Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic

Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying...

Author: Kamran Talattof
ISBN: 9783030979898
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores...  Read More >>

The Afterlife of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Translation and Reception History

The Afterlife of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone...

Author: Federica Coluzzi (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Jacob Blakesley (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781032021065
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume provides the first systematic study of the translation and reception of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone...  Read More >>

Aristoteles, > Poetik: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung Und Kommentar. Mit Einem Anhang: Texte Zur Aristotelischen Literaturtheorie

Aristoteles, > Poetik: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung...

Author: Martin Hose
ISBN: 9783110703191
Format: Hardback
$475.17

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The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus

The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical...

Author: Katherine Lu Hsu ,  David Schur
ISBN: 9783030658083
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed,...  Read More >>

Textual and Bibliographical Studies in Older Scots Literature: Selected Essays of Priscilla Bawcutt

Textual and Bibliographical Studies in Older Scots Literature:...

Author: Janet Hadley Williams
ISBN: 9781897976470
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Seminal investigations into the most important aspects of medieval Scots texts, with a particular focus on editing...  Read More >>

From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing...

Author: Pamela H. Smith
ISBN: 9780226818245
Format: Paperback
$57.95

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written...  Read More >>

The III-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory

The III-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the...

Author: William Matthews
ISBN: 9780520347076
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems

Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems

Author: Dr Steven J.A. Breeze
ISBN: 9781843846451
Format: Hardback
$207.00

An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts.  Read More >>

The III-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory

The III-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the...

Author: William Matthews
ISBN: 9780520373365
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte, En Arabie Et En Egypte. Tome X: Traites 10 Et 11

Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte,...

Author: Felix Fabri ,  Michel Tarayre
ISBN: 9782406132899
Format: Paperback
$153.12

The treatises 10 and 11 recount, with talent and erudition, the return by the Adriatic to Venice, which is amply...  Read More >>

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Author: Edith Hall (University of Durham, UK) ,  Laura Jansen (University of Bristol UK)
ISBN: 9781350194588
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets...  Read More >>

Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Author: Dr Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen University, The Netherlands) ,  Marian W. Makins (Temple University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350192218
Format: Paperback
$61.99

In this open access volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from across the globe investigate the creation,...  Read More >>

Menander: Dyscolus Et Fabulae Quarum Fragmenta in Papyris Membranisque Servata Sunt

Menander: Dyscolus Et Fabulae Quarum Fragmenta in Papyris...

Author: Rudolf Kassel ,  Stephan Schröder
ISBN: 9783110109238
Format: Hardback
$712.80

Following volume VI.2, which compiled witnesses to Menander's life, work, and impact and contained fragments preserved...  Read More >>

Eros the Bittersweet

Eros the Bittersweet

Author: Anne Carson ,  Sandra Newman
ISBN: 9781628973860
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim...  Read More >>

Giornale Italiano Di Filologia 74 (2022)

Giornale Italiano Di Filologia 74 (2022)

Author: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503597515
Format: Paperback
$488.40

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Cahiers Tristan l'Hermite: Tristan l'Hermite Et Amedee Carriat, Une Histoire Litteraire En Limousin

Cahiers Tristan l'Hermite: Tristan l'Hermite Et Amedee...

Author: Sophie Tonolo
ISBN: 9782406141150
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Contributeurs: Sandrine Berregard, Helene Bilis, Joelle Bourlois, Emmanuel Bury, Maxime Cartron, Alain Genetiot,...  Read More >>

Dante the Theologian

Dante the Theologian

Author: Denys Turner (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781009168700
Format: Hardback
$77.60

This compelling new work argues that appreciation of the Divine Comedy has been hindered by lack of understanding...  Read More >>

Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte, En Arabie Et En Egypte. Tome X: Traites 10 Et 11

Les Errances de Frere Felix, Pelerin En Terre Sainte,...

Author: Felix Fabri ,  Michel Tarayre
ISBN: 9782406132905
Format: Hardback
$266.64

The treatises 10 and 11 recount, with talent and erudition, the return by the Adriatic to Venice, which is amply...  Read More >>

L'Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'a Cesar: Saggio Di Storia Della Cultura Francofona del XIII Secolo

L'Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'a Cesar: Saggio Di Storia...

Author: Maria Teresa Rachetta
ISBN: 9791254692134
Format: Paperback
$116.16

L'Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar e uno dei primi testi in prosa di materia antica composti in volgare. Redatta...  Read More >>

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and...

Author: Jonathan Ullyot
ISBN: 9781350260245
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book uses Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature...  Read More >>

Die Tm-Spruche (Tb 5, 43-47, 50-53, 91, 93, 154, 175-176, 189)

Die Tm-Spruche (Tb 5, 43-47, 50-53, 91, 93, 154, 175-176,...

Author: Barbara Luscher
ISBN: 9783905719338
Format: Paperback
$217.80

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Storia Di Un Esule: L'Evoluzione Della Poesia Dell'esilio Di Ovidio Dai 'Tristia' Alle 'Epistulae Ex Ponto'

Storia Di Un Esule: L'Evoluzione Della Poesia Dell'esilio...

Author: Edoardo Galfre
ISBN: 9783515133715
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature...

Author: David Strong
ISBN: 9781501522529
Format: Hardback
$300.93

This study examines the various means of becoming empathetic and using this knowledge to explain the epistemic import...  Read More >>

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