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This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature, Milton's Paradise Lost.
From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers such as Simon Fish, William Tyndale and John Bale, and into the 1590s, this book argues for a vital reassessment of our understanding of the literary and cultural modes of the Reformation. It argues that the ostensibly revolutionary character of early Protestant literary culture was deeply indebted to medieval satirical writing and, indeed, can be viewed as a remarkable crystallization of the textual movements and polemical personae of a rich, combative tradition of medieval writing which is still at play on the London stage in the age of Marlowe ...
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Technology is king and will continue to be the driving force enlightening mankind of the past and possibly the future. This is the story of one such technological development that reveals the past and the cosmo. The impact of gaining detailed information on the past and the existence of life beyond our small planet impacts all aspects of life on earth, including religion, morality and government. The developers of this technology are caught up in a multitude of conflicting interest that put life, as we know it, at risk. The technology is not beyond the realm off possibility.
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A vivid album of the year on the Great White Way, "Broadway Yearbook" gives readers front-row seats for the phenomenon of "The Producers" and the rest of the season's hits and misses. 31 halftones.
'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England challenges traditional readings of literary history and proposes a fresh approach to the politics of consensus and contestation that distinguishes current scholarly debates about this period.