiction and poetry, ...

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This copiously annotated bibliography documents and examines the whole range of commentary on Strindberg's works and activity in many fields besides the plays for which he is internationally best known. These include his prose fiction and poetry, ...

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This copiously annotated bibliography documents and examines the whole range of commentary on Strindberg's works and activity in many fields besides the plays for which he is internationally best known. These include his prose fiction and poetry, ...

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Luise Gottsched was one of the most prominent translators in eighteenth-century Germany, bringing her countrymen into contact with the work of many key writers, thinkers and scientists in the European republic of letters. Der Lockenraub (1744) was...

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Richard Robinson's 'The Rewarde of Wickednesse' (1574) is a quasi-epic poem that imitates the de casibus form of 'A Mirror for Magistrates' and makes a clear indication of the hellish position of the damned. Robinson wrote the poem during the peri...

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Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors of the English renaissance. These volumes present selected translations from the  Moralia  and the  Parallel Lives  and put them in the context of Plutarch's wider influenc...

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It is usually assumed that the only British Romantic writer who engaged meaningfully with German philosophy was S. T. Coleridge. This edition disproves that assumption. The book collects thirteen essays and one set of lecture notes written by Henr...

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Evariste-Dsir de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Posies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Madcasses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, inc...

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This volume brings together a range of celebrated and less familiar translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses produced in English between 1480 and 1625, beginning with the story of Narcissus from Caxton's manuscript translation of the Metamorphoses and...

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Humphrey Llwyd's Breviary of Britain (1573) is both the first Tudor description of Britain and a passionate and learned defence of Welsh historical traditions. Featuring the first reference in English to the 'British Empire', Thomas Twyne's transl...

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A 100-page Gothic tale embedded in Genlis's 1782 novel 'Adle et Thodore', the 'Histoire de la duchesse de C***' tells the story of an Italian duchess secretly imprisoned by her husband for nine years in a dungeon under his palace after he drugs he...

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