Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages

Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages

Author: Glyn S. Burgess ,  Leslie C. Brook
ISBN: 9781781383360
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed...  Read More >>

Parodie Und Verkehrung: Formen Und Funktionen Spielerischer Verfremdung Und Spottischer Verzerrung in Texten Des Mittelalters Und Der Fruhen Neuzeit

Parodie Und Verkehrung: Formen Und Funktionen Spielerischer...

Author: Seraina Plotke ,  Stefan Seeber
ISBN: 9783847106647
Format: Paperback
$137.28

Der Band versammelt Studien zu mittellateinischen, deutschen und englischen Texten, die Techniken und Strategien...  Read More >>

Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz: Sovereign Power and...

Author: William McClellan
ISBN: 9781137565440
Format: Hardback
$260.95

Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces...  Read More >>

Strickers Karl Der Große

Strickers Karl Der Große

Author: Johannes Singer
ISBN: 9783110522433
Format: Hardback
$633.60

Mit seinem Werk 'Karl der Große' hat der Stricker im frühen 13. Jh. eine Überarbeitung und Aktualisierung des älteren...  Read More >>

Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context

Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context

Author: Sarit Kattan Gribetz ,  David M. Grossberg
ISBN: 9783161547027
Format: Hardback
$366.65

Genesis Rabbah, the earliest rabbinic commentary on Genesis, was composed in Roman Palestine around the 5th century...  Read More >>

The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors

The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected...

Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781472567758
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that...  Read More >>

The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript

Author: Raymond Clemens ,  Deborah E. Harkness
ISBN: 9780300217230
Format: Hardback
$82.95

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle  Read More >>

Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature

Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage...

Author: Walter Duvall Penrose, Jr. (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, San Diego State University)
ISBN: 9780199533374
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons...  Read More >>

The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors

The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected...

Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781472567765
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that...  Read More >>

Seneca

Seneca

Author: Christopher Star
ISBN: 9781848858909
Format: Paperback
$46.99

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde...

Author: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9781501707230
Format: Paperback
$33.61

In this sensitive reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer's...  Read More >>

Die Poesie Der Metonymie: Theorie, Asthetik Und Ubersetzung Einer Vergessenen Trope

Die Poesie Der Metonymie: Theorie, Asthetik Und Ubersetzung...

Author: Sebastian Matzner (King's College London)
ISBN: 9783825363307
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Obwohl Metapher und Metonymie als fundamentale Ausdrucksformen poetischer Sprache gelten, hat die Metonymie von...  Read More >>

Archaeology and Homeric Epic

Archaeology and Homeric Epic

Author: Susan Sherratt ,  John Bennet
ISBN: 9781785702952
Format: Paperback
$93.15

Important new multi-disciplinary exploration of the relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology employing...  Read More >>

The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias

The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias...

Author: Gijsbert Jonkers
ISBN: 9789004325913
Format: Hardback
$580.80

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The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn

The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn...

Author: Newell Ann Van Auken
ISBN: 9781438462998
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Shows how the text evolved from a non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic.  Read More >>

The Dream

The Dream

Author: Emile Zola ,  Michael Murray
ISBN: 9780995566101
Format: Paperback
$25.74

In The Dream, the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola blends mysticism and fairy tale with naturalism...  Read More >>

The Medieval German Lohengrin: Narrative Poetics in the Story of the Swan Knight

The Medieval German Lohengrin: Narrative Poetics in...

Author: Alastair Matthews
ISBN: 9781571139719
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde...

Author: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780801416842
Format: Hardback
$121.61

In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s...  Read More >>

Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste

Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste...

Author: E. Michael Gerli
ISBN: 9781469630618
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste, examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside...  Read More >>

Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England: Language Choice and Literary Meaning

Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England: Language...

Author: Susan E Deskis (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780814253649
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Through a sustained analysis of alliterative proverbs, this volume offers both an ambitious sociolinguistic study...  Read More >>

"Demosthenes' """"On the Crown": Rhetorical Perspectives

"Demosthenes' """"On the Crown": Rhetorical Perspectives...

Author: James J. Murphy ,  Lois Peters Agnew
ISBN: 9780809335107
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Demosthenes’ speech “On the Crown”, in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long...  Read More >>

Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2

Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and...

Author: André Laks ,  Glenn W. Most
ISBN: 9780674997080
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Volume VII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the atomists Leucippus and Democritus....  Read More >>

Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson

Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson...

Author: Bill Angus
ISBN: 9781474415118
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Have you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret overhearing, and tacit observations of...  Read More >>

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