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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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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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John M Bowers, Peter Steffensen
Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most not…

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Antike ohne Ende

Transformationen der Antike - Band 64

Der vorliegende Band untersucht die Anwendbarkeit des Konzeptes der 'Allelopoiese' in Bezug auf antike Texte und ihre Rezeption in verschiedenen Epochen und Formen. Anhand der Analyse ausgewählter Transfo…

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Jonathan L Ready
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize …

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Rachel D Friedman
Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines Walc…

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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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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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Jonathan L Ready
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize …

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Daniel Sawyer
How to Read Middle English Poetry

A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation of the genre, covering verse in English and Scots from c.1150 to c.1500.

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Catullus: Poem 64

Catullus' longest poem, a miniature epic or 'epyllion' that tells two apparently unrelated mythological stories, is a central text in the Roman literary tradition. Allusive, exquisite, and sometimes shock…

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Caterina Paoli
Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature

"Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry. The close examination…

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Verführung (1995)

Als junges Mädchen folgte Anne Elliot dem Rat ihrer mütterlichen Freundin Lady Russel. Sie ließ die Vernunft über ihr Herz siegen und löste die Verlobung mit dem aufstrebenden Captain Wentworth, obwohl si…

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Jenny Messenger,
Kathleen Raine

"This book considers Raine's engagement with Graeco-Roman philosophy in her poetry, scholarship, essays, and autobiographical writings. Kathleen Raine was a poet, literary scholar, and co-founder of the T…

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Ilaria Marchesi
Women in Martial

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age and demonstrating the extent…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy

This Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar Stephen Heyworth brings together eleven experts on the genre of Latin elegy. All chapters focus on the close reading of elegiac texts primarily by Ovid …

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Alexandra Hardwick
Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama

Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups in fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these grou…

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Antonios Pontoropoulos
Writing Herstory Through Ancient Greek Letters

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of mo…

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Christos C Tsagalis
The Homeric Doloneia

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not compos…

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