Vendetta : essays on honor and revenge /: essays on honor and revenge. (2010 ©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Giovanna Summerfield.
• Other Names: Summerfield, Giovanna, 1963-
• Contents: Pietas as vengeance: Ovid's Metamorphoses / Meredith Prince -- The point of revenge: questioning chivalry in La vengeance raguidel and Les merveilles de rigomer / Kristin L. Burr -- The dangers of saying no: vengeance and the besieged lady in Chrétien's Chevalier au lion and Old French romance / Kathy Krause -- The goddess Nature's revenge and human nature in the medieval Spanish Libro de Alexandre / Z. David Zuwiyya -- Reigning revenge in the Poem of El Cid / Julio Hernando -- Resemblance, reality, and revenge: Nicola Van Houbranken's Portrait of François Rivière / Anne Betty Weinshenker -- Vendetta and veritas in Diderot's Madame de la Pommeraye and Bresson's Les dames du Bois de Boulogne / Marcelline Block -- For better or for worse, till death do us part: honor in Italy / Giovanna Summerfield -- "Chi cerca trova e chi seguita vince": seeking revenge in Verga's Cavalleria rusticana and Pirandello's Liolà / Susan Amatangelo.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 162 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93353; Literature & literary studies; Revenge in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian; Revenge in literature; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443821018; 1443821012
• Related ISBNs: 9781443820806; 1443820806
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.