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  | | Inventing English A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13794-2, ISBN: 0-231-13794-X "Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer's Inventing English is a masterful, engaging history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the e ..." |
 | | Prospero's Son(Updated) Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Professor Seth Lerer Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01441-8, ISBN: 0-226-01441-X "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is, as fits our latter days, altogether more complicated, layered, and multivalent, but at its heart is that same problem: the fraught relationship between fathers and sons. At the same time, ..." |
 | | Children's Literature(Reprint) A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Professor Seth Lerer Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47301-7, ISBN: 0-226-47301-5 |
 | | Shakespeare's Lyric Stage(1st Edition) Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays by Seth Lerer Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58254-2, ISBN: 0-226-58254-X "What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare’s late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up l ..." |
 | | Shakespeare's Lyric Stage(1st Edition) Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays by Seth Lerer Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58240-5, ISBN: 0-226-58240-X "What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare’s late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up l ..." |
 | | Children's Literature(1st Edition) A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Professor Seth Lerer Hardcover, 396 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47300-0, ISBN: 0-226-47300-7 "Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals ..." |
 | | 8"x10" Montana 2" Barnwood Frame(1st Edition) by Seth Lerer, David R. Slavitt, Boethius Boethius Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04835-5, ISBN: 0-674-04835-0 " In this highly praised new translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating verse and prose sections in the Latin original, allowing us to appreciate the Menippian paral ..." |
 | | Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII(1st Edition) Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Seth Lerer Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 1997 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59001-3, ISBN: 0-521-59001-9 "This revisionary study of the origins of courtly literature reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through new research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. In close readings of early Tudor poetry, court drama, letters, manuscript anthologies and printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a " ..." |
 | | The Wind in the Willows An Annotated Edition by Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03447-1, ISBN: 0-674-03447-3 "Begun as a series of stories told by Kenneth Grahame to his six-year-old son, "The Wind in the Willows" has become one of the most beloved works of children's literature ever written. It has been illustrated, famously, by E.H. Shepard and Arthur Rackham, and parts of it were dramatized by A.A. Milne as "Toad of Toad Hall". A century after its initial publication it still enchants. Much in Grahame's novel - the sensitivity of Mole, the m ..." |
 | | Boethius and Dialogue Literary Method in the "Consolation of Philosophy" (Princeton Legacy Library) by Seth Lerer Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-63932-1, ISBN: 0-691-63932-9 "This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the di ..." |
 | | Boethius and Dialogue(Reprint) Literary Method in the "Consolation of Philosophy" (Princeton Legacy Library) by Seth Lerer Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2014 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-61131-0, ISBN: 0-691-61131-9 " This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books f ..." |
 | | Chaucer and His Readers(Updated) by Seth Lerer Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1996 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-02923-8, ISBN: 0-691-02923-7 " Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century ..." |
 | | The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition Parts 1-3 with 6 DVDs by Professor Seth Lerer, directed by The Great Courses Dvd, Published 2008 by The Teaching Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-59803-402-8, ISBN: 1-59803-402-2 "This course offers an overview of the English language that is literary, historical, cultural, political, and scientific in its scope and designed to give you greater insight into the written and spoken word. The lectures provide a thorough understanding of the history of the English language - from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples through the literary and cultural documents of its 1,500-year span to the state o ..." |
 | | Reading from the Margins Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature (Paperback) by Ardis Butterfield, Julia Boffey, Seth Lerer, Iii Hanna Ralph Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1996 by Huntington Library Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87328-163-8, ISBN: 0-87328-163-2 "The six essays in Reading from the Margins explore new approaches to the textual study of medieval manuscripts. Ralph Hanna III and A. S. G. Edwards open the volume's broad inquiry into Chaucer's early readership by looking at the annotation on the flyleaves of the Ellesmere manuscript. Julia Boffey shows the ways in which bits of poems attributed and misattributed to Chaucer reflect the medieval literary vocation and shape our understa ..." |
 | | Literary History and the Challenge of Philology(1st Edition) The Legacy of Erich Auerbach (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture) by Seth Lerer Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 1996 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2545-3, ISBN: 0-8047-2545-4 "A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on the place of historical criticism in the construction of literary history, on the relations between intellectual activity and political action, and on the function of the critic in recording—or effecting—social change. More than an occasion to review past accomplishments or revel in the n ..." |
 | | La Vita Nuova(Reprint) by Dante Alighieri, Seth Lerer, David R. Slavitt Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-41676-5, ISBN: 0-674-41676-7 "La Vita Nuova (1292–94) has many aspects. Dante’s libello, or “little book,” is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when he was nine and she eight), through unrequited love and chance encounters, to his profound grief sixteen years later at her sudden and unexpected death. Linked with Dante’s verse are commentaries on the individual po ..." |
 | | Tradition(1st Edition) A Feeling for the Literary Past: The Literary Agenda by Seth Lerer Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-873628-8, ISBN: 0-19-873628-2 "The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of "the literary" has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is skeptically challenged from within, for exam ..." |
 | | La Vita Nuova(1st Edition) by Dante Alighieri, Seth Lerer, David R. Slavitt Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05093-8, ISBN: 0-674-05093-2 " La Vita Nuova (1292–94) has many aspects. Dante’s libello, or “little book,” is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when he was nine and she eight), through unrequited love and chance encounters, to his profound grief sixteen years later at her sudden and unexpected death. Linked with Dante’s verse are commentaries on the individual ..." |
 | | The Consolation of Philosophy by Seth Lerer, David R. Slavitt Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03105-0, ISBN: 0-674-03105-9 " In this highly praised new translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating verse and prose sections in the Latin original, allowing us to appreciate the Menippian paral ..." |
 | | The Yale Companion to Chaucer(1st Edition) by Professor Seth Lerer, Prof. Seth Lerer Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2007 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12597-9, ISBN: 0-300-12597-6 "This new collection of specially commissioned essays on Chaucer's poetry is a single-volume guide to the best and most inventive work in Chaucerian studies today. The first such book written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind, The Yale Companion to Chaucer provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of current critical interpretation, and on the poet's place ..." |
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