Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584562
Format: Paperback
$72.45

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 1: Medieval Arthurian Literatures and Cultures

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516003
Format: Hardback
$362.25

The authoritative source for those wanting to explore the flourishing medieval world of Arthur from its very beginnings,...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 2: Arthurian Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Raluca L. Radulescu (Bangor University, Wales) ,  Andrew Lynch (The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781316516010
Format: Hardback
$362.25

Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584579
Format: Hardback
$232.88

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997714
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....

Author: Lucian ,  Professor Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780674997707
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume...

Author: Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) ,  Aaron Pelttari (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781108476379
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which...  Read More >>

Catullus: Volume 51

Catullus: Volume 51

Author: Monica R. Gale (Trinity College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781009709798
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia...

Author: Professor Richard Jenkyns
ISBN: 9781350534483
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

Author: Katherine Krauss (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Kalamazoo College)
ISBN: 9780198926672
Format: Hardback
$234.95

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Author: Isabelle Torrance (Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781350430426
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander

Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander

Author: Virginia Mastellari
ISBN: 9783119144285
Format: Hardback
$92.92

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The Spirit of Aristophanes

The Spirit of Aristophanes

Author: Mary C English (Professor of Classics and General Humanities, Montclair State University_x000D_) ,  Dustin W Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College)
ISBN: 9781399511988
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC: Volume 1, The Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300...

Author: Eric Csapo (University of Warwick) ,  Peter Wilson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780521765527
Format: Hardback
$439.87

The first fully comprehensive historical study of the festivals of Dionysus in the city of Athens that hosted performances...  Read More >>

Catullus: Selected Poems

Catullus: Selected Poems

Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus ,  Stephen Mitchell
ISBN: 9780300285475
Format: Paperback
$26.95

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries...  Read More >>

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Beyond

Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian...

Author: Stephanie Amsel
ISBN: 9783032072313
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Author: Jessica Brantley
ISBN: 9781512828665
Format: Paperback
$92.99

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence

Author: Michael Sherberg
ISBN: 9781487563134
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Jacopo Passavanti is a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's summa on penitence that explores sin,...  Read More >>

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300–1579

Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric...

Author: Holton
ISBN: 9780192873545
Format: Hardback
$202.95

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the Soul in Early Enlightenment England

Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the...

Author: Michelle Pfeffer (Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Postdoctoral Research Associate, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198989202
Format: Hardback
$246.95

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Author: Dr Péter Hajdu (Shenzhen University, China)
ISBN: 9781350258167
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

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