Classical Literature – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 6

Rumi,
The Flame of Love

A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by charming illustrations throughout, The Flame of Love explores the depths of pa…

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Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as …

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Thomas Mann, Simon Pare, Ritchie Robertson
The Magic Mountain

'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...'Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountai…

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Kerstin Hensel

Kerstin Hensel is one of the most prolific, versatile and influential authors in contemporary Germany. Her unique literary voice owes as much to her character, background and biography as it does to its d…

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Gregory Crane
Philology in a Digital Age

Philology in a Digital Age: Selected Papers brings together more than four decades of scholarship by Gregory Crane documenting the evolution of Classical Studies during the rise of digital technologies--i…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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The Oxford Chaucer

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates…

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Sarah Bowden
Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

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David Fuller,
Shakespeare and Ballet

This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.

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Bernardo Ballesteros
Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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Laura Jansen
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…

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Raphaële Garrod
François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostl…

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C M van der Keur
Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes the text and facing English translation, along with notes on syntax, textual criticism, styl…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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Maria Nasioula
By Heart or from the Scroll

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek liter…

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Wolfgang David Cirilo De Melo, Scott Scullion
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism

Readers and scholars of contemporary literature in English and other languages generally do not have to worry very much about their source texts: what is published in book form is essentially what the aut…

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Emily Gowers
Rome's Patron

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend…

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