Articles

What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations. This is the argument of "Through Other... 
Geography | American literature | Literature, Comparative | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) | Language & Literature | Globalization in literature | American and Ancient | History and criticism | Ancient and American | Foreign influences

Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman... 
History | Greek literature | Greece | Trojan War | In literature | To 1500 | Homer | History and criticism | Literature and the war | Literature and history

Classical influences | Early works to 1800 | Religious aspects | Hermeneutics | Literature, Medieval | Latin literature, Medieval and modern | Christianity | Literary form | History | History and criticism | Fiction

"This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using... 
Early modern | Classical influences | 1500-1700 | Collective memory and literature | Intertextuality | English literature | Cognition in literature | Memory in literature | Historical criticism (Literature) | History and criticism | Collective memory and literature - England

This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing,... 
Fantasy in literature | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | History in literature | English literature | Irish literature | literature | literary studies (early and medieval) | Middle English, 1100-1500

Comparative literature | Arts, Modern | Classical influences | Civilization, Western | Classical and modern | Classicism | Periodicals | Civilization, Classical | Modern and classical

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and... 
Middle Ages in literature | History and criticism | Literature, Modern | Literature, Medieval | Literature: history & criticism | Europe/General | Literary and Cultural Studies | Shakespeare | Literary studies: classical, early & medieval | Literary Theory & Criticism | Literature and Religion | Renaissance | Medieval Literature | Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 | Renaissance & Early Modern | English Literature | Renaissance and Early Modern Literature | 15th and 16th centuries | Criticism | History | European literature

The Familiar Enemy re‐examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this... 
Nationalism and literature | English influences | Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 | French literature | English literature | History and criticism | History | French influences | literary studies (early and medieval) | Middle English, 1100-1500 | To 1500 | d. 1400 | Great Britain | France | Chaucer, Geoffrey | Chaucer | Gower | Nation | Deschamps | Henry V | Hundred Years War | Anglo-French | Shakespeare | Anglo-Norman | Froissart | Jeanne d'Arc | Multilingual

Examining both familiar and underappreciated texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that early modern French and English writers conceived with... 
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) | English influences | Roman influences | French literature | English literature | History and criticism | French influences | Classical Studies | Classical Language & Literature | 16th century | 17th century | Early modern, 1500-1700

Classicism | English Literature | Twentieth Century | Greek Literature | Ellison, Ralph | Authors

Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, "Aesopic Conversations" offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked... 
Popular culture | Popular culture and literature | Aesop Influence | Fables, Greek | Greek prose literature | Literary form | History and criticism | History | Literature and society | Aesop's fables | Greece | 1QDAG | Ancient | Literary Criticism | HBLA1 | HBTB | Ancient & Classical | DSBB | Aesop’s fables | To 146 B.C | To 1500 | Language & Literature | Aesop | Influence

This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading... 
History | Authors and readers | Classical influences | Authorship | Authors and patrons | Appreciation | Europe | Latin literature | History and criticism | European literature | Comparative literature

Published just after the Second World War,European Literature and the Latin Middle Agesis a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European... 
Latin literature, Medieval and modern | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | European literature | General | Medieval | Ancient & Classical | European | Literary Criticism | Language & Literature

Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written... 
Folk literature, English | History and criticism | Literature and folklore | English literature | literary studies (early and medieval) | literary studies (fiction, novelists, and prose writers) | Folk literature

Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's... 
Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223? Influence | Irish authors | Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, 1110?-1171 In literature | Ireland In literature | English literature | National characteristics, Irish, in literature | History and criticism | History in literature | Irish literature | Medieval Literature | Literary studies: from c 1900 | Medieval | Literary and Cultural Studies | Literary theory | British & Irish Literature | Irish Literature | Poetry | Literary studies: poetry & poets | Brit & Irish / 20th Century | Literary Theory & Criticism | 20th Century and 21st Century Literature | Literature-Philosophy