Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, Durham University. Her third monograph, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance, was published in 2010. Recent co-edited books include The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture, and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021) and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020). She is English Editor for the journal Medium Ævum.
Télécharger le livre :  The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  A Companion to Medieval Poetry

MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15th century. Beginning in the...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-02-12
Collection : Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Body and the Arts

The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-03-26

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Télécharger le livre :  A Companion to Romance

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  A Concise Companion to Chaucer

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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