Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Aristotle`s Poetics – Translation and Commentary

Aristotle`s Poetics – Translation and Commentary

Author: Richard Janko ,  Arbogast Schmitt
ISBN: 9781571139009
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Kudrun

Kudrun

Author: Danielle Buschinger ,  Danielle Buschinger
ISBN: 9782406171232
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Kudrun is a hybrid work, combining the features of several literary genres. Simultaneously secularizing the hagiography...  Read More >>

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected...

Author: Richard Seaford (University of Exeter) ,  Robert Bostock (University of New England, Australia)
ISBN: 9781316622896
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Brings together a wide range of papers written with a single vision. Greek tragedy, the New Testament, representations...  Read More >>

Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics

Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular...

Author: Filippo Gianferrari (Assistant Professor of Literature, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
ISBN: 9780198881766
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Gianferrari explores the early education Dante would have received in medieval Florence and its influence on his...  Read More >>

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle...

Author: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) ,  James Simpson, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780393543346
Format: Paperback
$129.35

A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.  Read More >>

Medieval Manuscripts and their Provenance: Essays in Honour of Barbara A. Shailor

Medieval Manuscripts and their Provenance: Essays in...

Author: Professor A. S. G. Edwards ,  Julia Boffey
ISBN: 9781843847236
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts.  Read More >>

Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean

Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean...

Author: Chance E. Bonar ,  Julia D. Lindenlaub
ISBN: 9783161617829
Format: Paperback
$295.68

The contributors to this volume explore the phenomena of authorship, attribution, and author function in literature...  Read More >>

Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading

Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading

Author: Ilaria Marchesi (Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9780198920304
Format: Hardback
$161.95

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring...  Read More >>

Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts: Essays in Honour of Professor Helen Fulton

Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts:...

Author: Victoria Flood (Royalty Account) ,  Claudio Cataldi
ISBN: 9781843847212
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's...  Read More >>

Aristophane, l'Assemblee Des Femmes

Aristophane, l'Assemblee Des Femmes

Author: Victor Coulon ,  Hilaire Van Daele
ISBN: 9782251455716
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Freigelassene der Schöpfung: Religiöse und rationale Motive in der biblischen Ethik

Freigelassene der Schöpfung: Religiöse und rationale...

Author: Gerd Theißen
ISBN: 9783161638220
Format: Hardback
$246.07

Gerd Theißen plädiert anhand einer bibelhermeneutischen Ethik dafür, die ""Freiheit"" gleichwertig neben die ökumenischen...  Read More >>

Orpheus in Macedonia: Myth, Cult and Ideology

Orpheus in Macedonia: Myth, Cult and Ideology

Author: Dr Tomasz Mojsik (University of Bialystok, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350213227
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but ‘the son of Oeagrus’ and ‘Thracian...  Read More >>

Memoria Cultural Y Memorias Periféricas de la Guerra Civil Española Y El Franquismo: Estudios Sobre Novela, Memoria Femenina, Memoria Lgtbiq+ Y Memoria Multimedia

Memoria Cultural Y Memorias Periféricas de la Guerra...

Author: Ulrich Winter ,  Germán Labrador Méndez
ISBN: 9783631873748
Format: Hardback
$137.14

El libro se divide en cuatro apartados que contemplan diversos aspectos de la Guerra Civil española, la posguerra...  Read More >>

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Guides Not Commanders

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies...

Author: Tom Harrison
ISBN: 9780367498375
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on...  Read More >>

Courtly Pastimes

Courtly Pastimes

Author: Gloria Allaire ,  Julie Human
ISBN: 9781032307916
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire...  Read More >>

The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c. 1222

The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c....

Author: Connor Christopher Wilson
ISBN: 9781032365305
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative...  Read More >>

Chaucer (Yearbook of English Studies 53)

Chaucer (Yearbook of English Studies 53)

Author: Sue Niebrzydowski ,  Vicki Kay Price
ISBN: 9781839542374
Format: Paperback
$525.36

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Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi

Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks...

Author: David Wiles (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009167994
Format: Hardback
$77.63

David Wiles boldly reframes democracy as a form of theatre, moving from Athens to the English, French, and American...  Read More >>

Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis

Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and...

Author: Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781350357266
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

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