Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Author: Michael Wyatt
ISBN: 9780521876063
Format: Hardback
$186.30

The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination. This Companion presents...  Read More >>

Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek

Author: Coulter H. George (University of Virginia)
ISBN: 9781107003941
Format: Hardback
$194.04

English speakers find it hard to explain why they say something happens at a particular time, but on a certain day,...  Read More >>

Rethinking the New Medievalism

Rethinking the New Medievalism

Author: R. Howard Bloch (Sterling Professor of French, Chair Humanities Program, Yale University) ,  Alison Calhoun (Visiting Assistant Professor/ACLS Faculty Fellow, Indiana University)
ISBN: 9781421412412
Format: Paperback
$63.99

Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and...  Read More >>

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking...

Author: Mary Beard
ISBN: 9780520277168
Format: Hardback
$49.95

What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? How did...  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781500632373
Format: Paperback
$18.48

This Norton Critical Edition of the world's first major work of literary criticism is based on James Hutton's acclaimed...  Read More >>

Rethinking the New Medievalism

Rethinking the New Medievalism

Author: R. Howard Bloch (Sterling Professor of French, Chair Humanities Program, Yale University) ,  Alison Calhoun (Visiting Assistant Professor/ACLS Faculty Fellow, Indiana University)
ISBN: 9781421412405
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and...  Read More >>

The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature

The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature

Author: Martin Hinterberger
ISBN: 9782503552378
Format: Paperback
$264.00

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Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament

Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek...

Author: D.A. Carson ,  Douglas S. Huffman
ISBN: 9781433123580
Format: Hardback
$703.30

The end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining...  Read More >>

Disabusing Women in the Old French Fabliaux

Disabusing Women in the Old French Fabliaux

Author: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell ,  Michael G. Paulson
ISBN: 9781433126567
Format: Hardback
$262.81

Spanning the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the fabliaux are short, ribald tales written in verse by mostly...  Read More >>

Jews and Christians?: "Second-Century 'Christian' Perspectives on the ""Parting of the Ways"" (Annual Deichmann Lectures 2013)"

Jews and Christians?: "Second-Century 'Christian' Perspectives...

Author: Tobias Nicklas
ISBN: 9783161532689
Format: Paperback
$71.41

"When exactly did the ""Parting of the Ways"" between Jews and Christians take place? Was it already Jesus who separated...  Read More >>

Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval...

Author: Jacqueline Jenkins ,  Julie Sanders
ISBN: 9781137320100
Format: Hardback
$160.95

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization...  Read More >>

Ovid (Routledge Revivals): The Classical Heritage

Ovid (Routledge Revivals): The Classical Heritage

Author: William Anderson
ISBN: 9781138024939
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Ovid: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1995, contains a diverse collection of reflections, ranging from...  Read More >>

Ovid (Routledge Revivals)

Ovid (Routledge Revivals)

Author: J. Binns
ISBN: 9780415740173
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This collection of essays explores Ovid’s development of the Elegiac tradition; the neglected Heroides; poetry of...  Read More >>

Jaufre (Routledge Revivals): An Occitan Arthurian Romance

Jaufre (Routledge Revivals): An Occitan Arthurian Romance...

Author: Ross Arthur
ISBN: 9781138018532
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This translation, first published in 1992, presents one of the most memorable medieval ballads, largely because...  Read More >>

Aspects of Literature

Aspects of Literature

Author: J Middleton Murry
ISBN: 9781500592813
Format: Paperback
$18.45

It is curious and interesting to find our younger men of letters actively concerned with the present condition of...  Read More >>

The Function of the Ekkyklema in Greek Theatre: The Sculptural Display of Murdered Victims and the Success of Greek Tragedy for the State

The Function of the Ekkyklema in Greek Theatre: The...

Author: Joel D Eis
ISBN: 9780773435278
Format: Hardback
$349.18

Shows how the ekkyklema worked semiotically, dramaturgically and politically within Greek tragedy. In this cultural...  Read More >>

Pour Un Nouveau Repertoire Des Mises En Prose: Roman, Chanson de Geste, Autres Genres

Pour Un Nouveau Repertoire Des Mises En Prose: Roman,...

Author: Barbara Ferrari ,  Anne Schoysman
ISBN: 9782812417276
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Proceedings of an international seminar held in Gargnano, Italy, September 17-19, 2012.  Read More >>

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