Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism: The Humanistic Alternative

Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism: The...

Author: James Seaton (Michigan State University)
ISBN: 9781107514935
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be...  Read More >>

Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus

Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King,...

Author: Sophocles ,  Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor of Classics, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192806857
Format: Paperback
$27.95

This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and...  Read More >>

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the...

Author: Philip Freeman
ISBN: 9780393242232
Format: Hardback
$44.95

An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her...  Read More >>

Bergmilch - Grossdruck

Bergmilch - Grossdruck

Author: Adalbert Stifter
ISBN: 9781530914050
Format: Paperback
$17.16

Grossdruck Im Mittelpunkt dieser Erzahlung steht ein Schloss und seine Bewohner, uber die die napoleonischen Kriege...  Read More >>

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient...

Author: Mary R. Bachvarova (Willamette University, Oregon)
ISBN: 9780521509794
Format: Hardback
$336.38

This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that the Near Eastern influence...  Read More >>

A Defence of Poetry (annotated)

A Defence of Poetry (annotated)

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN: 9781530890880
Format: Paperback
$15.81

A Defence of Poetry is a classic essay by Percy Shelley. Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be the expression...  Read More >>

Variety – The Life of a Roman Concept

Variety – The Life of a Roman Concept

Author: William Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780226299495
Format: Hardback
$97.95

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks...  Read More >>

Nachträge, Chronologie und Register

Nachträge, Chronologie und Register

Author: No Contributor
ISBN: 9783598249976
Format: Hardback
$685.69

Volume 8 provides a chronology of German literature in the Middle Ages, statistics concerning this chronology, an...  Read More >>

The Sublime in Antiquity

The Sublime in Antiquity

Author: James I. Porter (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9781107037472
Format: Hardback
$243.23

The first book to break away from existing scholarship's dominant focus on Longinus and to outline an alternative...  Read More >>

Case Studies

Case Studies

Author: Giulio Colesanti ,  Laura Lulli
ISBN: 9783110434576
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Wisdom and Folly in Euripides

Wisdom and Folly in Euripides

Author: Poulheria Kyriakou ,  Antonios Rengakos
ISBN: 9783110452259
Format: Hardback
$240.15

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A Mirror to Devout People: Speculum devotorum

A Mirror to Devout People: Speculum devotorum

Author: Paul J. Patterson (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Saint Joseph's University)
ISBN: 9780198744979
Format: Hardback
$117.95

This is the first full critical edition of a fifteenth-century devotional work written for a Bridgettine nun at...  Read More >>

Die plautinischen Prologe und ihre Funktion: Zur Konstruktion von Spannung und Komik in den Komödien des Plautus

Die plautinischen Prologe und ihre Funktion: Zur Konstruktion...

Author: Elisabeth Hollmann
ISBN: 9783110470864
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Plautus' prologues are the starting point for many of his comedies. Their speakers introduce the audience to a parallel...  Read More >>

The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets

The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets

Author: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780268044121
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Winthrop Wetherbee's study of Dante's relationship to the classical Latin poets—Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius—is...  Read More >>

Letters To Poseidon

Letters To Poseidon

Author: Laura Watkinson ,  Cees Nooteboom
ISBN: 9781782066200
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A memoir of reflections and pictures by one of the great European novelists  Read More >>

William Marshal

William Marshal

Author: David Crouch (University of Hull, UK)
ISBN: 9781138939325
Format: Hardback
$284.00

David Crouch’s William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless...  Read More >>

Liebe und Leid, Kampf und Grimm: Gefühlswelten in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

Liebe und Leid, Kampf und Grimm: Gefühlswelten in der...

Author: Irmgard Rüsenberg
ISBN: 9783412503611
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Die literaturwissenschaftliche Mediävistik verdankt moderner Emotionsforschung bedeutsame Impulse. Einen breit gefächerten...  Read More >>

William Marshal

William Marshal

Author: David Crouch (University of Hull, UK)
ISBN: 9781138939332
Format: Paperback
$88.99

David Crouch’s William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless...  Read More >>

The Hebrew Bible as Literature: A Very Short Introduction

The Hebrew Bible as Literature: A Very Short Introduction...

Author: Tod Linafelt (professor of biblical literature, Theology Department, professor of biblical literature, Theology Department, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780195300079
Format: Paperback
$24.95

This book offers a thorough and lively introduction to the Hebrew Bible's two primary literary modes, narrative...  Read More >>

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