Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature

The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature

Author: Emily Wingfield
ISBN: 9781306347228
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity: Greek Literature

Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity:...

Author: Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Director Center for Hellenic Studies Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781306344647
Format: Electronic book text
$594.00

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Traveling Through Text: Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts: Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts

Traveling Through Text: Message and Method in Late Medieval...

Author: Elka Weber
ISBN: 9781306420259
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

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Kingship Conquest and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance

Kingship Conquest and Patria: Literary and Cultural...

Author: Kristen Lee Over
ISBN: 9781306423243
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

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Boccaccio's Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal

Boccaccio's Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the...

Author: Katherine A Brown
ISBN: 9781306444040
Format: Electronic book text
$197.87

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Malory and His European Contemporaries: Adapting Late Arthurian Romance

Malory and His European Contemporaries: Adapting Late...

Author: Miriam Edlich-Muth
ISBN: 9781306456821
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The late-medieval adaptions and compiliations of the Arthurian story are a European phenomenon that has sparked...  Read More >>

Poetic Voices of John Gower, The: Politics and Personae in the Confessio Amantis

Poetic Voices of John Gower, The: Politics and Personae...

Author: Matthew W Irvin
ISBN: 9781306456784
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Gower's use of the persona, the figure of the writer implicated in the text, is the main theme of this book. While...  Read More >>

Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High German Literature

Justice and the Social Context of Early Middle High...

Author: Robert G Sullivan
ISBN: 9781306482301
Format: Electronic book text
$388.08

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Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Other Works

Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric...

Author: Laura F Hodges
ISBN: 9781306516143
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The use Chaucer made of costume rhetoric, and its function within his works, are examined here for the first time....  Read More >>

Linksextremismus in Deutschland: Eine Kritische Bestandsaufnahme

Linksextremismus in Deutschland: Eine Kritische Bestandsaufnahme...

Author:
ISBN: 9781306676915
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

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Fable as Literature

Fable as Literature

Author: H J Blackham
ISBN: 9781306723251
Format: Electronic book text
$955.68

This is a study of a curious and neglected facet of literature, in which the author traces the development and the...  Read More >>

Statesman

Statesman

Author: Piers Anthony
ISBN: 9781306822497
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

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Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory: Greek Literature

Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Prose...

Author: Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Director Center for Hellenic Studies Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781306972321
Format: Electronic book text
$594.00

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: R F Yeager
ISBN: 9781306964081
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

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Student's Guide to Classics

Student's Guide to Classics

Author: Bruce S Thornton (California State University, Fresno)
ISBN: 9781306948821
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

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Dante's Sacred Poem

Dante's Sacred Poem

Author: Sheila J Nayar
ISBN: 9781306977937
Format: Electronic book text
$762.96

Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy,...  Read More >>

Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's  Metamorphoses

Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in...

Author: Garth Tissol (Emory University, Atlanta)
ISBN: 9781306984027
Format: Electronic book text
$287.63

In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that...  Read More >>

Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult

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

Author: Deborah Lyons
ISBN: 9781306984188
Format: Electronic book text
$157.08

This work argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice....  Read More >>

Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

Author: Walter C Klein Professor of the Classics Charles Segal (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781306989473
Format: Electronic book text
$139.92

Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest...  Read More >>

Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man

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

Author: Nicole Loraux ,  Paula Wissing
ISBN: 9781306984539
Format: Electronic book text
$172.92

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: 9781306991711
Format: Electronic book text
$134.64

This examination of the last two tales of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares reveals the Christian Humanist tradition...  Read More >>

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Author: Anne Carson
ISBN: 9781322006536
Format: Electronic book text
$130.68

The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions...  Read More >>

Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics

Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics...

Author: David O Ross, Jr. (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9781322005966
Format: Electronic book text
$147.84

Professor Ross presents the Georgics as a poem of science, of the power and ultimate failure of knowledge. Exploring...  Read More >>

Penelope's Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the  Odyssey

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

Author: Marylin A Katz
ISBN: 9781322018416
Format: Electronic book text
$163.55

Noted for her contradictory words and actions, Penelope has been a problematic character for critics of the Odyssey,...  Read More >>

Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur: The Politics of Romance in Fifteenth-Century England

Contested Language in Malory's Morte Darthur: The Politics...

Author: Ruth Lexton
ISBN: 9781322048734
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

Malory's Morte Darthur, which transformed the sprawling thirteenth-century French Vulgate Cycle romances for fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

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