Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness: A Study of El Casamiento Enganoso y el Coloquio de los Perros

Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness: A Study of...

Author: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691640624
Format: Hardback
$155.00

This examination of the last two tales of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares reveals the Christian Humanist tradition...  Read More >>

The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses

The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins...

Author: Garth Tissol
ISBN: 9780691630335
Format: Hardback
$155.00

In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic...  Read More >>

Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic Poetry in Its Setting

Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic...

Author: Eva Stehle
ISBN: 9780691631912
Format: Hardback
$240.00

"""Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter,"" writes Eva Stehle, ""but shared in the present mirth and laughter...  Read More >>

Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author: Susan Crane
ISBN: 9780691634968
Format: Hardback
$150.00

In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that...  Read More >>

Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus

Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus...

Author: James Tatum
ISBN: 9780691635378
Format: Hardback
$200.00

"""If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough,"" writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ""...you...  Read More >>

The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental

The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental...

Author: Marina Scordilis Brownlee
ISBN: 9780691634616
Format: Hardback
$180.00

In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex...  Read More >>

Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics

Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics...

Author: David O. Ross
ISBN: 9780691637969
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Professor Ross presents the Georgics as a poem of science, of the power and ultimate failure of knowledge. Exploring...  Read More >>

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition...

Author: Kathy Eden
ISBN: 9780691638461
Format: Hardback
$135.00

When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional...  Read More >>

Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernard Silvester

Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of...

Author: Brian Stock
ISBN: 9780691646350
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The Cosmographia of Bernard Silvester was the most important literary myth written between Lucretius and Dante....  Read More >>

Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants

Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants

Author: Robert Duff Murray
ISBN: 9780691652788
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Few Greek tragedies confront the critic with more varied difficulties than the Suppliants, and perhaps no other...  Read More >>

Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the COMEDY

Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the COMEDY

Author: Teodolinda Barolini
ISBN: 9780691640013
Format: Hardback
$200.00

By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini...  Read More >>

Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative

Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative...

Author: John M. Ganim
ISBN: 9780691640983
Format: Hardback
$135.00

John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet...  Read More >>

Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

Author: Charles Segal
ISBN: 9780691638829
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest...  Read More >>

Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translation, Notes, and Essays

Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translation, Notes,...

Author: David Anderson
ISBN: 9780691641300
Format: Hardback
$210.00

"This book makes available the entire range of Ezra Pounds studies and translations of the technically complex philosophical...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: The Suppliants

Aeschylus: The Suppliants

Author: Aeschylus ,  P. Burian
ISBN: 9780691635927
Format: Hardback
$135.00

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising...  Read More >>

The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry

The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry

Author: Bonnie MacLachlan
ISBN: 9780691630762
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio

Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio...

Author: Francis Fergusson
ISBN: 9780691649375
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The individual insights employed in this reading of the Purgatorio are those of a twentieth-century mind, as are...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery

Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of...

Author: Chauncey Wood
ISBN: 9780691648002
Format: Hardback
$235.00

Professor Wood examines in detail the astrological references in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and...  Read More >>

Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses

Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses

Author: Michael A. Seidel
ISBN: 9780691638744
Format: Hardback
$185.00

In proposing that places, movements, and directions are deeply implicated in the narrative structure of Ulysses,...  Read More >>

Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge

Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge

Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta
ISBN: 9780691636986
Format: Hardback
$220.00

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the...  Read More >>

Cervantes' Christian Romance: A Study of Persiles y Sigismunda

Cervantes' Christian Romance: A Study of Persiles y...

Author: Alban K. Forcione
ISBN: 9780691646626
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Alban Forcione analyzes the problem which has most troubled modern readers of the Persiles, its episodic character...  Read More >>

On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature

On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature

Author: Andras Hamori
ISBN: 9780691645360
Format: Hardback
$135.00

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Essays on Roman Satire

Essays on Roman Satire

Author: William S. Anderson
ISBN: 9780691642161
Format: Hardback
$320.00

Irvine Anderson carefully reconstructs the years between 1933 and 1950 and provides a case study of the evolution...  Read More >>

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume II: Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunting, Travel, Sightseeing, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume...

Author: David R. Knechtges ,  Tong Xiao
ISBN: 9780691630731
Format: Hardback
$250.00

The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531), is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literary genres. It...  Read More >>

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