Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry

The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry

Author: Bonnie MacLachlan
ISBN: 9780691600963
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Although ""grace"" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was...  Read More >>

Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts

Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century...

Author: Paul Strohm
ISBN: 9780691601861
Format: Paperback
$54.99

""The paradox of the lie that might as well be true,"" writes Paul Strohm, ""must interest anyone who seeks to understand...  Read More >>

The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man

The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek...

Author: Nicole Loraux ,  Paula Wissing
ISBN: 9780691605371
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek ""imaginary,"" revealing a collective...  Read More >>

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: 9780691612720
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This examination of the last two tales of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares reveals the Christian Humanist tradition...  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: 9780691606583
Format: Paperback
$115.00

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

Penelope's Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey

Penelope's Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the...

Author: Marylin A. Katz
ISBN: 9780691607375
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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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: 9780691600932
Format: Paperback
$99.99

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

Essays on Roman Satire

Essays on Roman Satire

Author: William S. Anderson
ISBN: 9780691614540
Format: Paperback
$130.00

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

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: 9780691604404
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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

An Introduction

An Introduction

Author: Giulio Colesanti ,  Manuela Giordano
ISBN: 9783110333961
Format: Hardback
$137.19

Intended as a new hermeneutics to study the whole range of texts that were produced for socially relevant events...  Read More >>

Carmina anacreontea 1-34: Ein Kommentar

Carmina anacreontea 1-34: Ein Kommentar

Author: Alexia Zotou
ISBN: 9783110364989
Format: Hardback
$137.19

Die vorliegende Studie enthält neue Übersetzungen und Interpretationsansätze zu den ersten 34 Gedichten des anakreontischen...  Read More >>

Wildes Erzählen - Erzählen Vom Wilden: 'Parzival', 'Busant' Und 'Wolfdietrich D'

Wildes Erzählen - Erzählen Vom Wilden: 'Parzival', 'Busant'...

Author: Larissa Schuler-Lang
ISBN: 9783110344707
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Using the methodology of cultural criticism as applied to medieval studies, this work examines different manifestations...  Read More >>

Pindars sechste olympische Siegesode: Text, Einleitung und Kommentar

Pindars sechste olympische Siegesode: Text, Einleitung...

Author: Zsolt Adorjani
ISBN: 9789004274358
Format: Hardback
$538.56

Pindars sechste olympische Siegesode presents the first full-scale philological commentary on one of Pindar's most...  Read More >>

Le Brutus de Ciceron: Rhetorique, politique et histoire culturelle

Le Brutus de Ciceron: Rhetorique, politique et histoire...

Author: Sophie Aubert-Baillot ,  Charles Guerin
ISBN: 9789004274488
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This volume examines Cicero's dialogue Brutus from an interdisciplinary angle showcasing Cicero's response to the...  Read More >>

Reactions to Empire: Sacred Texts in their Socio-Political Contexts

Reactions to Empire: Sacred Texts in their Socio-Political...

Author: Dan Batovici ,  John Anthony Dunne
ISBN: 9783161534133
Format: Paperback
$194.32

"The authors of this volume explore various instances of theo-political visions of authoritative texts in Second...  Read More >>

Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur

Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies...

Author: D. Armstrong ,  K. Hodges
ISBN: 9781137034854
Format: Hardback
$167.95

Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial...  Read More >>

Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts

Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and...

Author: Michael Bilynsky
ISBN: 9783631644942
Format: Hardback
$170.52

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex

Author: Sophocles
ISBN: 9781500745455
Format: Paperback
$16.50

Landmark of Western drama concerns the catastrophe that ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently...  Read More >>

Confessions, Volume I: Books 1–8

Confessions, Volume I: Books 1–8

Author: Augustine ,  Carolyn J.-B. Hammond
ISBN: 9780674996854
Format: Hardback
$47.95

Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative...  Read More >>

The Iliad - Twenty Centuries of Translation: No color edition

The Iliad - Twenty Centuries of Translation: No color...

Author: Dr Michael M Nikoletseas
ISBN: 9781500851101
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Criticism of the English, French Latin, and Modern Greek translations of Homer's Iliad. Most translations fail to...  Read More >>

Hellas and Hesperia: Or, the Vitality of Greek Studies in America

Hellas and Hesperia: Or, the Vitality of Greek Studies...

Author: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
ISBN: 9781500739881
Format: Paperback
$18.45

The first lecture, is given under the title, The Channels of Life. After a brief introduction in which the lecturer...  Read More >>

The Iliad: The Male Totem

The Iliad: The Male Totem

Author: Dr Michael M Nikoletseas
ISBN: 9781500830090
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Read the most important book on The Iliad ever written. This is a truly ground breaking analysis of Homer's Iliad....  Read More >>

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