Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Aeschylus: The Suppliants

Aeschylus: The Suppliants

Author: Aeschylus ,  P. Burian
ISBN: 9780691607337
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Prolegomena to Homer, 1795

Prolegomena to Homer, 1795

Author: Friedrich August Wolf ,  Anthony Grafton
ISBN: 9780691608761
Format: Paperback
$72.99

The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were...  Read More >>

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition...

Author: Kathy Eden
ISBN: 9780691610337
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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

Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius

Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role...

Author: Shadi Bartsch
ISBN: 9780691606910
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author: Susan Crane
ISBN: 9780691606149
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres

Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related...

Author: David Konstan
ISBN: 9780691606033
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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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: 9780691600390
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire

The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire

Author: Kirk Freudenburg
ISBN: 9780691601991
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary...  Read More >>

Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence

Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western...

Author: Roland Greene
ISBN: 9780691600987
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced...  Read More >>

Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance

Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance...

Author: Elaine V. Beilin
ISBN: 9780691608037
Format: Paperback
$92.99

An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches;...  Read More >>

Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses

Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses

Author: Michael A. Seidel
ISBN: 9780691610665
Format: Paperback
$72.99

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

The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise

The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's...

Author: Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp
ISBN: 9780691610450
Format: Paperback
$74.99

By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores...  Read More >>

Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477

Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477

Author: Diana Robin
ISBN: 9780691608433
Format: Paperback
$72.99

In this portrait of the flamboyant Milanese courtier Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), Diana Robin reveals a fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition

Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition

Author: Torrey James Luce ,  Anthony John Woodman
ISBN: 9780691602219
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments: Introduction, Text,...

Author: Susan A. Stephens ,  John J. Winkler
ISBN: 9780691608846
Format: Paperback
$125.00

Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com.  Read More >>

The Shield of Homer: Narrative Structure in the Illiad

The Shield of Homer: Narrative Structure in the Illiad...

Author: Keith Stanley
ISBN: 9780691607573
Format: Paperback
$120.00

In this masterly interpretation of narrative sequence in the Iliad, Keith Stanley not only sharpens the current...  Read More >>

Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion

Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion

Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore
ISBN: 9780691607382
Format: Paperback
$104.99

Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the...  Read More >>

Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda

Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda...

Author: Diana de Armas Wilson
ISBN: 9780691607238
Format: Paperback
$72.99

"In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an...  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: 9780691605685
Format: Paperback
$72.99

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

Chaucerian Theatricality

Chaucerian Theatricality

Author: John M. Ganim
ISBN: 9780691601434
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts...  Read More >>

Essays in Medieval Culture

Essays in Medieval Culture

Author: Durant Waite Robertson
ISBN: 9780691615905
Format: Paperback
$104.99

Bringing together a collection of this distinguished medievalist's most important and controversial work, heretofore...  Read More >>

The CANTERBURY TALES and the Good Society

The CANTERBURY TALES and the Good Society

Author: Paul A. Olson
ISBN: 9780691609942
Format: Paperback
$99.99

"""The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to make available previously out-of-print...  Read More >>

Choreia: Pindar and Dance

Choreia: Pindar and Dance

Author: William Mullen
ISBN: 9780691613949
Format: Paperback
$72.99

This study reveals that the three metrical units into which most choral odes were divided refer to the disposition...  Read More >>

Julian of Norwich's Showings: From Vision to Book

Julian of Norwich's Showings: From Vision to Book

Author: Denise Nowakowski Baker
ISBN: 9780691602110
Format: Paperback
$57.99

"The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired...  Read More >>

Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult

Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth...

Author: Deborah Lyons
ISBN: 9780691606217
Format: Paperback
$72.99

In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists....  Read More >>

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