Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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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 >>

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9781989814543
Format: Hardback
$41.32

In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary...  Read More >>

On the Art of Poetry

On the Art of Poetry

Author: Aristotle ,  Ingram Bywater
ISBN: 9781618958662
Format: Hardback
$51.62

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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 >>

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781989631928
Format: Paperback
$33.56

One of Dickens' best-loved novels and some critics say, his greatest. Covering the story of one man’s life — with...  Read More >>

The Dome of Uryne: A Reading Edition of Nine Middle English Uroscopies

The Dome of Uryne: A Reading Edition of Nine Middle...

Author: M. Teresa Tavormina (Professor of English Emerita, Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9780198845324
Format: Hardback
$168.19

An edition of nine of the most widely-disseminated texts in one of the most common genres of Middle English medical...  Read More >>

Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque

Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times -...

Author: Thomas Schmidt ,  Pascale Fleury
ISBN: 9781487525972
Format: Paperback
$72.42

From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (Professor of Latin, Universities of Siena and Stanford) ,  Walter Scheidel (Professor of Classics, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780198856009
Format: Paperback
$77.95

An indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in the field of Roman Studies. Over fifty distinguished scholars...  Read More >>

Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods: From the Past to the Future of the Lyric Subject

Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods: From...

Author: David Fearn
ISBN: 9789004424364
Format: Paperback
$248.16

What is distinctive about Greek lyric? How should we conceptualize it in relation to literature, song, music, rhetoric,...  Read More >>

Cornelius Tacitus: Band 1-2

Cornelius Tacitus: Band 1-2

Author: Tacitus Cornelius
ISBN: 9785519704083
Format: Hardback
$90.54

1 band: Ab excessu divi augusti l- VI.Ab excessu divi augusti Xl- XVI. Mit den varianten der Florentiner Handschrift...  Read More >>

Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

Author: William Brockliss
ISBN: 9780674987357
Format: Paperback
$75.24

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The Cypria

The Cypria

Author: Malcolm Davies
ISBN: 9780674237919
Format: Paperback
$34.95

The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is...  Read More >>

Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer

Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization...

Author: Andrew Porter
ISBN: 9780674984455
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Andrew Porter explores characterization in Homer, from an oral-traditional point of view, through the resonance...  Read More >>

Ysengrimus: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Ysengrimus: Lateinisch - Deutsch

Author: Michael Schilling
ISBN: 9783110663150
Format: Hardback
$182.13

This edition of the Ysengrimus is the first to offer the Latin text with a new German prose translation that preserves...  Read More >>

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9781989814109
Format: Paperback
$33.56

In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary...  Read More >>

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity Through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410383457
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers...  Read More >>

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

Author: Gregory Nagy
ISBN: 9780674241688
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Postclassicisms

Postclassicisms

Author: The Postclassicisms Collective
ISBN: 9780226672311
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting...  Read More >>

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Author: William Hazlitt
ISBN: 9781774410172
Format: Hardback
$41.37

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth...  Read More >>

Postclassicisms

Postclassicisms

Author: The Postclassicisms Collective
ISBN: 9780226672281
Format: Hardback
$173.95

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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect...

Author: Professor Mario Telò ,  Professor Melissa Mueller
ISBN: 9781350143593
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality...  Read More >>

Bürger-Ethos, politisches Engagement und die Bewahrung des Status Quo: Plutarch, Politische Ratschläge

Bürger-Ethos, politisches Engagement und die Bewahrung...

Author: Vera Hofmann ,  Gustav Adolf Lehmann
ISBN: 9783161591006
Format: Hardback
$225.11

Der vorliegende Band bietet eine vollständige neue Übersetzung und Kommentierung der Politischen Ratschläge ( Praecepta...  Read More >>

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms,...

Author: Karl Steel
ISBN: 9781517905279
Format: Paperback
$47.99

From pet keeping to sky burials, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge...  Read More >>

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms,...

Author: Karl Steel
ISBN: 9781517905262
Format: Hardback
$255.79

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity...  Read More >>

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