Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays

Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion...

Author: Janet Goff
ISBN: 9780691633534
Format: Hardback
$190.00

The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573),...  Read More >>

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The...

Author: Kojiro Yoshikawa ,  John Timothy Wixted
ISBN: 9780691634456
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span...  Read More >>

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III: Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and Passions

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

Author: Xiao Tong ,  David R. Knechtges
ISBN: 9780691635293
Format: Hardback
$280.00

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

The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel: Ssu ta ch'i-shu

The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel: Ssu ta ch'i-shu...

Author: Andrew H. Plaks
ISBN: 9780691653853
Format: Hardback
$380.00

Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the ""Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel""...  Read More >>

Apuleius and the Metamorphosis of Platonism

Apuleius and the Metamorphosis of Platonism

Author: Claudio Moreschini
ISBN: 9782503554709
Format: Paperback
$430.32

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Girl, Get It Together

Girl, Get It Together

Author: Amber Dee
ISBN: 9780997323603
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Are you tired of living the same life day after day with no progression? Are you feeling stagnate in life and can't...  Read More >>

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics,...

Author: Mario Telo
ISBN: 9780226309699
Format: Hardback
$97.95

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From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality

From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical...

Author: Ernest Rubinstein
ISBN: 9781611477269
Format: Paperback
$123.00

This book reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit...  Read More >>

Redeeming the Kamasutra

Redeeming the Kamasutra

Author: Wendy Doniger
ISBN: 9780190499280
Format: Hardback
$30.95

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The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature

The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature...

Author: S. Edwards
ISBN: 9781349676194
Format: Paperback
$99.00

From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged...  Read More >>

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

Author: E a Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9781533401809
Format: Paperback
$44.85

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian...  Read More >>

Dialogues in French and English

Dialogues in French and English

Author: William Caxton
ISBN: 9781533401823
Format: Paperback
$29.01

INTRODUCTION. -- THE work now for the first time reprinted from Caxtons original edition has been preserved in three...  Read More >>

Scribal Culture and Intertextuality: Literary and Historical Relationships between Job and Deutero-Isaiah

Scribal Culture and Intertextuality: Literary and Historical...

Author: JiSeong James Kwon
ISBN: 9783161543975
Format: Paperback
$231.32

In this work, JiSeong James Kwon examines a variety of scholarly arguments concerning the distinctive literary and...  Read More >>

Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature

Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature

Author: Jonathan Davis-Secord
ISBN: 9781442637399
Format: Hardback
$125.00

The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings...  Read More >>

Ilias

Ilias

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9783843045858
Format: Paperback
$100.06

Homer: Ilias Entstanden in der zweiten Hälfte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung von Johann...  Read More >>

Ilias

Ilias

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9783843013932
Format: Paperback
$65.74

Homer: Ilias Entstanden in der zweiten Hälfte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung von Johann...  Read More >>

Ererbte Waffen: "Homerische Woerter aus dem Sachbereich ,Kampf und Krieg‘ in den ""Argonautika"" des Apollonios Rhodios"

Ererbte Waffen: "Homerische Woerter aus dem Sachbereich...

Author: Christina Serafimidis
ISBN: 9783631668436
Format: Paperback
$213.86

Die Argonautika des hellenistischen Dichters Apollonios Rhodios enthalten zahlreiche intertextuelle Anspielungen...  Read More >>

Ilias

Ilias

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9783843045865
Format: Hardback
$158.14

Homer: Ilias Entstanden in der zweiten Hälfte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung von Johann...  Read More >>

Ilias

Ilias

Author: Homer
ISBN: 9783843015561
Format: Hardback
$105.34

Homer: Ilias Entstanden in der zweiten Hälfte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung von Johann...  Read More >>

Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

Author: William D. Paden
ISBN: 9781442629349
Format: Hardback
$165.00

Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll...  Read More >>

Helenae encomium

Helenae encomium

Author: Gorgias ,  Francesco Donadi
ISBN: 9783110316353
Format: Hardback
$68.55

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Die Jugend des Dionysos: Die Ampelos-Episode in den ""Dionysiaka"" des Nonnos von Panopolis

Die Jugend des Dionysos: Die Ampelos-Episode in den...

Author: Nicole Kröll
ISBN: 9783110412055
Format: Hardback
$248.73

The Ampelos episode is a critical scene in the Dionysiaca of Nonnos, the Late Antique poet. The death and transfiguration...  Read More >>

König Ödipus

König Ödipus

Author: Sophokles
ISBN: 9783843021265
Format: Paperback
$28.78

The new series, Griechische Dramen [Greek Dramas], explores the classical Greek tragedies from Athens by providing...  Read More >>

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