Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Tragic in Mark: A Literary-Historical Interpretation

The Tragic in Mark: A Literary-Historical Interpretation...

Author: Jeff Jay
ISBN: 9783161532443
Format: Hardback
$354.23

"In narratives of tragic drama's history the Judeo-Christian tradition is commonly portrayed as hostile to tragic...  Read More >>

Propertiana

Propertiana

Author: D.R. Shackleton Bailey
ISBN: 9781107623958
Format: Paperback
$98.30

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Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century

Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters...

Author: M. Faletra
ISBN: 9781349482856
Format: Paperback
$167.95

Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history...  Read More >>

Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr Drama

Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr...

Author: Carl Shaw (Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, USA)
ISBN: 9780199950942
Format: Hardback
$195.95

From archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary,...  Read More >>

Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century

Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters...

Author: M. Faletra
ISBN: 9781137391025
Format: Hardback
$184.95

Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history...  Read More >>

Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature

Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature

Author: Various
ISBN: 9781138024878
Format: Mixed media product
$609.00

Classic previously out-of-print works, originally published between 1929 and 1996, are brought back into print here...  Read More >>

The Risk Doctor's Cures for Common Risk Ailments

The Risk Doctor's Cures for Common Risk Ailments

Author: David Hillson
ISBN: 9781567264593
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The Risk Doctor's Cures for Common Risk Ailments offers tried-and-true cures for risk management problems at both...  Read More >>

Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses

Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses

Author: Shane Butler ,  Alex Purves
ISBN: 9781322102283
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas,...  Read More >>

Poética

Poética

Author: José Goya Y Muniain ,  Aristóteles
ISBN: 9781500977832
Format: Paperback
$42.90

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Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays

Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays

Author: Sandra J. McEntire
ISBN: 9781138012011
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Phaethon and Other Stories from Ovid

Phaethon and Other Stories from Ovid

Author: G. M. Edwards
ISBN: 9781107678934
Format: Paperback
$80.19

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain: Literary and Historical Explorations

Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain: Literary...

Author: Richard Hillman ,  Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
ISBN: 9781472410450
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume...  Read More >>

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection: Derek Walcott's Omeros

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection: Derek Walcott's...

Author: Lance Callahan
ISBN: 9781138011649
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Beowulf: The Critical Heritage

Beowulf: The Critical Heritage

Author: Andreas Haarder ,  T A Shippey
ISBN: 9781138009103
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on...  Read More >>

Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet

Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet

Author: Harry Eyres
ISBN: 9781408843260
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet Horace, in which Eyres reexamines the poet's life, legacy and verse with...  Read More >>

Culinary verbs in Middle English

Culinary verbs in Middle English

Author: Magdalena Bator
ISBN: 9783631654286
Format: Hardback
$130.41

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Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081

Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081...

Author: Floris Bernard (Post-doctoral researcher, Post-doctoral researcher, Ghent University)
ISBN: 9780198703747
Format: Hardback
$231.00

In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal...  Read More >>

Apuleius' Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy

Apuleius' Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy...

Author: Richard Fletcher (Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9781107025479
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120–180), known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses, was also a Platonic...  Read More >>

'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls Saga

'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls Saga

Author: William Ian Miller (Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780198704843
Format: Hardback
$271.95

A reader's guide and a companion to this complex and great saga, a classic of world literature, comparable to the...  Read More >>

German Philhellenism: The Pathos of the Historical Imagination from Winckelmann to Goethe

German Philhellenism: The Pathos of the Historical Imagination...

Author: D. Valdez
ISBN: 9781137293145
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Philhellenism the fascination with the art, politics, religion and society of ancient Greece- is a powerful and...  Read More >>

Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday

Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift dedicated...

Author: Simon Horobin ,  Linne R Mooney
ISBN: 9781903153536
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators.  Read More >>

John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception

John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences,...

Author: Ana Saez-Hidalgo (Customer) ,  R F Yeager (Customer)
ISBN: 9781843843207
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced...  Read More >>

The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory's Morte Darthur

The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory's Morte...

Author: Charles Moorman
ISBN: 9780813153605
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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