Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance...

Author: Jonas Grethlein (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781316642573
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and...  Read More >>

Pindar and the Emergence of Literature

Pindar and the Emergence of Literature

Author: Boris Maslov (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781107539099
Format: Paperback
$98.32

For much of Western history, Pindar's work was recognized as the pinnacle of lyric poetry. This book presents an...  Read More >>

Latin Literature and its Transmission

Latin Literature and its Transmission

Author: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge) ,  S. P. Oakley (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781107538115
Format: Paperback
$98.32

A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two...  Read More >>

Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound

Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce,...

Author: Leah Culligan Flack (Marquette University, Wisconsin)
ISBN: 9781107518469
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book explores the surprising versatility of Homer's epics of wandering and homecoming for the radical formal...  Read More >>

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance...

Author: Linda Marie Rouillard
ISBN: 9783030356019
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval...  Read More >>

Virgil's Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid

Virgil's Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid...

Author: Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781107535695
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book sheds new light on Virgil's Aeneid via a detailed study of Ascanius, Aeneas' young son and ancestor of...  Read More >>

Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern

Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern...

Author: Ian Repath ,  Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
ISBN: 9789492444943
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This volume in honour of John Morgan contains seventeen essays by colleagues, research students, and post-doctoral...  Read More >>

Sophokles Koenig Oidipus

Sophokles Koenig Oidipus

Author: Sophocles
ISBN: 9785519703673
Format: Hardback
$77.60

Fur den schulgebrauch erklart. Funfte auflage bearbeitet. This book, Sophokles Koenig Oidipus , by Sophocles,...  Read More >>

The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar

The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar...

Author: Eitan Fishbane (Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, The Jewish Theological Seminary)
ISBN: 9780190073176
Format: Paperback
$87.95

In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues...  Read More >>

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781989814369
Format: Hardback
$44.80

After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman...  Read More >>

Lifelong Studies in Love with Plato

Lifelong Studies in Love with Plato

Author: Maurizio Migliori
ISBN: 9783896658654
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This book contains eight long essays, which have never been published in English and which offer a highly original...  Read More >>

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from...

Author: Rosie Wyles (Lecturer in Classical History and Literature, Lecturer in Classical History and Literature, University of Kent) ,  Edith Hall (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198855088
Format: Paperback
$108.95

This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history...  Read More >>

Heil Und Heilung: Die Kultur Der Selbstsorge in Der Kunst Und Literatur Des Mittelalters Und Der Fruhen Neuzeit

Heil Und Heilung: Die Kultur Der Selbstsorge in Der...

Author: Tobias Bulang ,  Regina Toepfer
ISBN: 9783825346560
Format: Hardback
$139.92

English summary: The antique culture of self-care lives on in a transformed state within the christian medieval...  Read More >>

Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present

Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the...

Author: Silvia Bigliazzi ,  Sharon Wood
ISBN: 9781138356702
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Literary Theory and the New Testament

Literary Theory and the New Testament

Author: Michal Beth Dinkler ,  John J. Collins
ISBN: 9780300219913
Format: Hardback
$113.95

A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach to the New Testament  Read More >>

Rumi: Hidden Music

Rumi: Hidden Music

Author: Maryam Mafi ,  Azima Melita Kolin
ISBN: 9780008387167
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world’s most loved mystical teachers...  Read More >>

Greek Mythology: The Most Captivating Myths of Ancient Greek Gods, Monsters, and Heros

Greek Mythology: The Most Captivating Myths of Ancient...

Author: Darius Filo
ISBN: 9798615259531
Format: Paperback
$26.32

The greatest myths and stories from Ancient Greece are often based partly on real historical events. Parts are factual...  Read More >>

SAPERE-Paket, Bände XXVII-XXXI: Band XXVII: Sapientia Salomonis (Weisheit Salomos) - Band XXVIII: Gegen falsche Götter und falsche Bildung - Band XXIX: In Praise of Asclepius - Band XXX: Abrahams Aufbruch - Band XXXI: Ist Beten sinnvoll?

SAPERE-Paket, Bände XXVII-XXXI: Band XXVII: Sapientia...

Author: Reinhard Feldmeier ,  Rainer Hirsch-Luipold
ISBN: 9783161593796
Format: Paperback
$287.21

Die Reihe SAPERE (Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia, Schriften der späteren...  Read More >>

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition: Inventing Women

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition:...

Author: Christopher M. Flavin
ISBN: 9781498592727
Format: Hardback
$216.00

Examining texts from the beginning of the Christian era through the Renaissance, the author demonstrates that the...  Read More >>

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