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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3
(2017)
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio ...
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy. Volume 2
Vertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy' is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio ...
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
(2017)
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the ...
The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'
(2020)
The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon ...
Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture
(2017)
Are humans violent or peaceful by nature? We are both. In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Agner Fog presents a ground-breaking new argument that explains the existence of differently organised societies using ...