Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, having previously taught at Rutgers, Harvard and Berkeley, USA. He is the author of seven books, including A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare (2007) and Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City (2010).
9 Ebooks von Alfred Thomas
Alfred Thomas: Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare’s drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and …
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€53.49
Alfred Thomas: Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the ‚Father of English Literature, ‚ evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas …
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Englisch
€53.49
Alfred Thomas: Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revision …
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Englisch
€85.59
Judith Ryan & Alfred Thomas: Cultures of Forgery
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Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word ‚forge‘-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the …
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€18.68
Judith Ryan & Alfred Thomas: Cultures of Forgery
In
Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word ‚forge‘-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the …
EPUB
DRM
€18.71
Alfred Thomas: The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture
First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs on the court of Richard II.
Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but …
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€32.99
Alfred Thomas: Writing Plague
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. …
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Englisch
€106.99
Alfred Thomas: The Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria
The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.
The virgin martyr St Catherine was one of the pre-eminent and most popular saints in the Middle Ages, her legend sprea …
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Englisch
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€32.99
Alfred Thomas: Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria
The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.The virgin martyr St Catherine was one of the pre-eminent and most popular saints in the Middle Ages, her legend spreading …
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Englisch
DRM
€31.31
